Cervical heterotopic heart transplantation in mice using a novel suture technique by Hao Dun, MD MSc, Maura Sticco-Ivins, Yuriko Terada, MD PhD, Amber Berning, MD, Kory J. Lavine, MD PhD, Daniel Kreisel, MD PhD, Benjamin J. Kopecky, MD PhD

“…Finally, the donor ascending aorta is end-to-side anastomosed to the recipient common carotid artery with an identical suture technique. Results: The median times for the donor heart harvest, recipient preparation, anastomoses of the pulmonary artery to the external jugular vein, and the ascending aorta to the common carotid artery were 12, 10, 12 and 11 minutes, respectively. …”
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Offloading Interventions for the Management of Charcot Neuroarthropathy in Diabetes by Thomas Berhane MSc (Rehab), PostGradDip(Biomech), PostGradDip(Gait analysis), Kanakamani Jeyaraman FRACP(Endo), Mark Hamilton FRACS(Vasc), Henrik Falhammar MD, FRACP(Endo), PhD

“…At the end of the whole offloading treatment (median duration 13.1 months; range 10-24), patients treated with PTB initially had better outcomes compared with patients treated with removable devices. …”
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Center-Related Variation in Hospitalization Cost for Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion by Shivaraj Patil, MD, Chaitanya Rojulpote, MD, Abhijit Bhattaru, BS, Avica Atri, MD, Krishna Vamsi Rojulpote, BS, Ola Khraisha, MD, Viha Atri, MD, William Frick, MD, Tarek Nafee, MD, Kishore Harjai, MD, Sumeet Mainigi, MD, Chien-Jung Lin, PhD, MD

“…Results: A total of 30,175 patients underwent Watchman device implantation at a median cost of $24,500 and demonstrated significant variability across admissions (interdecile range, $13,900-37,000). …”
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Health and social care use, costs, and satisfaction among key workers accessing Resilience Hub support during the COVID-19 pandemic by Aleix Rowlandson, Filippo Varese, Linda M. Davies, Paul French, Kate Allsopp, Lesley-Anne Carter, Daniel Hind, Katherine McGuirk, Alan Barrett, Gita Bhutani, Fay Huntley, Joanne Jordan, May Sarsam, Hein Ten Cate, Holly Walker, Ruth Watson, Jack Wilkinson, Jenni Willbourn, Gemma E. Shields

“…Satisfaction was high, with median helpfulness rated 92 (out of 100), and many stating that Hubs either fully (148/299, 49.5%) or partially (54/299, 18.1%) met their needs. …”
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Case report: Patients with positive HER-2 amplification locally advanced gastroesophageal junction cancer achieved pathologic complete response with the addition of pembrolizumab t... by Huanhuan Li, Chao Ren, Donghai Cui, Tao Wu, Zhiyong Nie

“…The KEYNOTE-811 trial revealed an improved objective response rate (74% vs. 52%; P=.0001) and median duration of response (10.6 vs 9.5 months) with the addition of pembrolizumab (PD-1) to chemotherapy plus trastuzumab compared to that with the addition of placebo in patients with HER-2 overexpression-positive advanced adenocarcinoma. …”
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Which curriculum components do medical students find most helpful for evaluating AI outputs? by William J. Waldock, George Lam, Ana Baptista, Risheka Walls, Amir H. Sam

“…A content analysis was conducted amongst 148 consenting medical students. Results The median percentage of students who correctly evaluated the LLM output was 56%. …”
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Oral Manifestations, Risk Factors and Management Strategies of COVID-19 Associated Mucormycosis in Tertiary Care Hospital by Pankaj Goel, Jitendra Kumar, Anshul Rai, Prateek Shakti, Gunjan Chouksey

