Multidrug-Resistant <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i>: Risk Factors for Mortality in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital by Kristina Černiauskienė, Astra Vitkauskienė

“…More than three-fourths (76.5%, <i>n</i> = 150) of the patients had at least one comorbid disease. The highest number of <i>A. baumannii</i> strains were isolated from patients hospitalized in ICUs (43.4%, <i>n</i> = 85). …”
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Clinical and Technical Characteristics of Coronary Angiography and Percutaneous Coronary Interventions Performed before and after Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement with a Ball... by Alfredo Nunes Ferreira-Neto, Rishi Puri, Lluis Asmarats, Victoria Vilalta, Leonardo Guimaraes, Robert Delarochellière, Jean-Michel Paradis, Siamak Mohammadi, Eric Dumont, Josep Rodés-Cabau

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Use of complementary and alternative medicine among females with polycystic ovary syndrome in Jordan: a cross-sectional study by Oriana Awwad, Mais Saleh, Ali Alsamydai, Fatma U Afifi, Amal Akour, Renad Abu Tarboosh, Manar Hamdan, Asma Sa’d Basha, Sanaa K Bardaweel

“…Background and objectives Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent female reproductive and metabolic disorder. Among patients with chronic conditions, an increasing number have approached complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to cope with their disease. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of loaded self-managed exercises and physical activity in people with patellofemoral pain: understanding the feasibility of delivering a multicentred rand... by Michael Skovdal Rathleff, Phillipa Logan, Marcus Bateman, Benjamin E Smith, Fiona Moffatt, Paul Hendrick, James Selfe, Toby O Smith

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Factors associated with in-hospital mortality in octogenarians managed by geriatric service in a referral hospital in Colombia by Carlos Mario Cortes Bahamon, Jenny Rodríguez Ángel, Jennifer Katherine Ballesteros Tapias, Diego Andrés Chavarro-Carvajal, Oscar Mauricio Muñoz

“…Introduction: The demographic transition has significantly increased the number of hospitalizations in octogenarian patients. …”
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Racial disparities in acute care utilization among individuals with myasthenia gravis by Cynthia Qi, Pushpa Narayanaswami, Ashley E. L. Anderson, Deborah Gelinas, Yuebing Li, Jeffrey T. Guptill, Dakshinamoorthy Amirthaganesan, Charlotte Ward, Rupesh Panchal, Amit Goyal, Glenn Phillips

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Automated process assessment of primary healthcare for hyperlipidemia: preliminary findings and implications form Anhui, China by Ningjing Yang, Yuning Wang, Ying Li, Dongying Xiao, Ruirui Cui, Nana Li, Rong Liu, Jing Chai, Xingrong Shen, Debin Wang

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Combined surgical and interventional cardiology approach for central venous access salvage in children with intestinal failure: A case series by Emily Byrd, M. Jake Petersen, Minna M. Wieck, Frank Ing, Shinjiro Hirose

“…Background: Pediatric patients with intestinal failure are critically dependent on central venous access for nutrition and fluids. …”
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Safety, Efficacy, and Predictive Factors of Conventional Epithelium-Off Corneal Crosslinking in the Treatment of Progressive Keratoconus by Rebecca Farhat, Mohamad Khaled Ghannam, Georges Azar, Joseph Nehme, Marwan Sahyoun, Najib Georges Hanna, Mariana Abi Karam, Charbel El Haber, Alexandre Schakal, Alexandre Jalkh, Ameed Samaha

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The Effect of Diabetes-Associated Autoantigens on Cell Processes in Human PBMCs and Their Relevance to Autoimmune Diabetes Development by Jana Vcelakova, Radek Blatny, Zbynek Halbhuber, Michal Kolar, Ales Neuwirth, Lenka Petruzelkova, Tereza Ulmannova, Stanislava Kolouskova, Zdenek Sumnik, Pavlina Pithova, Maria Krivjanska, Dominik Filipp, Katerina Stechova

“…In this study, using gene expression microarrays, we analysed the effect of diabetes-associated autoantigens on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) with the purpose of identifying (pre)diabetes-associated cell processes. Twelve patients with recent onset T1D, 18 first-degree relatives of the TD1 patients (DRL; 9/18 autoantibody positive), and 13 healthy controls (DV) were tested. …”
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SAA3 deficiency exacerbates intestinal fibrosis in DSS-induced IBD mouse model by Xiaodong Zou, Tong Wu, Jianjiao Lin, Tao Su, Hui Xiao, Chuyan Ni, Lijuan Hu, Wenchu Lin, Weilin Chen, Richard D. Ye, Li Xiang

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Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease – A multicenter observational study from India by Sham Santhanam, Pravin Patil, Mohit Goyal, C B Mithun, Parthajit Das, Kavitha Mohanasundaram, Neeraj Jain, Vijaya Prasanna, Keerthi Talari, Himanshu Pathak, Parshant Aggarwal, Deepika Ponnuru, Vikram Raj Jain, Sharath Kumar

