Long-Covid in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Challenges and Treatment Perspectives by Kornelia Karamus, Rafał Rejamak, Jan Biłogras, Martyna Borowska-Łygan, Konrad Strużek, Wojciech Urban, Jakub Tomaszewski

“…Materials and Methods: The review includes works published between 2020 and 2024, available in the PubMed database, identified using relevant keywords, as well as the WHO publication "World Health Organization. …”
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Posterior Instrumentation without Curettage Promotes Rapid Restoration of Adult Spinal Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis by Bungo Otsuki, Hiroaki Kimura, Shunsuke Fujibayashi, Takayoshi Shimizu, Takashi Sono, Koichi Murata, Shuichi Matsuda

“…Methods: This retrospective study analyzed a prospectively maintained database of all spine surgeries conducted at our institute from April 2013 to December 2020. …”
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Outpatient Versus Inpatient Total Joint Arthroplasty: Do Medically and Socially Complex Patients Require More Resources but Achieve Similar Outcomes? by Justin Leal, BS, Christine J. Wu, MD, Niall H. Cochrane, MD, Thorsten M. Seyler, MD, PhD, William A. Jiranek, MD, Samuel S. Wellman, MD, Michael P. Bolognesi, MD, Sean P. Ryan, MD

“…Methods: An institutional database at a single academic center was retrospectively reviewed for patients who underwent primary TJA since the opening of an ASC from August 2021 to January 2024. …”
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Pharmacist-Led Digital Health Interventions for Patients with Diabetes: A Systematic Review by Christy A, Fernanda F, Insani WN, Abdulah R

“…The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review of pharmacist-led digital health interventions for patients with diabetes. The PubMed database was used to select randomized controlled trials that assess the effectiveness of digital health interventions on clinical outcomes among patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes from January 2005 to May 2024. …”
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Women who will live forever by Wirginia Likus, Renata Wilk

“…Materials and methods: The analysis covered the donors database maintained at the Medical University of Silesia from 2000 till now. …”
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Exploring genetic associations and drug targets for mitochondrial proteins and schizophrenia risk by Wenxi Sun, Ping Sun, Jin Li, Qun Yang, Qing Tian, Shiting Yuan, Xueying Zhang, Peng Chen, Chuanwei Li, Xiaobin Zhang

“…Moreover, we explored the GWAS catalog and the Drug-Gene Interaction Database (DGIdb) to identify and evaluate potential therapeutic targets. …”
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Bibliometric Study of the National Scientific Production of All Peruvian Schools of Dentistry in Scopus by Frank Mayta-Tovalino, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Ana Diaz-Soriano, Fernando Perez-Vargas, Arnaldo Munive-Degregori, Silvia Luza

“…A search of the Scopus database was performed to identify scholarly output in dentistry between 2014 and 2019. …”
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Orthopedic Frailty Score and adverse outcomes in patients with surgically managed isolated traumatic spinal injury by Yang Cao, Shahin Mohseni, Babak Sarani, Frank Hildebrand, Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Maximilian Peter Forssten, Parker Chang, Marcelo A F Ribeiro

“…The aim of the current study is to evaluate the utility of the Orthopedic Frailty Score (OFS) in assessing the risk of adverse outcomes in patients with isolated TSI requiring surgery, with the hypothesis that frailer patients suffer from a disproportionately increased risk of these outcomes.Methods The Trauma Quality Improvement Program database was queried for all adult patients (18 years or older) who suffered an isolated TSI due to blunt force trauma, between 2013 and 2019, and underwent spine surgery. …”
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Modelling the economic and environmental impacts of water resources in the context of climate neutrality in the EUSDR member states by Romeo Victor Ionescu, Monica Laura Zlati, Valentin Marian Antohi, Dragoș Sebastian Cristea, Ștefan Mihai Petrea, Costinela Forțea

“…Given the ambitious goals of the European Green Deal, this study examines how water management can support the transition towards climate neutrality.MethodsA dynamic econometric model was developed using a consolidated database of relevant climate neutrality indicators from 2010 to 2021. …”
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Towards the Development of the Clinical Decision Support System for the Identification of Respiration Diseases via Lung Sound Classification Using 1D-CNN by Syed Waqad Ali, Muhammad Munaf Rashid, Muhammad Uzair Yousuf, Sarmad Shams, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Rehan, Ikram Din Ujjan

“…The ICBHI 2017 Breathing Sound Database, which contains samples of different breathing sounds, was used in this research. …”
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Hotspots and future trends of dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans by Zhen Meng, Zhen Meng, Rui Zhang, Zhihong Sun, Cong Fu, Zhiyu Li, Luying Wang, Ran Huo, Ran Huo, Feng Xue

“…The aim of this study is to explore the global publication characteristics, research hotspots and future trends of DFSP over the past 32 years via an intuitive visualized way.MethodsThe Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database was searched for papers related to DFSP published from 1990 to 2022. …”
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Correlation between weight-adjusted waist index and coronary heart disease: NHANES 1999–2020 by Yan Liu, Shougang Sun, Qi Zou, Ting Tao, Dian Li, Guodong Han, Zhiliang Wei

