Body mass index (BMI) and associations of periprosthetic fracture risk after TKA: A systematic review by Troy B. Puga, Alan Lam, Claire Ferguson, McKenna W. Box, John Badylak, John T. Riehl

“…Meta-analysis was not conducted due to different classifications of BMI categories used and wide variations in statistical analysis and reporting methods in the primary studies. …”
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The crossroads of anxiety: distinct neurophysiological maps for different symptomatic groups by Gerez M, Suarez E, Serrano C, Castanedo L, Tello A

“…Montserrat Gerez,1–3 Enrique Suárez,2,3 Carlos Serrano,2,3 Lauro Castanedo,2 Armando Tello1,3 1Departamento de Neurofisiología Clínica, Hospital Español de México, Mexico City, Mexico; 2Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital Español de México, Mexico City, Mexico; 3Unidad de Postgrado, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico Background: Despite the devastating impact of anxiety disorders (ADs) worldwide, long-lasting debates on causes and remedies have not solved the clinician’s puzzle: who should be treated and how? …”
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Developmental regression associated with PTSD in children: a poorly defined and understudied phenomenon by Alameddine Abbas

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Enhancing the prediction of groundwater quality index in semi-arid regions using a novel ANN-based hybrid arctic puffin-hippopotamus optimization model by Moustafa Gamal Snousy, Hussein M. Elshafie, Ashraf R. Abouelmagd, Najmaldin Ezaldin Hassan, Mahmoud E. Abd-Elmaboud, Ali Akbar Mohammadi, Ashraf M.T. Elewa, E. EL-Sayed, Ahmed M. Saqr

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Risk assessment of femoral head AVN following reduction and fixation of intracapsular hip fractures in patients younger than 65 years over a 10 year follow up by Amit Benady, Noy Yehiel, Ben Efrima, Adnan Abdellatif, Matias Vidra, Morsi Khashan, Tomer Ben-Tov, Amal Khoury

“…This single-center, retrospective study included 160 patients (mean age = 50 ± 12 years, 78 males), followed up for an average of 10 years (range: 1–14 years). Fracture classifications were Garden 1 (N = 67), Garden 2 (N = 33), Garden 3 (N = 42), and Garden 4 (N = 19). …”
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Superiority of targeted RNA sequencing for fusion detection and subtype diagnosis in Chinese sarcoma patients: a multicenter study by Gu Jin, Dandan Zhao, Baoming Wang, Xuejiao Liu, Quanyu Yang, Zhengchuang Liu, Qiong Yang, Jianhua Zhu, Jie Zhang, Wei Li, Xiaojuan Wang, Chunyang Wang, Tonghui Ma, Jiayong Liu

“…Notably, 114 recurrent alterations were strongly subtype-associated, and 20 newly identified receptor tyrosine kinase fusions had therapeutic significance, expanding targetable cases from 3.3% to 6.5%. Furthermore, integrated RNA data led to subtype reclassification in 11.9% of patients, including 22% of those initially diagnosed as “not otherwise specified”. …”
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A longitudinal study of changes in depressive symptoms and risk factors for congestive heart failure by Julia Gallucci, Justin Ng, Maria T. Secara, Brett D. M. Jones, Colin Hawco, M. Omair Husain, Nusrat Husain, Imran B. Chaudhry, Aristotle N. Voineskos, M. Ishrat Husain

“…Specifically, poorer quality of life and New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3 symptoms were linked to persistent depressive symptoms, whereas patients with less disability and without NYHA class 3 symptoms were more likely to exhibit a good prognosis. …”
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Evolving Frameworks for the Foundation and Practice of Electronic Fetal Monitoring by Mark I. Evans, David W. Britt, Shara M. Evans, Lawrence D. Devoe, Yang Pan

“…Part of EFM's poor performance with respect to these outcomes arises from a fundamental misunderstanding of the differences between screening and diagnostic tests, subjective classifications of fetal heart rate (FHR) patterns that lead to large inter-observer variability in its interpretation, failure to appreciate early stages of fetal compromise, and poor statistical modeling for its use as a screening test. …”
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Validation of ethnicity in administrative hospital data in women giving birth in England: cohort study by Ipek Gurol Urganci, Kate Walker, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Jennifer Elizabeth Jardine, Alissa Frémeaux, Megan Coe

“…Objective To describe the accuracy of coding of ethnicity in National Health Service (NHS) administrative hospital records compared with self-declared records in maternity booking systems, and to assess the potential impact of misclassification bias.Design Secondary analysis of data from records of women giving birth in England (2015–2017).Setting NHS Trusts in England participating in a national audit programme.Participants 1 237 213 women who gave birth between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2017.Primary and secondary outcome measures (1) Proportion of women with complete ethnicity; (2) agreement on coded ethnicity between maternity (maternity information systems (MIS)) and administrative hospital (Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)) records; (3) rates of caesarean section and obstetric anal sphincter injury by ethnic group in MIS and HES.Results 91.3% of women had complete information regarding ethnicity in HES. …”
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Early diagnostic challenges of isolated ocular motor nerve palsy: diabetic, ischemic, or Tolosa-Hunt Syndrome by Ling Yu, Wei Qin, Wenli Hu, Lei Yang