“…The number of patients with complete influenza and pneumococcal vaccination was low and this issue needs to be specifically addressed. …”
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Multi-institutional evaluation comparing guidance from International Ki67 Working Group vs National Health Commission of China on immunohistochemistry-based Ki67 assessment alongsi... by Yin Wang, Jiarui Zou, Qinghua Cao, Guihong Dai, Panhong Fan, Xue Gong, Jinyan Jiang, Yanqing Kong, Chao Liu, Chunhui Liu, Chenjia Lu, Meiren Li, Zhiqiang Lang, Yang Lin, Yan Peng, Haiyan Shi, Yuhuan Wang, Jiu Wang, Bichen Xie, Bing Yang, Guohua Yu, Cuiping Zhang, Hengming Zhang, Luting Zhou, Zilan Zhang, Zhenli Zhu, Junmei Hao

“…PurposeRecommendations from the National Health Commission of China (NHCC) and the International Ki67 Working Group (IKWG) were issued to guide immunohistochemistry (IHC)-based Ki67 scoring for breast cancer patients in daily clinical practice. They were evaluated in this multi-institutional study alongside the results from the Quantitative Dot Blot (QDB) method.MethodsThree alternative adjacent sections from 40 primary ER+ breast cancer resection blocks were randomly assigned a number from 1 to 120 for Ki67 staining and reviewed by 21 pathologists, while the other three alternative sections were sent for QDB analysis of Ki67 protein levels. …”
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HMGB-1 as a predictor of major bleeding requiring activation of a massive transfusion protocol in severe trauma by Michal Frelich, Marek Bebej, Jan Pavlíček, Filip Burša, Vojtěch Vodička, Zdeněk Švagera, Adéla Kondé, Ondřej Jor, Markéta Bílená, Tereza Romanová, Peter Sklienka

“…The total amount of blood products and fibrinogen administered to patients within 6 h of admission was monitored. Among those patients with massive bleeding requiring MTP activation, we found significantly higher levels of HMGB-1 compared to patients without MTP activation (median [interquartile range]: 84.3 µg/L [34.2–145.9] vs. 21.1 µg/L [15.7–30.4]; p < 0.001). …”
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Does completion of radical hysterectomy improve oncological outcomes of women with clinical early-stage cervical cancer and intraoperative detection of nodal involvement?: protocol... by Hui Xu, Qing Liu, Yu Xu, Yi Du, Ai Zheng, Cui Hu, Ya Jia, Qianwen Zhang, Yue-Dong He, Shuang-Shuang Cui, Yong Tian, Lin Ran, Fengmei Ke

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Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth Syndrome as a Risk Factor for Ventricular Tachycardia in Chronic Heart Failure with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction by M. V. Fadeeva, M. R. Skhirtladze, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The prevalence of SIBOS among patients with CHF significantly exceeded its prevalence in the group of patients without CHF (SIBOS was detected in 25 of 60 patients with CHF (42 %) and in 2 of 22 patients without CHF (9 %); p = 0.0034). …”
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Insulin Modulates Paracoccidioides brasiliensis-Induced Inflammation by Restoring the Populations of NK Cells, Dendritic Cells, and B Lymphocytes in Lungs by Felipe Beccaria Casagrande, Sabrina de Souza Ferreira, Fernanda Peixoto Barbosa Nunes, Lavínia Maria Dal’Mas Romera, Suelen Silvana dos Santos, Fernando Henrique Galvão Tessaro, Paula Regina Knox de Souza, Sandro Rogério Almeida, Joilson Oliveira Martins

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The PROPHECI trial: a phase II, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial for the treatment of pseudoxanthoma elasticum with oral pyrophosphate by Laetitia Clotaire, Isabelle Rubera, Christophe Duranton, Jocelyn Gal, Emmanuel Chamorey, Hélène Humeau, Samir Yamani, Christine Chiaverini, Serge Willoteaux, Bernard Padovani, Laurie Mourozeau, Adam Mainguy, Stéphanie Baillif, Ludovic Martin, Georges Leftheriotis

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Comparison of clinical and virological features in pediatric and adult dengue cases at Insein General Hospital during Myanmar’s 2022 dengue season by Htin Lin, Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Yin Mon Wint Zin, Khin Theingi Myint, Win Kay Khine, Khine Mya Nwe, Aye Aye Thant, Thin Thin Shwe, Win Mar, Khin Sandar Aye, Khaing Moe Aung, Yuki Takamatsu, Wah Wah Aung, Yi Yi Kyaw, Takeshi Urano, Kouichi Morita, Hlaing Myat Thu

“…DENV serotypes were identified in 80% of NS1Ag-positive patients. Among NS1Ag-positive cases, the DENV-1 serotype predominated (67%), followed by DENV-2 (17%), DENV-3 (9%), DENV-4 (5%), and mixed DENV-1 and DENV-2 (2%) serotypes. …”
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Faktor-Faktor Yang Mempengaruhi Kejadian Insomnia di Poliklinik Saraf RS DR. M. Djamil Padang by Lydia Susanti

“…Insomnia was experienced by 38% (38 people) of patients who visited Neurology Outpatient of DR. M. …”
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