Case Report: A Nursing Challenge - Postoperative Complications of Pacemaker Implantation in Behçet’s Disease by Bo Xiao

“…We report a case of a 47-year-old Chinese male with Behçet’s disease, treated with immunosuppressive agents, who developed an infection at the surgical site following the postoperative implantation of a pacemaker. …”
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Psychological Patient-reported Outcomes Cannot Predict a Second Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in Patients who Return to Sports after an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstructio... by Ramana Piussi, Rebecca Simonson, Johan Högberg, Roland Thomeé, Kristian Samuelsson, Eric Hamrin Senorski

“… # Study design Diagnostic/prognostic study # Methods Demographic data, isokinetic strength test data for quadriceps, as well as results for the ACL-Return to Sport after Injury scale (ACL-RSI), Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Quality of Life, and Function in Sport and Recreation sub-scales, and the 18-item version of the Knee Self-Efficacy Scale (K-SES~18~) were extracted from a registry. …”
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An Autopsy Case of Rapidly Aggravated Clostridium perfringens Septicemia with Colorectal Cancer by Risako Kohya, Taichi Murai, Yudai Taguchi, Kyohei Sawai, Masaya Takehara, Masahiro Nagahama, Kazufumi Itaya, Yuta Koike, Ayana Endo, Yuji Ono, Atsushi Nagasaka, Shuji Nishikawa, Michio Nakamura

“…Three days before the introduction of the first chemotherapy, he visited our hospital due to high fever. The blood test revealed an increase in the inflammatory response, hepatobiliary enzyme level, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level, and renal function deterioration. …”
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Liver damage and hepatomegaly in COVID-19 patients by Pınar Yürük Atasoy, Engin Beydoğan

“… Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the patients with high liver function test results detected at admission to the hospital diagnosed with COVID-19. …”
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The impact of everyday usage of different dental implant torque wrenches on their performance accuracy and repeatability: An in vitro study by Ilić Gavrilo, Milić-Lemić Aleksandra, Vulović Stefan, Marković Aleksa, Lazić Zoran, Dragović Miroslav, Todorović Aleksandar

“…Torque values delivered by wrenches were measured and analyzed using the One-Sample t-test, Independent-Samples t-test, and Mann-Whitney U test. …”
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Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation in aortic stenosis patients: exploring a novel threshold for clinically significant improvement... by Marte Sævik, Marit Helen Andersen, Jan Otto Beitnes, Lars Aaberge, Per Steinar Halvorsen

“…Other outcome measures were 6-minute walking test and NYHA- classification. Independent samples t-test or Mann-Whitney U test was used for between-group comparisons as appropriate. …”
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Cardiorenal disturbances in perimenopausal women by S. N. Tolstov, V. B. Mychka, I. A. Salov, Yu. V. Prokhorova, V. A. Vyshivanyuk

“…Non-invasive assessment of endothelial vasoregulatory function involved the measurement of brachial artery (BA) endothelium-dependent vasodilatation (EDVD) in the reactive hyperemia test (RHT). …”
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How does the Dorr classification of proximal femur affect the total hip arthroplasty of hemophilic patients: a retrospective study by Yichen Gong, Hua Huang, Hai Su, Haojin Zhou, Peijian Tong, Shuaijie Lv

“…All Dorr types of hips present good recovery from the surgery according to the perioperative examinations including hemoglobin (HB), total protein (TP), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), D-dimer (D2), C-reactive protein level (CRP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), and thigh circumference (TC). The 2-year follow-up demonstrates favorable functional rehabilitation according to functional evaluations including visual analogue scale (VAS), Harris hip score (HHS), and range of motion (ROM). …”
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Clinical features, treatment and prognosis analysis of distant metastatic esophageal cancer by Shuang Li, Yanwei Lu, Ruiqi Liu, Luanluan Huang, Ding Nan, Xiaoyan Chen, Wenjie Xia, Xiaodong Liang, Haibo Zhang

“…Propensity score matching (PSM) was used to eliminate group baseline differences.The data were divided into the training cohort (1116 cases) and validation cohort (426 cases) by using R software and random sampling function at the ratio of 7:3. The baseline table was plotted using Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test. …”
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ANALYSIS OF THE OUTCOMES OF SURGICAL TREATMENT IN PATIENTS WITH BRONCHOPULMONARY CARCINOID TUMORS by Ivan Z. Vytvytskyi, Mamed M. Bagirov, Arkadiy H. Vysotskyy, Vadym H. Getman, Tеtiana A. Vysotska, Inna O. Honcharenko

