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PURPOSE: To evaluate the effects of sodium hyaluronate drops on dry eye parameters and corneal epithelial thickness following cataract surgery. METHODS: The study included 84 patients who underwent uncomplicated phacoemulsification. In Group A, 0.15% sodium hyaluronate drops were added to the postoperative antibiotic/anti-inflammatory treatment. In Group B, only antibiotic/anti-inflammatory treatment was applied. Preoperatively and at 1 week and 1 month postoperatively, all the patients were evaluated in respect of tear break-up time (TBUT), the Schirmer test under anesthesia, the corneal fluorescein staining (CFS) score, mean central corneal thickness (CCT) and mean central corneal epithelial thickness (CCET), and the two groups were compared...

The principal mechanisms surrounding gastrointestinal (GI) side effects due to chemotherapy are unclear, whereas the information regarding symptom management of patients with esophageal cancer post-esophagectomy is lacking. Esophagectomy patients are left with significant anatomical changes to the GI tract, including the cutting of the vagus nerve, which regulates gastric secretions, gastric acid pH, and motility. A 76-year-old male patient self-referred himself to the clinical dietitian for nutritional management of chronic nausea, fatigue, weight loss, and dumping syndrome 9 months post-esophagectomy, which was not responsive to medications...

BACKGROUND: Gastric cancer patients often feel physically tired and weak, lacking confidence and enthusiasm for relevant treatments. We aimed to explore the impacts of health education based on the theory of protective motivation on the emotional state, cancer-related fatigue, and hope levels of gastric cancer patients. METHODS: A total of 160 gastric cancer patients admitted to the Sanmenxia Central Hospital, Henan, China, from May 2019 to March 2022 were selected as subjects...

INTRODUCTION: Pear Valsa canker, caused by Valsa pyri ( V. pyri ), poses a major threat to pear production. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of the cell-free supernatant (CFS) produced by Trichoderma virens ( T. virens ) to control the development of pear Valsa canker and reveal the inhibitory mechanism against the pathogenic fungi. RESULTS: Using morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, the pathogen G1H was identified as V. pyri , and the biocontrol fungus WJ561 was identified as Trichoderma virens ...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of dry eye disease (DED) is rising globally and needs to be urgently addressed by medical professionals because it lowers patients' quality of life. There are as yet no available data in the literature about the prevalence of and risk factors for DED in the Gaza Strip, a gap that the present study seeks to address. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was carried out between March and August 2022 in Gaza governorates using a proportional stratified sampling technique...

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic disease presenting with severe fatigue, post-exertional malaise, and cognitive disturbances-among a spectrum of symptoms-that collectively render the patient housebound or bedbound. Epigenetic studies in ME/CFS collectively confirm alterations and/or malfunctions in cellular and organismal physiology associated with immune responses, cellular metabolism, cell death and proliferation, and neuronal and endothelial cell function. The sudden onset of ME/CFS follows a major stress factor that, in approximately 70% of cases, involves viral infection, and ME/CFS symptoms overlap with those of long COVID...

Myocardial infarction results in extensive cardiomyocyte apoptosis, leading to the formation of noncontractile scar tissue. Given the limited regenerative capacity of adult mammalian cardiomyocytes, direct reprogramming of cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) into cardiomyocytes represents a promising therapeutic strategy for myocardial repair, and small molecule drugs might offer a more attractive alternative to gene editing approaches in terms of safety and clinical feasibility. This study aimed to reprogram rat CFs into cardiomyocytes using a small molecular chemical mixture comprising CHIR99021, Valproic acid, Dorsomorphin, SB431542, and Forskolin...

OBJECTIVE: Though frailty is associated with mortality, its impact on long-term survival after an ICU admission with COVID-19 is unclear. We aimed to investigate the association between frailty and long-term survival in patients after an ICU admission with COVID-19. DESIGN SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: This registry-based multicentre, retrospective, cohort study included all patients ≥16 years discharged alive from the hospital following an ICU admission with COVID-19 and documented clinical frailty scale (CFS)...

OBJECTIVE: Given the demand for net-zero healthcare, the carbon footprint (CF) of healthcare systems has attracted increasing interest in research in recent years. This systematic review investigates the results and methodological transparency of CF calculations of healthcare systems. The methodological emphasis lies specifically on input-output based calculations. DESIGN: Systematic review according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guideline...

Lactiplantibacillus paraplantarum P3 (L. paraplantarum P3) cell-free supernatant (CFS) with good antifungal effect was sprayed on fresh in-shell peanuts stored at 5 °C and 30 °C to explore its effect on the microorganisms and quality of fresh in-shell peanuts during storage process. Results showed that L. paraplantarum P3 CFS effectively maintained good quality of fresh in-shell peanuts by not only reducing fungi amount and the mildew rate, but also improving the morphology, color and flavor...

