13909 papers
This retrospective study demonstrates that Sheath-Assisted Limited Repair (SALR) is a safe, highly feasible, and minimally invasive technique for anatomically suitable iatrogenic femoral artery pseudoaneurysms, achieving 100% technical success and superior recovery outcomes compared to standard open repair.
This mixed-methods study in Fulton County, Georgia, reveals that while community-based drug checking is urgently needed to address the volatile drug supply, its implementation is significantly hindered by institutional mistrust, reliance on known drug sources, and the complexities of polysubstance use, indicating that legal reforms and testing tools alone are insufficient without addressing these social and contextual barriers.
This study demonstrates that pre-existing cross-reactive *Plasmodium vivax* antibodies are associated with reduced baseline *P. knowlesi* parasitaemia and slightly slower parasite clearance in Malaysian patients, suggesting a partial but complex role in influencing infection outcomes.
A retrospective study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Golestan Province, Iran, found that bacterial DNA from various respiratory pathogens was frequently detected via PCR in upper-airway specimens, with *Pseudomonas aeruginosa* specifically associated with severe disease, though the findings likely reflect bacterial colonization rather than active co-infection due to methodological limitations.
This prospective pilot study demonstrates that endoscopic intralesional platelet-rich plasma injection following balloon dilation for colonic Crohn's disease strictures is a technically feasible and safe procedure, although it did not significantly reduce restenosis rates at 3 weeks or 1 year.
This case report describes a 76-year-old male with pre-existing chronic kidney disease who experienced rapid, irreversible progression to end-stage renal disease due to collapsing focal segmental glomerulosclerosis following combination therapy with pembrolizumab and enfortumab vedotin, suggesting a novel synergistic mechanism of podocyte injury that warrants careful nephrology evaluation before treatment.
This study benchmarks 177 breast cancer polygenic risk scores in a hereditary breast and ovarian cancer cohort, demonstrating that top-performing scores converge on similar accuracy and variant composition, thereby offering a cost-effective tool to stratify risk for patients lacking monogenic findings and close a critical diagnostic gap.
This retrospective study demonstrates that a self-applied reduced frontal EEG montage achieves substantial agreement with conventional polysomnography for manual sleep stage and arousal scoring in adults with obstructive sleep apnea, offering a viable alternative for reliable sleep assessment when full PSG is impractical.
This nationwide cohort study of Polish pediatric patients reveals that while the incidence of invasive fungal disease is comparable between those undergoing anticancer therapy and hematopoietic cell transplantation, the latter group faces a nearly fourfold higher infection-related mortality rate, underscoring the urgent need for improved supportive care and prophylaxis.
This randomized clinical trial found that while adding tadalafil to tamsulosin did not significantly improve stone passage rates or time after shockwave lithotripsy, it did significantly reduce pain scores and the duration of hematuria with negligible additional side effects.