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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38180355/the-genetic-etiologies-of-bilateral-renal-agenesis
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REVIEW
Gregory W Kirschen, Karin Blakemore, Huda B Al-Kouatly, Gila Fridkis, Ahmet Baschat, John Gearhart, Angie C Jelin
OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to review and analyze the medical literature for cases of prenatal and/or postnatally diagnosed bilateral renal agenesis (BRA) and create a comprehensive summary of the genetic etiologies known to be associated with this condition. METHODS: A literature search was conducted as a scoping review employing Online Mendeliain Inheritance in Man, PubMed, and Cochrane to identify cases of BRA with known underlying genetic (chromosomal vs...
February 2024: Prenatal Diagnosis
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38166302/patient-and-plastic-surgeon-agreement-on-bra-cup-size
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sharon Ann Van Wicklin
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 2024: Plast Aesthet Nurs (Phila)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38133465/cross-cultural-adaptation-of-the-digital-health-literacy-instrument-dhli-for-use-on-brazilian-adolescents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mariane Carolina Faria Barbosa, Ana Luiza Peres Baldiotti, Náyra Santos Braga, Camila Takáo Lopes, Saul Martins Paiva, Ana Flávia Granville-Garcia, Fernanda de Morais Ferreira
The present study aimed to perform the cross-cultural adaptation of the Digital Health Literacy Instrument (DHLI) for native Brazilian Portuguese-speaking adolescents (DHLI-BrA). Cross-cultural adaptation consisted of the following steps: translation, assessment, and adjustments by the expert committee to ensure cultural equivalence; back-translation, and synthesis of back-translations. Cognitive testing was then performed in a pretest with adolescents using cognitive interviews with probing questions on the item's understanding interpretation and response options...
2023: Brazilian Dental Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38114077/main-factors-influencing-patient-satisfaction-after-primary-breast-augmentation-a-prospective-study-based-on-patient-reported-outcome-measures
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Giovanni Francesco Marangi, Luca Savani, Marco Gratteri, Lucrezia Arcari, Francesco Segreto, Barbara Cagli, Annalisa Cogliandro, Raffaella Vega, Carlo Mirra, Paolo Persichetti
BACKGROUND: Primary breast augmentation is one of the most sought-after procedures in cosmetic surgery. It is generally related to a high degree of patient satisfaction, but it is not always obvious which factors have greater influence on patient satisfaction. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate how anthropometric, psychological and social parameters, in association with the main surgical variables, influenced patients' satisfaction with their breasts after surgery...
December 19, 2023: Aesthetic Surgery Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38101401/the-emergence-of-human-gastrulation-upon-in%C3%A2-vitro-attachment
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Riccardo De Santis, Eleni Rice, Gist Croft, Min Yang, Edwin A Rosado-Olivieri, Ali H Brivanlou
While studied extensively in model systems, human gastrulation remains obscure. The scarcity of fetal biological material as well as ethical considerations limit our understanding of this process. In vitro attachment of natural blastocysts shed light on aspects of the second week of human development in the absence of the morphological manifestation of gastrulation. Stem cell-derived blastocyst models, blastoids, provide the opportunity to reconstitute pre- to post-implantation development in vitro...
December 6, 2023: Stem Cell Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38090698/cariprazine-augmentation-in-patients-with-treatment-resistant-unipolar-depression-who-failed-to-respond-to-previous-atypical-antipsychotic-add-on-a-case-series
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Enrico Pessina, Azzurra Martini, Fabiola Raffone, Vassilis Martiadis
Among individuals receiving an adequate pharmacological treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), only 30% reach a full symptom recovery; the remaining 70% will experience either a pharmacological response without remission or no response at all thus configuring treatment resistant depression (TRD). After an inadequate response to an antidepressant, possible next step options include optimizing the dose of the current antidepressant, switching to a different antidepressant, combining antidepressants, or augmenting with a non-antidepressant medication...
