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Eur Radiol
January 2025
Department of Ultrasound, First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, No. 28 Fuxing Road, Haidian District, 100853, Beijing, China.
Objective: To compare the clinical outcomes between radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA) for the treatment of T1N0M0 papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) in a large cohort.
Materials And Methods: This retrospective study included 1111 patients with solitary T1N0M0 PTC treated with RFA (n = 894) or MWA (n = 215) by experienced physicians. A propensity score matching was used to compare disease progression, including lymph node metastases (LNM), recurrent tumors and persistent tumors, recurrence-free survival (RFS), volume reduction ratio (VRR), and complications between the RFA and MWA groups.
Brain Spine
December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany.
Introduction: Sex-related differences in the epidemiology of malignant gliomas are acknowledged; however, information regarding their clinical characteristics and outcomes after surgery is limited.
Research Question: To identify sex-specific differences of all patients with high-grade glioma at our institution and assessed clinical outcomes and prognostic factors.
Material And Methods: This single-center study included those who underwent surgery for malignant gliomas between 2010 and 2020.
Am J Prev Cardiol
March 2025
Department of Cardiology, IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Av. de los Reyes Católicos, 2, Moncloa - Aravaca, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Objective: To quantify the added clinical benefit of a healthy lifestyle following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Our study seeks to answer the question: Is adherence to medical therapy sufficient or a healthy lifestyle provides additional improvement?.
Methods: This is a prospective observational multi-center study of 685 ACS patients.
Front Microbiol
January 2025
Centre Armand Frappier Sante Biotechnologie, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laval, QC, Canada.
The minimal sampling effort required to report the microbiome composition of insect surveyed in natural environment is often based on empirical or logistical constraints. This question was addressed with the white pine cone beetle, (Schwarz), a devastating insect pest of seed orchards. It attacks and stop the growth of the cones within which it will spend its life, on the ground.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Douglas House, 18B Trumpington Road, Cambridge, CB2 8AH, UK.
Background: Autistic people and transgender/gender diverse people experience poorer healthcare experiences and greater risk of diagnosed, suspected, and assessment recommended health conditions, compared to non-autistic and cisgender individuals, respectively. Despite this, there is a paucity of studies on the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of transgender/gender diverse autistic individuals.
Methods: We compared the healthcare experiences and health outcomes of cisgender autistic (n = 1094), transgender/gender diverse autistic (n = 174), and cisgender non-autistic adults (n = 1295) via an anonymous, self-report survey.
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