“…When comparing lobar resection and parenchyma-sparing bronchial sleeve resection according to the Kaplan-Meier survival function, Student's t test, Spearman's correlation, the risk of metastases and tumor recurrence in patients does not depend on the type of surgery that was performed. …”
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Two Corrective Exercise Methods (NASM) and Corrective Games on Genu Varum in Boys Aged 10-12 by Amir Ghiami Rad, Ali Fattahi Turki, Behnam Shahbazi

“…The aim of this research is to compare the effects of two methods—common corrective exercises and corrective games—on the knee braces of 10-12-year-old boys. Methods The research followed an experimental design with pre-test and post-test methodology. …”
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Ureter‐ileum‐interposition: Combined experience from two high‐volume centres by Maksym Pikul, David Pfister, Constantin Rieger, Christian Bach, Oleg Voylenko, Oleksandr Stakhovskyi, Sofiya Semko, Iurii Vitruk, Oleksii Kononenko, Eduard Stakhovsky, Axel Heidenreich

“…A slight improvement in renal function was observed during the first year post‐surgery (average postoperative eGFR = 76 ± 22 ml/min; Mann–Witney U test, p = 0,0198). …”
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PANDAS in an Adult?: A Case Report by Rohit P Deshmukh, Astik B Mane, Shachi Singh

“…Hemoglobin (13.5 g/dL), TLC (5700/mm³), and ESR (05 mm in the first hour), blood sugars, renal function test (RFT), and liver function test (LFT) were within normal limits. …”
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Clinical outcomes of kidney transplantation from expanded-criteria donors and KDPI>85% kidneys in deceased Chinese donors by Kankan Shui, Hedong Zhang, Tengfang Li, Jianfei Hou, Gongbin Lan, Fenghua Peng, Shaojie Yu, Xubiao Xie, Helong Dai, Longkai Peng

“…The donor kidneys were classified into ECD kidneys (n = 110) and standard criteria donor (SCD) kidneys (n = 216) based on the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria, as well as into kidneys with KDPI > 85% (n = 42) and KDPI ≤ 85% (n = 284), according to the donor’s KDPI value. T tests, chi-square tests, and Mann-Whitney U tests were used to compare complications and renal function following kidney transplantation. …”
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Bracing versus non-bracing after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery by Rebin Taha Salih, Zohair Mohsen Al-Saffar

“…The follow-up was based on the Lysholm functional score, Tegner activity level, manual Lachman test and pain by visual analog scale, each variable were recorded before surgery, 12 weeks, 24 weeks and one year after the surgery. …”
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An update on Florida’s Artificial Reefs: recent deployments and trends by Edward V. Camp, Lisa Chong, Angela B. Collins, Holly Abeels, Keith Mille, Michael Sipos, Brittany Hall-Scharf, Scott Jackson, Shelly Krueger, Victor Blanco

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MODULATED KINESIOTHERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH COMPLICATED CORONARY HEART DISEASE by A. I. Olesin, A. V. Belova, Z. Yu. Smolin

“…The study included 175 patients, aged 46-65 years, with CHD and/or essential arterial hypertension, persistent AF, and Functional Class (FC) I-II CHF. …”
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Recurrent Wheezing and Cough Caused by Double Aortic Arch, Not Asthma by Qiao Zhang, Zhou Fu, Jihong Dai, Gang Geng, Wenlong Fu, Daiyin Tian

“…Case Presentation. A 4-year-old boy with a history of recurrent wheezing was admitted to our hospital for evaluation of asthma based on his past medical history, persistent cough, wheezing, and airway hyperresponsiveness by lung function test. …”
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Chronic hepatitis B infection in a hepatology clinic at a university hospital in Jeddah by Hind Fallatah, Hisham Akbar

“…Methodology: The results of a complete blood count, prothrombin time, liver function test and hepatitis B virus polymerase chain reaction (HBV-PCR) performed over the previous two to five years of follow-up were reviewed.   …”
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Hyperprolactinemia Secondary to Allergic Fungal Sinusitis Compressing the Pituitary Gland by Nikita Chapurin, Cynthia Wang, David M. Steinberg, David W. Jang

“…Workup revealed elevated prolactin of 94.4, negative pregnancy test, and normal thyroid function. MRI and CT demonstrated a 5.0 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm heterogeneous expansile mass in the right sphenoid sinus with no pituitary adenoma as originally suspected. …”
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