2023: Frontiers in Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38090666/covid-19-vaccination-among-diverse-population-groups-in-the-northern-governorates-of-iraq
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Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Falah Wadi, Khalid Anwar Hama-Ghareeb, Fatah H Fatah, Mostafa Hosseini, Karzan Rafiq Wale, David Hipgrave, Sazan Raouf Ali, Shaho Osman Mahmood, Waleed Ezzat Khadium, Hayman Hasan Mohammed, Sara Feal Jaafer, Najeeb Mohammed Al Saadi, Kardar Anwar Mohammed, Shireen Salih Saeed, Mohammad Yousif Mohammad, Waleed Hamid Khudhur, Mohammed Wael Saleh, Yousra Saadi Sheat, Khaldoon Khaleel Ibrahim, Marwa Nabeil Salah, Abdulmonem Hazim Abdullah, Dashne Shamall Omer, Rafeeq Naseraldeen Ghafur, Kashma Ali Mustafa, Aryan Othman Faraj, Trifa Bhjat Ali, Kamal Aziz Enayat, Ronak Assi Wahab, Ibrahim Ahmed Ali Al-Jaf, Nazanin Hama Hama Amin, Dina Dlshad Jaff, Aram Mohammed Bra, Shwan Kanabi Ahmed, Banaz Nabi Rasool, Fatimah Khalis Jamal, Tango Dhahir Mohammed, Maryam Arab Azeez
Objectives: The present study was carried out to investigate COVID-19 vaccination coverage among populations of internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees, and host communities in northern Iraq and the related underlying factors. Methods: Through a cross-sectional study conducted in five governorates in April-May 2022, 4,564 individuals were surveyed. Data were collected through an adapted questionnaire designed to gather data on participants. Results: 4,564 subjects were included (59.55% were 19-45 years old; 54...
2023: International Journal of Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38075858/a-toolbox-of-machine-learning-software-to-support-microbiome-analysis
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Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano, Víctor Manuel López-Molina, Burcu Bakir-Gungor, Marcus Frohme, Kanita Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Thomas Klammsteiner, Eliana Ibrahimi, Leo Lahti, Tatjana Loncar-Turukalo, Xhilda Dhamo, Andrea Simeon, Alina Nechyporenko, Gianvito Pio, Piotr Przymus, Alexia Sampri, Vladimir Trajkovik, Blanca Lacruz-Pleguezuelos, Oliver Aasmets, Ricardo Araujo, Ioannis Anagnostopoulos, Önder Aydemir, Magali Berland, M Luz Calle, Michelangelo Ceci, Hatice Duman, Aycan Gündoğdu, Aki S Havulinna, Kardokh Hama Najib Kaka Bra, Eglantina Kalluci, Sercan Karav, Daniel Lode, Marta B Lopes, Patrick May, Bram Nap, Miroslava Nedyalkova, Inês Paciência, Lejla Pasic, Meritxell Pujolassos, Rajesh Shigdel, Antonio Susín, Ines Thiele, Ciprian-Octavian Truică, Paul Wilmes, Ercument Yilmaz, Malik Yousef, Marcus Joakim Claesson, Jaak Truu, Enrique Carrillo de Santa Pau
The human microbiome has become an area of intense research due to its potential impact on human health. However, the analysis and interpretation of this data have proven to be challenging due to its complexity and high dimensionality. Machine learning (ML) algorithms can process vast amounts of data to uncover informative patterns and relationships within the data, even with limited prior knowledge. Therefore, there has been a rapid growth in the development of software specifically designed for the analysis and interpretation of microbiome data using ML techniques...
2023: Frontiers in Microbiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38073368/conventional-standard-sized-bra-with-prosthesis-or-patient-s-bra-with-customized-hand-knitted-external-prosthesis-after-mastectomy-mixed-methods-evaluation-of%C3%A2-patients-preferences
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ruey Pyng Ng, John C Allen, Yen-Yen Chia, Geok Hoon Lim
INTRODUCTION: In breast cancer patients undergoing mastectomy without reconstruction, an external breast prosthesis could aid patients' recovery, improve body image and confidence by helping to regain a symmetrical chest appearance when dressed. However, external breast prosthesis preferences among Asian breast cancer patients were not widely studied. We aimed to compare patients' experience with the conventional commercially manufactured standard-sized (small, medium, large, extra-large) bra and prosthesis versus customized hand-knitted external breast prosthesis with patient's bra after unilateral mastectomy at a tertiary hospital...
2023: Breast Disease
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38072481/methodological-guidelines-and-publications-of-benefit-risk-assessment-for-health-technology-assessment-a-scoping-review-protocol
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bruna De Oliveira Ascef, Franciele Cordeiro Gabriel, Erica Aranha Suzumura, Fernando Henrique de Albuquerque Maia, Aline Frossard Ribeiro Bortoluzzi, Natalia Santos Farias, Beate Jahn, Uwe Siebert, Patricia Coelho De Soarez
BACKGROUND: Benefit-risk assessment (BRA) is used in multiple phases along the health technology's life-cycle to evaluate the balance between the benefits and risks, as it is fundamental to all stakeholders. BRA and its methodological approaches have been applied primarily in the context of regulatory agencies. However, BRA's application and extent in the context of health technology assessment (HTA) bodies remain less clear. Our goal is to perform a scoping review to identify and map methodological guidelines and publications on methods of BRA...
