Efficacy and Safety of Anlotinib and PD-1/L1 Inhibitors as Maintenance Therapy for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients who Have Achieved Stable-Disease After First-Line Treatment with Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy: A Retrospective Study by Yi Peng MD, De Wu MD, Jing Tang MD, Xiaobing Li MD

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Development of a machine learning-based prediction model for extremely rapid decline in estimated glomerular filtration rate in patients with chronic kidney disease: a retrospective cohort study using a large data set from a hospital in Japan by Shingo Fukuma, Yukio Yuzawa, Daijo Inaguma, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryosuke Yanagiya, Akira Koseki, Toshiya Iwamori, Michiharu Kudo

“…We aimed to identify clusters of patients with extremely rapid eGFR decline and develop a prediction model using a machine learning approach.Design Retrospective single-centre cohort study.Settings Tertiary referral university hospital in Toyoake city, Japan.Participants A total of 5657 patients with CKD with baseline eGFR of 30 mL/min/1.73 m2 and eGFR decline of ≥30% within 2 years.Primary outcome Our main outcome was extremely rapid eGFR decline. …”
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Combined Age with Mean Decrease Rates of Total Bilirubin and MELD Score as a Novel and Simple Clinical Predictor on 90-Day Transplant-Free Mortality in Adult Patients with Acute Liver Failure Undergoing Plasma Exchange: A Single-Center Retrospective Study by Di Jin, Kai Kang, Bing-zhu Yan, Jian-nan Zhang, Jun-bo Zheng, Zhi-hui Wang, Di Wu, Yu-jia Tang, Xin-tong Wang, Qi-qi Lai, Yang Cao, Hong-liang Wang, Yang Gao

“…A total of 73 adult patients with ALF undergoing 204 PE were included in our retrospective study, and their transplant-free mortality at discharge and 90 days was 6.85% (5/73) and 31.51% (23/73), respectively. …”
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Evaluating the use of coronary artery calcium scoring as a tool for coronary artery disease (CAD) risk stratification and its association with coronary stenosis and CAD risk factors: a single-centre, retrospective, cross-sectional study at a tertiary centre in Pakistan by Afrose Liaquat, Ameerdad Khan, Saeed Ullah Shah, Hania Iqbal, Safa Iqbal, Atif Iqbal Rana, Habib Ur Rahman

“…The aim of our study is to investigate the use of coronary artery calcium scoring (CACS) as a tool for CAD risk stratification through evaluation of its correlation with the degree of coronary stenosis and its association with conventional cardiovascular risk factors in asymptomatic patients.Design Single-centre, retrospective, cross-sectional study.Setting The study was conducted at a tertiary centre (Shifa International Hospital) in Islamabad, Pakistan, through review of medical records of patients who underwent coronary CT between the years 2016 and 2020.Participants A total of 1014 patients were included in the study. …”
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Retrospective study on the effect of adding heparin sodium saline at different time points on improving severe coagulation in dialyzers (不同时间点追加肝素钠盐水对透析器重度凝血改善作用的回顾性研究) by LI Linyang (李林洋), WANG Xinhui (王新慧), LI Hao (李昊), HUANG Yanping (黄砚萍), YU Renhuan (余仁欢)

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A retrospective analysis of the position of catheter tip and the incidence of thrombosis in breast cancer patients with implantable venous access port placement (乳腺癌患者静脉输液港导管尖端位置与血栓发生的回顾性分析) by WU Lingxiao (伍凌萧), WANG Qing (王庆)

“…Objective The relationship between catheter tip location and catheter-associated venous thrombosis was analyzed by retrospectively summarizing the clinical data of 60 breast cancer patients with implantable venous access port placement. …”
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Harry Callahan, « Variations ». Exposition à la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson du 7 septembre 2010 au 19 décembre 2010André Kertész, Rétrospective au musée du Jeu de Paume, du 28 septembre 2010 au 6 février 2011 by Jean Kempf

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DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS FOR PVS EVALUATION AT SUBFEDERAL/ REGIONAL LEVEL by M. A. Shibayev, A. S. Oganesyan, O. N. Petrova, A. K. Karaulov

