Sclerostin Antibody Therapy for the Treatment of Osteoporosis: Clinical Prospects and Challenges by Claire MacNabb, D. Patton, J. S. Hayes

“…Accordingly, it has been suggested that sclerostin antibody treatment is set to achieve market approval by 2017 and aggressively compete as the gold standard for osteoporotic treatment by 2021. …”
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The Utility of Xenon-133 Liver Scan in the Diagnosis and Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease by Said A Al-Busafi, Peter Ghali, Philip Wong, Javier A Novales-Diaz, Marc Deschênes

“…Liver biopsy remains the gold standard diagnostic method; however, its invasive nature, among other factors, has prompted the need to develop less invasive, alternative methods to quantify hepatic fat and determine disease severity. …”
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Impact of cardiac magnetic resonance on the diagnosis and management of patients with cardiomyopathies by Popa Oana-Andreea, Onciul Sebastian, Badea Thedor, Marian Denisa, Rac-Albu Bogdan, Amzulescu Mihaela, Bugeac Claudia, Chiriac Oana, Tomescu Luminița, Gheorghita Valeriu, Roșu Andrei

“…Over the past decades, it has become the gold standard for assessing cardiac function, volumes and mass. …”
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Surface Plasmon Mediated Angular and Wavelength Tunable Retroreflectors Using Parallel-Superimposed Surface Relief Bi-Gratings by Maxwell Dollar, Yazan Bdour, Paul Rochon, Ribal Georges Sabat

“…The bi-gratings were inscribed onto a thin azobenzene molecular glass film via photolithography and subsequently coated with a thin gold layer to support SPR. The two superimposed gratings operate in tandem, with one grating coupling incident light into the SPR mode and the other coupling it back out toward the light source, thereby achieving retroreflection. …”
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Gastroduodenal form of Crohn's disease by I. V. Mayev, D. N. Andreev, Yu. A. Kucheryavy

“…Endoscopy of the stomach and duodenum with histological examination are the «gold» standard of GDCD diagnostics and quite often have crucial importance in the proof of diagnosis. …”
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Recent Developments of Functional Scaffolds for Craniomaxillofacial Bone Tissue Engineering Applications by Yukihiko Kinoshita, Hatsuhiko Maeda

“…Autogenous bone grafting remains a gold standard for the reconstruction critical-sized bone defects in the craniomaxillofacial region. …”
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Anterior-to-Posterior Migration of a Lumbar Disc Sequestration: Surgical Remarks and Technical Notes about a Tailored Microsurgical Discectomy by Alessandro Frati, Alessandro Pesce, Mauro Palmieri, Tommaso Vangelista, Riccardo Caruso, Maurizio Salvati, Antonino Raco

“…Its radiological feature can be enigmatic and since, in more than 50% of cases, clinical onset is a hyperacute cauda equina syndrome, it may imply a difficult surgical decision in emergency settings. Surgery is the gold standard but when dealing with such huge sequestrations, standard microdiscectomy must be properly modified in order to minimize the risk of surgical trauma or traction on the nerve roots.…”
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Comparative Evaluation of Efficacy of Herbal and Chlorhexidine Mouthwash on Gingival Health by Vaishnavi Senkalvarayan, Priya Kesavan, Jayachandran Dorairaj, R Madhumala, Saranyan Ravi, Ann Theresa Tomy

“…Introduction: Chlorhexidine (CHX) is a chemical mouthwash that has been considered the gold standard, but has its drawbacks. When used for a longer duration, it produces taste alteration and staining on the tooth surfaces. …”
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Chronic Constrictive Pericarditis by Hossein Doustkami, Afshin Hooshyar, Nasrollah Maleki, Zahra Tavosi, Iraj Feizi

“…The diagnosis of CP requires a high degree of clinical suspicion. The gold standard for diagnosis is cardiac catheterization with analysis of intracavitary pressure curves, which are high and, in end diastole, equal in all chambers. …”
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Assessment of Debris Extrusion in Curved Canals: An In Vitro Analysis of Various Single-File Endodontic Instrumentation Systems by Muhammad Zubair Ahmad

