959 papers
This case report describes a 28-year-old male who suffered permanent blindness from a central retinal artery occlusion following minor facial trauma, highlighting the severity of this complication in young patients and the critical need for immediate assessment given the narrow therapeutic window for intervention.
This study highlights the critical lack of licensed vaccines for Bundibugyo ebolavirus compared to Zaire ebolavirus, emphasizing that despite improved case fatality rates, outbreak control remains hindered by biomedical gaps and socioeconomic challenges, thereby necessitating sustained global investment in vaccine development and strengthened public health preparedness.
The "STRAT-CIN Trial" is a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial protocol designed to evaluate whether a simplified risk-stratified triage algorithm using clinical and demographic factors is as effective as standard cytology for detecting high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN2+) among women with non-HPV16/18 high-risk HPV infections in a resource-constrained Nigerian setting.
This retrospective study demonstrates that combining serum gastrin-17 and triglyceride levels improves the screening performance for colorectal polyps compared to individual markers, while carbohydrate antigens CA19-9 and CA50 show potential utility in distinguishing adenomatous from non-adenomatous polyps.
This pilot randomized controlled trial demonstrates that AI-generated feedback is a feasible and acceptable alternative to expert panel feedback for medical ethics education, showing comparable or potentially superior preliminary outcomes despite baseline imbalances and the need for larger confirmatory studies.
This study demonstrates that combining plasma long-fragment cfDNA concentration with CT imaging markers significantly improves the diagnostic accuracy for distinguishing malignant pulmonary nodules from benign ones, offering a promising multimodal approach for early lung cancer detection.
This retrospective autopsy study of 916 ischemic stroke patients reveals that while the introduction of reperfusion therapies significantly reduced thromboembolic complications, it was associated with a marked increase in hemorrhagic transformation, particularly among thrombolyzed patients.
This retrospective study demonstrates that the novel Dual-Bridge technique significantly improves surgical efficiency and reduces intraoperative blood loss during laparoscopic radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer by simplifying ureteral tunnel dissection, while maintaining safety comparable to conventional methods.
This retrospective case series demonstrates that in unilateral congenital cataracts associated with posterior capsular abnormalities treated after infancy, a larger lens opacity area is significantly correlated with poorer visual acuity, loss of stereopsis, and greater thinning of the central inner retinal layers.
This study proposes a low-cost, objective framework for assessing elderly women's differentiated care needs in Guilin by leveraging routine breast and cervical cancer screening data, revealing that while combined screening indicators effectively identify high-risk groups, the critically low participation of the oldest-old population necessitates improved service accessibility rather than reliance on limited risk data.