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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Óscar Sánchez Molina, Arion Tulio Aranda, Fabiana Gama Chimes
Currently, according to the most recent Simuliidae World Inventory, there are 97 valid species of blackflies recorded in Brazil, some of which act as vectors for zoonoses such as human onchocerciasis and mansonellosis in the northern and central-western regions of the country. Meanwhile, other species can cause serious socioeconomic problems due to the nuisance of female bites. Therefore, accurate knowledge of their distribution is crucial for the development and implementation of successful preventive strategies...
April 24, 2024: Neotropical Entomology
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Viviane Caetano Firmino, Leandro Schlemmer Brasil, Leandro Juen, Neusa Hamada, Renato Tavares Martins
Experiments are useful scientific tools for testing hypotheses by manipulating variables of interest while controlling for other factors that can bias or confuse the results and their interpretation. To ensures accuracy and reproducibility, experiments must have transparent and repeatable methodologies. Due to the importance of shredder invertebrates in organic matter processing, carbon cycling, and nutrient cycling, we tested experimentally the effect of different methodological approaches in microcosm experiments on the consumption and survival of shredders...
April 24, 2024: Neotropical Entomology
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Zhibin Tan, Daryl Yin Keong Lo, Kaavya Narasimhalu
INTRODUCTION: Conus medullaris infarction (CMI) is a rare vascular phenomenon that has been scarcely reported in the literature. While previous studies have described the clinical and radiological features of CMI, little attention has been paid to its associated neurophysiological findings. METHODS: We present a case of idiopathic CMI and its neurophysiological findings, then present our findings from a systematic review of other reports of CMI with neurophysiological features found via PubMed search...
April 24, 2024: Acta Neurologica Belgica
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Leticia Rodrigues Sampaio, Ricardo Dyllan Barbosa Dias, João Vitor Caetano Goes, Renata Pinheiro Martins de Melo, Daniela de Paula Borges, Mayara Magna de Lima Melo, Roberta Taiane Germano de Oliveira, Howard Lopes Ribeiro-Júnior, Silvia Maria Meira Magalhães, Ronald Feitosa Pinheiro
Myeloid neoplasms are a group of bone marrow diseases distinguished by disruptions in the molecular pathways that regulate the balance between hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) self-renewal and the generation of specialized cells. Cytokines and chemokines, two important components of the inflammatory process, also influence hematological differentiation. In this scenario, immunological dysregulation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of bone marrow neoplasms. The STING pathway recognizes DNA fragments in the cell cytoplasm and triggers an immune response by type I interferons...
April 24, 2024: Medical Oncology
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Raquel Figueiredo, Joao Barbosa-Breda
PURPOSE: The effectiveness of mitomycin C (MMC) in trabeculectomy has long been established. The aim of this review is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjunctive agents in tube shunt drainage device surgery for glaucoma or ocular hypertension, since controversy still exists regarding their benefit. METHODS: We searched CENTRAL, PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, and BASE for RCTs, which have used adjuvant antimetabolites-either MMC or 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU)-and/or anti-vascular endothelial growth factors (anti-VEGF) agents...
April 24, 2024: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Hannah Groenen, Nathan Bontekoning, Hasti Jalalzadeh, Dennis R Buis, Yasmine E M Dreissen, Jon H M Goosen, Haitske Graveland, Mitchel Griekspoor, Frank F A IJpma, Maarten J van der Laan, Roald R Schaad, Patrique Segers, Wil C van der Zwet, Ricardo G Orsini, Anne M Eskes, Niels Wolfhagen, Stijn W de Jonge, Marja A Boermeester
IMPORTANCE: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are common postoperative complications and associated with significant morbidity, mortality, and costs. Prophylactic intraoperative incisional wound irrigation is used to reduce the risk of SSIs, and there is great variation in the type of irrigation solutions and their use. OBJECTIVE: To compare the outcomes of different types of incisional prophylactic intraoperative incisional wound irrigation for the prevention of SSIs in all types of surgery...
April 24, 2024: JAMA Surgery
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Lidia Engel, Valeriia Sokolova, Ekaterina Bogatyreva, Anna Leuenberger
PURPOSE: Proxy assessment can be elicited via the proxy-patient perspective (i.e., asking proxies to assess the patient's quality of life (QoL) as they think the patient would respond) or proxy-proxy perspective (i.e., asking proxies to provide their own perspective on the patient's QoL). This review aimed to identify the role of the proxy perspective in explaining the differences between self-rated and proxy-rated QoL in people living with dementia. METHODS: A systematic literate review was conducted by sourcing articles from a previously published review, supplemented by an update of the review in four bibliographic databases...
