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Construction and Verification of a Predictive Model for the Progression of Aortic Valve Calcification

Global Heart
Background: The primary objective of this study is to develop and validate a predictive model assessing the likelihood of disease progression in individuals with aortic valve calcification (AVC).
Zhen Guo, Zhenyu Xiong, Chaoguang Xu, Jingjing He, Shaozhao Zhang, Rihua Huang, Menghui Liu, Jiaying Li, Xinxue Liao, Xiaodong Zhuang   +9 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Nicorandil in Preventing Contrast-Induced Nephropathy after Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Pooled Analysis of 1229 Patients

Journal of Interventional Cardiology, 2020
Background. Nicorandil in reducing contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) following elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is an inconsistent practice.
Bin Yi, Shaoyan Mo, Yumei Jiang, Dingwu Yi, Jinwen Luo, Xiang Chen, Jian Rong   +6 more
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Oxidative stress, protein glycation and nutrition – interactions relevant to health and disease throughout the lifecycle [PDF]

, 2014
Protein glycation has been studied for over a century now and plays an important role in disease pathogenesis throughout the lifecycle. Strongly related to diabetic complications, glycation of Hb has become the gold standard method for diabetes diagnosis
American Diabetes, Antonis Vlassopoulos, Bhagwat, El-Salem, Emilie Combet, Hao, Hodge, Khaw, Koenig, Maillard, Malickova, Michael E. J. Lean, Monnier, Nicholl, Rothwell, Schmidt, Sell, Vlassara   +17 more
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Conservation Improvement Projects through Soil & Water Conservation Districts [PDF]

, 1980
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Derickson, Eugene, Nolte, Byron H.
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Prognostic Outcomes and Risk Factors for Patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma and Venous Tumor Thrombus after Radical Nephrectomy and Thrombectomy: The Prognostic Significance of Venous Tumor Thrombus Level. [PDF]

, 2015
IntroductionTo evaluate the prognostic outcomes and risk factors for renal cell carcinoma (RCC) patients with venous tumor thrombus in China.Materials and methodsWe reviewed the clinical information of 169 patients who underwent radical nephrectomy and ...
He, Zhisong, Li, Xuesong, Meng, Maxwell, Song, Yi, Tang, Qi, Wang, Jin, Zhang, Qian, Zhou, Liqun   +7 more
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Plasma Soluble Human Elastin Fragments as an Intra-Aneurysmal Localized Biomarker for Ruptured Intracranial Aneurysm [PDF]

, 2018
Background—Fragmentation of the tunica media is a hallmark of intracranial aneurysm formation, often leading to aneurysmal progression and subsequent rupture.
Allan, Lauren, Hasan, David M., Hudson, Joseph, Ishii, Daizo, Jabbour, Pascal, Nakagawa, Daichi, Ortega-Gutierrez, Santiago, Samaniego, Edgar A., Teferi, Nahom, Zanaty, Mario   +9 more
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Species-specific differences in follicular antral sizes result from diffusion-based limitations on the thickness of the granulosa cell layer

, 2013
The size of mature oocytes is similar across mammalian species, yet the size of ovarian follicles increases with species size, with some ovarian follicles reaching diameters more than 1000-fold the size of the enclosed oocyte.
Bächler, M., De Geyter, Ch., Iber, D., Menshykau, D.   +3 more
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An Object-Oriented Approach to Knowledge Representation in a Biomedical Domain [PDF]

, 1994
An object-oriented approach has been applied to the different stages involved in developing a knowledge base about insulin metabolism. At an early stage the separation of terminological and assertional knowledge was made. The terminological component was
Ensing, M., Paton, R., Rada, R., Speel, P.H.W.M., Speel, P.H.W.M.   +4 more
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From Surfaces to Interfaces: Ambient Pressure XPS and Beyond [PDF]

, 2018
The rapidly increasing field of surfaces under ambient conditions of temperature, and pressure in gas and liquid environments, reflects the importance of understanding surface properties in conditions closer to practical situations. This has been enabled
Salmeron, M
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Towards High-quality Visualization of Superfluid Vortices

, 2017
Superfluidity is a special state of matter exhibiting macroscopic quantum phenomena and acting like a fluid with zero viscosity. In such a state, superfluid vortices exist as phase singularities of the model equation with unique distributions. This paper
Fu, Chi-Wing, Guo, Yulong, Liu, Xiaopei, Xiong, Chi, Xu, Xuemiao   +4 more
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