“…Four levels of effective performance are specified by one of the following retrospective categories: short-term, mid-term and long-term. …”
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Prediction nomogram for antepartum hemorrhage in placenta previa women by Dazhi Fan, Pengzhen Hu, Jiaming Rao, Dongxin Lin, Jie Yang, Zhengping Liu, Xiaoling Guo

“…Design: This was a retrospective and prospective cohort study of pregnant women with placenta previa. …”
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Neural Network of Predictive Motor Timing in the Context of Gender Differences by Pavel Filip, Jan Lošák, Tomáš Kašpárek, Jiří Vaníček, Martin Bareš

“…Time perception is an essential part of our everyday lives, in both the prospective and the retrospective domains. However, our knowledge of temporal processing is mainly limited to the networks responsible for comparing or maintaining specific intervals or frequencies. …”
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Intrauterine transfusion in hydropic fetuses: An outcome analysis by Rashmi Parashar, Archana Bajpayee, Puneeth Babu Anne

“…The retrospective case series involves five cases that underwent IUT for severe fetal anemia. …”
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Identifying Risk Factors Associated With False‐Negative Results in US‐Guided Percutaneous Transthoracic Needle Lung Biopsy of Subpleural Pulmonary Lesions by Jiawei Yi, Mengjun Shen, Junhui He, Runhe Xia, Xinyu Zhao, Yin Wang

“…In the retrospective cohort, comparative and logistic regression analyses were performed to identify independent risk factors for false‐negative biopsy results. …”
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The Effect of Different Doses of Intraamniotic Digoxin on the Timing of Fetal Demise in Second Trimester Medical Abortions by Gulsah Aynaoglu Yildiz, Ragip Atakan Al

“…Digoxin is a commonly used feticidal agent. This retrospective study aimed to show the effect of different doses of digoxin on the timing of fetal demise when used for feticide. …”
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On the Vincas Trumpa model of 19th century Lithuanian history by Antanas Kulakauskas

“…I should admit that in my previous publication the difference between historic and retrospective approaches and their principles was not stated enough. …”
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Tele-ophthalmology as an effective triaging tool for acute ophthalmic concerns by Natalie A. Townsend, Shalini Shah, Joshua Reyes, Justin H. Townsend, Alison Bozung, Giselle Ricur, Rami J. Aboumourad

“…All patient encounters were included in the retrospective review without exclusions and only the primary diagnoses were categorized from October 1, 2020 to April 30, 2023. …”
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Rituximab-associated adverse events in nephrotic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Zixian Yu, Meijin Huang, Yunlong Qin, Xiayin Li, Yueru Zhao, Yuwei Wang, Yumeng Zhang, Anjing Wang, Mei Han, Jin Zhao, Shiren Sun

“…Results: Ten RCTs and five retrospective studies with 1231 patients were enrolled. …”
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Linguistic-cultural validation of a French version of the oral health assessment tool by Rapp Lucie, Vergnes Jean-Noel, Monsarrat Paul, Kémoun Philippe, Balardy Laurent, Lacoste-Ferré Marie-Hélène

“…Methods The study design is a mixed retrospective-prospective psychometric and linguistic translation/validation/study of the Oral Health Assessment Tool. …”
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Safety and efficacy of apixaban versus vitamin K antagonists in patients undergoing dialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Yifang Zhang, Jialiang Wang, Nannan Shen, Jie Jiang, Yanna Xie

“…The predominance of retrospective data warrants caution in the interpretation of results.…”
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Anesthesia for Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: A Comparison between Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia and Combined General Epidural Anesthesia by O. Kofler, S. Prueckner, E. Weninger, R. Tomasi, A. Karl, S. Niedermayer, A. Jovanovic, H. H. Müller, C. Stief, B. Zwissler, V. von Dossow

“…Methods. A retrospective analysis was performed by querying the electronic medical records of 1207 consecutive patients from the database of our online documentation software. …”
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Radiotherapy for Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Review of the Literature by Luluel Khan, Elizabeth A. Barnes

“…All articles except one focusing on the role of radiotherapy were of retrospective origin or case series. Significant limitations applied in all studies due to limited sample sizes and the retrospective nature of these studies. …”
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