“…One hundred forty mandibular first permanent molars were randomly divided into seven groups (n = 20) to be prepared by one of the following systems at 35°C: Reciproc Blue (REC Blue), WaveOne Gold (WOG), One Reci (OR), Neoniti, HyFlex EDM (HEDM), One Curve (OC), or XP Shaper (XPS). …”
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Central and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus: updates on diagnosis and management by Kathryn Flynn, Jennifer Hatfield, Kevin Brown, Nicole Vietor, Thanh Hoang

“…Prompt diagnosis and treatment are critical as DI can cause substantial morbidity and mortality. The gold standard for diagnosis is a water deprivation test followed by desmopressin administration. …”
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Erector spinae plane block in Caesarean sections: A scoping review by Kieran Brosnan, Mary Moore, Aisling Ní Eochagáin

“…Currently, there is no gold standard peripheral regional analgesia technique for Caesarean section. …”
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Automated recognition and segmentation of lung cancer cytological images based on deep learning. by Qingyang Wang, Yazhi Luo, Ying Zhao, Shuhao Wang, Yiru Niu, Jinxi Di, Jia Guo, Guorong Lan, Lei Yang, Yu Shan Mao, Yuan Tu, Dingrong Zhong, Pei Zhang

“…The model predictions were strongly correlated with pathologist diagnoses and the gold standard, indicating the model's ability to make clinical-level decisions during initial diagnosis. …”
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LatticeWorks: An open-source MATLAB toolbox for nonuniform, gradient and multi-morphology lattice generation, and analysis by Mahtab Vafaeefar, Kevin M. Moerman, Ted J. Vaughan

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Improvement in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Diagnosis and Management Wait Times: A Retrospective Analysis of a Home Management Pathway for Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Samuel Alan Stewart, Robert Skomro, John Reid, Erika Penz, Mark Fenton, John Gjevre, David Cotton

“…Obstructive sleep apnea is a common condition within the Canadian population. The current gold standard for diagnosis and management of patients is in-laboratory (in-lab) polysomnography; however, the limited availability of testing options for patients has led to long wait times and increased disease burden within the population. …”
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Adsorption Characteristics of Antibiotic Meropenem on Magnetic CoFe2O4@Au Nanoparticles by Thi Ngoc Mai Pham, Thi Hieu Hoang, Thu Phuong Nguyen, Quang Khanh Nguyen, Bach Pham, Quoc Anh Hoang, Tien Duc Pham, Thi Anh Huong Nguyen, Anh Tuan Le, Duc Thang Pham

“…Adsorption characteristics of the antibiotic meropenem on a novel magnetic material synthesized by surface coating cobalt iron oxide (CFO) with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) were systematically investigated. …”
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Detection of Leishmania donovani DNA within Field-Caught Phlebotomine Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Three Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Endemic Foci of Kurunegala District, Sri La... by Tharaka Wijerathna, Nayana Gunathilaka, Kithsiri Gunawardena, Yoshito Fujii, Deepa Gunasekara

“…Leishmaniasis is a parasitic infection transmitted through the bite of female phlebotomine sand flies. Microscopy is the gold standard to detect parasites within the sand flies and for vector incrimination. …”
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Use of sacubitril/valsartan in non‐compaction cardiomyopathy: a case report by Marcely Gimenes Bonatto, Rodrigo Albanez, Vera Maria Cury Salemi, Lídia Zytynski Moura

“…The aim of this article is to report a case of a patient with NCCM initially refractory to gold standard treatment and afterwards treated with sacubitril/valsartan and its improvements. …”
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PyIRI: Whole‐Globe Approach to the International Reference Ionosphere Modeling Implemented in Python by Victoriya V. Forsythe, Dieter Bilitza, Angeline G. Burrell, Kenneth F. Dymond, Bruce A. Fritz, Sarah E. McDonald

“…Abstract The International Reference Ionosphere (IRI) model is widely used in the ionospheric community and considered the gold standard for empirical ionospheric models. The development of this model was initiated in the late 1960s using the FORTRAN language; for its programming approach, the model outputs were calculated separately for each given geographic location and time stamp. …”
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New Insight into the Kinetics of Deep Liquid Hydrocarbon Cracking and Its Significance by Wenzhi Zhao, Shuichang Zhang, Bin Zhang, Kun He, Xiaomei Wang

“…In this study, nonisothermal gold tube pyrolysis and numerical calculations as well as geochemical analysis were conducted to ascertain the expulsion efficiency of source rocks and the kinetics for oil cracking. …”
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