Cardiac fibrosis contributes to the development of heart failure, and is the response of cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) to pressure or volume overload. Limiting factors in CFs research are the poor availability of human cells and the tendency of CFs to transdifferentiate into myofibroblasts when cultured in vitro. The possibility to generate CFs from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), providing a nearly unlimited cell source, opens new possibilities. However, the behaviour of iPSC-CFs under mechanical stimulation has not been studied yet...

When the eyes view separate and incompatible images, the brain suppresses one image and promotes the other into visual awareness. Periods of interocular suppression can be prolonged during continuous flash suppression (CFS) - when one eye views a static 'target' while the other views a complex dynamic stimulus. Measuring the time needed for a suppressed image to break CFS (bCFS) has been widely used to investigate unconscious processing, and the results have generated controversy regarding the scope of visual processing without awareness...

BACKGROUND: Evidence of overlap between endometriosis and chronic pain conditions is emerging; however, little is known about how the pain experience differs based on the presence or absence of endometriosis. OBJECTIVES: In a sample of women reporting chronic pelvic-abdominal pain (CPP), the aim of this study was to characterize differences in pain symptomatology between women with and without endometriosis and to examine the influence of chronic overlapping pain conditions (COPCs) on pain among these two groups...

Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) with orthostatic intolerance (OI) is characterized by neuro-cognitive deficits perhaps related to upright hypocapnia and loss of cerebral autoregulation (CA). We performed N-back neurocognition testing and calculated the phase synchronization index (PhSI) between Arterial Pressure (AP) and cerebral blood velocity (CBV ) as a time-dependent measurement of cerebral autoregulation in 11 control (mean age=24.1 years) and 15 ME/CFS patients (mean age=21...

BACKGROUND: Despite the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, many people experience post-COVID-19 syndrome, which negatively impacts their health and function. This condition has become a significant public health problem that requires immediate attention. OBJECTIVE: To study the prevalence, clinical characteristics, and predictors of post-COVID-19 Syndrome in Qatar during 2022. METHODS: An analytic cross-sectional study was conducted among COVID-19 confirmed cases from January 2022 to July 2022 in Qatar...

OBJECTIVE: We present the first study that investigates the validity and the diagnostic overlap of the three main functional somatic syndrome (FSS) diagnoses, i.e. chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), fibromyalgia (FM), and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), irrespective of help-seeking behaviour or diagnostic habits, and irrespective of differences in diagnostic thresholds for chronicity or symptom interference. METHODS: This cross-sectional analysis was performed in 89,781 participants of the general-population cohort Lifelines...

BACKGROUND: Cancer-related fatigue is a prevalent condition in all stages of oncologic disease that is poorly diagnosed, with a negative impact on physical function to perform activities of daily living. Fatigue is also one of the main manifestations in post-COVID-19 syndrome, and few studies have explored the functionality of cancer patients after infection by the new coronavirus. This study was designed to assess cancer-related fatigue symptoms and their implications on physical function and quality of life during the pandemic...

The present study highlights the integration of lignin with graphene oxide (GO) and its reduced form (rGO) as a significant advancement within the bio-based products industry. Lignin-phenol-formaldehyde (LPF) resin is used as a carbon source in polyurethane foams, with the addition of 1 %, 2 %, and 4 % of GO and rGO to produce carbon structures thus producing carbon foams (CFs). Two conversion routes are assessed: (i) direct addition with rGO solution, and (ii) GO reduction by heat treatment...

Chemical and UV light-based pathogen reduction technologies are currently in use for human platelet concentrates (PCs) to enhance safety from transfusion-transmitted infections. Relative to UV light, 405 nm violet-blue light in the visible spectrum is known to be less harmful. Hence, in this report for the first time, we have assessed the global hemostasis activity of PCs stored in plasma and the activities of six plasma coagulation factors (CFs) as a measure of in vitro hemostatic activity following exposure to the microbicidal 405 nm light...

To enhance the precision of evaluating the operational status of SF6 high-voltage circuit breakers (HVCBs) and devise judicious maintenance strategies, this study introduces an operational state assessment method for SF6 HVCBs grounded in the integrated data-driven analysis (IDDA) model. The relative degradation weight (RDW) is introduced as a metric for quantifying the relative significance of distinct indicators concerning the operational condition of SF6 HVCBs. A data-driven model, founded on critical factor stability (CFS), is formulated to convert environmental indicators into quantitative computations...