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Establishing an Apheresis Medicine Program in a Resource‐Constrained Setting: A 5‐Year Experience From Lagos, Nigeria

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Establishing a comprehensive apheresis medicine program in a resource‐constrained setting presents significant structural, financial, and logistical challenges. Despite the growing clinical importance of apheresis services globally, published experience from sub‐Saharan Africa remains sparse.
Folasade Adelekan‐Popoola, Shakirat Gold‐Olufadi, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Abdullateef Ogala, Rasheed A. Balogun   +4 more
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Safety of Daprodustat for the Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease Anemia: Final Analysis of a Multicenter Postmarketing Surveillance Study in Japan

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction This final analysis of a multicenter, prospective postmarketing surveillance study evaluated the safety of daprodustat in patients with chronic kidney disease anemia in routine clinical practice in Japan. Methods Patients who initiated daprodustat between September 2020 and July 2022 were registered.
Tadao Akizawa, Kyomi Kanaya, Kiyomi Aizawa, Masanori Onoki, Hirofumi Ozeki, Kazuko Suzuki, Ai Hayashi, Tomohiko Asamura   +7 more
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Association of severe obesity with risk of conversion to open in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis

Surgery Open Science
Background: Obesity is a known risk factor for cholecystitis and is associated with technical complications during laparoscopic procedures. The present study seeks to assess the association between obesity class and conversion to open (CTO) during ...
Troy N. Coaston, BS, Amulya Vadlakonda, BS, Joanna Curry, BA, Saad Mallick, MD, Nguyen K. Le, MS, Corynn Branche, Nam Yong Cho, BS, Peyman Benharash, MD MS   +7 more
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Risk Factors Associated with Conversion of Laparoscopic to Open Cholecystectomy [PDF]

, 2023
: Background: Gallstones disease is one of the major problem of gastro intestinal tract and surgical removal is usually advised. Surgery is usually laparoscopic but if the dissection is tedious, laparoscopic procedure can be converted into open procedure.
Rivzi, Syed Baquer, Jaffer, Shabina, Moosa, Hira, Naeem, Mohammad, Bhatti, Irtiza Ahmed, Qureshi, Shamim, Kumar, Dileep   +6 more
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CONVERSION OF LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY TO OPEN CHOLECYSTECTOMY: PREOPERATIVE RISK FACTORS AND INTRAOPERATIVE REASONS

Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020
Objective: To identify the frequency, associated risk factors and intraoperative reasons for conversion of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy to open Cholecystectomy. Study Design: Case series study.
Umairah Yaqub, Sadaf Zohra, Syed Mukarram Hussain, Ambreen Ehsan, Ayesha Imran, Sohail Ilyas   +5 more
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Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin, Berrak Itır Aylı, Nüket Paksoy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversion from Laparoscopic to Open Cholecystectomy [PDF]

, 2014
Introductions: With the advent of newer technology, the era of open surgery for gall bladder diseases has been preferably taken over by laparoscopic cholecystectomy. However, certain cases still require conversion to open surgery.
Shah, Jay N, Shah, Surendra, Jaiswal, Vijaya Kumar, Shrestha, Samir, Poudyal, Sanjay   +4 more
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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi, Pilar Samperio Ventayol, Natalie Burkard, Nicolas Schlegel, Carmen Aguilar, Sina Bartfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal Open-Domain Conversations with the Nao Robot [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper we discuss the design of human-robot interaction focussing especially on social robot communication and multimodal information presentation. As a starting point we use the WikiTalk application, an open-domain conversational system which has been previously developed using a robotics simulator.
Kristiina Jokinen, Graham Wilcock
openaire   +1 more source