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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38452340/effect-of-a-ten-week-sensorimotor-exercise-program-on-the-side-to-side-lam-asymmetry-of-adolescent-football-players-a-randomized-control-trial
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Damian Sikora, Paweł Linek
In this study we, evaluated the effects of a 10-week sensorimotor exercise program on the thickness and side-to-side asymmetry of the lateral abdominal muscles in adolescent soccer players. From among 120 initially recruited participants, we included 90 athletes (aged 10-17 years old) in our final analysis. Healthy athletes who met our inclusion criteria were randomly divided into comparative experimental and control groups. Sensorimotor exercises were conducted twice weekly for 10-weeks in the experimental group, and the control group received no intervention...
March 7, 2024: Perceptual and Motor Skills
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38105827/assessment-of-nasal-septum-change-after-le-fort-i-osteotomy-using-cone-beam-computed-tomography
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pornpop Rattana-Arpha, Kiatanant Boonsiriseth, Kornkamol Kretapirom, Yutthasak Kriangcherdsak
OBJECTIVE: Le Fort I osteotomy (LF-IO) is widely used for the correction of dentofacial deformities, which may cause changes in the postoperative nasal septum (NS). The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of LF-IO on the NS deviation and to determine whether the NS was affected by differences in the direction of maxilla movement. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study including 57 patients who underwent LF-IO and received cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) preoperatively and 6-12 months postoperative evaluation was performed...
December 2023: Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38021309/continuous-vertical-inside-out-versus-traditional-vertical-inside-out-meniscal-repair-a-biomechanical-comparison
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
José Leonardo Rocha de Faria, Arthur Paiva Grimaldi Santos, Douglas Mello Pavão, Mariana Radulski, Ana Carolina Leal, Ari Digiácomo Ocampo More, Alan de Paula Mozella, João Antonio Matheus Guimarães, Robert F LaPrade, Carlos Rodrigo de Mello Roesler, Rodrigo Salim
BACKGROUND: Biomechanical assessment of meniscal repairs is essential for evaluating different meniscal suturing methods and techniques. The continuous meniscal suture technique is a newer method of meniscal repair that may have biomechanical differences compared with traditional techniques. PURPOSE: To evaluate the displacement, stiffness after cyclical loading, and load to failure for a continuous vertical inside-out meniscal suture versus a traditional vertical inside-out meniscal suture in a porcine medial meniscus...
November 2023: Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37977402/microplastics-in-the-sediments-along-the-eastern-arabian-sea-shelf-distribution-governing-factors-and-risk-assessment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Priyansha Gupta, Mahua Saha, V Suneel, Chayanika Rathore, A V Chndrasekhararao, G V M Gupta, C K Junaid
Despite the omnipresence of microplastics (MPs), the studies around the western continental shelf of Indian Ocean (Eastern Arabian Sea-EAS) are uncovered and understudied. Thus, the present study was focused to understand the spatial distribution, characterization and risk assessment of MPs in sediment across seven coastal transects (10 to 50 m) all along the EAS shelf. The highest MPs concentration (MPs/kg d.w.) was detected in the northern EAS (NEAS; 2260 ± 1050) followed by central (CEAS; 1550 ± 1012) and southern (SEAS; 1300 ± 513) shelves...
November 15, 2023: Science of the Total Environment
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37974078/evaluation-of-graded-recession-of-inferior-oblique-muscle-for-correction-of-different-grades-of-v-pattern-strabismus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shaimaa Hady Sokeer, Ahmed L Ali, El-Sayed S Arafa, Amr M Awara, Heba M Shafik
BACKGROUND: V pattern identification is essential for proper strabismus management. Graded recession is a tailored approach to treat inferior oblique overaction (IOOA). The aim is to evaluate the efficacy of graded recession of inferior oblique muscle for correction of different grades of V pattern. METHODS: Forty patients from 3 to 18 years old with V pattern strabismus and primary IOOA were evaluated by prism cover test to assess the grade of IOOA and amplitude of V-pattern...