“…The objective of this study is to investigate the association between WWI and coronary heart disease (CHD).MethodThe data of 44,528 participants in total were gathered from NHANES database from 1999 to 2020. WWI is calculated as the waist circumference (WC, cm) divided by the square root of the body weight (kg), and CHD was determined based on participants’ self-reports. …”
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Integrating susceptibility maps of multiple hazards and building exposure distribution: a case study of wildfires and floods for the province of Quang Nam, Vietnam by C. Luu, G. Forino, L. Yorke, H. Ha, Q. D. Bui, H. H. Tran, D. Q. Nguyen, H. C. Duong, M. Kervyn

“…This research presents a new approach to multi-hazard (floods and wildfires) exposure estimates using machine learning models, Google Earth Engine, and spatial analysis tools for a typical case study in the province of Quang Nam in Central Vietnam. A geospatial database is built for multiple-hazard modeling, including an inventory of climate-related hazards (floods and wildfires), topography, geology, hydrology, climate features (temperature, rainfall, wind), land use, and building data for exposure assessment. …”
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Disulfidptosis-related gene SLC3A2: a novel prognostic biomarker in nasopharyngeal carcinoma and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Xinyi Zhang, Yiqi Lin, Liang Shi, Aixia Zhai, Chao Wu, Qian-Ying Zhu

“…Several studies in recent years have extensively investigated the function of the disulfidoptosis-related SLC7A11 gene in cancer, but the role of its partner protein, SLC3A2, remains unknown unclear in NPC.MethodsGEO database analysis confirmed SLC3A2's prognostic impact on nasopharyngeal carcinoma. …”
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Update on the prevalence of persistent post-traumatic headache in adult civilian traumatic brain injury: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Caroline Arbour, Yasmine Bouferguene, Roxanne Beauregard, Gilles Lavigne, Alberto Herrero Babiloni

“…Studies published from 2008 to 2019 will be identified searching the electronic databases Medline, Embase, Cochrane, Google Scholar, Directory of Open Access Journals and Web of Science. …”
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Elucidating the causal relationship between gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy in European patients: Revelations from genome-wide bidirectional mendelian randomi... by Siyuan Song, Li Ning, Jiangyi Yu

“…However, the exact causal relationship among these factors remains unclear.MethodWe conducted a two-sample bidirectional Mendelian randomization study using summary statistics from the IEU OpenGWAS Project database to investigate gut microbiota, metabolites, and diabetic nephropathy. …”
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Risk Factors Associated with Subtalar Fusion Within 5 Years Following Calcaneal ORIF by Elisabeth White BS, Sylvester Okoro BS MS, Ameer Tabbaa MD, Ariel Nicolas Rodriguez MD, Bhavya Sheth MD, Andrew Horn MD, Afshin Razi MD, Amr Abdelgawad MD, MBA

“…Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed using the PearlDiver Mariner 157 national claims database from January 1st, 2010 to October 31st, 2021. …”
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<i>Cordyceps</i> Polysaccharides: A Review of Their Immunomodulatory Effects by Liping Chen, Xiao Liu, Kaiyue Zheng, Yang Wang, Minglong Li, Yuyu Zhang, Yuan Cui, Sichun Deng, Shiqi Liu, Gaoju Zhang, Ling Li, Yuxin He

“…We searched the Web of Science database with the keywords of cordyceps, polysaccharide, and immune modulation; collected related studies from 2004 to 2024; and eliminated articles with low influence and workload. …”
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Blood Genomics Identifies Three Subtypes of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: “IFN-High,” “NE-High,” and “Mixed” by Mintian Cui, Taotao Li, Xinwei Yan, Chao Wang, Qi Shen, Hongbiao Ren, Liangshuang Li, Ruijie Zhang

“…Three data sets were used in this paper that were collected from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, which contained two published data sets of pediatric and adult SLE patients (GSE65391, GSE49454) and public longitudinal data (GSE72754) from a cohort of SLE patients treated with IFN-α Kinoid (IFN-K). …”
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Early outcomes of radical surgery in non-small-cell lung cancer patients with and without COVID-19 history: a multi-center real-world study by Hanbo Pan, Hang Chen, Wanyu Li, Yu Tian, Zhen Ge, Weicheng Kong, Zenan Gu, Ningyuan Zou, Hongda Zhu, Jiaqi Zhang, Yixing Tao, Junwei Ning, Jia Huang, Hui Yin, Ming Zhang, Chengwei Zhou, Hui Wang, Guodong Xu, Qingquan Luo

“…Methods: NSCLC patients with (POCVD group) or without (NCVD group) a history of COVID-19 who underwent radical surgery at six institutions from January 2022 to January 2024 were retrospectively reviewed from a prospectively maintained database. Propensity-score matching (PSM) was utilized to minimize patient selection bias. …”
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