Is formal physical therapy necessary after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty? A single-blinded, randomized controlled trial by Andrew B. Rees, MD, G. Dillon Graham, MD, Joseph M. Burger, MD, Bryan M. Saltzman, MD, Shadley Schiffern, MD, Patrick Connor, MD, Nady Hamid, MD

“…Both groups demonstrated comparable results in Constant scores, visual analog scores, and patient satisfaction measures. …”
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From barriers to participation: co-creating an effective reminder letter for breast cancer screening among underserved women in Flanders by Allegra Ferrari, Liesbet Van Bos, Sarah Talboom, Wessel van de Veerdonk, Wendy D’haenens, Marina Pak, Marlies Descan, Stephanie Parmentier, Louise Van Collie, Pascale Sibiet, Mathieu Goossens, Guido Van Hal

“…, and the use of generic visuals. At the same time, simplifying the vocabulary to A1-A2 levels, employing straightforward sentence structures, and incorporating relevant visuals enhanced understandability and fostered interest in breast cancer prevention. …”
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Prognostic Values of Thalamic Metabolic Abnormalities in Children with Epilepsy by Farshid Gheisari, Amer Shammas, Eman Marie, Afsaneh Amirabadi, Nicholas A. Shkumat, Niloufar Ebrahimi, Reza Vali

“…Of these 133 patients, 45 also had visually observed asymmetric hypometabolism in the thalamus. …”
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Umbilical Cord Blood-Derived Products in Autoimmune Systemic Syndromes with Severe Dryness: A Pilot Study by Rosario Foti, Marco Zeppieri, Roberta Foti, Ylenia Dal Bosco, Riccardo Foti, Antonino Maniaci, Fabiana D’Esposito, Giuseppe Gagliano, Caterina Gagliano

“…The outcomes were evaluated before and after treatment using the following assessments: OSDI (Ocular Surface Disease Index) and SANDE (Symptom Assessment in Dry Eye) questionnaires, VAS (Visual Analog Scale), Slit Lamp Examination, Esthesiometry, Lissamine Green Staining, NIBUT (Non-Invasive Break-Up Time), BUT (Break-Up Time), Fluorescein Staining with Photography and Oxford Classification, The Schirmer Test, Best-Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA), and Meibography. …”
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Temporal Dynamics of Subtle Cognitive Change: Validation of a User-Friendly Multidomain Digital Assessment Using an Alcohol Challenge by John Frederick Dyer, Florentine Marie Barbey, Ayan Ghoshal, Ann Marie Hake, Bryan J Hansen, Md Nurul Islam, Judith Jaeger, Rouba Kozak, Hugh Marston, Mark Moss, Viet Nguyen, Rebecca Louise Quinn, Leslie A Shinobu, Elizabeth Tunbridge, Brian Murphy, Niamh Kennedy

“…The tasks are novel, repeatable, and self-administered implementations of classic neurobehavioral paradigms. MethodsThirty healthy younger adults were assessed on 2 separate days, once under the influence of alcohol and once under a placebo, with order counterbalanced. …”
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Digital Decision Aids to Support Decision-Making in Palliative and End-of-Life Dementia Care: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jie Zhong, Wei Liang, Tongyao Wang, Pui Hing Chau, Nathan Davies, Junqiang Zhao, Ho Nee Connie Chu, Chia Chin Lin

“…Most decision aids focused on the decision about the primary goal of care (life-prolonging care, limited care, and comfort care), except for 1 visual aid focusing on the decisions about feeding tube placement and drug treatment for dementia. …”
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External Fixator Application, 2-Stage Procedures, and Postoperative Infection Risk Are Higher in Multiligamentous Knee Injuries After Frank Knee Dislocations by Adam V. Daniel, M.D., Taylor A. Johnson, M.D., Katherine F. Druskovich, M.D., Warren A. Williams, M.D., Daniel Miller, M.D., Stanley J. Kupiszewski, M.D.

“…Purpose: To examine outcomes after surgical treatment of multiligamentous knee injuries (MLKIs) in patients with dislocated versus non-dislocated knees. Methods: Patients who were surgically treated for MLKIs between 2008 and 2021 were included in this study. …”
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Association of socioeconomic status with diabetic microvascular complications: a UK Biobank prospective cohort study by Yikeng Huang, Zhi Zheng, Haibing Chen, Chufeng Gu

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Healthcare under fire: quantifying the impact of violence on medical services in facilities supported by International Medical Corps in three prefectures of Central African Republi... by Natalya Kostandova, Jennifer OKeeffe, Audrey Mahieu, Blaise Bienvenu Ali, Christian Mulamba, Pierre Somsé, Odilon Guesset Bingou IV, Sebastien Dackpa, Gerard Mbonimpa, Thierry Fikiri, Larissa Fast, Leonard Rubenstein

“…This study examined the impact of attacks on healthcare in three conflict-affected prefectures—Ouaka, Haute-Kotto, and Vakaga—between 2016 and 2020, assessing both immediate and longer-term disruptions. Methods Disruptions at primary and referral facilities were evaluated using program data from International Medical Corps (IMC) and attack data from IMC, key informants, secondary datasets, and local media. …”
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Measurement of Retinal Changes in Primary Acute Angle Closure Glaucoma under Different Durations of Symptoms by Xiaolu Zhu, Wen Zeng, Shengyu Wu, Xiaomin Chen, Tian Zheng, Min Ke