November 16, 2023: BMC Ophthalmology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37941732/predicting-procedure-duration-of-colorectal-endoscopic-submucosal-dissection-at-western-endoscopy-centers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hao Dang, Nik Dekkers, Ewout W Steyerberg, Francisco Baldaque-Silva, Masami Omae, Krijn J C Haasnoot, Laurelle van Tilburg, Kate Nobbenhuis, Jolein van der Kraan, Alexandra M J Langers, Jeanin E van Hooft, Wilmar de Graaf, Arjun D Koch, Paul Didden, Leon M G Moons, James C H Hardwick, Jurjen J Boonstra
Background and study aims Overcoming logistical obstacles for the implementation of colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) requires accurate prediction of procedure times. We aimed to evaluate existing and new prediction models for ESD duration. Patients and methods Records of all consecutive patients who underwent single, non-hybrid colorectal ESDs before 2020 at three Dutch centers were reviewed. The performance of an Eastern prediction model [GIE 2021;94(1):133-144] was assessed in the Dutch cohort...
August 2023: Endoscopy International Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37928285/a-case-of-urinary-bladder-metastasis-of-hepatocellular-carcinoma-following-use-of-immunotherapy-tyrosine-kinase-inhibitor
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Keiichiro Miyajima, Fumihiko Urabe, Tsuzuki Shunsuke, Sato Shun, Hiroyuki Takahashi, Koji Asano, Mitsuru Yanagaki, Michinori Matsumoto, Toru Ikegami, Takahiro Kimura
INTRODUCTION: Here we present a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis to the urinary bladder in a patient with metastatic HCC. CASE PRESENTATION: An 83-year-old man developed gross hematuria during combined treatment with an anti-programmed death-ligand 1 inhibitor and an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for metastatic HCC. A contrast-enhanced CT revealed a 15 × 15 mm soft tissue mass protruding from the posterior bladder wall...
November 2023: IJU case reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37924551/evaluation-of-the-effect-of-pelvis-type-in-percutaneous-acetabular-column-fixation-a-computed-tomography-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Harun Altinayak, Yavuz Selim Karatekin, Ibrahim Tülüce, Celal Bitiş
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of pelvis type in percutaneous acetabular column fixation. What is the effect of pelvis type in percutaneous acetabular colon fixation? The available pelvic computed tomography (CT) scans which were obtained in the diagnostic imaging center with a 1 mm slice width were evaluated. The pelvic type was classified with the help of MPR (Multiplanar Reformat) and 3D (Three Dimensional) imaging modes. All evaluated bony pelvic structures were anatomically intact. 40 types of android, gynecoid, anthropoid, and platypelloid pelvis were determined...
June 2023: Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37880015/intraoperative-ultrasound-assisted-endoscopic-treatment-of-primary-intermediate-and-high-grade-vesicoureteral-reflux-in-children-in-a-long-term-follow-up
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pensabene M, Cimador M, Spataro B, Serra G, Baldanza F, Grasso F, Corsello G, Salerno S, Di Pace Mr, Sergio M
BACKGROUND: Endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is an important minimally invasive surgical approach in patients undergoing surgical treatment of VUR. In our past experience, we observed that a bulking agent mound sagittal diameter of 10 mm is the main predictor of effectiveness of the procedure. Moreover we noticed that the use of intraoperative ultrasound, allows the surgeon to better identify the site, volume and shape of the bulking agent injected, finally reducing operative time...
October 14, 2023: Journal of Pediatric Urology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37785341/optimal-planning-target-margin-for-prostate-radiotherapy-based-on-interfractional-and-intrafractional-variability-assessment-during-1-5t-mr-guided-radiotherapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Kim, J Sung, D Yang, K S Cho, B H Chung, J Kim, J W Kim
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): MR-guided radiotherapy (MRgRT) provides superior soft-tissue contrast over CT-based image guidance. We collected and analyzed daily pre-treatment (PRE) and real-time motion-monitoring (MM) MR images of patients receiving prostate radiotherapy to assess interfractional and intrafractional variability of prostate using two localization methods: pelvic bony anatomy (bone) and prostate during online adaptive radiotherapy (ART). MATERIALS/METHODS: PRE and MM MRIs for the first five fractions of twenty prostate cancer patients who received definitive MRgRT with 1...
