Selective posterior rhizotomy for the treatment of pure hereditary spastic paraplegia⁃ associated lower limb spasticity by TANG Nan, SHEN Yin, WANG Lei, ZHENG Jiang‐lin, HUANG Ning, ZHOU Ying‐chun

“…Methods Nine patients with PHSP were admitted to Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology from January 2021 to February 2023. …”
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Light People: Prof. Henry Snaith’s (FRS) perovskite optoelectronics journey by Ruidong Xia, Ying Hu

“…His career success is undoubtedly driven by his ambition for immediate real-world impact and his relentless pursuit of more efficient, low-cost, and sustainable energy solutions to address global environmental challenges. …”
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Antibiotic consumption and utilization at a large tertiary care level hospital in Uganda: A point prevalence survey. by Mark Kizito, Darius Owachi, Falisy Lule, Laura Jung, Vivian Bazanye, Ibrahim Mugerwa, Susan Nabadda, Charles Kabugo

“…We used the WHO point prevalence survey (PPS) to analyze AMU data with a systematic sampling of outpatient department (OPD) for a period between June and August 2022 and selected all inpatient department (IPD) patients admitted before 8:00 AM on 27/11/2022. AMU data was analyzed as the proportion of individual antibiotic prescriptions, indications for prescriptions, and compliance with the national treatment guidelines. …”
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Flow cytometric characterisation of acute leukaemia in adolescent and adult Ethiopians by Jemal Alemu, Balako Gumi, Aster Tsegaye, Abdulaziz Sherif, Fisihatsion Tadesse, Amha Gebremedhin, Rawleigh Howe

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on adolescent and adult inpatients consecutively admitted from April 2019 to June 2021. Peripheral blood samples were stained for surface and cytoplasmic markers, and analysed by four-colour flow cytometry. …”
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Development and validation of a novel risk-predicted model for early sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: a retrospective cohort study by Bo Li, Kun Zhang, Cong-Cong Zhao, Zi-Han Nan, Yan-Ling Yin, Li-Xia Liu, Zhen-Jie Hu

“…External validation was performed using another single-centre intensive care unit (ICU) database.Setting Data for the development cohort were obtained from the MIMIC-IV 2.0 database, which is a large publicly available database that contains information on patients admitted to the ICUs of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from 2008 to 2019. …”
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Predictive accuracy of lactate albumin ratio for mortality in intensive care units: a nationwide cohort study by Yohei Okada, Yoshitaka Aoki, Mikio Nakajima, Yasuhito Suzuki, Mikihiro Shimizu, Ryo Imai, Soichiro Mimuro, Yoshiki Nakajima

“…We included all patients admitted to ICUs between 2015 and 2021, excluding those under the age of 16 years. …”
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Examining the association between child development and parental mental health after preterm birth-related stress: a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis protocol by Lotte Haverman, Cornelieke S H Aarnoudse-Moens, Joost G Daams, Gerbrich E van den Bosch, Kirsten S Muller, Celina E Henke

“…Introduction Preterm infants born before 32 weeks of gestation are generally admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to receive life-saving treatment, resulting in early exposure to stressful events. …”
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Deciphering the Link Between Diagnosis-Related Group Weight and Nursing Care Complexity in Hospitalized Children: An Observational Study by Manuele Cesare, Fabio D’Agostino, Emanuele Sebastiani, Nursing and Public Health Group, Gianfranco Damiani, Antonello Cocchieri

“…Methods: This retrospective study, conducted in an Italian university hospital, included children aged 2 to 11 years admitted to the hospital in 2022 with a minimum hospital stay of 2 days. …”
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Correlation and clinical significance of placental tissue selectin (E), angiotensin II and its receptors, and oxidized lipid levels in patients with preeclampsia by Yan Gao, Guohong Wu, Haiting Huang, Xiaoyan Lu, Peifen Wu, Zou Suiyi, Zhenyan Liu

“…Methods: Select 30 PE pregnant women who were admitted to our hospital from March 2023 to January 2024 as the case group, and select another 30 normal pregnant women who were registered in our hospital during the same period as the health group .The general information of the two groups and placental tissue selectin (E), plasma AngII, ATRs, placental tissue MDA, 8-iso-PGF2a and blood pressure levels (systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP)) were compared. …”
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Newborn morbidities and care procedures at the special newborn care units of Gandaki Province, Nepal: a retrospective study by Khim Bahadur Khadka, Nabina Koirala, Olena Ivanova, Ramchandra Bastola, Dela Singh, Kamala Rana Magar, Bidhya Banstola, Ramesh Prasad Adhikari, Vincentas Giedraitis, Deepak Paudel, Guenter Froeschl

