Clinical diagnosis of TB: lessons on misdiagnosis and overdiagnosis by D.S. Singini, N. Sanjase, M. Kagujje, J. Shatalimi, C.P. Chisanga, Z.D. Lupatali, D. Phiri, T. Tatila, W. Olwit, A.D. Kerkhoff, M. Muyoyeta

“…This re-evaluation included sputum Xpert Ultra testing and expert reader interpretation of the chest x-rays (CXRs) used for initial diagnosis. Repeat Xpert Ultra detected TB in just 2.6% (n=6). …”
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Chemical Compositional Analysis of Catalytic Hydroconversion Products of Heishan Coal Liquefaction Residue by Xiaoming Yue, Yajun Wu, Shuangquan Zhang, Xiaoqin Yang, Xianyong Wei

“…Liquefaction residue of Heishan bituminous coal (HLR) was subject to two hydroconversion reactions under 5 MPa initial pressure of hydrogen at 300°C for 3 h, without catalyst and with acid supported catalyst (ASC), respectively. …”
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Recurrent Strokes in a Hypertensive Smoker: An Atypical Case and Review of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura by Nithya Ramesh, Shanjeev Kumar Rajeshkumar Chitra, Udunma Ikoro, Sohiel Deshpande, Vartika Singh, Vidhi Mehta, Andre Posner

“…In the setting of subtle hematologic abnormalities, detection of severely decreased ADAMTS13 activity aided in early diagnosis and prompt initiation of plasmapheresis. …”
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SOME IMMUNOLOGICAL INDICATORS IN CERVICAL PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATED WITH PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTION by A. A. Savchenko, V. B. Tskhay, D. Yu. Kruglova, A. G. Borisov

“…In cases of combined sub-clinical infection with leukoplakia and endocervicosis, more severe disorders of cellular immunity were detectable than in CIN I and CIN II. It is assumed, that initial neoplastic processes with HPV background are accompanied by a more pronounced immune response. …”
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Gastrointestinal Involvement in Lipoid Proteinosis: A Ten-Year Follow-Up of a Brazilian Female Patient by Juliana Custódio Lima, Cristiane Kibune Nagasako, Ciro Garcia Montes, Irene Harumi Kamata Barcelos, Rita Barbosa de Carvalho, Maria Aparecida Mesquita

“…In this report we describe the endoscopic and radiologic findings in a Brazilian female patient presenting extensive gastrointestinal involvement and the evolution of the detected lesions in ten years of follow-up. Initial upper endoscopy and colonoscopy showed a similar pattern of multiple yellowish nodules throughout the esophagus, stomach, duodenum, and colons. …”
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PEDIATRIC RESUSCITATION USING EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF NURSING CARE by Anja Klopčič, Tina Peulić, Anja Perko

“…In the everyday care of critically ill children, the main pillar of treatment is certainly the constant monitoring of vital functions with continuous monitoring and the presence of trained medical staff. This allows rapid detection of deviations from normal, timely intervention, prevention of complications, and documentation of the patient’s condition. …”
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Effect of Organic Inhibitors on Chloride Corrosion of Steel Rebars in Alkaline Pore Solution by Marina Cabrini, Francesca Fontana, Sergio Lorenzi, Tommaso Pastore, Simone Pellegrini

“…The presence of the organic inhibitors on the passivity film was detected by IR spectra. The results confirm that 0.1 M aspartate exhibits an inhibiting effect comparable with nitrite ions of the same concentration. …”
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Features of the course and outcomes of neonatal hepatitis of various etiologies by N. A. Efremova, L. G. Goryacheva, N. V. Rogozina, L. A. Alekseeva, T. V. Bessonova, M. Y. Kotiv

“…We conducted a comparative analysis of clinical and laboratory data at initial examination and determined the outcomes of neonatal hepatitis to 12 months of life depending on the etiology. …”
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Identifying Equivalent Circuits of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy Using CNN-LSTM by Chang-jiang Yang, Bo-bin Gao, Jun Chang, Li-hua Zhang

“…The stacked LSTM network was used to detect the in-depth sequence features of the EIS, and then the equivalent circuit recognition result was obtained. …”
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Meningitis due to Haemophilus influenzae – a case report by M. Patel, Z. Endo, A. Sou, D. El-Khoury, X. MdLuli, V. Patel

