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Objectives: Bennett's fracture, the most common intra-articular fracture occurring at the base of the thumb, accounts for less than 1% of all hand fractures. It typically results from specific traumatic mechanisms, deforming forces, and ligamentous injuries. To compare the functional outcomes and sequelae in patients with Bennett's fracture treated surgically using: Open reduction and internal screw fixation, closed reduction and percutaneous fixation, arthroscopy-assisted reduction and screw fixation.
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January 2024
Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Repurposing established non-cancer drugs for the treatment of cancer offers potential benefits such as speed of clinical translation and financial efficiencies. In this study, we assess the landscape of repurposing drugs for combined use with radiotherapy (RT) based on their capacity to increase tumour radiosensitivity. Using a literature-based approach, we identified 42 radiosensitising drugs with varied non-cancer indications and mechanisms of action, that have entered or completed clinical trials in combination with RT or with chemoradiotherapy.
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January 2025
Cardiovascular Department, The Affiliated People´s Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315000, ZheJia, China.
This case presents a patient who experienced hypoxia and hypotension following the infusion of industrial-grade anhydrous ethanol into the vein of Marshall (VOM) during atrial fibrillation radiofrequency ablation. The hypotension lasted for at least three days, requiring dopamine support, while hypoxia persisted for over a week. The prolonged nature of these symptoms posed a diagnostic challenge.
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March 2025
Orthopaedic Trauma Institute, Institute for Global Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
Purpose: With life expectancies increasing worldwide, there is a concomitant rise in the incidence of fragility fractures. As such, low-income and lower-middle-income countries (LICs and LMICs) will be faced with increased incidences of hip fractures. The care of these fractures is adversely affected by various factors that include under-resourced healthcare systems and large socioeconomic disparities, which disproportionately affect patient care in these regions relative to high-income countries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Law Med Ethics
January 2025
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA.
People of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underrepresented in biomedical research. The importance of demographically diverse research samples is widely recognized, especially given socioeconomic disparities in health, but have been challenging to achieve. One barrier to research participation by low SES individuals is their distance from research centers and the difficulty of traveling.
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