Pre-dialysis and post-dialysis levels of serum potassium in patients with hemodialysis by HUANG Chun-hong, LIAN Xue-jian, CHEN Shan-ying, ZHANG Xiu-an, CHEN Chun-ming, YANG Wen-fang, CAI Yu-ting, LIN Min-na, SHEN Yi-jun, WU Zhi-bin

“…Objective To analyze retrospectively the pre-dialysis and post-dialysis levels of serum potassium and their changes in hemodialysis patients.Methods Data on hemodialysis patients from Hemodialysis Room of Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital Affiliated to Fujian Medical University were analyzed retrospectively The serum potassium levels of hemodialysis patients before and after hemodialysis in 2019 were analyzed with month as unit time.Hyperkalemia was defined as serum potassium ion≥5.5 mmol/L.Serum potassium≥6.5 mmol/L was defined as severe hyperkalemia.Hypokalemia was defined as serum potassium ion≤3.5 mmol/L.Paired t-test was used to compare the serum potassium levels of the same patient before and after dialysis,P<0.05 was regarded as statistically significant difference.Results In 2019,359-383 patients received hemodialysis treatment in our hospital every month.Among all of patients undergoing hemodialysis,63.76%～81.79% patients received tests of serum potassium levels in every month.The mean value of pre-dialysis serum potassium levels was 4.71～5.08 mmol/L.In 2019,the serum potassium measurement value ranged from 2.8 to 8.69 mmol/L.The prevalence of hypokalemia was 0.4%～4.49%（9 months）.In 2019,6.79%～13.74% of patients had a level of serum potassium between 3.5 and 4.0 mmol/L.The prevalence of hyperkalemia was 13.74% to 27.8%（11 months）.Totally 1.22%～7.5% of patients had a higher level of serum potassium ion（≥6.5 mmol/L）.After dialysis,the level of serum potassium decreased significantly（P<0.05）.Compared to that before dialysis,the level of blood potassium decreased by 27.01%～29.05% after dialysis.The level of post-hemodialysis serum potassium was 2.15～5.56 mmol/L.The prevalence of post-hemodialysis hypokalemia was 40.08%～54.59%.The level of post-hemodialysis serum potassium was<2.5 mmol/L in 8 patients and 2.5～3 mmol/L in 50 patients,retrospectively.Conclusions Monthly,some certain proportion of patients with maintenance hemodialysis still experience the complication of hypokalemia.Concern about serum potassium levels of those patients,and individualized selection of dialysate potassium concentration for different patients may be helpful.…”
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Low redshift post-starburst galaxies host abundant HI reservoirs by Sara Ellison, Qifeng Huang, Dong Yang, Jing Wang, Vivienne Wild, Ben Rasmussen, Maria-Jesus Jimenez-Donaire, Kate Rowlands, Scott Wilkinson, Toby Brown, Ho-Hin Leung

“…Studying the gas content of post-starburst (PSB) galaxies can provide valuable clues regarding the process of fast quenching. …”
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EFFICIENCY OF BLANKETS WITH ACTIVE SELF-HEATING TECHNOLOGY IN THE POST-SURGERY PERIOD by S. P. Kozlov, V. M. Kraynik

“…The trail was conducted with the purpose to compare two heating devices in the groups of patients who had surgery due to varicose veins of the lower extremities with spinal anesthesia with intravenous sedation in the  intra- and post-operative periods. It was found out that warming with the help of blankets with active self-heating technology is more efficient for prevention and treatment of intra-operative hypothermia compared to resistive mattresses. …”
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Subcutaneous disseminated histoplasmosis mimicking post-transplant soft tissue tumors by Xi-Bo Liu, Fang Liu, Cheng Wang, Min-Hua Li

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Direction matters: Comparing post-editing and human translation effort and quality by Sanjun Sun, Hao Wang, Yanfang Jia

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Aortocoronary Bypass Surgery in Patients with Recurrent Post-Coronary Stenting Angina by R. A. Valieva, B. L. Multanovskiy, N. G. Sibgatullin

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Creative economy and Covid-19: the post crisis trends in Brazil and globally by Leonardo Jacques Gammal Zeitune

