Clinical characteristics and prognosis of dialysis patients with metastatic calcification diagnosed by 99mTc-MDP bone scintigraphy by Ju Wang, Jianping Xiao, Deguang Wang

“…Eight patients (8/10) survived, and 6 patients (6/10) remained alive with over one year of follow-up.…”
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Behavior of liver cirrhosis at the "Arnaldo Milian Castro" Hospital from July 2007 to March 2009 by María Herminia Fajardo González, Merlyn Arce Nuñez, Yosvany Medina Garrido, Lisset Esteva Carral, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola

“…After applying inclusion and exclusion criteria there was a final sample of 120 cases: 59 patients are alive and 61 of them died. <strong><br />Results</strong>: Groups of people from 40-49 years old (32.5%), male sex (60.8%) and white skin (93.3%) were predominant. …”
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Examining infant and child death clustering among families in the cross-sectional and nationally representative Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2017–2018 by Shobhit Srivastava, Ronak Paul, Rashmi Rashmi

“…Children whose previous sibling was not alive at the time of their conception had 1.86 times (95% CI 1.59 to 2.17) more risk of dying as an infant. …”
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Subcutaneous Granulomatous Inflammation due to Basidiobolomycosis: Case Reports of 3 Patients in Buruli Ulcer Endemic Areas in Benin by Luc V. C. Brun, Jean Jacques Roux, Ghislain E. Sopoh, Julia Aguiar, Miriam Eddyani, Wayne M. Meyers, Dirk Stubbe, Marie T. Akele Akpo, Françoise Portaels, Bouke C. de Jong

“…On visiting the patients at their homes, two were reported to have died of unknown causes. The third patient was found alive and well and had experienced local spontaneous healing. …”
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How to Recondition Ex Vivo Initially Rejected Donor Lungs for Clinical Transplantation: Clinical Experience from Lund University Hospital by Sandra Lindstedt, Atli Eyjolfsson, Bansi Koul, Per Wierup, Leif Pierre, Ronny Gustafsson, Richard Ingemansson

“…The three-month survival of patients undergoing transplant with these lungs was 100%. One patient died due to sepsis after 95 days, and one due to rejection after 9 months. …”
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Solid-Pseudopapillary Tumor of the Pancreas: A Single Center Experience by Valentina Beltrame, Gioia Pozza, Enrico Dalla Bona, Alberto Fantin, Michele Valmasoni, Cosimo Sperti

“…All patients underwent pancreatic resection associated with portal vein resection (n=1) or liver metastases (n=1). One patient died of metastatic disease, 77 months after operation, and 17 are alive and free with a median survival time of 81.5 months (range 36–228 months). …”
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Clinical profile, treatment, and outcomes of testicular cancer in a resource-limited setting: a study from Sudan by Eltahir Ahmed Eltahir, Sami Mahjoub Taha Awad, Yassin Mohammed Osman, Mohammed El Imam Mohammed Ahmed, Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan

“…At the last follow-up, 44% of patients were in remission, 18% were alive with disease progression, and 36% had died. …”
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Black Orpheus by Hlonipha Mokoena

“…This aftermath has bred a certain type of continental fatalism in which all our dead, dying and barely alive utopias are inevitably read from the vantage point of Cold War politics and after. …”
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Body mass index trajectories and mortality in community-dwelling older adults: population-based cohort study by Martin C Gulliford, Hari Pai

“…There were 3686 participants (4794 BMI records) who died and 13 238 participants (27 063 BMI records) who were alive at last follow-up. …”
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Biliary atresia: The profile, management and outcome of patients treated at a tertiary hospital in central South Africa by E Brits, S M le Grange

“…Of 55 patients with known outcomes, 5.5% (n=3) survived and 94.5% (n=52) died after receiving a KPE or palliative treatment. …”
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Hodgkin Lymphoma at the Paediatric Oncology Unit of Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital, Bamako, Mali: 5-Year Experience by B. Togo, F. Traoré, A. P. Togo, C. B. Traoré, K. Dumke, M. Diawara, A. A. Diakité, M. Sylla, F. Traoré-Dicko, B. Traoré, T. Sidibé

“…With a median followup of 37 months, 5 patients (71.4%) are alive, and 2 patients (28.6%) died. Conclusion. …”
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Outcome of Very Late Relapse in Patients with Hodgkin's Lymphomas by Francesco Gaudio, Annamaria Giordano, Vincenzo Pavone, Tommasina Perrone, Paola Curci, Domenico Pastore, Mario Delia, Clara de' Risi, Alessandro Spina, Vincenzo Liso, Giorgina Specchia