December 10, 2023: BMJ Open
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38031084/common-myths-and-misconceptions-about-breast-cancer-causation-among-palestinian-women-a-national-cross-sectional-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mohamedraed Elshami, Islam Osama Ismail, Mohammed Alser, Ibrahim Al-Slaibi, Roba Jamal Ghithan, Faten Darwish Usrof, Malak Ayman Mousa Qawasmi, Heba Mahmoud Okshiya, Nouran Ramzi Shaban Shurrab, Ibtisam Ismail Mahfouz, Aseel AbdulQader Fannon, Mona Radi Mohammad Hawa, Narmeen Giacaman, Manar Ahmaro, Rula Khader Zaatreh, Wafa Aqel AbuKhalil, Noor Khairi Melhim, Ruba Jamal Madbouh, Hala Jamal Abu Hziema, Raghad Abed-Allateef Lahlooh, Sara Nawaf Ubaiat, Nour Ali Jaffal, Reem Khaled Alawna, Salsabeel Naeem Abed, Bessan Nimer Ali Abuzahra, Aya Jawad Abu Kwaik, Mays Hafez Dodin, Raghad Othman Taha, Dina Mohammed Alashqar, Roaa Abd-Al-Fattah Mobarak, Tasneem Smerat, Shurouq I Albarqi, Nasser Abu-El-Noor, Bettina Bottcher
BACKGROUND: The discussion about breast cancer (BC) causation continues to be surrounded by a number of myths and misbeliefs. If efforts are misdirected towards reducing risk from false mythical causes, individuals might be less likely to consider and adopt risk-reducing behaviors for evidence-based BC causes. This national study aimed to assess the awareness of BC causation myths and misbeliefs among Palestinian women, and examine the factors associated with having good awareness. METHODS: This national cross-sectional study recruited adult women from government hospitals, primary healthcare centers, and public spaces in 11 governorates in Palestine...
November 29, 2023: BMC Public Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38000051/six-steps-for-a-successful-aesthetic-free-flap-reconstruction-shaping-after-minimally-invasive-mastectomy-a-retrospective-case-control-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Allen Wei-Jiat Wong, Wen-Ling Kuo, David Chon-Fok Cheong, Hsiu-Pei Tsai, Shu-Wei Kao, Chia-Fang Chen, Jung-Ju Huang
OBJECTIVE: Breast cancer treatment has evolved to the modern skin-sparing mastectomy (SSM) and nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM). To better perform these surgeries, minimally invasive techniques using the endoscope, or Da Vinci Robotic Surgery platform have been developed. The deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is the gold standard in breast reconstruction, but it is still not commonly performed after minimally invasive mastectomy due technical difficulty. Here we introduced six key steps to a successful aesthetic autologous free flap reconstruction in in minimally invasive mastectomies...
November 23, 2023: International Journal of Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37982480/separation-of-metric-in-wick-s-theorem
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrey M Tokmachev
In quantum chemistry, Wick's theorem is an important tool to reduce products of fermionic creation and annihilation operators. It is especially useful in computations employing reference states. The original theorem has been generalized to tackle multiconfigurational wave functions or nonorthogonal orbitals. One particular issue of the resulting structure is that the metric and density matrices are intertwined despite their different origin. Here, an alternative, rather general tensorial formulation of Wick's theorem is proposed...
November 21, 2023: Journal of Chemical Physics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37974899/antiviral-evaluation-of-1-4-disubstituted-1-2-3-triazole-derivatives-against-chikungunya-virus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vitor Won-Held Rabelo, Verônica Diniz da Silva, Maria Leonisa Sanchez Nuñez, Leonardo Dos Santos Corrêa Amorim, Camilla Djenne Buarque, Richard J Kuhn, Paula Alvarez Abreu, Izabel Christina Nunes de Palmer Paixão
AIM: This work aimed to investigate the antiviral activity of two 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole derivatives ( 1 and 2 ) against Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) replication. MATERIALS & METHODS: Cytotoxicity was analyzed using colorimetric assays and the antiviral potential was evaluated using plaque assays and computational tools. RESULTS: Compound 2 showed antiviral activity against CHIKV 181-25 in BHK-21 and Vero cells. Also, this compound presented a higher activity against CHIKV BRA/RJ/18 in Vero cells, like compound 1...