April 24, 2024: Quality of Life Research
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Omar Nasher, Nigel J Hall, Rajnikant Mehta, Yousef El-Gohary, Marian Knight
PURPOSE: This study aims to evaluate different surgical approaches to long-gap esophageal atresia (LGEA) with or without tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is unclear. METHODS: A systematic literature review was done comparing gastric transposition versus esophageal lengthening with delayed primary anastomosis in infants with LGEA+/-TEF. The primary outcome was time to full oral feeds. Secondary outcomes were time to full enteric feeds, need for further surgery, growth, mortality, and postoperative adverse events...
April 24, 2024: Pediatric Surgery International
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Yash Kedia, Manu Madan, Rajnish Kaushik, Rohit Kumar, A J Mahendran, Pranav Ish, Neeraj Gupta, Tanmaya Talukdar, Nitesh Gupta
Persistent air leaks in patients with pneumothorax can lead to significant morbidity. If a patient with persistent air leak is medically unfit for thoracic surgery, medical pleurodesis via chest tube or thoracoscopy is either an option. Thoracoscopy offers the advantage of visualizing the site of the air leak and enabling direct instillation of the pleurodesis agent or glue at that location. Autologous blood patch instillation via chest tube has been reported to be a cheap and very effective technique for the management of persistent air leaks...
April 5, 2024: Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Greg Noe, Kaushal Shah, Samantha Ongchuan, Sahil Munjal
BACKGROUND: Among prescribers, bupropion is considered a substance of low misuse potential, with some studies showing lesser misuse potential than caffeine. However, several case reports exist of recreational bupropion misuse and diversion. Our goal is to understand at-risk populations, clinical courses, interventions, and outcomes after acute ingestion of bupropion via oral, intravenous route, and insufflation. METHODS: The systematic review was registered with PROSPERO on August 5, 2023...
April 24, 2024: Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
McKenzie A Dirr, Areeba Ahmed, Daniel I Schlessinger, Misha Haq, Victoria Shi, Eric Koza, Melissa Ma, Rachel E Christensen, Sarah A Ibrahim, Jochen Schmitt, Lena Johannsen, Yuka Asai, Hilary E Baldwin, Enzo Berardesca, Brian Berman, Ana Carolina Vieira, Anna L Chien, David E Cohen, James Q Del Rosso, Jacquelyn Dosal, Lynn A Drake, Steven R Feldman, Alan B Fleischer, Adam Friedman, Emmy Graber, Julie C Harper, Yolanda R Helfrich, Gregor B Jemec, Sandra M Johnson, Rajani Katta, Peter Lio, Lisa E Maier, George Martin, Arielle R Nagler, Isaac M Neuhaus, Melis Palamar, Lawrence C Parish, Theodore Rosen, Stephen P Shumack, James A Solomon, Emil A Tanghetti, Guy F Webster, Allison Weinkle, Jonathan S Weiss, Edward J Wladis, Ian A Maher, Joseph F Sobanko, Todd V Cartee, Brian A Cahn, Murad Alam, Bianca Y Kang, Sanjana Iyengar, Noor Anvery, Erkan Alpsoy, Anthony Bewley, Clio Dessinioti, Alexander Egeberg, Burhan Engin, Harald P M Gollnick, Dimitrios Ioannides, Hei Sung Kim, Elizabeth Lazaridou, Ji Li, Hester Gail Lim, Giuseppe Micali, Clivia Maria Moraes de Oliveira, Lucero Noguera-Morel, Aurora Parodi, Markus Reinholz, Dae Hun Suh, Qiuning Sun, Esther J van Zuuren, Uwe Wollina, Youwen Zhou, Catherine Zip, Emily Poon, Ross Pearlman
IMPORTANCE: Inconsistent reporting of outcomes in clinical trials of rosacea is impeding and likely preventing accurate data pooling and meta-analyses. There is a need for standardization of outcomes assessed during intervention trials of rosacea. OBJECTIVE: To develop a rosacea core outcome set (COS) based on key domains that are globally relevant and applicable to all demographic groups to be used as a minimum list of outcomes for reporting by rosacea clinical trials, and when appropriate, in clinical practice...
April 24, 2024: JAMA Dermatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alireza Oraii, William F McIntyre, Ratika Parkash, Krzysztof Kowalik, Ghazal Razeghi, Alexander P Benz, Emilie P Belley-Côté, David Conen, Stuart J Connolly, Anthony S L Tang, Jeff S Healey, Jorge A Wong
IMPORTANCE: Catheter ablation is associated with reduced heart failure (HF) hospitalization and death in select patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF). However, the benefit in patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether catheter ablation for AF is associated with reduced HF-related outcomes according to HF phenotype. DATA SOURCE: A systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane Central was conducted among studies published from inception to September 2023...
April 24, 2024: JAMA Cardiology
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Amal S A F Hafez, Fatma M Elgazzar, Zahraa K Sobh, Ahmad A El-Ebiary
Some studies suggested that gastrointestinal (GIT) decontamination with oil may improve the prognosis of patients who ingested aluminum phosphide (AlP). The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of gastric lavage with oil-based solutions to any method of gastric decontamination not using oils in patients presenting with acute AlP poisoning. The literature was searched for English-published randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from inception to 16 September 2023. The searched electronic databases included MEDLINE/PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Egyptian Knowledge Bank, Scopus, and Google Scholar...
