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Acta Neurochir (Wien)
December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Objectives: To report the results of an international patient-reported survey that adds to the growing body of evidence surrounding the role of surgery in the management of a subset of patients with non-hydrocephalic symptomatic pineal cyst.
Design: An international web-based survey of health outcomes in patients with nhSPC.
Subjects: All survey participants who self-reported a diagnosis of symptomatic pineal cyst without hydrocephalus after radiological imaging.
BMC Cardiovasc Disord
December 2024
Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China.
Background: Delayed lead perforation is a rare complication of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED). Clinical presentations range from completely asymptomatic to pericardial tamponade. Surgical lead extraction is recommended and transvenous lead extraction (TLE) with surgical backup is an alternative method.
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December 2024
Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Objective: The short-term efficacy of red blood cell (RBC) transfusion among general traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients is unclear.
Methods: We used the MIMIC database to compare the efficacy of liberal (10 g/dL) versus conservative (7 g/dL) transfusion strategy in TBI patients. The outcomes were neurological progression (decrease of Glasgow coma scale (GCS) of at least 2 points) and death within 28 days of ICU admission.
Vestn Otorinolaringol
December 2024
Sverzhevsky Research Clinical Institute of Otorhinolaryngology, Moscow, Russia.
A clinical case of a patient with tumors of the auricles on both sides is presented. With careful collection of anamnesis, it was found that the patient suffers from gout for a long time, has concomitant diseases that aggravate its course, and there is no compliance to treatment. Based on these data, the presence of gouty tophi, which are deposits of sodium monaurate in tissues in the form of nodes, is suspected.
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December 2024
St. Petersburg Research Institute of Ear, Throat, Nose and Speech, St. Petersburg, Russia.
To study the epidemiological characteristics of chronic tonsillitis (ChT), the need for patients to undergo conservative and surgical treatment, and a comparative assessment of the effectiveness of conservative treatment of patients with chronic tonsillitis using Tonsilotren as monotherapy and in complex treatment. The study involved 999 otorhinolaryngologists from the outpatient network of 20 major Russian cities. The data of 74125 patients diagnosed with ChT were analyzed.
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