“…Results: Study was done on 30 patients (80% males and 20% females) and their median age was 46 years. Predominant risk factor present was diabetes mellitus (90%) and steroid therapy (60%). …”
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Re-challenge of Platinum-based Chemotherapy for Platinum-refractory Patients with Recurrent or Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer: Claims Data Analysis in Japan by Makoto Tahara, Issei Doi, Tatsunori Murata, Sari Mishina, Shinji Takai, Hirokazu Kaneko

“…Of those, in patients who had cancer progression within 6 months after platinum-based chemotherapy administered for primary or recurrent disease (N=842), the median treatment duration of platinum rechallenge for platinum refractory patients was only 1 cycle. …”
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Effect of Radiation, Organic Solvents and Vibration Occupational Exposure on the Thyroid Disease: Results from Project ELEFANT by Bibo Yuan, Citlalli Osorio-Yáñez, Junkai Fang, Lei Zhao, Ander Wilson, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Hongbin Liu, Peng-Hui Li, Liqiong Guo

“…Additionally, the TSH concentrations in the female participants (median: 1.95; 95% CI: 2.45–2.77) displayed a correlation exclusively with vibration exposure (β: 2.80; 95% CI: 1.07–4.54). …”
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Nutritional assessment using subjective global assessment identifies energy malnutrition and predicts mortality in patients with liver cirrhosis by Takao Miwa, Tatsunori Hanai, Kayoko Nishimura, Sachiyo Hirata, Shinji Unome, Yuki Nakahata, Kenji Imai, Atsushi Suetsugu, Koji Takai, Masahito Shimizu

“…Regarding mortality, 125 patients (54%) died over a median follow-up period of 2.8 years. After adjustment, SGA-B (hazard ratio, 1.81; 95% CI, 1.08–3.03) and SGA-C (hazard ratio, 3.35; 95% CI, 1.28–8.76) were predictors of mortality in cirrhosis patients, while energy malnutrition and FFA were not. …”
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The oncolytic adenovirus TILT-123 with pembrolizumab in platinum resistant or refractory ovarian cancer: the phase 1a PROTA trial by Matthew Stephen Block, James Hugo Armstrong Clubb, Johanna Mäenpää, Santeri Pakola, Dafne Carolina Alves Quixabeira, Tatiana Kudling, Elise Jirovec, Lyna Haybout, Mirte van der Heijden, Sanae Zahraoui, Susanna Grönberg-Vähä-Koskela, Sini Raatikainen, Victor Arias, Saru Basnet, Nea Ojala, Teijo Pellinen, Annabrita Hemmes, Katja Välimäki, Annukka Pasanen, Tuomo Alanko, Daniel Adamo, Susan Ramadan, Jorma Sormunen, Juha Kononen, Julia Wanda Cohen, Michael Jon Chisamore, John Goldfinch, Suvi Sorsa, Riikka Havunen, Claudia Kistler, Aino Kalervo, Víctor Cervera-Carrascon, João Manuel dos Santos, Akseli Hemminki

“…Disease control was achieved in 64% of evaluable patients (9/14). Median progression-free survival and overall survival were 98 and 190 days respectively. …”
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Prevalence and Knowledge about Genital and other Warts among Students in Sulaimani Polytechnic University: A cross-sectional study by Burhan Karadaghy, Niaz Mustafa Kamal, Nasih Othman

“…Knowledge score ranged from 0 to 9, was not normally distributed with a median of zero (IQR 0-22), 89% of the students had very low knowledge score. …”
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SCOLIOSIS ASSESSMENT VIA TELEHEALTH USING PHOTOGRAMMETRY: DEVELOPMENT AND ACCURACY by ISIS JULIENE RODRIGUES LEITE NAVARRO, ERIC PARENT, JEFFERSON FAGUNDES LOSS, CLÁUDIA TARRAGÔ CANDOTTI

