Effect of Mirror Image Therapy Combined with Whole Body Vibration Training on Unilateral Spatial Neglect after Stroke by YANG Keqin, ZHANG Li, ZHANG Chunyan, CHEN Chengcheng, QI Hui, ZHAO Bin

“…The simplified Fugl-Meyer Assessment scale (FMA) was used to evaluate the patient's upper limb motor function. The Barthel index (BI) was used to measure the self-care ability of patients.ResultsBefore treatment, there was no significant difference in CBS, MMSE, FMA and BI scores among the three groups (<italic>P</italic>&gt;0.05). …”
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Home-based mobile-guided exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation among patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (REHAB-TAVR): protocol for a randomised clinical tri... by Ying Lin, Wenzhi Pan, Yuxia Zhang, Daxin Zhou, Zhiyun Shen, Shouling Mi, Chenxu Huang, Xiaohua Xu

“…Additional outcome measures, including rehospitalisations, death, handgrip strength, frailty (Fried Criteria and Essential Toolset), cognitive function (Mini-Mental State Examination), quality of life (EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level), nutritional status (Mini-Nutritional Assessment), anxiety (General Anxiety Disorder-7), depression (Geriatric Depression Scale), sleep (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index), functional capacity (Duke Activity Status Index), clinical indices (body mass index, symptoms, signs, left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide, etc) and social support (Lubben Social Network Scale-6), along with comprehensive cost analysis, enhance the study’s significance. …”
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Parent-Reported Burn-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life in Children 5–7 Years After Burns: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study by Marina C. Heijblom, J. Nicolaas Dijkshoorn, Marianne K. Nieuwenhuis, Anouk Pijpe, Cornelis H. van der Vlies, Margriet E. van Baar, Inge Spronk

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Effect of Post-Acute Kidney Injury Use of Renin-Angiotensin Inhibitors on Long-term Mortality and Major Adverse Kidney Events: A 5-year Retrospective Observational Cohort Study by Byorn W.L. Tan, Bryce W.Q. Tan, K. Akalya, Wei-Zhen Hong, Yi Da, Sanmay Low, Wan-Ying Ng, Horng-Ruey Chua

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Successful Management of Newly Diagnosed Autoimmune Hepatitis in a Long-term HIV Survivor: A Case Report by Shubhangi Kanitkar, Nimmagadda Panindra, Ira Dhere, Rayavarapu Chandrasekhar, Manaswini Edara

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Exploring the Importance of ZBP1 in Sepsis: A Mini Review on It&amp;rsquo;s Mechanisms and Progress by Liu J, Feng J, Hu J, Chen J, Li FX, Lin N

“…Jie Liu,1,2,&amp;ast; Jian Feng,3,&amp;ast; Jian Hu,3 Juan Chen,3 Fu-Xiang Li,2,3 Ning Lin1,2 1Department of Clinical Nutrition, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610083, People’s Republic of China; 2College of Medicine Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610031, People’s Republic of China; 3Department of Critical Care Medicine, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610083, People’s Republic of China&amp;ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Ning Lin, Department of Clinical Nutrition, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, 270 Tianhui Road, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610083, People’s Republic of China, Tel+86-28-86570983, Email helenmedic@yeah.net Fu-Xiang Li, Department of Critical Care Medicine, The General Hospital of Western Theater Command, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610083, People’s Republic of China, Email lfx98@163.comAbstract: Sepsis is defined as a severe systemic inflammation, often triggered by an infection, resulting in organ dysfunction and mortality. …”
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Consensus Recommendations by the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology: Optimising Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes by Jack Wei Chieh Tan, David Sim, Junya Ako, Wael Almahmeed, Mark E Cooper, Jamshed J Dalal, Chaicharn Deerochanawong, David Wei Chun Huang, Sofian Johar, Upendra Kaul, Sin Gon Kim, Natalie Koh, Alice Pik-Shan Kong, Rungroj Krittayaphong, Bernard Kwok, Bien J Matawaran, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Loke Meng Ong, Jin Joo Park, Yongde Peng, David KL Quek, Ketut Suastika, Norlela Sukor, Boon Wee Teo, Chee Kiang Teoh, Jian Zhang, Eugenio B Reyes, Su Yen Goh

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Effects of an exercise intervention based on the COM-B model among community-dwelling prefrail older adults with diabetes: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Yang Zhao, Lu Chen, Ting-Ting Wang, Jun Yang, Ju Qiu, Wen-Xin Wang, Ling-Na Kong