October 1, 2023: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37478776/advances-in-adoptive-t-cell-therapy-for-metastatic-melanoma
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REVIEW
Aparimita Das, Aruni Ghose, Kevin Naicker, Elisabet Sanchez, Cyrus Chargari, Elie Rassy, Stergios Boussios
Adoptive T cell therapy (ACT) is a fast developing, niche area of immunotherapy (IO), which is revolutionising the therapeutic landscape of solid tumour oncology, especially metastatic melanoma (MM). Identifying tumour antigens (TAs) as potential targets, the ACT response is mediated by either Tumour Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) or genetically modified T cells with specific receptors - T cell receptors (TCRs) or chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) or more prospectively, natural killer (NK) cells. Clinical trials involving ACT in MM from 2006 to present have shown promising results...
July 7, 2023: Current Research in Translational Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37441881/multi-target-landmark-detection-with-incomplete-images-via-reinforcement-learning-and-shape-prior-embedding
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kaiwen Wan, Lei Li, Dengqiang Jia, Shangqi Gao, Wei Qian, Yingzhi Wu, Huandong Lin, Xiongzheng Mu, Xin Gao, Sijia Wang, Fuping Wu, Xiahai Zhuang
Medical images are generally acquired with limited field-of-view (FOV), which could lead to incomplete regions of interest (ROI), and thus impose a great challenge on medical image analysis. This is particularly evident for the learning-based multi-target landmark detection, where algorithms could be misleading to learn primarily the variation of background due to the varying FOV, failing the detection of targets. Based on learning a navigation policy, instead of predicting targets directly, reinforcement learning (RL)-based methods have the potential to tackle this challenge in an efficient manner...
June 24, 2023: Medical Image Analysis
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37352252/mpropred-a-machine-learning-ml-driven-web-app-for-bioactivity-prediction-of-sars-cov-2-main-protease-mpro-antagonists
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nadim Ferdous, Mahjerin Nasrin Reza, Mohammad Uzzal Hossain, Shahin Mahmud, Suhami Napis, Kamal Chowdhury, A K M Mohiuddin
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic emerged in 2019 and still requiring treatments with fast clinical translatability. Frequent occurrence of mutations in spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 led the consideration of an alternative therapeutic target to combat the ongoing pandemic. The main protease (Mpro) is such an attractive drug target due to its importance in maturating several polyproteins during the replication process. In the present study, we used a classification structure-activity relationship (CSAR) model to find substructures that leads to to anti-Mpro activities among 758 non-redundant compounds...
2023: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37256814/open-ust-an-open-source-ultrasound-tomography-transducer-array-system
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Morgan Roberts, Eleanor Martin, Michael D Brown, Ben T Cox, Bradley E Treeby
Fast imaging methods are needed to promote widespread clinical adoption of Ultrasound Tomography (UST), and more widely available UST hardware could support the experimental validation of new measurement configurations. In this work, an open-source 256-element transducer ring array was developed (morganjroberts.github.io/open-UST) and manufactured using rapid prototyping, for only £2k. Novel manufacturing techniques were used, resulting in a 1.17° mean beam axis skew angle, a 104 μm mean element position error, and a ±13...
May 31, 2023: IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37079609/ultrasound-assessment-of-abdominal-muscle-thickness-with-and-without-lumbopelvic-pain-in-pregnant-women
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rika Kawabe, Saori Morino, Mika Ishihara, Kanako Shimoura, Chiaki Yamashiro, Kaho Negoro, Chang Yu Chen, Masumi Koshi, Naoko Kato, Hiroko Hatanaka, Fumiko Umezaki, Mamoru Yamashita, Tomoki Aoyama, Momoko Nagai-Tanima
OBJECTIVES: Lumbopelvic pain (LPP) is a very common cause of discomfort during pregnancy, but its etiology remains unclear. The association between abdominal muscle thickness and LPP in pregnant women has not been studied extensively, despite the significant abdominal changes that occur during pregnancy. This study aimed to examine the relationship between abdominal muscle thickness and LPP in pregnant women. METHODS: In this study, 49 pregnant women in their second trimester participated...
