Initial Experience Using the Radiofrequency Needle Visualization on the Electroanatomical Mapping System for Transseptal Puncture by Silvia Guarguagli, Ilaria Cazzoli, Aleksander Kempny, Michael A. Gatzoulis, Sabine Ernst

“…Transseptal puncture (TSP) is a routine access route in patients with left-sided ablation substrates and is performed safely on fluoroscopy (+/− echocardiographic guidance). …”
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Diagnosis of Intraductal Biliary Lesions: Towards Greater Accuracy and Safety by Sung Woo Ko, Seung Bae Yoon

“…Adverse events were assessed in all eligible patients. Results: Fifty-six patients were assessed for eligibility between September 2020 and March 2023; 50 patients were enrolled. …”
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Immunological Perspective: Helicobacter pylori Infection and Gastritis by Hang Yang, Bing Hu

“…Its infection is mainly transmitted via oral-oral and fecal-oral routes usually during early childhood. It can achieve persistent colonization by manipulating the host immune responses, which also causes mucosal damage and inflammation. …”
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Current status of intestinal parasitosis and microsporidiosis in industrialized countries: Results from a prospective study in France and Luxembourg. by Maxime Moniot, Céline Nourrisson, Eloïse Bailly, Céline Lambert, Patricia Combes, Philippe Poirier

“…The prevalence of IPs in primary care patients reached 33.2%. Blastocystis sp. and Dientamoeba fragilis were the most frequently detected parasites in 20.5% and 13.1% of patients, respectively. …”
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Nurses’ Knowledge of Palliative Care in the Pneumological Hospital by Inarvis Medina González, Elicerio Jorge Chacón Reyes, Odalys Tomaida Hernández Quintero

“…It included 33 nurses who provide care to hospitalized patients. The variables analyzed were years of experience, educational level, knowledge of defining aspects of palliative care, pain management, intervention for control of dyspnea, criteria for drug administration and choice of route of administration as well as nurses’ perception of their knowledge of palliative care. …”
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IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF GASTRIC CANCER: A 3-YEAR ANALYSIS by Amanda Juliani ARNEIRO, Marina Alessandra PEREIRA, André Roncon DIAS, Ulysses RIBEIRO JUNIOR, Marcus Fernando Kodama Pertille RAMOS

“…We observed an increase in diagnostic surgeries (p=0.026), with an increase in the minimally invasive route (p<0.001). In patients undergoing curative surgery, there was a greater indication for postoperative ICU (p=0.022) and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (p<0.001). …”
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Folded and Unfolded Conformations of Proteins Involved in Pancreatic Cancer: a Layman's Guide by Jerónimo Bravo, José L. Neira

“…Pancreatic cancer (PC) is one of the most difficult illnesses to treat, since the 5-year survival rate is lower than 5% in patients and no substantial advances in its treatment have been achieved in the last 20 years. …”
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The Physiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutic Manipulation of the Internal Anal Sphincter by Oliver M Jones, Alison F Brading, Neil J McC Mortensen

“…However, clinical trials have yet to establish the optimum doses, dose intervals and routes of administration for many of these therapies. …”
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Real-Time Fluorescence Imaging for Thoracic Duct Identification during Oesophagectomy: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Dimitra V. Peristeri, Minas Baltatzis

“…Most of the included patients received neoadjuvant treatment before surgery. …”

A Randomized Trial Comparing Short versus Prolonged Hemostasis with Rescue Recanalization by Ipsilateral Ulnar Artery Compression: Impact on Radial Artery Occlusion—The RESCUE-RAO... by Dmitrii V. Ognerubov, Alexander Sedaghat, Sergey I. Provatorov, Andrey S. Tereshchenko, Olivier F. Bertrand, Ivo Bernat, Goar K. Arutyunyan, Olga A. Pogorelova, Maria I. Tripoten, Tatyana V Balakhonova., Anatoliy N. Samko, Evgeny V. Merkulov

“…Despite the enormous benefits of radial access, this route is associated with a risk of radial artery occlusion (RAO). …”
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An Overview of Spinal Injuries due to Dive or Fall into Shallow Water: Our Long-Term, Double-Center Experience from the Aegean Coast by Murat Yılmaz, Ersin Ikizoglu, Mert Arslan, Erkin Ozgiray, Kadri Emre Calıskan, Resat Serhat Erbayraktar

