A 67-year-old woman presented with a 12 × 20 × 24-cm adnexal tumor. Ultrasonography revealed an irregular, multilocular tumor, with increased flow in the solid components, and ascites-features that are consistent with ovarian cancer. The patient underwent 18 F-FDG PET/CT and 68 Ga-FAPI-46 PET/CT, both of which showed low uptake values.
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November 2024
User knowledge and lived experiences are pivotal in bridging the gaps between the environment and individuals causing disability. Examples of best practices help us refine and develop the theoretical groundings of UD in academia and the practical implementation in design practices. Yet best practices are also needed in our methodological approaches across research and practice concerning how to work with and in the intersection of people and environments.
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November 2024
Universal Design aims to ensure that as many people as possible can participate equally in society, with equal access to housing, education, workplaces, institutions, and public spaces. In the construction field, many of our existing guidelines still need to catch up regarding the diversity of user needs and preferences. Recent developments in low vision rehabilitation have underscored the pivotal role of domestic lighting in fostering independent living and enhancing the quality of life for people with visual impairments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 54-year-old woman presented with a 55 × 64-mm tumor in the ovary with high [ 18 F]FDG uptake on [ 18 F]FDG PET/CT highly suggestive of ovarian cancer. Prior to surgery, the patient underwent [ 68 Ga]-Ga- fibroblast activation protein inhibitor (FAPI)-46 PET/CT, which revealed low [ 68 Ga]-Ga-FAPI-46 tumor uptake. Histopathology revealed a borderline ovarian tumor, which has low malignant potential and a 10-year survival rate greater than 93%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This scoping review aims to identify and map interventions and/or strategies used to support the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding for women at risk of delaying initiation, early cessation, or not breastfeeding due to low levels of education, psychosocial problems, and/or socioeconomic challenges in high-income countries.
Introduction: While breastfeeding has lifelong beneficial health effects for women and infants, there is a risk of delaying initiation, early cessation, or not initiating breastfeeding at all due to factors related to health inequalities, such as low levels of education, psychosocial problems, and/or socioeconomic constraints.
Inclusion Criteria: This review will include eligible quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies, as well as systematic reviews and gray literature.
Background: Danish women-who were HPV-vaccinated as girls-are now reaching an age where they are invited to cervical cancer screening. Because of their expected lower cervical cancer risk, we must reassess our screening strategies. We analyzed Danish HPV-vaccinated women's outcomes after the first screening test at age 23.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Evaluation of the results of treatment of adenocarcinoma in situ by loop electrosurgical excision procedure and the safety of a conservative strategy.
Methods: Identification of all cases of adenocarcinoma in situ treated by loop electrosurgical excision procedure at our institution and follow-up by a conservative strategy. Completeness of the identification of all cases was secured by data from the National Pathology Registry.
Objective: Patients with indeterminate thyroid cytology often have a diagnostic hemithyroidectomy. The role of molecular imaging, particularly fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET), is controversial, and demographic variations in tumor prevalence and histology influence test performance and clinical utility. We retrospectively assessed the prevalence of indeterminate thyroid cytology and the malignancy rate in patients from an iodine deficient area, and evaluated the diagnostic value of preoperative thyroid scintigraphy and F-FDG PET/CT among operated patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe main challenge for acidic water electrolysis is the lack of active and stable oxygen evolution catalysts based on abundant materials, which are globally scalable. Iridium oxide is the only material which is active and stable. However, Ir is extremely rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeveloping new efficient catalyst materials for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is essential for widespread proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer use. Both RuO(110) and IrO(110) have been shown to be highly active OER catalysts, however DFT predictions have been unable to explain the high activity of RuO. We propose that this discrepancy is due to RuO utilizing a different reaction pathway, as compared to the conventional IrO pathway.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aims of the study were to investigate how many women after 1 or 2 follow-up examinations, based on combined cervical cytology and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, could finish posttreatment follow-up and continue with the general screening program and to determine the 5-year risk of recurrence in this group.
Methods: This is a prospective observational study that includes women, who underwent loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) in the North Denmark Region, from January 1, 2012, to May 31, 2014. All included women had histologically verified diagnosis of high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 2+) or adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) before LEEP and posttreatment follow-up with cervical cytology and HPV combination testing.
