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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jocelyn To, Victoria J Horak, Donia Momen, Lekha Chirala, John Paul G Kolcun, Sandi Lam, Jeffrey Raskin
Introduction With crowd-sourced knowledge, patients arrive at their healthcare visits ready to play an active role. This exploratory study seeks to understand common concerns among patients and loved ones on Reddit, an anonymous internet forum. Ultimately, recognizing common concerns can aid providers in directing their conversations with patients. Methods Reddit posts in the "hot" tab of each subreddit were retroactively screened from September 1, 2022. Posts written within a five-year period were included...
March 2024: Curēus
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Motoki Yamataka, Satoshi Tsutsumi, Kasumi Inami, Natsuki Sugiyama, Hideaki Ueno, Masanori Ito, Hisato Ishii
A 43-year-old, previously healthy man experienced a decreased sensation in the left lower extremity without preceding spinal trauma. At presentation, the patient exhibited slight motor weakness in the left lower extremity, in addition to decreased pain sensation below the ipsilateral T7. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed abnormal findings consistent with idiopathic thoracic spinal cord herniation (ITSCH) at the T5/6 level. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a small vertebral erosion at the lower T5...
June 2024: Radiology Case Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deepak Nandkishore Sharma, Vamsi Krishna Yerramneni, Thirumal Yerragunta, Govind B Gaikwad, Vasundhara S Rangan, Sasank Akurati
OBJECTIVE: Hirayama disease is a rare cause of cervical myelopathy predominantly affecting young individuals. The disease is classically characterized by muscle atrophy in the distal upper limbs. While various etiopathogenesis such as dural sac dysplasia, nerve root dysplasia, structural abnormalities of the spinal ligament, and venous dysplasia have been proposed, this study explores the potential role of venous pathology and surgical management on the basis of it. METHODOLOGY: This is a prospective descriptive case series of nine cases...
2024: Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mirza Pojskić, Miriam Bopp, Benjamin Saß, Christopher Nimsky
BACKGROUND: Our study presents a single center experience in resection of intradural spinal tumors either with or without using intraoperative CT (iCT)-based registration and microscope-based augmented reality (AR). Microscope-based AR was recently described for improved orientation in the operative field in spine surgery, using superimposed images of segmented structures of interest in a two- (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) mode. MATERIALS AND METHODS: All patients who underwent surgery for resection of intradural spinal tumors at our department were retrospectively included in the study...
April 18, 2024: World Neurosurgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Danielle Rivera, James B Henderson, Athena W Lam, Nathan J Hostetter, Jaime A Collazo, Rayna C Bell
New World mabuyine skinks are a diverse radiation of morphologically cryptic lizards with unique reproductive biologies. Recent studies examining population-level data (morphological, ecological, and genomic) have uncovered novel biodiversity and phenotypes, including the description of dozens of new species and insights into the evolution of their highly complex placental structures. Beyond the potential for this diverse group to serve as a model for the evolution of viviparity in lizards, much of the taxonomic diversity is concentrated in regions experiencing increasing environmental instability from climate and anthropogenic change...
April 15, 2024: Genome Biology and Evolution
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Tadatsugu Morimoto, Takaomi Kobayashi, Hirohito Hirata, Masatsugu Tsukamoto, Tomohito Yoshihara, Yu Toda, Hayato Ito, Koji Otani, Masaaki Mawatari
INTRODUCTION: Perioperative cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) related to spine surgery, although rare, can lead to significant disabilities. More studies on spine surgeries are required to identify those at risk of perioperative CVAs. The characteristics and outcomes of patients that experienced CVAs during spine surgery were assessed through a retrospective descriptive study and meta-analysis. METHODS: Patients aged ≥18 years who underwent spine surgery under general anesthesia at a hospital between April 2011 and March 2023 were examined...