“…A structured questionnaire was employed to collect data on socio-demographic, clinical, and outcome variables in 1,355 newborns admitted to the Special Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) between May 1, 2021, and April 30, 2022, in five hospitals within the Gandaki Province. …”
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Trends in Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patient preceding, during, and following the COVID-19 pandemic: a comprehensive longitudinal analysis by Jianwei Zhang, Ruoya Wu, Liyan Mo, Jinlong Ding, Ke Huang

“…Pharyngeal secretions were collected from 1,0174 pediatric patients with acute respiratory infection (ARI) who were admitted to Shaoxing Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital (Shaoxing, China) between May 2018 and December 2023. …”
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New prognostic model in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma treated with second-line immune checkpoint inhibitors by Ernest Choy, Yohann Loriot, Fabio Calabrò, Cora N Sternberg, Guillermo De Velasco, Daniel Castellano, Roubini Zakopoulou, Aristotelis Bamias, Nicholas James, Axel Merseburger, F Lopez-Rios, Mario Kramer, Kimon Tzannis

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The inheritance pattern for the dwarf phenotype in hybrids from crosses among sunflower lines differing in alleles of the <i>Rht1</i> locus by I. N. Anisimova, G. V. Khafizova, L. G. Makarova, N. V. Alpatieva, M. K. Ryazanova, O. M. Borisenko, V. A. Gavrilova

“…Analyzing the segregation in the F2 hybrid generation led to an assumption admitting the digenic control of the dwarf phenotype in the VIR 171 line. …”
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Epidemiological Analysis of Fungal Infection Disease in Pediatric Population: Focus on Hospitalization from 2007 to 2022 in Veneto Region in Italy by Lorenzo Chiusaroli, Claudia Cozzolino, Silvia Cocchio, Mario Saia, Carlo Giaquinto, Daniele Donà, Vincenzo Baldo

“…We included all children admitted to the hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis during admission for other reasons. …”
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Clinical and molecular response to alpha1‐oleate treatment in patients with bladder cancer by Farhan Haq, Samudra Sabari, Jaromir Háček, Antonín Brisuda, Ines Ambite, Michele Cavalera, Parisa Esmaeili, Murphy Lam Yim Wan, Shahram Ahmadi, Marek Babjuk, Catharina Svanborg

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The Value of Serum YKL-40 and TNF-α in the Diagnosis of Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction by Caoyang Fang, Zhenfei Chen, Jing Zhang, Jianyuan Pan, Xiaoqin Jin, Mengsi Yang, Luyao Huang

“…From October 2020 to February 2022, 120 patients with STEMI were admitted to the Chest Pain Center of the Second People’s Hospital of Hefei, and 81 patients with negative coronary angiography were selected as the control group. …”
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Association between Dysfunctional Beliefs and Coping Strategy among Persons Suffering from Substance Use Disorder by Prosenjit Ghosh, Saptarshi Paul Choudhury, Subho Panja

“…Materials and Methods: The population of this descriptive and cross-sectional study were 44 patients who were admitted under psychiatry ward and consented to the study. …”
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COVID-19 Mortality in Children: A Referral Center Experience from Iran (Mofid Children’s Hospital, Tehran, Iran) by Shahnaz Armin, Seyed Alireza Fahimzad, Sedigheh Rafiei Tabatabaei, Roxana Mansour Ghanaiee, Noushin Marhamati, Seyyedeh Narjes Ahmadizadeh, Azita Behzad, Seyedeh Masumeh Hashemi, Saeed Sadr, Maryam Rajabnejad, Mahnaz Jamee, Abdollah Karimi

“…The median length of stay in the hospital was 10 days (range 1–215). 91.52% had underlying comorbidities of which neurological diseases accounted for the largest share. 54 patients were admitted to the ICU and 83.05% of them had intubation during their hospitalization. …”
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Changes in blood glucose and lipid metabolism levels in children with central precocious puberty and its correlation with obesity by Xin Cui, Xin Cui, Xin Sun, Qiubo Li, Zongbo Chen

“…ObjectiveThis study analyzed the changes in blood glucose and lipid metabolism levels in children with central precocious puberty (CPP) and the correlation between CPP and obesity.MethodsIn total, 88 children with CPP aged 6–10 years who were admitted to our hospital between January 2023 and June 2024 (the CPP group), and 88 children without CPP in the same age group who received health check-ups (the non-CPP group) were retrospectively enrolled in this study. …”
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Assessment of the quality of life in metastatic colorectal cancer patients with KRAS gene mutant: a case-control study by Fahmideh Bagrezaei, Bahram Pourghassem Gargari, Reza Eghdam Zamiri, Abdolrasoul Safaiyan, Mohammad Alizadeh

“…Methods This case-control study involved 90 admitted patients with mCRC. The patients were either mCRC with positive KRAS mutants (case group) or those without the mutation (control group). …”
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