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Delayed Diagnosis of Pulmonary Thromboembolism Due to Overfocus on COVID-19

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made it difficult for physicians to follow their usual diagnostic processes. We present the case of a 25-year-old man with adjustment disorder who developed dyspnoea.
Yukinori Harada, Taro Shimizu
doaj   +1 more source

Intercostal Retraction With Pleural Effusion

open access: yesAnnals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases, 2022
An 80-year-old man presented to our hospital with a cough for 2 weeks and a 2-day history of fever. On physical examination, a localized intercostal retraction was observed in his right lower thorax.
Tetsu Sakamoto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Changes of Hidden Food: Spatial Pattern Learning in Two Macaw Species

open access: yesBirds, 2021
Food availability may vary spatially and temporally within an environment. Efficiency in locating alternative food sources using spatial information (e.g., distribution patterns) may vary according to a species’ diet and habitat specialisation ...
Pizza Ka Yee Chow   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent anemia due to mucosal prolapse syndrome

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Mucosal prolapse syndrome is a rare group of benign disorders mainly in the rectum. It often causes rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, and anaemia. We report a case of severe anaemia due to mucosal prolapse syndrome requiring blood transfusion.
Tetsu Sakamoto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Direct and indirect effect of cannibalism and intraguild predation in the two sibling Harmonia ladybird beetles

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2020
In this study, we focused on the direct (i.e., predation) and indirect (i.e., potential threat from coexisting with a larger individual) effects of cannibalism and intraguild predation (IGP) during larval stages of two sibling ladybird beetles.
Arash Rasekh, Naoya Osawa
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnostic performance of generative artificial intelligences for a series of complex case reports

open access: yesDigital Health
Background Diagnostic performance of generative artificial intelligences (AIs) using large language models (LLMs) across comprehensive medical specialties is still unknown. Objective We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of generative AIs using
Takanobu Hirosawa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

High Health Care Utilization Preceding Diagnosis With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Although early diagnosis improves long‐term outcomes, patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) often experience prolonged, circuitous paths to diagnosis. To inform diagnostic improvement, we sought to characterize health care utilization in the year preceding diagnosis. Methods We identified 10,021 patients with an incident diagnosis
Anna Costello   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Annual survival rate of tropical stingless bee colonies (Meliponini): variation among habitats at the landscape scale in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

open access: yesSociobiology, 2021
Stingless social bees live in perennial colonies whose longevity is influenced by various ecological factors. This study analyzed the influence of habitat anthropization and native forest regeneration stage on the longevity of natural colonies at the ...
Marília Dantas e Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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