Publications by authors named "S Moors"

Background: Fatigue is a common and debilitating side effect of chronic diseases, significantly impacting patients' quality of life. While physical exercise and psychological treatments have been shown to reduce fatigue, patients often struggle with adherence to these interventions in clinical practice. Game-based eHealth interventions are believed to address adherence issues by making the intervention more accessible and engaging.

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Alcohol ethoxylates (AEs) are a well-known class of non-ionic surfactants widely used by the personal care market. The aim of this study was to evaluate and characterize the in vitro metabolism of AEs and identify metabolites. Five selected individual homologue AEs (CEO, CEO, CEO, CEO, and CEO) were incubated using human, rat, and hamster liver S9 fraction and cryopreserved hepatocytes.

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Objectives: Cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum (CLOCC) are a common magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) finding associated with various systemic diseases including COVID-19. Although an increasing number of such cases is reported in the literature, there is a lack of systematic evidence summarizing the etiology and neuroimaging findings of these lesions. Thus, the aim of this systematic review was to synthesize the applied nomenclature, neuroimaging and clinical features, and differential diagnoses as well as associated disease entities of CLOCC.

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Background: Established models for prognostic assessment in patients with brain metastasis do not stratify for prior surgery. Here we tested the prognostic accuracy of the Graded Prognostic Assessment (GPA) score model in patients operated for BM and explored further prognostic factors.

Methods: We included 285 patients operated for brain metastasis at the University Hospital Zurich in the analysis.

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Seizures in patients with brain metastases have an impact on morbidity and quality of life. The influence of tumor growth on the risk of seizures in these patients is not well defined. In this cohort study, we evaluated adult patients from the University Hospital of Zurich following resection of brain metastases from solid tumors, with or without preoperative seizures, at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months postoperatively.

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