A case of pleuroperitoneal communication in which establishing a laparoscopic pneumoperitoneum was useful for the detection of a fistula by Takehiko Manabe, Kenji Ono, Soichi Oka, Yuichiro Kawamura, Toshihiro Osaki

“…On thoracoscopy, bubbles were observed emanating from a small pore at the central tendon of the diaphragm, which was considered to be the lesion responsible for the PPC. …”
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Advanced HIV as a Neglected Disease by Joe Jarvis

“…Until recently, advanced HIV was viewed as a problem of late presentation, so the solution was thought to be testing more people and diagnosing the disease earlier. …”
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Environmental Levels and Degradation Behavior of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs) in the Water Environment by Zhaohe ZHANG, Dian CHEN, Wei ZHAO, Guoli YUAN, Jun LI, Xingchun JIAO

“…Future research on PPCPs should be more in-depth and detailed. More emphasis will be placed on the water environment such as rain and sea water, which has been studied less before, to make the system more complete. …”
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A retrospective study on sex disparities and risk factors in acute ischemic stroke in the West bank of Palestine by Ahmed khraiwesh, Osama Ikhdour, Zainab Alalyat, Basma Damiri, Ahmad Abuhassan, Mohammad Abuawad

“…Males were more likely than females (P = 0.018, OR = 2.03) to present with more severe symptoms (mRS 3-4-5) on day one. …”
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Quantitative Ethnobotany of Multiple‐Use Species and Management of the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Daddy D. Kipute, Alain L. Katayi, Nestor K. Luambua, Jean‐Marie Kahindo, Salomon Mampeta, Ursil Lelo, Daou Véronique Joiris, Jean‐Pierre Mate

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Predictors of In-hospital Outcomes of Community-acquired versus Hospital-acquired Acute Kidney Injury in Patients Admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Prospective Study by Gaurav Shekhar Sharma, Ranjeeta Kumari, Sharon Kandari, Gaurav Jain, Farhanul Huda, Anupama Bahadur, Ravi Kant

“…The CA-AKI group had significantly higher baseline serum creatinine, serum creatinine at admission, proportion of patients requiring renal replacement therapy, proportion of patients having oligo-anuria and hyperkalemia at presentation. Despite more patients in the CA-AKI group being in AKI-Stage 3 at presentation, in-hospital mortality was observed to be lower in this group. …”
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Using Program Theory to Evaluate a Graduate College Student Development Program by Shannon Guss, Ashley Keener, Chelsea E. Bullard, Sarah Gordon

“…Background: The “3 Minute Presentation” is a graduate student competition based off the more popular “3 Minute Thesis” competition. …”
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A solar powered portable potentiostat for environmental monitoring by Matthew McCole, Martin Bradley, Margaret McCaul, Denis McCrudden

“…This study presents the design and development of a novel low-cost portable electrochemical system for rapid accurate detection of nitrate in soil pore water. …”
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Finite Element Analysis of Vertical and Horizontal Drainage Structures under Vacuum Combined Surcharge Preloading by Daqing Wang, Dong Wei, Guoyi Lin, Jiannan Zheng, Zhiting Tang, Litao Fan, Bingxiang Yuan

“…In addition, the PHDs can move downward uniformly with the soil during the consolidation process and have almost no bending deformation, which makes the vacuum transfer more uniform and effective.…”
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Study the Elastic Parameters of Sandy Conglomerate under Different Burial History and Petrophysical Modeling by Bin Wang, Jianguo Pan, Yu Huang, Guodong Wang, Yongqiang Qu, Jianguo Zhao

“…The compaction, cementation, and dissolution are the three types of diagenesis that have the greatest impact on pore characteristics in the study area. In order to quantitatively describe the influence of this complex burial and diagenetic history, we present a rock-physics modeling approach to describe the elastic properties of sandy conglomerate sample. …”
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La datation dendrochronologique du coffrage de fondation d’une pile du pont-siphon de l’Yzeron à Beaunant (Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Métropole de Lyon) by François Blondel, David Baldassari

