Perioperative management with DMARDs in rheumatic diseases: a scoping review of clinical guidelines by Alice Terrett, Athena Chin, Mihye Kwon, Samuel Whittle, Catherine Hill

“…Low-moderate quality evidence supported these recommendations, based on evidence from studies of participants undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery. …”
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Description of the Don Kalmyks by the First Don Cossack Authors: аn Experiment in Critical Characterization by Artem Yu. Peretyatko

“…The methodological basis of the author’s analysis was rationalistic criticism, integrating subjective assessments of the proposed ethnographic concepts and textual deconstruction of specific information from the sources under consideration. In some cases, elements of microhistorical comparative studies were used, based on extra-source knowledge. …”
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Glutathione S-transferase M1 and T1 null polymorphisms and risk of oral submucous fibrosis: a meta-analysis of South Asian populations by Paria Motahari, Negin Neshanifard

“…Heterogeneity, sensitivity, and publication bias were assessed using funnel plots and Egger’s tests. Results Twelve studies involving 4484 participants (1925 cases, 2559 controls) were included. …”
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On cross-ancestry cancer polygenic risk scores. by Lars G Fritsche, Ying Ma, Daiwei Zhang, Maxwell Salvatore, Seunggeun Lee, Xiang Zhou, Bhramar Mukherjee

“…We highlight differences in the PRS distributions of these groups that are amplified when PRS methods condense hundreds of thousands of variants into a single score. …”
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Topographic Localization of the Demarcation Line after UV Corneal Crosslinking in Progressive Keratoconus by M. M. Bikbov, V. K. Surkova, A. R. Khalimov, E. L. Usubov, L. I. Khalimova

“…Purpose: To assess the topographic location of the demarcation line in in different areas of the cornea after standard corneal crosslinking.Patients and methods. 12 patients (15 eyes) with keratoconus of stages 1–2 of Amsler-Kruimerich classification were observed. …”
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Transforming intestinal tuberculosis management: advances in diagnostics, therapeutics, and prevention by Tamer A. Addissouky

“…As the second most common site of extrapulmonary tuberculosis after lymph nodes, ITB accounts for approximately 50% of abdominal tuberculosis cases, particularly affecting populations in resource-limited settings. …”
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rEHR: An R package for manipulating and analysing Electronic Health Record data. by David A Springate, Rosa Parisi, Ivan Olier, David Reeves, Evangelos Kontopantelis

“…Research with structured Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is expanding as data becomes more accessible; analytic methods advance; and the scientific validity of such studies is increasingly accepted. …”
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Primary hyperhidrosis: an updated review by Mahan Maazi, Alexander KC Leung, Joseph M Lam

“…The review included observational studies, clinical trials, narrative reviews, guidelines and meta-analyses published in the past 10 years. …”
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Predictive role of circulating tumor DNA based molecular residual disease for long-term outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a meta-analysis by Siyuan Che, Dongliang Yu

“…Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were combined, and subgroup analyses based on the time point of MRD detection (landmark vs. longitudinal) and treatment (surgery vs. chemoradiotherapy) were further performed. Results Ten studies with 1859 cases were included. Pooled results demonstrated that positive ctDNA MRD significantly predicted worse PFS (HR = 11.19, 95% CI: 6.10–20.52, P < 0.001), OS (HR = 6.34, 95% CI: 2.27–17.74, P < 0.001) and CSS (HR = 16.67, 95% CI: 10.00–25.00, P < 0.001). …”
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It’s not amalgam, it is white amalgam by Hadeel Arefein, Aljohara Alzuhairi, A. Alowid, S. Khier

“…Objectives: Zirconomer compared to Amalgam restoration. Materials and methods: Articles found through Medline search; Pubmed, Scopus, Cochrane Library databases covering years starting from 2010 to 2018 were reviewed. …”
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Treatment-related fluctuations in Guillain-Barré syndrome: clinical features and predictors of recurrence by Lucas ALESSANDRO, Juan Ignacio CASTIGLIONE, Patricio BRAND, Veronica BRUNO, Fabio BARROSO

“…Results: Overall, 124 cases of GBS were included; seven (5.6%) presented TRFs. …”
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Experience of using Beers criteria in clinical practice (according to Russian literature) by M. S. Cherniaeva, M. A. Rozhkova, M. V. Kazakova, L. A. Egorova, O. M. Maslennikova, G. S. Lebedev, N. V. Lomakin, D. A. Sychev

“…Surgical hospitals took the leading position in prescribing these drugs; specifically, more than 2/3 of elderly patients (75%) received them. According to two studies describing clinical cases of drug-induced falls in patients, the Beers criteria were effective in identifying drugs that can provoke this condition. …”
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TSP-1-CD47-integrin α4β1 axis drives T cell infiltration and synovial inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis by Jialiang Hu, Jialiang Hu, Xinmin Wang, Xinmin Wang, Xinmin Wang, Chuang Ge, Chuang Ge, Weiyan Qi, Weiyan Qi, Zeqing Li, Zeqing Li, Yaoyao Wang, Yaoyao Wang, Wenting Lai, Wenting Lai, Wei Ji, Hanmei Xu, Hanmei Xu