April 24, 2024: Critical Reviews in Toxicology
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Filippo D'Amico, Alessandro Pruna, Zbigniew Putowski, Sara Dormio, Silvia Ajello, Anna Mara Scandroglio, Todd C Lee, Alberto Zangrillo, Giovanni Landoni
OBJECTIVES: Hypotension is associated with adverse outcomes in critically ill and perioperative patients. However, these assumptions are supported by observational studies. This meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials aims to compare the impact of lower versus higher blood pressure targets on mortality. DATA SOURCES: We searched PubMed, Cochrane, and Scholar from inception to February 10, 2024. STUDY SELECTION: Randomized trials comparing lower versus higher blood pressure targets in the management of critically ill and perioperative settings...
April 24, 2024: Critical Care Medicine
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Ictal Coprolalia: Three Cases with Nondominat Frontal Lobe Involvement and Review of the Literature.
Okan Sokmen, F Irsel Tezer, Kader Karli Oguz, Bilge Volkan-Salanci, Eser Lay Ergün, Serap Saygi
Objective: Coprolalia is defined as the involuntary use of obscene, socially unacceptable, and derogatory words. Ictal coprolalia is a rare presentation of epilepsy. This study aimed to determine the localizing and lateralizing value and frequency of ictal coprolalia in epilepsy patients. Methods: Medical files, discharge summaries, and electroencephalography (EEG) reports of 2238 patients were reviewed retrospectively. We identified patients who suffered from ictal coprolalia. Electroencephalography reports, neuroimaging [brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT)] records, F-18 FDG fused on MRI images, and ictal SPECT fused on MRI images were evaluated...
April 24, 2024: Clinical EEG and Neuroscience: Official Journal of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society (ENCS)
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Mabore Thema, Zsuzsanna Beretzky, Valentin Brodszky
BACKGROUND: Budget constraints in health care systems have led to the popularity of Cost Effectiveness Thresholds (CET) to achieve efficient allocation of resources. The capability approach has been hailed for its potentially richer evaluative capabilities compared to the QALY in terms of thresholds. Extensive research, however, is still limited. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This study estimated the monetary value of a year in full capability (YFC) and compared it to monetary value of a QALY for the Hungarian population...
April 24, 2024: Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research
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Jacqueline Tucker, Madison Oxford, Kasra Ziai, Jessyka G Lighthall
Background: In regard to antibiotic stewardship, it is important to understand the appropriate time to prescribe antibiotics in pediatric facial fracture management. Objective: To evaluate the utility of antibiotics in pediatric facial fractures and determine situational variables influencing appropriate antibiotic prescription. Methods: A comprehensive literature search was conducted in PubMed, Cochrane, and Web of Science databases for articles published from 2000 to 2022. Inclusion criteria consisted of all studies assessing pediatric facial fractures that mentioned antibiotic use...
April 24, 2024: Facial plastic surgery & aesthetic medicine
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Eleftheria Antoniadou, Emanuele Giusti, Paolo Capodaglio, Der-Sheng Han, Francesca Gimigliano, Juan M Guzman, Mooyeon Oh-Park, Walter Frontera
INTRODUCTION: Aging is associated with an increased burden of multi-morbidity and disease related functional loss and disability, widely impacting patients and health care systems. Frailty is a major actor in age-related disability and is an important target for rehabilitation interventions, considering that is a reversible condition. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: A working group of members of the ISPRM, responding to WHO 2030 call for action to strengthen rehabilitation, was established to assess the quality and implementability of the existing guidelines for the rehabilitation of frailty...
April 24, 2024: European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
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Manuela Leitão de Vasconcelos, Divany Guedes Pereira da Cunha, Giorvan Ânderson Dos Santos Alves, Tatiana Carneiro da Cunha Almeida Santos, Luiz Medeiros de Araujo Lima-Filho, Karinna Veríssimo Meira Taveira, Cristiano Miranda de Araújo, Leandro Pernambuco
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2024: Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira
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Cássia Lima de Oliveira Gracini, Gustavo Giacomelli Nascimento, Maria Tereza Campos Vidigal, Murilo Navarro de Oliveira, Álex Moreira Herval, Cauane Blumenberg, Walbert A Vieira, Rafael Rodrigues Lima, Luiz Renato Paranhos
BACKGROUND: Adolescence is characterized by complex and dynamic changes, often involving experimentation, including the use of psychotropic substances. Although it is well-established that recreational psychotropic drugs are associated with suicide ideation in adults, evidence of this association in adolescents remains limited. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between suicide ideation and psychotropic recreational drug use among adolescents. DESIGN AND SETTING: Systematic review with meta-analysis developed at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) and Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil...
2024: São Paulo Medical Journal
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