Publications by authors named "Aggarwal I"

Objective: In India, majority of cancer-related deaths are attributed to Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which is preventable through vaccines such as Gardasil and Gardasil 9. Despite their efficacy, uptake of these vaccines among healthcare providers (HCPs) remains low. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) regarding HPV vaccination among HCPs at a tertiary care center in India.

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Background: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) occurs when one or more pelvic organs (uterus, bowel, bladder or top of the vagina) descend from their normal position and bulge into the vagina. Symptoms include pelvic discomfort, fullness, and changes in bladder or bowel function. Treatment ranges from conservative approaches to surgery, depending on symptom severity.

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Purpose: To compare audiological profiling and association of hearing loss in different types of IBD and evaluate the degree of hearing impairment based on duration of illness and age parameters.

Methods: 120 subjects evaluated at a tertiary centre were divided into 2 groups- Controls and Cases. Cases were sub grouped into Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease based on biopsy.

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  • Mucosal melanomas are rare, aggressive tumors from melanocytes in mucosal tissues, making up less than 1% of sinonasal cancers; their diagnosis is often delayed due to vague symptoms.
  • A case study of a 75-year-old woman highlights the challenges of diagnosing amelanotic sinonasal melanoma, complicated by significant bleeding during biopsy, but ultimately resolved through a detailed clinical approach.
  • The successful treatment involved surgical removal despite bleeding, followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, emphasizing the need for a coordinated, personalized strategy for managing such rare cancers based on their specific characteristics.
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  • Angiectatic nasal polyps (ANP) are unusual growths in the nose that can be hard to identify and are not real tumors.
  • They can look a lot like another type of nose growth called juvenile nasal angiofibroma, which makes it tricky to tell them apart just using imaging tests.
  • In a case report, a young adult had nasal blockage and bleeding, and after surgery and testing the tissue, doctors confirmed it was an ANP.
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We report a measurement of exclusive J/ψ and ψ(2s) photoproduction in Au+Au ultraperipheral collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV using the STAR detector. For the first time, (i) the ψ(2s) photoproduction in midrapidity at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider has been experimentally measured; (ii) nuclear suppression factors are measured for both the coherent and incoherent J/ψ production. At average photon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 25.

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Background: Bacteriophage (phage) therapy is a promising alternative antimicrobial approach that has the potential to transform the way we treat bacterial infections. The antibiotic resistance crisis is driving renewed interest in phage therapy. There are currently no licensed phage therapy medicinal products and phage therapy is used in small but growing patient numbers on an unlicensed basis.

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Introduction: The CASPIAN and IMpower133 trials revealed a significant survival benefit of chemotherapy plus immunotherapy in patients with extensive-stage SCLC. The current study characterizes the proportion of real-world patients who would have met eligibility for these trials and highlights factors influencing eligibility in the real-world setting.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of patient data was conducted for stage IV patients with SCLC treated at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario, Canada.

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Intraplacental choriocarcinoma is a rare tumour, with approximately 62 reported cases. It may manifest as a spectrum of disease ranging from an incidental lesion diagnosed on routine placental examination to disseminated maternal and/or neonatal disease. In this case series, we presented two rare cases of intraplacental choriocarcinoma with extremely varied clinical presentations.

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Role-based frameworks have long been the cornerstone of organizational coordination, providing clarity in role expectations among team members. However, the rise of "fluid participation"-a constant shift in team composition and skill sets-poses new challenges to traditional coordination mechanisms. In particular, with fluid participation, a team's roles can oscillate between disconnected and intersecting, or between lacking and having overlap in the capabilities and expectations of different roles.

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Field cancerization theory highlights that the skin surrounding actinic keratoses (AK) is also at increased risk for possible malignant transformation; thus, field-directed treatments may both reduce the risk of AK recurrence and potentially reduce the risk of development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC). Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with either aminolevulinic acid (ALA) or methylaminolevulinate (MAL), as well as topical treatments such as 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), diclofenac gel, piroxicam, imiquimod, and ingenol mebutate, have all shown higher efficacy than vehicle treatments. PDT is widely recognized for its high efficacy; however, concerns for associated pain have driven new studies to begin using alternative illumination and pretreatment techniques, including lasers.

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  • Fractional nonablative lasers (NAFLs) are effective and safer for treating dermatologic conditions in patients with darker skin (types IV-VI), as they carry a lower risk of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation.
  • A literature review of 40 relevant studies shows strong evidence for treating conditions like melasma and atrophic scars, and moderate evidence for acne vulgaris and skin rejuvenation with NAFL.
  • More research is needed to optimize treatment methods for skin types V and VI, emphasizing the importance of careful device selection and conservative treatment settings to enhance results and reduce potential side effects.
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Despite recent advances in artificial cilia technologies, the application of metachrony, which is the collective wavelike motion by cilia moving out-of-phase, has been severely hampered by difficulties in controlling closely packed artificial cilia at micrometer length scales. Moreover, there has been no direct experimental proof yet that a metachronal wave in combination with fully reciprocal ciliary motion can generate significant microfluidic flow on a micrometer scale as theoretically predicted. In this study, using an in-house developed precise micro-molding technique, we have fabricated closely packed magnetic artificial cilia that can generate well-controlled metachronal waves.

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Phaeohyphomycosis is a rare infection caused by dematiaceous fungi containing melanin in their cell wall. Patients are often immunocompromised, and cases seen in immunocompromised hosts have increased in recent years. Dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody against interleukin-4 (IL-4) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) used for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, has been linked to hypersensitivity reactions resulting in facial redness, and there is growing evidence that dupilumab may increase susceptibility to yeast infections as well.

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On March 4, 2021, OSLER Kingston and KHealth, student-run organizations at Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences, hosted a two-hour-long virtual interprofessional case competition called "OSLER x KHealth IPR Case Competition: Homelessness," focusing on housing insecurity and homelessness. This event demonstrated that integrating interprofessional education (IPE) competencies into educational experiences of health professional students is feasible to organize and implement while also being valuable. Students who participated found IPE to be helpful for their learning.

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The polarization of Λ and Λ[over ¯] hyperons along the beam direction has been measured relative to the second and third harmonic event planes in isobar Ru+Ru and Zr+Zr collisions at sqrt[s_{NN}]=200  GeV. This is the first experimental evidence of the hyperon polarization by the triangular flow originating from the initial density fluctuations. The amplitudes of the sine modulation for the second and third harmonic results are comparable in magnitude, increase from central to peripheral collisions, and show a mild p_{T} dependence.

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Catalytic signaling outputs of protein kinases are dynamically regulated by an array of structural mechanisms, including allosteric interactions mediated by intrinsically disordered segments flanking the conserved catalytic domain. The doublecortin-like kinases (DCLKs) are a family of microtubule-associated proteins characterized by a flexible C-terminal autoregulatory 'tail' segment that varies in length across the various human DCLK isoforms. However, the mechanism whereby these isoform-specific variations contribute to unique modes of autoregulation is not well understood.

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Purpose: This scoping review summarizes the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and bioinformatics methodologies in analysis of ocular biofluid markers. The secondary objective was to explore supervised and unsupervised AI techniques and their predictive accuracies. We also evaluate the integration of bioinformatics with AI tools.

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Socio-cognitive theory conceptualizes individual contributors as both enactors of cognitive processes and targets of a social context's determinative influences. The present research investigates how contributors' metacognition or self-beliefs, combine with others' views of themselves to inform collective team states related to learning about other agents (i.e.

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