The case of a 56-year-old woman with a fibroid uterus who developed utero-cutaneous fistula is presented. The woman was para 0, had an unremarkable medical history, and had no prior diagnosis of a gynecologic pathology, no operative interventions involving the uterine wall or any other risk factor for fistula. Abdominal examination revealed an abdominal mass with overlying deep, purulent ulceration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Point-of-care ultrasonography (PoCUS) is increasingly used across the medical field. PoCUS is also being implemented in general practice despite a lack of clinical guidelines and training programs for general practitioners (GPs).
Objectives: This study aimed to elucidate the employment of PoCUS by Danish GPs following a short training program.
Nurse Educ Today
February 2020
Background: Simulated learning activities are on the rise worldwide. Debriefing is viewed as a central element in simulated learning to enhance learning. Still, the question of how students learn in debriefing is underexplored.
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August 2019
The visual environment that surrounds us all makes us able to understand and interpret the world we live in. One of the most important players in that field is light. In general, it is useful for all of us to have aesthetic, appropriate and well-functioning lighting conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFContext • Chronically ill patients who have failed standard medical assessment and therapies are often assessed by integrative medical providers for atypical manifestations of allergies as the possible source or contributing factor(s) to their condition. Skin testing and immunoglobulin E (IgE) allergy panels increase the cost of care in these patients. Objective • The objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of autonomic response testing (ART) as compared with IgE allergy panel blood tests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLoss of vision due to corneal disease is a significant problem worldwide. Transplantation of donor corneas is a viable treatment option but limitations such as short supply and immune-related complications call for alternative options for the treatment of corneal disease. A tissue engineering-based approach using a collagen scaffold is a promising alternative to develop a bioengineered cornea that mimics the functionality of native cornea.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn 2012 the headquarters for the umbrella organisation 'Disabled people's organisation Denmark' opened, an office building that offers workspace for the administrations of all the member organisations. The ambition for the building was to be the most accessible office building in the world; regardless of disability everybody should be able to move around in the house and work in any of the offices. One, of many ambitions, was to design a functional and effective lighting scheme using as much daylight as possible, and integrating the artificial lighting design and daylight design.
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April 2017
The research project 'An analysis of the accessibility requirements' studies how Danish architectural firms experience the accessibility requirements of the Danish Building Regulations and it examines their opinions on how future regulative models can support innovative and inclusive design - Universal Design (UD). The empirical material consists of input from six workshops to which all 700 Danish Architectural firms were invited, as well as eight group interviews. The analysis shows that the current prescriptive requirements are criticized for being too homogenous and possibilities for differentiation and zoning are required.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Retracing and biomarker characterization of individual circulating tumour cells (CTCs) may potentially contribute to personalized metastatic cancer therapy. This is relevant when a biopsy of the metastasis is complicated or impossible to acquire.
Methods: A novel disc format was used to map and retrace individual CTCs from breast-cancer patients and nucleated cells from healthy blood donors using the CytoTrack platform.
Background And Aim: Many preterm infants are not capable of exclusive breastfeeding from birth. To guide mothers in breastfeeding, it is important to know when preterm infants can initiate breastfeeding and progress. The aim was to analyse postmenstrual age (PMA) at breastfeeding milestones in different preterm gestational age (GA) groups, to describe rates of breastfeeding duration at pre-defined times, as well as analyse factors associated with PMA at the establishment of exclusive breastfeeding.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Positions on Nursing Diagnosis (PND) is a scale that uses the semantic differential technique to measure nurses' attitudes towards the nursing diagnosis concept. The aim of this study was to develop a shortened form of the Spanish version of this scale and evaluate its psychometric properties and efficiency. A double theoretical-empirical approach was used to obtain a short form of the PND, the PND-7-SV, which would be equivalent to the original.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Evidence-based knowledge of how to guide the mothers of preterm infants in breastfeeding establishment is contradictive or sparse. The aim was to investigate the associations between pre-specified clinical practices for facilitating breastfeeding, and exclusive breastfeeding at discharge as well as adequate duration thereof.
Methods: A prospective survey based on questionnaires was conducted with a Danish national cohort, comprised of 1,221 mothers and their 1,488 preterm infants with a gestational age of 24-36 weeks.
Purpose: To validate the content of the NANDA-I nursing diagnosis of grieving in situations of perinatal loss.
Methods: Using the Fehring's model, 208 Spanish experts were asked to assess the adequacy of the defining characteristics and other manifestations identified in the literature for cases of perinatal loss.
Findings: The content validity index was 0.