“…The patient then presented to our hospital, and the initial lumbar puncture was unable to identify any specific organism. …”
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Long-term tumor suppression in cholangiocarcinoma using cytokine-induced killer cell therapy and high-dose vitamin C: a case report by Kangseok Kim, Hyunhye Wang, Jiewon Lee, Changhwan Yeom

“…The patient’s tumor size reduced, and no cancer activity was detected for 7 years and 10 months post-diagnosis, indicating a successful long-term outcome without recurrence. …”
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Pulmonary Intravascular Large B‐Cell Lymphoma Diagnosed by Transbronchial Lung Cryobiopsy: A Case Report by Yen Shen Wong, Hideaki Furuse, Yuji Matsumoto, Kenya Sato, Takaaki Tsuchida

“…A 68‐year‐old man was initially diagnosed with diffuse large B‐cell lymphoma based on an orchiectomy specimen. …”
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PARTICULARITĂȚILE CLINICO-RADIOLOGICE ALE TUBERCULOZEI PULMONARE ÎN DEPENDENȚĂ DE METODELE DE DEPISTARE ÎN CONTEXTUL EPIDEMIOLOGIC ACTUAL by Алина МАЛИК, Адриана НИГУЛЯНУ, Татьяна ОСИПОВ, Евелина ЛЕСНИК, Марина СТАНЧЕВА

“…The obtained results demonstrated that the main peculiarities of patients diagnosed with PTB regardless of the detection methods included: male gender, low social and economical state and high prevalence of the harmful habits with impact on the health state.…”
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Oral cancer screening: Past, present, and future perspectives by Ribwar Arsalan Mohammed, Sirwan Khalid Ahmed

“…Continued collaboration and technological advancements are essential for decreasing oral cancer mortality rates by means of early detection and holistic care approaches.…”
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Klasifikasi Penyakit Daun Pada Tanaman Jagung Menggunakan Algoritma Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors dan Multilayer Perceptron by Jaka Kusuma, Rubianto, Rika Rosnelly, Hartono, B. Herawan Hayadi

“…Generally, plant diseases are initially caused by morphological changes in the leaves. …”
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Comparison of Two Machine Learning Models for Predicting Volumetric Errors From On-The-Fly R-Test Type Device Data and Virtual End Point Constraints by Min Zeng, J. R. R. Mayer, Miao Feng, Elie Bitar-Nehme, Xuan Truong Duong

“…More than one ball can be so measured and a fixed length ball bar is also measured for detecting isotropic scaling effects. Initial processing of data using the SAMBA (scale and master ball artefact) method eliminates setup errors and provides estimates of inter- and intra-axis errors as well as volumetric errors vectors. …”
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Study of Optical Solitons and Quasi-Periodic Behaviour for the Fractional Cubic Quintic Nonlinear Pulse Propagation Model by Lotfi Jlali, Syed T. R. Rizvi, Sana Shabbir, Aly R. Seadawy

“…A sensitivity analysis is performed utilizing a variety of initial conditions.…”
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Possibilities of using computed tomography to treat mixed cervical dystonia with botulinum toxin type A by T. V. Mokina, Yu. I. Pavlov, Z. A. Zalyalova

“…The paper describes a clinical case demonstrating the possibilities of using computed tomography (CT) in the diagnosis and treatment of botulinum toxin type A (BTA) treatment of mixed cervical dystonia (CD). The poor result of initial treatment is due to the fact that the abnormally active deep muscles of the neck were beyond the reach of injection. …”
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Serendipity in Emergency Diagnostics: Near Miss of a Loa loa Case in a Swiss Hospital by Azad Durussel, Sébastien Pugnale, Ludovic Galofaro, Jean‐Luc Magnin, Youcef Guechi, Vincent Ribordy

“…Treatment with albendazole was initiated, leading to gradual improvement.…”
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Topology-controlled Laplace–Beltrami operator on point clouds based on persistent homology by Ao Zhang, Qing Fang, Peng Zhou, Xiao-Ming Fu

“…Persistent homology is then employed to detect and eliminate spurious edges through a topological optimization process. …”
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