“…Participants in the intervention group will receive a 16-week multicomponent exercise intervention based on the COM-B model, while those in the control group will receive usual diabetes care and general advice on physical activity. The primary outcome is frailty status, and the secondary outcomes include physical function, quality of life, depressive symptoms, self-efficacy for exercise and fasting blood glucose. …”
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Host Immune Response to Clinical Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae Pulmonary Infections via Transcriptome Analysis by Langhuan Lei, Xiaoli Zhang, Rui Yang, Haiming Jing, Yue Yuan, Zhifu Chen, Qiang Gou, Zhuo Zhao, Jinyong Zhang, Xingyong Wang

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Maternal and neonatal outcomes in pregnancies complicated with pulmonary hypertension: a retrospective cohort study by Gezi Chen, Zhenyu Zhang, Xianlan Zhao, Kai Huang

“…PH was diagnosed via echocardiography, and patients were categorized into mild and moderate-to-severe PH groups on the basis of pulmonary artery systolic pressure (sPAP). Cardiac function was graded according to the World Health Organization Functional Class (WHO-FC). …”
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Irregular assessment times in pragmatic randomized clinical trials by Andrea Apter, Frances K. Barg, Sanjib Basu, Alex Federman, Winifred J. Hamilton, Jerry A. Krishnan, Tianjing Li, Russell Localio, Christine Pindle, Daniel O. Scharfstein, Justin D. Smith, Kaharu Sumino

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The Missing Link in Patient Recovery: Hospital Sleep Medicine by Ki-Hwan Ji, Dong-Kyu Kim, Eun-Hee Kim, Seockhoon Chung

“…This problem is compounded by multi-patient hospital rooms, frequent nighttime disturbances, and a general lack of focus on sleep management within institutions. …”
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Physical exercise as a potential adjuvant therapy: effects on inflammation and nutrition in colorectal cancer patients—a systematic review and meta-analysis by Hui Zhang, Ying Zhang, Feifei Luo, Yixin Wen, Jiang Ni, Jing Wang

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Evolution of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome on the Basis of Up-to-Date Medical Technologies by Yu. V. Marchenkov, A. V. Vlasenko, V. V. Moroz, V. N. Yakovlev

“…The paper generalizes the 15 years’ experience of the V. A. Negovsky Research Institute of General Reanimatology, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, in conducting fundamental studies of the morphological, functional, and clinical patterns of the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), by using up-to-date medical technologies. …”
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Pathophysiology of the Heart and Clinical Cardiac Anesthesiology by Yu. V. Nikiforov, L. A. Krichevsky

“…The main tasks presented to its investigators were to improve electric cardiac defibrillation and cardioversion, to elaborate the optimal infusiotransfusion therapy tactics during cardiac surgery, to optimize intraoperative myocardial protection, to maintain lung functions under extracorporeal circulation, to search for the most effective and safe schemes of general and epidural anesthesia in cardiosurgical patients, and to substantiate algorithms for their postoperative activation. …”
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Cognitive and emotional benefits of individual reminiscence therapy in elderly stroke survivors: study protocol for a randomized controlled study by Shan Wang, Miaomiao Hu, Yehua Xue, Yeping Chen, Kunpeng Li, Lu Dong, Libing Liang, Jieting Jiang, Xuemin Li, Caiqin Wu

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Pathophysiological Features of Endogenous Intoxication in Pregnant Women with Arterial Hypertension by N. V. Kabanova

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USING OF NEGATIVE WOUND PRESSURE THERAPY (NPWT): A CASE SERIES OF WOUND DISRUPTION AS A COMPLICATION OF A CAESAREAN SECTION by Herman Yosef Limpat Wihastyoko, Ellenora Resti Mustikaningrat, Dorothea Respa Kusumaningrat, Gisella Sekar Wruhastanti, Yohana Joni

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Pancreatico-cutaneous fistula following complicated perforated peptic duodenal ulcer repair by Richard Adams, DO, Mena Louis, DO, Nathaniel Grabill, MD, Jasmine Lake, BS, Timothy Stevens, MD, Nelson Royall, MD

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The Whisper of the Follicle: A Systematic Review of Micro Ribonucleic Acids as Predictors of Oocyte Quality and In Vitro Fertilization Outcomes by Charalampos Voros, Antonia Varthaliti, Diamantis Athanasiou, Despoina Mavrogianni, Anthi-Maria Papahliou, Kyriakos Bananis, Aristotelis-Marios Koulakmanidis, Antonia Athanasiou, Aikaterini Athanasiou, Constantinos G. Zografos, Athanasios Gkirgkinoudis, Maria Anastasia Daskalaki, Dimitris Mazis Kourakos, Dimitrios Vaitsis, Ioannis Papapanagiotou, Marianna Theodora, Panagiotis Antsaklis, Dimitrios Loutradis, Georgios Daskalakis

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