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Time to regional surgical care in rural South Africa.
S Afr J Surg
December 2024
Centre for Global Surgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Background: District hospitals in South Africa have limited surgical capacity and regional hospitals treat most essential surgical conditions. This study aimed to describe the pathway and time to regional hospital surgical care for persons with general surgery conditions (PSC) in South Africa.
Methods: This was a retrospective audit of all persons referred on the Vula Mobile App to the general surgery service at Worcester Regional Hospital (WRH) from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019.
Exosomes in oral squamous cell carcinoma: functions, challenges, and potential applications.
Front Oncol
January 2025
Department of Stomatology, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) accounts for approximately 90% of all oral cancers, significantly impacting the survival and quality of life of patients. Exosomes, small extracellular vesicles released by cells, play a crucial role in intercellular communication in cancer. Nevertheless, their function and mechanism in OSCC remain elusive.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychosocial Determinants and Outcomes of Expedited Liver Transplant Evaluations: Insights From a Retrospective Cohort Analysis.
Transplant Direct
February 2025
Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Background: As the burden of chronic liver disease and the demand for liver transplants (LT) grows, understanding the interplay between access to care and patient outcomes is increasingly important. In this study, we explored patient characteristics and transplant outcomes in patients undergoing LT evaluations, with a focus on identifying risk factors for expedited LT evaluation.
Methods: This single-center retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent LT evaluation for deceased donor LT between October 2017 and July 2021.
Setting the tone: crossmodal emotional face-voice combinations in continuous flash suppression.
Front Psychol
January 2025
Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Emotional stimuli are preferentially processed in the visual system, in particular, fearful faces. Evidence comes from unimodal studies with emotional faces, although real-life emotional encounters typically involve input from multiple sensory channels, such as a face paired with a voice. Therefore, in this study, we investigated how emotional voices influence preferential processing of co-occurring emotional faces.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFManipulating self and other schemas to explore psychological processes associated with paranoid beliefs: an online experimental study.
Front Psychol
January 2025
Department of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Background: Information about the self and others is organized in cognitive-affective structures that influence and guide interpersonal behavior. These structures are referred to as relational schemas and are thought to be influenced by early interpersonal experiences with significant others leading to secure or insecure attachment patterns as adults. When insecure, these patterns appear to contribute to paranoid interpretations about the intentions of others by indirect pathways such as negative self-esteem and a bias toward untrustworthiness.
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