“…A total of 50 images using the App comprised this sample. The median (min-max) inclination angle of the real and virtual plumb lines was 89.8° (88.6°-90°) with a 1.4° range and 90° (89.4°-90°) with a 0.6° range, respectively. …”
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Efficacy of 3D-printed patient specific implant for orbital wall fracture repair in a series of 40 patients by Min Kyu Yang, Seong Jung Ha, Gye Jung Kim, Junhyeok Ock, Namkug Kim, Ho-Seok Sa

“…The mean orbital tissue volume ratio between the fractured orbit and the contralateral normal orbit significantly decreased after surgery (109.0% preoperatively vs. 100.6% at postoperative 6 months, P < 0.001, paired t-test). The median RMS conformance distance significantly decreased after surgery (3.426 mm preoperatively vs. 1.073 mm at postoperative 6 months, P < 0.001, Wilcoxon signed-rank test). …”
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REALISMO CRÍTICO E HISTORIOGRAFIA by Verónica Tozzi

“…Como una consecuencia de esto, diferentes consideraciones acerca del pasado serian una forma de hacer justicia a esa complejidad. …”
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Standard reference values of the postural control in healthy young female adults in Germany: an observational study by David A Groneberg, Daniela Ohlendorf, Charlotte Doerry, Vanessa Fisch, Sebastian Schamberger, Christina Erbe, Eileen M Wanke

“…Their average body mass index (BMI) was 21.1±2.61 kg/m².Outcome measures A pressure measuring platform was used to measure the weight distribution and postural sway in habitual standing. Median, tolerance range and CI were calculated.Results Height, weight and BMI are comparable to the average young German female population. …”
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An exploratory study to evaluate efficacy and safety of frequent Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy by Fumio Takano, Kaori Ueda, Takuji Kurimoto, Mina Arai, Takayuki Nagai, Yuko Yamada-Nakanishi, Makoto Nakamura

“…Fourteen patients participated in the study; four dropped out. The median (interquartile range) LogMAR values before stimulation and 1, 4, and 8 weeks after ES were 1.60 (1.45–1.80), 1.70 (1.35–1.80), 1.60 (1.43–1.73), and 1.50 (1.43–1.73), respectively, indicating no significant improvement (primary outcome: Wilcoxon’s signed rank test, p = 1.000, secondary outcome: Friedman test, p = 0.229). …”
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Exploring Acute Kidney Injury Incidence in Hip Periprosthetic Joint Infection Treatment With Combined Intravenous and Intra-articular Antibiotic Infusion by Wenbo Mu, MD, PhD, Boyong Xu, MD, Fei Wang, MD, Wentao Guo, MD, PhD, Xiaogang Zhang, MD, Li Cao, MD

“…Results: Among 151 patients, 17 (11.26%) developed AKI, with 13 cases resolving transiently before discharge. The median onset of AKI was on postoperative day 2, with stage I AKI being the most prevalent, accounting for 64.71% of cases. …”
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Cellular Reconstruction of the Rectal Mucosa during surgical Treatment of Familial Adenomatosis of the Colon: 12 Years after the First Experience of Introduction into Clinical Prac... by D. V. Vyshegorodtsev, A. M. Kuzminov, S. I. Achkasov, E. A. Kogan, V. Yu. Korolik, G. T. Sukhikh

“…Endoscopic monitoring was carried out, with the endoscopic observation covering the period of 19–120 months (median — 44.3 months). Morphological and immunohistochemical studies were conducted. …”
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The Spatio-temporal Evolution of NDVI in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area Driven by the Synergistic Effect of two Factors over the Past 21 Years by QI Haimei, ZHENG Peilong, WANG Yunqi, WANG Jiani, LI Cheng, ZHANG Xiaoming

“…[Methods] Based on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data, a suite of analytical techniques was employed, including Theil-Sen Median Trend Analysis, the Mann-Kendall Test for significance, Hurst Exponent Analysis, and Geographic Detector Modeling, to investigate the spatio-temporal patterns and driving forces of NDVI within the Three Gorges Reservoir Area from the year 2000 to 2020. …”
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