March 27, 2024: Spine surgery and related research
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Juliet Blakeslee-Carter, Zdenek Novak, Jan O Jansen, Andres Schanzer, Matthew J Eagleton, Mark A Farber, Warren Gasper, W Anthony Lee, Gustavo S Oderich, Carlos H Timaran, Darren B Schneider, Matthew P Sweet, Adam W Beck
BACKGROUND: Endovascular techniques have transformed the management of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAAAs). However, spinal cord ischemia (SCI) remains a prevalent and devastating complication. Prophylactic drainage of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is among the proposed strategies for prevention of SCI. Although prophylactic CSF drainage is widely used and conceptually attractive, prophylactic CSF drains have not been demonstrated to definitively prevent the occurrence nor mitigate the severity of SCI in endovascular TAAA repair...
April 6, 2024: Journal of Vascular Surgery
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Rupin Shah, Amarnath Rambhatla, Widi Atmoko, Marlon Martinez, Imad Ziouziou, Priyank Kothari, Nicholas Tadros, Nguyen Ho Vinh Phuoc, Parviz Kavoussi, Ahmed Harraz, Gianmaria Salvio, Murat Gul, Taha Hamoda, Tuncay Toprak, Ponco Birowo, Edmund Ko, Mohamed Arafa, Ramy Abou Ghayda, Vilvapathy Senguttuvan Karthikeyan, Ramadan Saleh, Giorgio Ivan Russo, Germar-Michael Pinggera, Eric Chung, Missy Savira, Giovanni M Colpi, Wael Zohdy, Edoardo Pescatori, Hyun Jun Park, Shinichiro Fukuhara, Akira Tsujimura, Cesar Rojas-Cruz, Angelo Marino, Siu King Mak, Edouard Amar, Wael Ibrahim, Puneet Sindhwani, Naif Alhathal, Gian Maria Busetto, Manaf Al Hashimi, Ahmed El-Sakka, Asci Ramazan, Fotios Dimitriadis, Massimiliano Timpano, Davor Jezek, Baris Altay, Daniel Suslik Zylbersztejn, Michael Yc Wong, Du Geon Moon, Christine Wyns, Safar Gamidov, Hamed Akhavizadegan, Alessandro Franceschelli, Kaan Aydos, Vinh Nguyen Quang, Shedeed Ashour, Adel Al Dayel, Mohamed S Al-Marhoon, Sava Micic, Saleh Binsaleh, Alayman Hussein, Haitham Elbardisi, Taymour Mostafa, Emad Taha, Jonathan Ramsay, Athanasios Zachariou, Islam Fathy Soliman Abdelrahman, Osvaldo Rajmil, Arif Kalkanli, Juan Manuel Corral Molina, Kadir Bocu, Gede Wirya Kusuma Duarsa, Gokhan Ceker, Ege Can Serefoglu, Fahmi Bahar, Nazim Gherabi, Shinnosuke Kuroda, Abderrazak Bouzouita, Ahmet Gudeloglu, Erman Ceyhan, Mohamed Saeed Mohamed Hasan, Muhammad Ujudud Musa, Ahmad Motawi, Cho Chak-Lam, Hisanori Taniguchi, Christopher Chee Kong Ho, Jesus Fernando Solorzano Vazquez, Shingai Mutambirwa, Nur Dokuzeylul Gungor, Marion Bendayan, Carlo Giulioni, Aykut Baser, Marco Falcone, Luca Boeri, Gideon Blecher, Alireza Kheradmand, Tamilselvi Sethupathy, Ricky Adriansjah, Nima Narimani, Charalampos Konstantinidis, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Andrian Japari, Parisa Dolati, Keerti Singh, Cevahir Ozer, Selcuk Sarikaya, Nadia Sheibak, Ndagijimana Jean Bosco, Mehmet Serkan Özkent, Sang Thanh Le, Ioannis Sokolakis, Darren Katz, Ryan Smith, Manh Nguyen Truong, Tan V Le, Zhongwei Huang, Muslim Dogan Deger, Umut Arslan, Gokhan