Thoracic Meningioma Presenting with Progressive Lower Paraparesis in a Female Patient in Her 30’s by Bechev K., Markov D., Markov G.

“…Meningiomas are typically slow-growing tumors that commonly present clinically after the fifth decade of life, with a higher prevalence in female patients. …”
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HIV in acute care: a review of the burden of HIV-associated presentations to an Emergency Department by B. Naicker, R. C. Maharaj

“…Strengthening of the primary health care system with a more aggressive approach to HIV testing and ARV initiation may contribute positively to reducing the burden of HIV emergencies and co-morbidities presenting to the ED. …”
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Immigration policy of the people’s republic of China in the past and in the present (outline of contemporary Chinese historiography) by Nikolai Andreev

“…To do this, the judgments of Chinese researchers of past and present immigration policy will be compared with the opinion of a Chinese scientist, but working in the West and therefore free from the need to set the correct accents from the point of view of the PRC leadership.…”
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Risk factors precipitating exacerbations in adult asthma patients presenting at Kalafong Hospital, Pretoria by Maria M. Geyser, Paul Rheeder

“…Cases were shown to be more non-compliant than controls (OR = 2.18; 95% Confidence interval (CI): 1.09 to 4.38, p = 0.03). …”
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A presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus manifesting as abdominal pain: a case report by Chloe Kupelian, DeMarco Bowen, Maria Huang, Begem Lee, Christiane Lenzen, Tiranun Rungvivatjarus

“…Abstract Background Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multisystem inflammatory disease with a broad range of clinical and serologic presentations. The heterogeneity of presentation poses diagnostic challenges for the clinician, and a high index of suspicion is required. …”
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Development and justification of a method for presenting radiation risks associated with medical exposure of patients by L. V. Repin, R. R. Akhmatdinov, A. M. Biblin, N. M. Vishnyakova

“…The aim of this study was to develop and justify a simpler and more straightforward method of presenting information on radiation risks associated with medical X-ray radiological examinations, free from the main drawbacks of the two aforementioned methods. …”
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Clinical Presentation, Pathological Spectrum, and Outcomes of Alcoholic Cirrhosis-Related Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy by Charles Ronsin, Pierre Braud, Christine Kandel-Aznar, Amaury Dujardin, Clémence Petit, David Larmet, Claire Garandeau, Clément Deltombe, Alice Le Clech, Claire Leman, Gilles Blancho, Juliet Schurder, Grégoire Couvrat-Desvergnes, Simon Ville

“…Whereas the first 2 clusters were equally distributed between pIgAN and cirrhosis-IgAN, the third was more frequent in patients with cirrhosis. The cumulative mortality rate in cirrhosis-IgAN was 26% and 46% at 1-year and 3-years, respectively. …”
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Effect of calcined factors on the whiteness and activity of calcined coal gangue products by Peijie XU, Yifei ZHU, Yongdan CAO, Zhao CAO, Xueming XIN

“…Calcination activation presents a promising approach to efficiently extract valuable elements and minerals from CG. …”
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A Unique Case of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated with Radiofrequency Ablation with More than 12 Years Overall Survival: A Case Report by Loukas Thanos, Nikolaos Ptohis, Anastasia Pomoni, Evangelia Sotiropoulou, Mary Pomoni, Dimitrios Kelekis

“…He revealed a long-term survival of more than 12 years so far and still remains in excellent clinical status.…”
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Are codesigned programmes more difficult to implement? A qualitative study of staff perceptions on the implementation of a new youth mental health programme by Michelle Kehoe, Rick Whitehead, Kathleen deBoer, Denny Meyer, Liza Hopkins, Maja Nedeljkovic

“…Abstract Background Codesigned interventions are becoming more common in health services and, in particular, in the design and development of mental health programmes and interventions. …”
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Self-Presentation in Campaign Discourse: Corpus-Assisted Study (A Case of B. Sanders’s and H. Clinton’s Campaign Speeches) by T. V. Kuraleva, V. N. Kondrashova

“…The analysis allows the authors to make a conclusion about the more aggressive self-presentation of H. Clinton and the important role of personal self-presentation in her speeches. …”
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How STEM content is presented in mathematics textbooks from the U.S. and China: a comparative study by Shuhui Li, Lianghuo Fan, Jietong Luo

“…The PEP series contained more from engineering and agriculture, and presented more in the main text; the BIM series presented more in statistics and probability, placed more in chapter previews, had more moderate-level content (i.e., partial integration of content knowledge) and a balanced distribution of authentic and non-authentic contexts in enriched-level content. …”
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Maternal and perinatal outcomes after implementation of a more active management in late- and postterm pregnancies in Sweden: A population-based cohort study. by Karin Källén, Mikael Norman, Charlotte Elvander, Christina Bergh, Verena Sengpiel, Henrik Hagberg, Teresia Svanvik, Ulla-Britt Wennerholm

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>Women with a singleton pregnancy lasting 41+0 weeks or more with a fetus in cephalic presentation (N = 150,370) were included in a nationwide, register-based cohort study. …”
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Clinical presentation of scabies from 1996 to 2022: a retrospective cohort study from Finland by Anna Mikola, Ella Jokela, Jari Jokelainen, Eetu Kiviniemi, Suvi-Päivikki Sinikumpu, Laura Huilaja

“…Symptomatic sites varied between age groups: compared with small children, adults more commonly (p < 0.001) presented with symptoms in the genital-gluteal area, whereas symptoms were located on the head and ‘foot and ankles’ more often in young children than other age groups (p < 0001 for all comparisons).Conclusions Diagnosis was markedly delayed in many patients, especially adults. …”
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Skin-Limited IgA Vasculitis: A Unique Presentation in an Adult Without Renal Involvement by Christian Cook, Jiwoo Kim, Escher Howard-Williams, Evan Raff

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Book Review: Draft Animals in the Past, Present and Future by Claus Kropp and Lena Zoll (eds) by Rena Maguire

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FIP1L1‐PDGFRA Positive Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia Presenting With Vestibular Neuritis by Ahmad Abu‐Zahra, Mahfujul Z. Haque, Abdulmalik Saleem, Arif Hussain, Ferdous Nipu

“…ABSTRACT Myeloproliferative neoplasms are disorders of stem cells that result in excessive proliferation of one or more myeloid progenitors. We report a rare finding of chronic eosinophilic leukemia with a rearrangement of the PDGFRA gene in a 53‐year‐old male patient presenting with symptoms suggestive of vestibular neuritis.…”
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The burden of thalassemia disorder: Past and present: The feedback of patients experience in the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by Anis Arioua, David Shaw

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Neurosyphilis Presenting as Sleep Disorder and Muscle Soreness Complicated With HIV Infection: A Case Report by Shu-Qi Yang, Hua-Tang Zhang, Yi-Jie Lin, Xing Wang, Yan-Yan Qiu, Xue-Ping Yu

“…With improving living standards and unprotected sexual behaviors becoming more common, the global incidence of syphilis has increased, along with a concurrent rise in reports of neurosyphilis, particularly among individuals with HIV infection. …”
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Alveolar and interstitial disease in chronic smoker presenting as combined pulmonary fibrosis with emphysema: Double trouble! by Shital Patil, Gajanan Gondhali

“…In this case report, we have reported an 80-year-old male presented with progressive shortness of breath with fatigability and hypoxia treated as emphysema with inhaled bronchodilators. …”
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