September 2023: Future Virology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37957977/comparing-three-wearable-brassiere-braces-designed-to-correct-rounded-posture
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ji-Hyun Lee, A-Reum Shin, Heon-Seock Cynn
Rounded shoulder posture (RSP) causes shoulder pain and can lead to shoulder impingement and thoracic outlet syndromes, ultimately resulting in a frozen shoulder. Altered scapular positions in RSP patients affect muscle activity. Many studies have explored methods to correct and prevent RSP, including shoulder braces, muscle strengthening, stretching, and inhibition techniques. Using a shoulder brace reduces RSP and improves shoulder discomfort and function, similar to conventional rehabilitation. However, despite their effectiveness, these braces are bulky and inconvenient, which makes continuous daily wear challenging...
October 27, 2023: Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37945068/spiral-flap-breast-reshaping-with-transverse-upper-body-lift-or-j-torsoplasty
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REVIEW
Dennis J Hurwitz, Dani Kruchevsky
This article presents our evolved surgical approach to upper body, breasts, and arms after massive weight loss, which frequently complements lower body oblique flankplasty with lipoabdominoplasty. Deflated breasts need to be lifted, augmented, and securely shaped. Surrounded by chest and back skin rolls, the breast footplate usually descends. From this neighboring epigastric and lateral thoracic excess skin, spiraled deepithelialized skin flaps reshape and raise the breasts. Except in cases of severe skin laxity, the transverse bra line approach has been replaced by J torsoplasty for improved esthetics...
January 2024: Clinics in Plastic Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37937827/bus-bra-a-breast-ultrasound-dataset-for-assessing-computer-aided-diagnosis-systems
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wilfrido Gómez-Flores, Maria Julia Gregorio-Calas, Wagner Coelho de Albuquerque Pereira
PURPOSE: Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems on breast ultrasound (BUS) aim to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of breast screening, helping specialists to detect and classify breast lesions. CAD system development requires a set of annotated images, including lesion segmentation, biopsy results to specify benign and malignant cases, and BI-RADS categories to indicate the likelihood of malignancy. Besides, standardized partitions of training, validation, and test sets promote reproducibility and fair comparisons between different approaches...
November 8, 2023: Medical Physics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37935006/octahedral-tantalum-bromide-clusters-as-catalysts-for-light-driven-hydrogen-evolution
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jhon Sebastián Hernández, Daniela Guevara, Maxim Shamshurin, Enrico Benassi, Maxim N Sokolov, Marta Feliz
The development of an efficient hydrogen generation strategy from aqueous protons using sunlight is a current challenge aimed at the production of low-cost, easily accessible, renewable molecular hydrogen. For achieving this goal, non-noble metal containing and highly active catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) are desirable. Octahedral tantalum halide clusters {Ta6 (μ-X)12 }2+ (X = halogen) represent an emerging class of such HER photocatalysts. In this work, the photocatalytic properties of octahedral aqua tantalum bromide clusters toward HER and in acid and homogeneous aqueous conditions were investigated...
November 7, 2023: Inorganic Chemistry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37917960/increasing-breast-support-is-associated-with-a-distal-to-proximal-redistribution-of-joint-negative-work-during-a-double-limb-landing-task
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hailey B Fong, Alexis K Nelson, Deirdre McGhee, Kevin R Ford, Douglas W Powell
Female athletes exhibit greater rates of anterior cruciate ligament injury compared with male athletes. Biomechanical factors are suggested to contribute to sex differences in injury rates. No previous investigation has evaluated the role of breast support on landing biomechanics. This study investigates the effect of breast support on joint negative work and joint contributions to total negative work during landing. Thirty-five female athletes performed 5 landing trials in 3 breast support conditions. Lower-extremity joint negative work and relative joint contributions to total negative work were calculated...
October 10, 2023: Journal of Applied Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37866928/evaluating-total-atherosclerosis-burden-of-baroreceptor-resident-arteries-after-ischemic-cerebrovascular-disease-for-identifying-patients-with-heavy-coronary-atherosclerosis-burden
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Qi Kong, Xin Ma, Luguang Li, Chen Wang, Xiangying Du, Yungao Wan
AIM: The carotid sinuses and aortic arch are baroreceptor-resident arteries (BRAs) and atherosclerosis-susceptible sites of brain-supplying arteries, which would impair baroreflex-mediated blood pressure (BP) regulation and prompt coronary atherosclerosis. We sought to determine the relationship between total atherosclerosis burden (TAB) of BRAs and coronary atherosclerosis burden (AB) in patients with ischemic cerebrovascular disease (ICVD) and explore the potential contribution of BP profiles to this relationship...
October 21, 2023: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
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