Calik, Giorgio Franco, Ayman Rashed, Oguzhan Kahraman, Sotiris Andreadakis, Rosadi Putra, Giancarlo Balercia, Kareim Khalafalla, Rossella Cannarella, Anh Ðăng Tuân, Amr El Meliegy, Birute Zilaitiene, Marlene Lizbeth Zamora Ramirez, Filippo Giacone, Aldo E Calogero, Konstantinos Makarounis, Sunil Jindal, Bac Nguyen Hoai, Ravi Banthia, Marcelo Rodriguez Peña, Dharani Moorthy, Aram Adamyan, Deniz Kulaksiz, Hussein Kandil, Nikolaos Sofikitis, Ciro Salzano, Andreas Jungwirth, Surendra Reddy Banka, Tiago Cesar Mierzwa, Tahsin Turunç, Divyanu Jain, Armen Avoyan, Pietro Salacone, Ateş Kadıoğlu, Chirag Gupta, Haocheng Lin, Iman Shamohammadi, Nasser Mogharabian, Trenton Barrett, Yavuz Onur Danacıoğlu, Andrea Crafa, Salima Daoud, Vineet Malhotra, Abdulmalik Almardawi, Osama Mohamed Selim, Mohamad Moussa, Saeid Haghdani, Mesut Berkan Duran, Yannic Kunz, Mirko Preto, Elena Eugeni, Thang Nguyen, Ahmed Rashad Elshahid, Seso Sulijaya Suyono, Dyandra Parikesit, Essam Nada, Eduardo Gutiérrez Orozco, Florence Boitrelle, Nguyen Thi Minh Trang, Mounir Jamali, Raju Nair, Mikhail Ruzaev, Franco Gadda, Charalampos Thomas, Raphael Henrique Ferreira, Umit Gul, Serena Maruccia, Ajay Kanbur, Ella Kinzikeeva, Saad Abumelha, Nguyen Quang, Raghavender Kosgi, Fatih Gokalp, Mohammad Ayodhia Soebadi, Gustavo Marquesine Paul, Hesamoddin Sajadi, Deepak Gupte, Rafael F Ambar, Emrullah Sogutdelen, Karun Singla, Ari Basurkano, Shannon Hee Kyung Kim, Mohammad Ali Sadighi Gilani, Koichi Nagao, Sakti Ronggowardhana Brodjonegoro, Andri Rezano, Mohamed Elkhouly, Rossella Mazzilli, Hasan M A Farsi, Hung Nguyen Ba, Hamed Alali, Dimitrios Kafetzis, Tran Quang Tien Long, Sami Alsaid, Hoang Bao Ngoc Cuong, Knigavko Oleksandr, Akhmad Mustafa, Herik Acosta, Hrishikesh Pai, Bahadır Şahin, Eko Arianto, Colin Teo, Sanjay Prakash Jayaprakash, Rinaldo Indra Rachman, Mustafa Gurkan Yenice, Omar Sefrioui, Smit Paghdar, Shivam Priyadarshi, Marko Tanic, Noor Kareem Alfatlawy, Fikri Rizaldi, Ranjit B Vishwakarma, George Kanakis, Dinesh Thomas Cherian, Joe Lee, Raisa Galstyan, Hakan Keskin, Jana Wurzacher, Doddy Hami Seno, Bambang S Noegroho, Ria Margiana, Qaisar Javed, Fabrizio Castiglioni, Raman Tanwar, Ana Puigvert, Coşkun Kaya, Medianto Purnomo, Chadi Yazbeck, Azwar Amir, Edson Borges, Marina Bellavia, Isaac Ardianson Deswanto, Vinod K V, Giovanni Liguori, Dang Hoang Minh, Kashif Siddiqi, Fulvio Colombo, Armand Zini, Niket Patel, Selahittin Çayan, Ula Al-Kawaz, Maged Ragab, Charalampos Konstantinidis, Guadalupe Hernández Hebrard, Ivan Hoffmann, Ozan Efesoy, Barış Saylam, Ashok Agarwal
PURPOSE: Non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) represents the persistent absence of sperm in ejaculate without obstruction, stemming from diverse disease processes. This survey explores global practices in NOA diagnosis, comparing them with guidelines and offering expert recommendations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A 56-item questionnaire survey on NOA diagnosis and management was conducted globally from July to September 2022. This paper focuses on part 1, evaluating NOA diagnosis...
