The Acute VertEbRal AugmentaTion (AVERT) study: protocol for a randomised controlled, feasibility trial of spinal medial branch nerve block in hospitalised older patients with vert... by Avril Drummond, Opinder Sahota, Simon Bishop, Dritan Pasku, Apostolos Fakis, Anastasios Bastounis, Chia Wei Tan, Maribel Cameron, Yuriy Arlachov, Michal Czernicki

“…It is also costly and not readily accessible in many UK hospitals.A recent retrospective study reported that spinal medial branch nerve block (MBNB), typically used to treat facet arthropathy, had similar efficacy in terms of pain relief compared with VP for the treatment of painful VFF. …”
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Characteristics and Surgical Results of Patients with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy without Intrinsic Mitral Valve Diseases Undergoing Mitral Subvalvular Procedures durin... by Qiang Ji, YuLin Wang, Ye Yang, LiMin Xia, WenJun Ding, Kai Song, ChunSheng Wang

“…During a median follow-up of 10 months, no deaths or reoperations were observed with the symptom of relief and NYHA class I or II in either group. Patients in the combined group as compared to the alone group had lower outflow tract gradients and a lower incidence of residual systolic anterior motion (SAM) syndrome. …”
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Sushi Reverses Course: Consuming American Sushi in Tokyo by Matthew Allen, Rumi Sakamoto

“…Japanese government estimates that outside of Japan there are over 20,000 Japanese restaurants, most of which either specialize in sushi or serve sushi (MAFF 2006; Council of Advisors 2007).1 Some estimate the number of overseas sushi bars and restaurants to be between 14,000 and 18,000 (in comparison, the number of sushi restaurants in Japan is estimated to be around 45,000) (Matsumoto 2002: 2). …”
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Inferior vena cava ultrasound in acute decompensated heart failure: design rationale of the CAVA‐ADHF‐DZHK10 trial by Alexander Jobs, Reinhard Vonthein, Inke R. König, Jane Schäfer, Matthias Nauck, Svenja Haag, Carlo Federico Fichera, Thomas Stiermaier, Jakob Ledwoch, Alisa Schneider, Miroslava Valentova, Stephan vonHaehling, Stefan Störk, Dirk Westermann, Tobias Lenz, Natalie Arnold, Frank Edelmann, Philipp Seppelt, Stephan Felix, Matthias Lutz, Felix Hedwig, Martin Borggrefe, Clemens Scherer, Steffen Desch, Holger Thiele

“…Methods and results CAVA‐ADHF‐DZHK10 is a randomized, controlled, patient‐blinded, multicentre, parallel‐group trial randomly assigning 388 patients with ADHF to either decongesting therapy guided by ultrasound assessment of the IVC in addition to clinical assessment or clinical assessment alone. …”
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Representación del trabajo manual en tres piezas de Lope de Vega : Barlán y Josafá, San Nicolás de Tolentino, y San Diego de Alcalá by Anna Sinouet

“…Le démon tente ensuite de cacher la tunique du saint pour le faire pêcher par colère. Mais son plan n’aboutit pas davantage. …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

“…This means treatment has either not been found for a disease or has not yet been translated into clinical practice and is not controversial. …”
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The Concept of Rebellion/Rebel in the Behistun Inscription: Formal Terminology and Phrases by Adel Allahyari, Assistant Professor Hossein Badamchi

“…Concepts are semantically richer, more ambiguous, and inherently more contentious than words that simply denote specific objects in the material world (Jordheim, 2021, p. 1). …”
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Hard rock aquifer architecture and water circulation levels in the Strengbach critical zone observatory (France) by Chabaux, François, Négrel, Philippe, Gal, Frederick, Viville, Daniel, Ranchoux, Coralie, Van der Woerd, Jérome, Delay, Frederick, Ackerer, Julien, Aquilina, Luc, Diraison, Marc, Masson, Frédéric, Mériaux, Anne-Sophie, Labasque, Thierry, Lucas, Yann, Pezard, Philippe Adrien, Reuschlé, Thierry, Schmitt, Anne-Désirée, Stille, Peter, Wyns, Robert, Lerouge, Catherine, Dezayes, Chrystel

“…These results from the Strengbach CZ demonstrate the importance of integrating geological history of the watershed, either the long-term geological bedrock evolution or the Quaternary erosion patterns, to better understand and model the CZ hydrological functioning at the watershed scale.…”
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Les broyeurs en pierre en forme de doigt dans le sud-est de la Gaule romaine by Yves Manniez, Vincent Lauras

“…Our corpus is comprised of 51 examples, available for study in either museums or archaeological repositories in the south-eastern quarter of France. …”
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