Preoperative Risk Factors for Short-Term Postoperative Mortality of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia after Laparotomy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Wenhan Wu, Jianbo Liu, Zongguang Zhou

“…Meta-analysis of predictors based on more than three studies identified the following preoperative risk factors for higher short-term postoperative mortality risk: old age (odds ratio [OR], 1.90, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.57–2.30), arterial occlusive mesenteric ischemia versus mesenteric venous thrombosis (OR, 2.45, 95% CI 1.12–5.33), heart failure (OR 1.33, 95% CI 1.03–1.72), renal disorders (OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.24–2.07), and peripheral vascular disease (OR 1.38, 95% CI 1.00–1.91). …”
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Triglyceride-glucose-body mass index and the incidence of cardiovascular diseases: a meta-analysis of cohort studies by Xiyun Rao, Ziyi Xin, Qingwen Yu, Lanlan Feng, Yongmin Shi, Ting Tang, Xuhan Tong, Siqi Hu, Yao You, Shenghui Zhang, Jiake Tang, Xingwei Zhang, Mingwei Wang, Ling Liu

“…The results indicated that Compared with the lowest TyG-BMI index category, the highest TyG-BMI index was related to a higher incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) (HR = 1.62; 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.35–1.95; I2 = 94%),coronary artery disease (CAD) (HR = 1.69; 95% (CI): 1.23–2.31; I2 = 94%). stroke(HR = 1.57; 95% (CI): 1.11–2.23; I2 = 94%).In the dose–response analysis, there was a linear association of the TyG-BMI index with the risk of CVD (Pnonlinear = 0.223), CAD (Pnonlinear = 0.693), and stroke (Pnonlinear = 0.122)No significant effects were observed regarding participants’ gender, length of follow-up, sample size or mean age(P > 0.05). …”
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Une reconstruction progressiste du passé : Renaissance et Risorgimento dans « Old Pictures in Florence » de Robert Browning by François Crampe

“…This political movement gave artists a central role in creating the political identity for their contemporaries. …”
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Factores asociados a las complicaciones de la cirugía electiva de las hernias inguinales [retractado] by Mamadou Saliou Diallo, Zenén Rodríguez Fernández, Germán Joubert Álvarez, Roald Luís Gavilán Yodú, Ernesto Casamayor Callejas

“…Conclusiones: Los factores referentes a la edad mayor de 50 años, sexo masculino, antecedentes de hipertensión arterial y diabetes mellitus, y hernias tipo II según la clasificación de Nyhus se asocian a la presentación de complicaciones agudas (edema del cordón espermático e infección del sitio operatorio) y crónicas (recidiva y granuloma) de la cirugía electiva de las hernias inguinales. …”
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Chlorpromazine and Promethazine (C+P) Reduce Brain Injury after Ischemic Stroke through the PKC-δ/NOX/MnSOD Pathway by Sichao Guo, Fengwu Li, Melissa Wills, James Yip, Alexandra Wehbe, Changya Peng, Xiaokun Geng, Yuchuan Ding

“…Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were subject to middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) and subsequent reperfusion. 8 mg/kg of C+P was injected into the rats when reperfusion was initiated. …”
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Prevalence of immunological aberrations and 22q11.2 deletion in children with conotruncal anomalies: A cross-sectional study by Souvik Das, Arun Kumar Baranwal, Amit Rawat, Ashwini Nair, Sanjeev Hanumantacharya Naganur, Anupriya Kaur, Anand Kumar Mishra, Ankur Jindal, Anit Kaur

“…Results: Major cardiac defects ([n = 101], [median age, 32 days]) included dextro-transposition of great arteries (d-TGA) - 41.6%, tetralogy of Fallot - 37.6%, double outlet right ventricle (DORV) - 13.9%, and truncus arteriosus - 4.9%. …”
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Demografik Farklılıkların İş Gücü Verimliliğine Etkisi by Atila Karahan

“…Bu özelliği nedeniyle hastanelerin yönetimi, hem karmaşık hem de güçtür. Ancak hızlınüfus artışı, ortalama yaşam süresinin uzaması, sağlık bilincinin yükselmesi, hastaların değişen talepleri, günümüzde tıbbi uygulama gereksinimlerinin artması, aşırırekabet, tıp alanında ileri teknolojilerin hızla yaygınlaşmasınedeniyle hastanelerin etkin ve verimli bir şekilde yönetimi önem arz etmektedir. …”
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Complexity and Risk of Adverse Events in relation to High Bleeding Risk among Patients Receiving Drug-Eluting Stents: Insights from a Large Singl... by Hao-Yu Wang, Yang Wang, Dong Yin, Run-Lin Gao, Yue-Jin Yang, Bo Xu, Ke-Fei Dou

“…The relation between complex percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), high bleeding risk (HBR), and adverse events after coronary artery implantation of drug-eluting stents has been incompletely characterized. …”
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Deaths during Sexual Activity by Agnė Okulevičiūtė, Sigitas Chmieliauskas, Sigitas Laima, Diana Vasiljevaitė, Jurgita Stasiūnienė

“…The autopsy revealed a ligature mark on the neck, bruises in neck muscles, tears in carotid arteries, and signs of acute pulmonary distension. …”
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Outcomes of Emergency Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement by Hans Huang, Christopher P. Kovach, Sean Bell, Mark Reisman, Gabriel Aldea, James M. McCabe, Danny Dvir, Creighton Don

