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Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Backgrounds/aims: Liver transplantation (LT) is now a critical, life-saving treatment for patients with liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma. Despite its significant benefits, biliary complications (BCs) continue to be a major cause of postoperative morbidity. This study evaluates the fluorescence intensity (FI) of the common bile duct (CBD) utilizing near-infrared indocyanine green (ICG) imaging, and examines its association with the incidence of BCs within three months post-LT.
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December 2024
Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Etawah, IND.
Background: In epidural anaesthesia, the addition of an adjuvant to local anaesthetics enhances the efficacy, thereby providing increased duration and intensity of blockade in lower limb surgeries. The aim was to compare the efficacy, onset, and duration of sensory and motor blockade; haemodynamic changes; and sedative and analgesic effects of nalbuphine, clonidine, and dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to ropivacaine in epidural anaesthesia.
Methodology: A prospective, randomised, double-blind study among 90 patients after taking consent was divided into three groups (30 patients each; Group D received 15 ml of 0.
Sensors (Basel)
December 2024
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration, Quebec City, QC G1M 2S8, Canada.
Although guidelines are established for performing the six-minute walking test (6MWT), it is not always possible to implement this test in any setting, due to physical and space limitations. Yet, variations in the conditions of the test could be responsible for heterogeneous outcomes. However, the impact of the condition of the 6MWT is not clearly established in literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Defining a microscopic tumor infiltration boundary is critical to the success of radiation therapy. Currently, radiation oncologists use margins to geometrically expand the visible tumor for radiation treatment planning in soft tissue sarcomas (STS). Image-based models of tumor progression would be critical to personalize the treatment radiation field to the pattern of sarcoma spread.
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December 2024
Department of Pharmacy, Affiliated Mental Health Center of Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China.
Objective: This study aims to explore the differences in "Internet+" pharmacy prescriptions in psychiatric hospitals before and after the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It also seeks to examine changes in patient healthcare behaviors in the post-pandemic era and to identify the potential role of "Internet+" pharmacy in improving the current healthcare system.
Methods: Prescriptions from the "Internet+" pharmacy at The Affiliated Mental Health Center of Jiangnan University, collected between December 1, 2021, and November 30, 2023, were analyzed.
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