April 3, 2024: World Journal of Men's Health
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Kristina E Seehusen, Alan T Remaley, Maureen Sampson, Jeffrey W Meeusen, Nicholas B Larson, Paul A Decker, Jill M Killian, Paul Y Takahashi, Véronique L Roger, Sheila M Manemann, Reyna Lam, Suzette J Bielinski
BACKGROUND: Clinical risk scores are used to identify those at high risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Despite preventative efforts, residual risk remains for many individuals. Very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (VLDL-C) and lipid discordance could be contributors to the residual risk of ASCVD. METHODS AND RESULTS: Cardiovascular disease-free residents, aged ≥40 years, living in Olmsted County, Minnesota, were identified through the Rochester Epidemiology Project...
April 9, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association
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Daniel Wolfson, Julia Mueller, Bradley Hunt, Ryan Kelly, Jacob Mazza, Bledi Brahimaj, John E O'Toole, Harel Deutsch, Richard G Fessler, Ricardo B V Fontes
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Studies have demonstrated increased risk of adjacent segment disease (ASD) after open fusion with adjacent-level laminectomy, with rates ranging from 16-47%, potentially related to disruption of the posterior ligamentous complex. Minimally-invasive surgical (MIS) approaches may offer a more durable result. We report institutional outcomes of simultaneous MIS transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MISTLIF) and adjacent-level laminectomy for patients with low grade spondylolisthesis and adjacent spinal stenosis...
April 6, 2024: World Neurosurgery
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Jessica Gates, Andrew Hearn, Tom Mason, Mariana Fernandes, Linda Green, Louise Thomson, Cris Roxas, Jodie Lam, Grainne d'Ancona, Alexandra M Nanzer, Jaideep Dhariwal, David J Jackson
BACKGROUND: Dupilumab is an anti-IL4R monoclonal antibody (mAb) with proven efficacy in severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA). A suboptimal response to anti-IL5/5R mAbs is seen in some patients with ongoing evidence of T2 inflammation. OBJECTIVE: To understand whether targeting IL-13 pathways with dupilumab in these patients may lead to better clinical outcomes. METHODS: We performed a retrospective analysis of the extended clinical effectiveness of dupilumab up to 2 years of treatment in patients with SEA who had not responded adequately to anti-IL5/5R biologics...
April 5, 2024: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in Practice
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Lei Feng, Fei Teng, Na Li, Jia-Cheng Zhang, Bian-Jiang Zhang, Sau-Na Tsai, Xiu-Le Yue, Li-Fei Gu, Guang-Hua Meng, Tian-Quan Deng, Suk-Wah Tong, Chun-Ming Wang, Yan Li, Wei Shi, Yong-Lun Zeng, Yue-Ming Jiang, Weichang Yu, Sai-Ming Ngai, Li-Zhe An, Hon-Ming Lam, Jun-Xian He
Plants grown under extreme environments represent unique sources for stress-resistant genes and mechanisms. Ammopiptanthus mongolicus (Leguminosae) is a xerophytic legume shrub with evergreen broadleaves native to the semi-arid and desert regions, however, its drought tolerance mechanisms have not been well understood. Here, we report the assembly of a reference-grade genome, its evolutionary history within the legume family, and examination to its drought tolerance mechanisms. The assembled genome size was 843...
April 1, 2024: Plant communications
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Nurida Khasanah, Chih-Wei Peng, Jessica Jay Fang, M Nurhadi Rahman, Dedik Sulistiawan, Hung-Yen Chin
BACKGROUND: Managing chronic pelvic pain (CPP) remains a challenge due to its diverse range of causes. A newly identified anatomical entity known as the enthesis of the levator ani muscle (LAM) and its associated disorders might play a role. This paper describes a novel insight into CPP's origin, aiming to improve accurate diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: Data were collected from medical records (paper or electronic) retrospectively. The study included 112 patients meeting the criteria, divided into chronic pelvic pain (CPP) and non-CPP groups...
March 29, 2024: Journal of the Chinese Medical Association: JCMA
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Aladine A Elsamadicy, John Havlik, Benjamin C Reeves, Josiah J Z Sherman, Samuel Craft, Paul Serrato, Sumaiya Sayeed, Andrew B Koo, Syed I Khalid, Sheng-Fu Larry Lo, John H Shin, Ehud Mendel, Daniel M Sciubba
Background: Malnutrition is a common condition that may exacerbate many medical and surgical pathologies. However, few have studied the impact of malnutrition on surgical outcomes for patients undergoing surgery for metastatic disease of the spine. This study aims to evaluate the impact of malnutrition on perioperative complications and healthcare resource utilization following surgical treatment of spinal metastases. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the 2011-2019 American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database...