“…The number of rings measured thus varies from 16 to 62. The posts most often have their first growth ring preserved (pith) and sometimes their last ring at the time of collection (cambium). …”
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Association between Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus genotype and clinical types by Shohei Yogi, Haruna Ishikawa, Haruna Ishikawa, Aya Oshiro, Reo Yamazato, Chiharu Sakamoto, Yasuka Tanabe, Karina Uehara, Kiyoto Kurima, Shinichiro Kina, Kenzo Takahashi, Hirofumi Arakawa, Takao Kinjo

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Gasdermin E links tumor cell-intrinsic nucleic acid signaling to proinflammatory cell death for successful checkpoint inhibitor cancer immunotherapy by Stefan Enssle, Anna Sax, Peter May, Nadia El Khawanky, Nardine Soliman, Markus Perl, Julius C. Enssle, Karsten Krey, Jürgen Ruland, Andreas Pichlmair, Florian Bassermann, Hendrik Poeck, Simon Heidegger

“…We here show that intratumoral activity of the pore-forming protein gasdermin E (GSDME) links active RIG-I signaling and apoptotic cell death in tumor cells to inflammatory pyroptosis. …”
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Transcriptomic Profile of Early Antral Follicles: Predictive Somatic Gene Markers of Oocyte Maturation Outcome by Alessia Peserico, Barbara Barboni, Chiara Camerano Spelta Rapini, Chiara Di Berardino, Giulia Capacchietti, Angelo Canciello, Fani Konstantinidou, Marisa Donato, Liborio Stuppia, Valentina Gatta

“…Early antral follicles (EAfs) offer oocyte potential in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), but most fail to mature under current in vitro maturation (IVM) protocols. …”
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Hybrid Repair of a Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm as a Bailout Option from Open Repair by Camila Esquetini-Vernon, Houssam Farres, Mohamed Rajab, Christopher Jacobs, Young Erben

“…Clinical summary: We report a three-stage hybrid repair of a type IV TAAA in a 62-year-old male with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, seizures, and severe aortic stenosis post-transcatheter aorta valve replacement (TAVR). …”
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Endoscopic Balloon Dilation for Primary Obstructive Megaureter in Children: Early Outcomes and Complications—A Case Series by George Vlad Isac, Nicolae Sebastian Ionescu

“…<i>Background and Objectives</i>: Congenital urological malformations are among the most frequent causes of pediatric chronic kidney disease. …”
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The use of a “chimeric” autotissue complex from the subscapularis vascular basin for maxillary reconstruction after malignant tumors resection by M.   V. Bolotin, V.  A. Sobolevsky, I. V. Orlova, I. M. Gelfand, H. Chen

“…Between 2014–2020 the post-resection maxillary defects were replaced with free blood-sup plied flaps of the scapular region in 19 patients. …”
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Long-term Clinical and Functional Results of Neovascular Glaucoma Surgical Treatment with Glautex Drainage and Ahmed Valve by M. M. Bikbov, I. I. Khusnitdinov

“…The analysis of clinical and functional results of surgical treatment of patients with neovascular glaucoma in terms of 3 years follow up showed that the most lasting preservation of visual function and the hypotensive effect was achieved after implantation of the Ahmed valve — in 66.7% of the cases. …”
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Assessing mid to long term amputation-free survival rates in chronic limb-threatening ischemia; a study of hybrid vascular techniques by Cristian Traian Paius, Vlad Denis Constantin, Alexandru Carap, Andrei Tarus, Grigore Tinica

“…Findings revealed a high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among participants, with most undergoing infrainguinal bypass revascularization in association with proximal and/or distal angioplasty with or without stenting. …”
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Exploring Treatment Strategies for Secondary Knee Osteonecrosis Using Core Decompression with Augmentation Techniques: Case Report by JSRG Saran, P Rahul, K Gavi Krishna

“…The femoral head is the most common area, followed by the knee. Knee osteonecrosis is further divided into primary, secondary and postarthroscopic, based on etiology. …”
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