“…Univariate predictors of in-hospital mortality were preprocedural pulmonary artery pulsatility index (PAPi) ≤1.8 (66.7% vs. 20.0%, p=0.01), intraprocedural cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (83.3% vs 4.0%, p≤0.001), acute kidney injury post-TAVR (80.0% vs. 4.2%, p≤0.001), initiation of dialysis post-TAVR (60.0% vs. 4.2%, p≤0.001), and MCS initiation post-TAVR (50.0% vs. 12.0%, p=0.03). …”
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Parámetros de laboratorio clínico en pacientes con la COVID-19 by Naivy Sánchez Vera, Danay Saavedra Hernández, Carlos Jorge Hidalgo Mesa, Maykel Aguila López, Gladys Abreu Gutiérrez, Vivian Herrera González, Iliana Teresa Rodríguez García

“…Conclusiones: Los pacientes tenían una media de edad de 55,61, del sexo femenino, con hipertensión arterial; egresaron vivos, reportados de no graves. …”
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The effectiveness of static balloon atrioseptostomy for correcting hemodynamics in complex congenital heart diseases by O.O. Motrechko, A.V. Maksymenko, Yu.L. Kuzmenko, M.P. Radchenko, N.M. Rudenko

“…In patients of group I (n = 12), which required increase in blood shunting at the atrial level, atrial septal defect diameter was 3.9 ± 1.3 mm (2–10 mm), average arterial blood saturation before procedure – 64.5 ± 2.8 % (7–83 %), transatrial gradient before procedure – 6.3 ± 2.1 mm Hg (3 to 12 mm Hg). …”
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A genetic exploration of the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder and cardiovascular diseases by Eva Lukas, Rada R. Veeneman, Dirk J. A. Smit, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Jentien M. Vermeulen, Gita A. Pathak, Renato Polimanti, Karin J. H. Verweij, Jorien L. Treur

“…We leveraged summary-level data of genome-wide association studies (PTSD: N = 1,222,882; atrial fibrillation (AF): N = 482,409; coronary artery disease (CAD): N = 1,165,690; hypertension (HT): N = 458,554; heart failure (HF): N = 977,323). …”
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ZÂRÎ’NİN MÂNZÛME-İ ŞEMÂİL-İ ŞERÎF’İNDE HZ. PEYGAMBER’İN AHLAKI by Hakan Temir, Muhammed Karaca

“…Muslim poets, aware of the effect of poetry, developed a species called "Shamail" to attest the prophet’s habits, nature and morality. …”
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Intervención de enfermería en el periodo posoperatorio de paciente sometida a histerectomía abdominal total by Nancy Liliana Palacios Gómez

“…Signos vitales: frecuencia respiratoria de 22 x minuto, frecuencia cardiaca de 102 x minuto, presión arterial de 90/50 mmHg, saturación de oxígeno de 95 %. …”
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Cerebral vascular shunting and oxygen metabolism in sickle cell disease by Alexander K. Song, Wesley T. Richerson, Megan A. Aumann, Spencer L. Waddle, R. Sky Jones, Samantha Davis, Lauren Milner, Chelsea Custer, L. Taylor Davis, Sumit Pruthi, Dann Martin, Lori C. Jordan, Manus J. Donahue

“…Abstract: Patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at elevated risk of silent cerebral infarcts and strokes; however, they frequently lack established stroke risk factors (eg, macrovascular arterial steno-occlusion) and the mechanisms underlying such events are incompletely characterized. …”
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Literature review: potential non-thermal molecular effects of external radiofrequency electromagnetic fields on cancer by Anna Dieper, Stephan Scheidegger, Rudolf M. Füchslin, Paraskevi D. Veltsista, Ulrike Stein, Mathias Weyland, Dominik Gerster, Marcus Beck, Olof Bengtsson, Daniel Zips, Pirus Ghadjar

“…These effects span from mitotic arrest and growth inhibition to cancer cell death in the form of autophagy and apoptosis and appear to be mostly exclusive to cancer cells. …”
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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in dizygotic twin ovine fetuses are associated with discordant responses to antenatal steroid therapy by Erin L. Fee, Haruo Usuda, Sean W. D. Carter, Hideyuki Ikeda, Tsukasa Takahashi, Yuki Takahashi, Yusaku Kumagai, Michael W. Clarke, Demelza J. Ireland, John P. Newnham, Masatoshi Saito, Sebastian E. Illanes, Binny Priya Sesurajan, Liang Shen, Mahesh A. Choolani, Gokce Oguz, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Sara Ritchie, Andrew Ritchie, Alan H. Jobe, Matthew W. Kemp

“…Results ANS-exposed female fetuses had lower arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO2) values than male fetuses (76.5 ± 38.0 vs. 97.2 ± 42.5 mmHg), although the observed difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.1). …”
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Caracterización de ancianos fallecidos en Servicio de Cirugía General. Cienfuegos, 2016-2018 by Yudis Acea Paredes, Tahiluma Santana Pedraza, Jorge Luis Estepa Pérez, Jorge Luis Estepa Ramos

“…<br /><strong>Resultados:</strong> existió predominio del sexo femenino, del grupo etáreo de 71 a 80 años y el antecedente personal de hipertensión arterial. El grado III de la clasificación de riesgo quirúrgico prevaleció. …”
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Investigating Confined Space Asphyxias: Plastic Bag Involvement and Gas Inhalation – A Case Series and Literature Review by Sofija Saulė Kaubrytė, Sigitas Chmieliauskas, Giedrė Kažukauskė, Sigitas Laima, Diana Vasiljevaitė, Jurgita Stasiūnienė

“…Plastic bag asphyxia, exacerbated by oxygen depletion and carbon dioxide accumulation, induces rapid loss of consciousness and cardiorespiratory arrest. The method’s lethality is increased when combined with inert gases like helium, known for their rapid onset of hypoxia and painless nature. …”
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