April 20, 2023: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine: Official Journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37074459/finding-the-most-suitable-puncture-site-for-intraosseous-access-in-term-and-preterm-neonates-an-ultrasound-based-anatomical-pilot-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eva M Schwindt, Theresa Häcker, Reinhold Stockenhuber, Janina M Patsch, Sarah N Mehany, Angelika Berger, Jens C Schwindt
The purpose of this prospective ultrasound-based pilot study was to identify the most suitable tibial puncture site for intraosseous (IO) access in term and preterm neonates, describe tibial dimensions at this site, and provide anatomical landmarks for rapid localization. We measured the tibial dimensions and distances to anatomical landmarks at puncture sites A (proximal: 10 mm distal to the tibial tuberosity; distal: 10 mm proximal to the malleolus medialis) and B (chosen by palpation of the pediatrician), in 40 newborns in four weight groups (< 1000 g; 1000-2000 g, 2000-3000 g, and 3000-4000 g)...
April 19, 2023: European Journal of Pediatrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37044448/a-new-species-of-the-congrid-eel-genus-conger-anguilliformes-congridae-from-the-southwest-coast-of-india
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Paramasivam Kodeeswaran, David G Smith, Deepa Dhas D S, T T Ajith Kumar, Kuldeep Kumar Lal
A new species of Conger eel is described from a single specimen (569 mm total length) collected off Kanyakumari, Southwest coast of India, Arabian Sea. The following characters distinguish the new species from other congeners: dorsal-fin origin behind the pectoral-fin tip; head larger, 18.5% TL; longer predorsal length 24.0% TL; relatively shorter trunk, uniserial teeth at the posterior end of vomerine patch; body blackish to dark brown; pectoral fin completely darker; cephalic pores rim whitish; SO pores 3; IO pores 6; pectoral rays 19; total vertebrae 141+...
February 22, 2023: Zootaxa
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37039872/safe-femoral-tunnel-drilling-angles-avoid-injury-to-the-medial-and-posteromedial-femoral-anatomic-structures-during-single-bundle-posterior-cruciate-ligament-reconstruction-with-the-inside-out-technique
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jia Guo, Chao Qi, Dongfang Zhang, Guodong Yang, Chen Wang, Pu Yang, Bin Wang
PURPOSE: To investigate the relationship between the medial and posteromedial femoral anatomic structures and the femoral tunnel exit produced by different tunnel orientations when creating the femoral tunnel for posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (PCLR) using the inside-out (IO) technique and to estimate safe tunnel orientations to minimize the risk of iatrogenic injury to these structures. METHODS: Eleven cadaveric knees were used. The medial and posteromedial aspects of each knee joint were dissected to reveal the "safe zone," which is a bony area that avoids the distribution or attachment of at-risk structures (MCL, PMC structures, and articular cartilage), while remaining 10 mm away from the articular cartilage...
April 11, 2023: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36917998/a-quest-for-better-strategy-in-pediatric-intraosseous-placement-using-radiographic-measurements-in-patients-younger-than-2-years
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
SunHee Chung, Andrew Phelps, Daniela K I Chan
Intraosseous (IO) needles are used to obtain vascular access in pediatric patients during emergent situations. Recent literature has raised concern about high rates of IO malposition in younger children. Despite the widespread use of IO access in the pediatric population, there is scarce evidence regarding the ideal needle length or optimal access site. This study uses a radiographic approach to determine the appropriate IO needle length and access site to minimize the risk of malposition in children younger than 2 years...
March 15, 2023: Pediatric Emergency Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36907839/anatomical-reconstruction-of-extensive-inferomedial-blow-out-fractures-involving-the-inferomedial-orbital-strut-using-a-single-fan-shaped-titanium-reinforced-porous-polyethylene-plate
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Seong-Ho Jeong, Kyung-Chul Moon, Sik Namgoong, Eun-Sang Dhong, Seung-Kyu Han
Extensive inferomedial blow-out fractures involving the inferomedial orbit strut frequently result in severe ophthalmic complications. Therefore, anatomical reconstruction is essential but is still technically challenging. Thus, the authors have used a novel technique using a combination of single fan-shaped titanium-reinforced porous polyethylene (TR-PPE) implants and a bidirectionally extended transconjunctival approach. Herein, the authors describe our surgical technique and discuss its effectiveness. First, the transconjunctival approach was performed and was subsequently extended medially using the transcaruncular approach and laterally using lateral blepharotomy...
March 13, 2023: Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
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