959 papers
In a retrospective cohort study of 236 patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty, both higher preoperative anxiety scores and the use of a tourniquet were independently associated with increased early postoperative pain, though anxiety did not modify the effect of tourniquet use on pain trajectories.
This retrospective cohort study of 248 sepsis patients found that while a combined inflammatory score based on procalcitonin, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, and monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio is independently associated with 28-day mortality, it offers only limited incremental prognostic value beyond established clinical indicators such as the APACHE II score, lactate, albumin, and sex.
This study demonstrates that CT-derived relative fat density (RFD), a sex-specific ratio of visceral to subcutaneous fat attenuation, is an independent predictor of metabolic abnormality in obese adults and offers superior risk stratification compared to conventional fat attenuation measures.
This paper presents a rare case report of a grade 2 well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor located in the jugular foramen treated with radiotherapy, while also reviewing existing literature on the diagnosis, management, and prognosis of these rare tumors in the head and neck region.
This retrospective cohort study of 606 upper limb surgery patients identified operator inexperience, liver disease, specific surgical sites, prolonged duration, delayed incision, and single-agent local anesthetic use as significant predictors of ultrasound-guided brachial plexus block failure, leading to the development of a clinical risk score with good discrimination to help identify high-risk patients.
This retrospective cohort study utilizing EOS imaging reveals that open-wedge distal tibial tuberosity osteotomy induces significant postoperative external rotation of the distal tibia, a change that is prevented by hinge fractures and shows a positive association with short-term symptom improvement despite lacking adverse effects on other clinical outcomes.
In a matched cohort of primary prostate cancer patients, 18F-flotufolastat-PET demonstrated significantly lower urinary bladder activity and fewer artifacts compared to 68Ga-PSMA-11-PET, resulting in superior tumor-to-bladder contrast and reduced interference with the detection of primary tumors near the bladder.
The paper introduces FalseResMem, a novel neural network that combines ResNet50 and AlexNet architectures to accurately predict image-level false alarm rates in visual recognition tasks, demonstrating robust generalization across diverse image categories.
This study demonstrates that the salt lake-derived fungus *Aspergillus foveolatus* FX effectively bioremediates copper-contaminated wastewater through a combination of growth-coupled biosorption mediated by surface functional groups and metabolic reprogramming involving upregulated detoxification pathways and suppressed siderophore biosynthesis.
This study demonstrates that performing goal-directed reaching tasks while walking on a treadmill in virtual reality significantly increases frontal-plane dynamic balance demands for stroke survivors, primarily driven by contributions from the trunk and reaching arm.