“…The levels of cervical injury were C5 (n = 16, 41%), C6 (n = 11, 28.2%), C7 (n = 6, 15.4%), C1 (n = 5, 12.8%), and C4 (n = 1, 2.6%). A total of 22 patients had neurological deficits at admission. Surgery was performed using anterior (n = 21, 72.4%), posterior (n = 7, 24.1%), and combined anterior and posterior (n = 1, 3.4%) routes. …”
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Comparison of analgesic efficacy of diclofenac suppository with intramuscular diclofenac sodium in post-operative pain relief after cesarean delivery in the first 24 hours by Sidra Khan, Noreen Majeed, Ruqya, Mehreen Mehdi, Faiza Safdar, Saana Bibj

“… Background About 80% of the patients experience enough post-operative pain to require analgesia. …”
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Evaluation of 902 Total Abdominal Hysterectomies Performed for Benign Reasons by Fazilet Kübra Boynukalın, Ömer Tolga Güler, Mehmet Coşkun, Özgür Özyüncü, Nasuh Utku Doğan

“…While abdominal hysterectomy alone was performed in only 87 patients (9.6%), bilateral salphingo-oophorectomy was added in 746 patients (82.7%) and unilateral salphingo-oophorectomy was performed in 69 patients (7.7%) together with hysterectomy. …”
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Selecting drug formulation for the treatment and prevention of retinal disorders by O.V. Filippova

“…&nbsp;Filippova</b><br> </p> <p> <b>Sechenov University, Moscow, Russian Federation</b> </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> <i>Retinal disorders are common in ophthalmic patients. Among them, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) leads to significant visual impairment and irreversible blindness in millions of patients worldwide. …”
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The New Formulations of Immunoglobulin Replacement Therapies and Future Aspects by Elif Karakoç-aydıner

“…F-SCIG is also equally effective and is typically administered every 3 to 4 weeks, in which patients are first required to administer hyaluronidase and then the gammaglobulin. …”
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A scoping review on bio-aerosols in healthcare and the dental environment. by Charifa Zemouri, Hans de Soet, Wim Crielaard, Alexa Laheij

“…<h4>Background</h4>Bio-aerosols originate from different sources and their potentially pathogenic nature may form a hazard to healthcare workers and patients. So far no extensive review on existing evidence regarding bio-aerosols is available.…”
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Nonhematopoietic Variants of Erythropoietin in Ischemic Stroke: Need for Step-Wise Proof-of-Concept Studies by Dirk M. Hermann

“…Only with such information should decisions be made whether intranasal Neuro-EPO may be evaluated in human patients.…”
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Efficacy and Safety of a Novel Tapered-Tip Sheath System for Biliary-Lesion Tissue Sampling: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Hirokazu Okada, Norimitsu Uza, Tomoaki Matsumori, Hajime Yamazaki, Muneji Yasuda, Takeshi Kuwada, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Takahisa Maruno, Masahiro Shiokawa, Atsushi Takai, Ken Takahashi, Akihisa Fukuda, Etsuro Hatano, Sachiko Minamiguchi, Hiroshi Seno

“…Adverse events were assessed in all eligible patients. Results: Fifty-six patients were assessed for eligibility between September 2020 and March 2023; 50 patients were enrolled. …”
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Cutting the Difficult Papilla: Ancillary Techniques in the Performance of Endoscopic Sphincterotomy by Claude Liguory, Jean Francois Lefebvre, Didier Bonnel, Gary C Vitale

“…There were five deaths (mortality rate 0.5%) and laparotomy was required in six patients (0.6%). Conditions contributing to complications included an intradiverticular papilla and precutting. …”
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Synthetic Peptides as Potential Antigens for Cutaneous Leishmaniosis Diagnosis by Juliana Seger Link, Silvana Maria Alban, Carlos Ricardo Soccol, Gilberto Vinicius Melo Pereira, Vanete Thomaz Soccol

“…In order to reach the goal, we used random peptide phage display libraries screened using antibodies from Leishmania braziliensis patients. After selection, three peptides (P1, P2, and P3) were synthesized using Fmoc chemistry. …”
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