“…The number of patients with isolated 3rd, 4th, and 6th nerve palsy was 42, 15, and 11, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of Resilient Modulus of Subgrade and Base Materials in Indiana and Its Implementation in MEPDG by Richard Ji, Nayyarzia Siddiki, Tommy Nantung, Daehyeon Kim

“…The MR data were categorized in accordance with the AASHTO soil classifications and divided into several groups. Based on each group, this study develops statistical analysis and evaluation datasets to validate these models. …”
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Spatial distribution of fine-grained floodplain deposits and anthropogenic materials based on official borehole data in the floodplain of Leipzig, GermanyPANGAEA by Nele Graubner, Johannes Schmidt

“…For that, a methodology was implemented to categorize those into 6 broader classifications (sand, gravel, clay, anthropogenic sediments, fine-grained/organic sediments and others) with 33 sub-categories. …”
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Pulmonary hypertension: current issues of diagnosis and treatment by T. V. Martyniuk, I. E. Chazova, S. N. Nakonechnikov

“…This review represents the modern clinical and functional classifications, diagnostic algorithm with four main steps. …”
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Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy and Its Recent Clinical Applications in Combination with Other Procedures in Children: A Narrative Review by Xiao Z, Li X, Zhou L, Long X, Tian L, Li W

“…Zhixian Xiao,1,* Xing Li,2,* Li Zhou,3,* Xiaocui Long,4 Li Tian,3 Weiqi Li2 1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Affiliated Meishan Hospital of Chengdu University of TCM, Meishan, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Meishan, Meishan, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Ophthalmology, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Meishan, Meishan, People’s Republic of China*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Weiqi Li, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Meishan, No. 9, North Section of Mindong Avenue, Dongpo District, Meishan, 620010, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8615983311840, Email 35285171@qq.com Li Tian, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Hospital of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, No. 39~41, 12 Qiao Road, Jinniu District, Chengdu, 610075, People’s Republic of China, Tel +8618980880129, Email 18980880129@qq.comAbstract: Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) is a dynamic diagnostic tool that is increasingly used to evaluate upper airway obstruction, especially in pediatric obstructive sleep apnea. …”
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Diagnosis of social phobia in adults. Reliable methods of clinical evaluation and diagnostic tools by Małgorzata Reiter

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Adhesive Intestinal Obstruction as One of the Causes of Emergency Conditiond in Children by E. Y. Dyakonova, I. V. Poddubnyi, A. S. Bekin

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Atypical Central Neurocytoma with Recurrent Spinal Dissemination over a Period of 20 Years: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Tareq A. Juratli, Kathrin Geiger, Mario Leimert, Gabriele Schackert, Matthias Kirsch

“…We present an unusual case of a late recurrent central neurocytoma that was rediagnosed as an ependymoma and neurocytoma in accordance with changes in histological classifications. Case Description. A 56-year-old male teacher presented with incomplete transverse syndrome due to several intradural extramedullary tumors at the level of lumbar vertebrae 1–3. …”
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Anatomic association between the gastrocolic trunk of Henle and right colic artery by high-quality CT venography by Xinzhe Zhao, Hongda Zhang, Hengyu Zhao, Decan Kong, Weijie Zeng, Feng Gao, Xiaochun Meng, Jia Ke

“…Abstract In hepatic flexure and transverse colon cancer surgeries, mobilizing the right mesocolon and precisely dissecting the gastrocolic trunk of Henle (GTH) are crucial. Previous classifications of GTH tributaries do not guide radical right hemicolectomy due to post-procedural anatomical acquisition. …”
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A Driver Behavior Detection Model for Human-Machine Co-Driving Systems Based on an Improved Swin Transformer by Junhua Cui, Yunxing Chen, Zhao Wu, Huawei Wu, Wanghao Wu

“…The results show that the proposed model algorithm has a better performance in 10 classifications of driver behavior detection, with an accuracy of 99.42%, which is improved by 3.8% and 1.68% compared to Vgg16 and MobileNetV2, respectively. …”
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Rockfall Hazard Assessment for Natural and Cultural Heritage Site: Close Vicinity of Rumkale (Gaziantep, Türkiye) Using Digital Twins by Ugur Mursal, Abdullah Onur Ustaoglu, Yasin Baskose, Ilyas Yalcin, Sultan Kocaman, Candan Gokceoglu

“…Here, high-resolution photogrammetric models were generated using imagery acquired from a remotely piloted aircraft system and post-processed with ground control points to produce a spatially accurate 3D digital twin. Field-based geomechanical measurements including discontinuity orientations, joint classifications, and strength parameters were integrated with digital analyses to identify and evaluate hazardous rock blocks. …”
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