“… Abstract This article aims to introduce reflections on post Covid-19 crisis trends for the Creative Economy sector. …”
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The impact of Google Neural Machine Translation on Post-editing by student translators by Masaru Yamada

“…The author of this study used the design of a 2014 experiment that investigated college students' post-editing potential. The raw Google statistical machine translation (SMT) used in the 2014 experiment was replaced with the raw Google neural machine translation (NMT) of the same source text. …”
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Visual Prompt Learning of Foundation Models for Post-Disaster Damage Evaluation by Fei Zhao, Chengcui Zhang, Runlin Zhang, Tianyang Wang

“…In response to the urgent need for rapid and precise post-disaster damage evaluation, this study introduces the Visual Prompt Damage Evaluation (ViPDE) framework, a novel contrastive learning-based approach that leverages the embedded knowledge within the Segment Anything Model (SAM) and pairs of remote sensing images to enhance building damage assessment. …”
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Unpacking Post-Employment Restraint of Trade Decisions: The Motivators of the Key Players by Chris Dent

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THE ROLE OF CENTRAL BANKS IN POST-PANDEMIC ECONOMIC RECOVERY: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES by Marinela BĂRBULESCU, Alina HAGIU

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Post-extraction maxillary lip entrapment in cats: a prospective study by Robert Marx, Margherita Gracis, Luka Šparaš, Ana Nemec

“…None of the evaluated factors had any statistically significant impact of the prevalence of MLE.Conclusions and clinical relevancePost-extraction MLE in cats is a frequent but predominantly mild and self-limiting complication. …”
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Applications of InSAR for Monitoring Post-Wildfire Ground Surface Displacements by Ryan van der Heijden, Ehsan Ghazanfari, Donna M. Rizzo, Ben Leshchinsky, Mandar Dewoolkar

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Identifying factors contributing to kinesiophobia in patients post-percutaneous coronary intervention by Lu Chen, Jiang-Ying Li, Zhen-Qing Ren, Li-Chun Wang, Pei-Yu Huang, Wen-Juan Jiang, Cong Li, Li Ding

“…Conclusion Kinesiophobia in patients post-PCI hinders adherence to cardiac rehabilitation protocols. …”
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Refined predictions for Starobinsky inflation and post-inflationary constraints in light of ACT by Manuel Drees, Yong Xu

“…Additionally, we examine the implications of the ACT results for post-inflationary reheating parameters. Specifically, we find a lower bound on the effective equation of state parameter during reheating of approximately ω≳0.462; this excludes purely perturbative reheating, which leads to ω≃0. …”
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FEATURES OF NATURAL MOVEMENT OF POPULATION OF NORTH OSSETIA IN POST-SOVIET PERIOD by Aleksandr Daurbekovich Badov

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Cultural Play at a Distance: Post-COVID Serious Heritage Games by Susannah Emery, Erik Malcolm Champion

“…The article concludes that open-ended, collaborative, and context-aware game frameworks offer a promising path for GLAM institutions to sustain relevance, support digital literacy, and adapt to post-pandemic challenges.…”
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The meaning of the childbirth and of the nursing’s attendance: the view of women in immediate post parturition by Dafne Paiva Rodrigues, Francisca Gomes Montesuma, Raimunda Magalhães da Silva

“…We pointed out the need of the professionals of health understanding for the customer’s valorization as a whole, extolling the educational focus in the pre-childbirth, childbirth and post-parturition.  …”
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Comparison of Early Versus Delayed Showering on Post-Operative Wound Infections by Salman Habib Abbasi, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Farooq, Fazal Hussain Shah

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Whole-body integral dose and post-radiotherapy lymphocytopaenia in solid tumours by Ananya Choudhury, Sanjeeva Gunasekera, Nuradh Joseph, Lanka Alagiyawanna, Thilina Ruwanpura, Lakitha Ruvinda, Sampath Madushan

“…In the Cox proportional hazards model, post-treatment lymphocyte count was statistically significant as a continuous variable (Hazard Ratio=0.998, p=0.01) and as a dichotomous variable.Conclusion The negative correlation between integral body dose and post-treatment lymphocytopaenia was validated, and post-treatment lymphocytopaenia is an adverse prognostic factor in patients with head and neck cancer treated with curative-intent radiotherapy.…”
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