“…This article delves into the crucial role of CD47 in these processes, as well as the mechanisms at both cellular and molecular levels.MethodsCD47, its ligand TSP-1, and related integrins’ expression was analyzed in RA patients’ synovial and blood samples vs. normals using GEO data. …”
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Immune and genomic biomarkers of immunotherapy response in cancer of unknown primary by Madhu Singh, Linda Mileshkin, Penelope Schofield, Bo Gao, Gary Richardson, Andrew Pattison, Rodney J Hicks, Niko Thio, Mark Warren, Colin Wood, Stephen B Fox, Anna DeFazio, Andrew Fellowes, Christopher Steer, David Bowtell, Nicholas Wilcken, Tharani Sivakumaran, Atara Posner, Dariush Etemadmoghadam, Krista Fisher, Samantha Webb, Christos S Karapetis, Ian M Collins, Narayan Karanth, Owen W J Prall, Richard William Tothill

“…Of GEP profiled cases, 33% (59/175) had a high IR gene-expression score. …”
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Impact of sterile Aedes aegypti males releases on vector dynamics: insights from Malaysian field trials by Wasi Ahmad Nazni, Guat-Ney Teoh, Mohd Adnan Nuradila, Shaikh Ismail Shaikh Norman Hakimi, Maheswaran Tanusshni, Mohd Azam Muhammad Arif, Achim Nurfarahin Hanini, Irfan Ahmad Shazia, Aik-Meng Tan, Hamzah Rabizah, Mohamad Dzomir Ahmad Zainuri, Asim Hasnor Hadi, Ahmad Norazah, Han-Lim Lee, Hamidou Maiga, Jeremy Bouyer, Yoon-Ling Cheong

“…Malaysia has conducted a small-scale SIT pilot trial since 2019 for dengue control. This study evaluates mosquito populations in treated and untreated sites through three objectives: (1) comparing mean larvae per trap (MLT) and dengue cases for Ae. aegypti and Aedes albopictus; (2) estimating survival rates and wild populations using mark-release-recapture (MRR); and (3) analysing spatial distribution in treated and untreated sites. …”
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Outcome of different facial nerve managements in petrous bone cholesteatoma patients with facial paralysis by Qin Wang, Ruoya Wang, Jianze Wang, Na Sai, Shuhang Fan, Jianbin Sun, Zhikai Zhao, Junhui Huang, Weidong Shen, Weiju Han

“…The preoperative/postoperative House-Brackmann (H-B) grade are as follows: H-B (I-II): 0/38 cases, H-B III: 11/37 cases, H-B IV: 22/38 cases, H-B V: 21/14 cases. …”
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Role of rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease by Zeinb M.M. El Dardery, Abdelhfeez Moshrif, Ibrahim M. Shalan, Yasin A. Gala

“…This investigation aimed to assess the efficacy of pulmonary rehabilitation in enhancing dyspnea, exercise capacity, quality of life, and functional ability in cases with CPOD. Patients and methods This randomized controlled clinical trial has been conducted on eighty cases with stable CPOD, aged 40–75 years, of either sex, at the Chest Department of Al-Azhar University Hospitals in Assiut. …”
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Cardiorespiratory fitness in late adolescence and long-term risk of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis among Swedish men. by Marta Laskowski, Linus Schiöler, Helena Gustafsson, Ann-Marie Wennberg, Maria Åberg, Kjell Torén

“…<h4>Results</h4>During the follow-up period (median follow-up time 31 years, range 0-48 years), 20,679 cases of incident psoriasis and 6,133 cases of incident psoriatic arthritis were found among 1,228,562 men (mean age at baseline 18.3 years). …”
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Mortality is higher in patients with leptomeningeal metastasis in spinal cord tumors Mortalidade é mais elevada na disseminação metastática leptomeníngea em tumores da medula espin... by Ricardo de Amoreira Gepp, José Mauro Cardoso Couto, Maria Dorvalina da Silva, Marco Rolando Sainz Quiroga

“…The authors analyzed one series of metastasis cases and their associated mortality. METHODS: Clinical characteristics were studied in six patients with intramedullary tumors with metastases in a series of 71 surgical cases. …”
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Varied Presentations and Clinical Outcomes of Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposit: An Indian Series of Five Patients by Uttayan Chakrabarti, Manish Chaturvedy, Arghya Majumdar, Nitin Kumar Bajpai, Aasma Nalwa, Tapabrata Das, Arpit Agarwal, Rajesh Jhorawat

“…The data about this entity are sparse worldwide and there is hardly any robust literature from India. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 320 patients undergoing native kidney biopsy from August 2021 to August 2024 in the Department of Nephrology, AIIMS Jodhpur, was done and 5 cases of PGNMID constituting 1.25% of the native kidney biopsies and 33% of biopsy proven monoclonal gammopathy of renal significance (15 cases) were analyzed. …”
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