“…At a median of 4 years after therapy for very late relapse, 10 pts (63%) are still alive and free of disease and 6 (37%) died (1 from progressive HL, 1 from cardiac disease, 1 from thromboembolic disease, 1 from HCV reactivation, and 2 from bacterial infection). …”
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Deaths in children in England from SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first 2 years of the pandemic: a cohort study by Shamez N Ladhani, Peter Fleming, Tom Williams, Karen Luyt, Godwin Oligbu, David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Anna Thursby-Pelham

“…Objective The aim of this analysis was to describe the epidemiology, demographics and characteristics of children and young people (CYP) who died of SARS-CoV-2 infection in England during the first 2 years of the pandemic.Design The cohort investigated in this study is all CYP, born alive at, or after, 22 weeks of gestation, who died before their 18th birthday between 1 February 2020 and 31 March 2022 in England. …”
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Effectiveness of hormone therapy in patients with prostate cancer. Regional experience by P. G. Berezin, V. V. Milovanov, A. A. Ivannikov, N. A. Ognerubov

“…By the end of the study, 53 (53%) patients were alive, 8 (8%) died, and 39 (39%) patients were censored. …”
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Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Compound Heterozygosity for Ethnically Distinct PEX7 Mutations Responsible for Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata, Type 1 by Jessie C. Jacobsen, Emma Glamuzina, Juliet Taylor, Brendan Swan, Shona Handisides, Callum Wilson, Michael Fietz, Tessa van Dijk, Bart Appelhof, Rosamund Hill, Rosemary Marks, Donald R. Love, Stephen P. Robertson, Russell G. Snell, Klaus Lehnert

“…We describe two brothers who presented at birth with bone growth abnormalities, followed by development of increasingly severe intellectual and physical disability, growth restriction, epilepsy, and cerebellar and brain stem atrophy, but normal ocular phenotypes. Case 1 died at 19 years of age due to chronic respiratory illnesses without a unifying diagnosis. …”
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Adoptive Cell Therapy with Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Advanced Melanoma Patients by Mélanie Saint-Jean, Anne-Chantal Knol, Christelle Volteau, Gaëlle Quéreux, Lucie Peuvrel, Anabelle Brocard, Marie-Christine Pandolfino, Soraya Saiagh, Jean-Michel Nguyen, Christophe Bedane, Nicole Basset-Seguin, Amir Khammari, Brigitte Dréno

“…Among these 4 patients with clinical benefit, 1 is still alive with 9 years of follow-up and 1 died from another cause after 8 years of follow-up. …”
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Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure in Pregnant Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B: A Retrospective Observational Case Series Study by Shiwei Wang, Haofeng Xiong, Changling Luo, Hong Zhao, Ying Fan, Ting Zhang, Lili Wang, Qi Wang, Wen Xie

“…The four neonates were alive, although all were small for gestational age. …”
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Primary Angioplasty in a Catastrophic Presentation: Acute Left Main Coronary Total Occlusion—The ATOLMA Registry by A. Gutiérrez-Barrios, L. Gheorghe, S. Camacho-Freire, F. Valencia-Serrano, D. Cañadas-Pruaño, G. Calle-Pérez, I. Alarcón de la Lastra, E. Silva, D. García-Molinero, A. Agarrado-Luna, R. Zayas-Ruedas, R. Vázquez-García, A. Serra

“…Angiographic success was achieved in 80.4% of the procedures, 13 patients (28.2%) died during the catheterization, and the in-hospital mortality rate was 58.6% (27/46). …”
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First clinical cases of leishmaniosis in meerkats (Suricata suricatta) housed in wildlife parks in Madrid, Spain by Pablo Moraleda-Berral, Rosa Gálvez, Eva Martínez-Nevado, Lino Pérez de Quadros, Juncal García, Manuel de la Riva-Fraga, Juan Pedro Barrera, Efrén Estévez-Sánchez, Lourdes Cano, Rocío Checa, María Ángeles Jiménez-Martínez, Ana Montoya, Guadalupe Miró

“…A 9-year-old male from the Madrid Zoo died suddenly, showing pale mucous membranes and bilateral noninflammatory alopecia and hyperpigmentation in the lateral area of the eyes. …”
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Causes and determinants of infant mortality using verbal autopsy and social autopsy methods in a rural population of Odisha: a community-based matched case-control study by Amit Kumar Satapathy, Arvind Kumar Singh, Priyamadhaba Behera, Debkumar Pal, Abhisek Mishra

“…Among the 49 infants whose illnesses were identified at home, 2 died at home without receiving any care. Formal or informal care was sought for 32 and 8 infants, respectively. …”
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