March 7, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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Meijun Chen, Wendy Wing Tak Lam, Jiehu Yuan, Meihong Dong, Lin Yang, Derwin King Chung Chan, Qiuyan Liao
Young adults in a transitional period may experience more stress and, hence, suffer from an increased risk of unhealthy eating. Executive function (EF) involves not only inhibitory control and mental flexibility (the 'cool' facet) to facilitate resistance to immediate temptations, but also affective decision making (the 'hot' facet) that helps to regulate emotional eating. The effects of different facets of EF and their interactions with perceived stress on eating behaviours remained underexplored. In this study, 594 young adults in their graduation year of post-secondary education were included...
March 27, 2024: Stress and Health: Journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress
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Divya Sabapathy, Kathleen Hosek, Fong W Lam, Moreshwar S Desai, Eric Williams, John Goss, Jean L Raphael, Michelle A Lopez
BACKGROUND & AIMS: Understanding the economics of pediatric liver transplantation (LT) is central to high-value care initiatives. We examined cost and resource utilization in pediatric LT nationally to identify drivers of cost and hospital factors associated with greater total cost of care. APPROACH & RESULTS: We reviewed 3295 children (<21 y) receiving a LT from 2010-2020 in the Pediatric Health Information System to study cost, both per LT and service-line, and associated mortality, complications and resource utilization...
March 27, 2024: Liver Transplantation
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Prabhat Jha, Patrick E Brown, Teresa Lam, Ed Morawski, Angus Reid
BACKGROUND: The extent to which the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 raised death rates in China during its viral wave of December 2022-January 2023 remains largely undocumented. METHODS: We worked with an established national survey organization to survey 8,004 adults in all 31 administrative areas of China to ask about deaths in families since January 2020. We examined age-specific death rates, focusing on deaths above age 60 years, and at 15-59 years. We compared these to the United Nations (UN) estimates of age-specific mortality in 2019...
May 2024: Preventive Medicine Reports
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Shannon E Scratch, Kylie D Mallory, Hiba Al-Hakeem, Andrew Lovell, Kim Moody, Brendan Lam, Lindsay Brazill, Patricia Knapp, Andrea Hickling
Move&Connect-Youth (M&C-Y) is an interdisciplinary virtual group intervention for youth experiencing persisting symptoms after concussion (PSAC) that includes psychoeducation, active rehabilitation, and goal-setting. Using an intervention mapping framework, this paper describes the iterative development of M&C-Y and findings from initial feasibility testing. Ten youth participated in M&C-Y completing pre-intervention demographic questionnaires and semi-structured exit interviews to understand participants' experience and gather feedback...
March 26, 2024: Developmental Neurorehabilitation
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Allen Ting Chun Lee, Yishan Luo, Zhaohua Huo, Lin Shi, Winnie Chiu Wing Chu, Linda Chiu Wa Lam
BACKGROUND: Having more cognitive activities may prevent dementia, but its evidence of modulating the functional brain network is limited. This randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigated the effect of increased cognitive activity participation on the default mode network (DMN) in older adults who had already been having regular cognitive activity participation and experiencing subjective cognitive decline (SCD). METHODS: Community-living Chinese individuals aged 55-75 years with regular practice of Chinese calligraphy and screened positive for SCD (but negative for mild cognitive impairment or dementia) were randomly allocated to either the intervention or control group...
March 25, 2024: EBioMedicine
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Yifei Zhao, Shiliang Liu, Hua Liu, Fangfang Wang, Yuhong Dong, Gang Wu, Yetong Li, Wanting Wang, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Weiqiang Li
In the context of the "United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration", optimizing spatiotemporal arrangements for ecological restoration is an important approach to enhancing overall socioecological benefits for sustainable development. However, against the background of ecological degradation caused by the human use of most natural resources at levels that have approached or exceeded the safe and sustainable boundaries of ecosystems, it is key to explain how to optimize ecological restoration by classified management and optimal total benefits...
March 25, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management
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