“…Design. cross-sectional study. Methods. Twenty-six patients with unilateral PAACG attack and cataracts from 2017 to 2019 were enrolled. …”
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Developing an Interpretable Machine Learning Model for Early Prediction of Cardiovascular Involvement in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus by Deng Z, Liu H, Chen F, Liu Q, Wang X, Wang C, Lyu C, Li J, Li T

“…Model interpretability was assessed using the DALEX package, which generated feature importance plots and instance-level breakdown profiles to visualize decision-making logic.Results: Over a median follow-up of 3737 days, 192 (18.77%) patients developed cardiac involvement. …”
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Changes of biventricular contractile function depending on the types of left ventricular involvement in patients 1 year after COVID-19 pneumonia by N. E. Shirokov, E. I. Yaroslavskaya, D. V. Krinochkin, N. A. Osokina, E. A. Gorbatenko, I. O. Korovina, A. V. Migacheva

“…To study the changes of biventricular contractile function depending on the types of left ventricular involvement according to the speckle tracking echocardiography (STE).Material and methods. Of the 380 patients from the Prospective Registry of People Survived COVID-19 Pneumonia, the study included 85 patients, which can be followed-up — 3 months (visit 1) and 12 months (visit 2) after COVID-19 pneumonia (men — 68,2%; mean age — 50,6±10,9 years).At visit 2, patients with diffuse left ventricle (LV) involvement according to STE (visual involvement of ≥4 segments of the same LV level) comprised group I (n=27), patients with regional LV involvement (≥3 segments corresponding to anterior, circumflex or right coronary arteries) — group II (n=39), patients without visual LV involvement — group III (n=19).Results. …”
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Deep learning assisted analysis of biomarker changes in refractory neovascular AMD after switch to faricimab by Michael Hafner, Franziska Eckardt, Jakob Siedlecki, Benedikt Schworm, Tina R. Herold, Ben Asani, Siegfried G. Priglinger, Johannes B. Schiefelbein

“…The median injection interval extended from 35 (iqr: 15) days at mo0 to 56 (iqr: 20) days at mo9, representing a 60% increase. Visual acuity remained stable throughout the study. …”
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Bilateral erector spinae plane block by multiple injection for pain control in pseudomyxoma peritonei surgery: a single-blind randomized controlled trial by Shuang Yu, Guangya Gao, Ruiqing Ma, Liangyuan Lu, Yaoping Zhao, Zhanmin Yang

“…The primary outcome was the visual analog scale (VAS) scores during rest at 6 h post-extubation. …”
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A Mobile Health App Informed by the Multi-Process Action Control Framework to Promote Physical Activity Among Inactive Adults: Iterative Usability Study by Heather Hollman, Wuyou Sui, Haowei Zhang, Ryan E Rhodes

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to gather usability feedback from end users on a first and a second version of an M-PAC app prototype. MethodsFirst, 3 workshops and focus groups, with 5 adult participants per group, were conducted to obtain first impressions of the M-PAC app interface and the first 3 lessons. …”
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Novel Structure–Function Models for Estimating Retinal Ganglion Cell Count Using Pattern Electroretinography in Glaucoma Suspects by Andrew Tirsi, Isabella Tello, Timothy Foster, Rushil Kumbhani, Nicholas Leung, Samuel Potash, Derek Orshan, Celso Tello

“…The combined structure–function index (CSFI), which uses visual field and optical coherence tomography (OCT) data to estimate RGC counts, may be of limited utility in GSs. …”
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Magnetic resonance imaging of patients with lateral epicondylitis: Relationship between pain and severity of imaging features in elbow joints by Yoon Ki Cha, Seon-Jeong Kim, Noh Hyuck Park, Joon Yub Kim, Joo Hak Kim, Ji Yeon Park

“…Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the inter- and intra-observer reliabilities of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the diagnosis of lateral epicondylitis, to examine whether degree of common extensor tendon (CET) injury is related to other elbow abnormalities on MRI, and to investigate the correlation between elbow abnormalities on MRI and patients' symptoms. Methods: Fifty-one patients (32 women and 19 men; mean age: 50 years (range, 22–63)) with a diagnosis of lateral epicondylitis were included in the study. …”
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Prediction of lethal outcomes in COVID-19 cases based on the results chest computed tomography by S. P. Morozov, V. A. Gombolevskiy, V. Yu. Cherninа, I. A. Blokhin, O. A. Mokienko, A. V. Vlаdzimirskiy, A. S. Belevskiy, D. N. Protsenko, M. A. Lysenko, O. V. Zayrаtyants, E. L. Nikonov

“…The objective: to predict lethal outcomes in patients with COVID-19 based on the result of chest computed tomography (chest CT) using a semi-quantitative visual scale of the pulmonary parenchyma lesion.Subjects and methods. …”
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Effect of cervical traction on cervicogenic headache in patients with cervical radiculopathy: a preliminary randomized controlled trial by Anis Jellad, Amine Kalai, Amr Chaabeni, Cyrine Ben Nasrallah, Atef Ben Nsir, Mahbouba Jguirim, Asma Belguith Sriha, Zohra Ben Salah Frih, Mohamed Hedi Bedoui

“…Primary outcomes were CGH intensity (visual analog scale) and frequency (days per week). …”
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An Automatic Arabic Sign Language Recognition System (ArSLRS) by Nada B. Ibrahim, Mazen M. Selim, Hala H. Zayed

“…This paper presents an automatic visual SLRS that translates isolated Arabic words signs into text. …”
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