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Medicine (Baltimore)
October 2024
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, LAU Medical Center - Rizk Hospital, Zahar St., Achrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon.
Rationale: Since the onset of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic in 2019, considerable resources have been devoted to developing vaccines to reduce related deaths and the burden of disease. Various vaccine formulations eventually became available and were approved for clinical use. In this article, we have conducted a review of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) cases induced by different COVID-19 vaccines [Pfizer: BNT162b2, AstraZeneca: ChAdOx1-S, Moderna: mRNA-1273, and Janssen: Ad26.
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November 2023
Department of Mechatronics Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
Malignant tumors of the pancreas are the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. This is mainly because they are often diagnosed at a late stage. One of the challenges in diagnosing focal lesions in the pancreas is the difficulty in distinguishing them from other conditions due to the unique location and anatomy of the organ, as well as the similarity in their ultrasound characteristics.
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September 2023
Moscow Regional Research and Clinical Institute named after M.F. Vladimirsky (MONIKI), Moscow, Russia.
Unlabelled: Fiberoptic laryngoscopy is a standard procedure for evaluation of vocal folds immobility. However, this method is invasive, requires special qualifications and technical equipment, which limits its routine use. Therefore, in daily practice, the vast majority of laryngoscopy are performed by an indirect way, the accuracy of which depends on the specialist experience and the patient compliance.
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August 2022
Cardiovascular Research Center, Institute for Experimental and Clinical Research, Catholic University of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
Background: We report the clinical and echocardiographic results of our experience in robotic mitral valve repair over a 7-year period. The outcomes of the earliest and the latest patients will be compared.
Methods: Between March 2012 and October 2019, 226 patients underwent robotic mitral valve repair for severe mitral regurgitation in a single institution.
Photobiomodul Photomed Laser Surg
April 2022
Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Physiological Sciences Unit, University of Florence, Folrence, Italy.
Since 1980, laser therapy has been proposed with success in the treatment of the Induratio Penis Plastica (IPP), also called La Peyronie's Syndrome, but still few physicians use it. We would like to investigate the clinical effects of using more laser sequentially in each session, in the treatment of chronic IPP. We used high levels of energy, watts rather than milliwatts, reducing the duration of each application, and the number of the cycles in total.
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