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Pruritus Is an Indicator for Quality of Life in Cutaneous T‐Cell Lymphoma
ABSTRACT In cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma (CTCL), chronic pruritus affects up to 94% of patients as a leading factor reducing quality of life (QoL). Traditional antipruritic medication does not show sufficient relief. Partly due to a lack of therapeutic options, pruritus is rarely assessed in a standardized manner within routine clinical practice.
Andrea Roggo+3 more
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Abstract Introduction Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective treatment for refractory obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Neuropsychological assessment contributes to DBS treatment in several ways: it monitors the cognitive safety of the treatment, identifies beneficial or detrimental cognitive side effects and it could aid to explain ...
Tim A. M. Bouwens van der Vlis+7 more
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BACKGROUND There is currently no reliable treatment for phantom limb pain (PLP). Chronic PLP and associated cortical abnormalities may be maintained from abnormal peripheral input, raising the possibility that a continuous peripheral nerve block (CPNB ...
B. Ilfeld+9 more
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Functional bowel disease : a challenging frontier in gastroenterology [PDF]
The last 30 years have seen incredible advances in the science and practice of gastroenterology and hepatology. In the 1970s, the fiberoptic endoscopic revolution facilitated the visualization of the mucosa of a large segment of the gastrointestinal ...
Camilleri, Michael
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Pain sensitivity: an unnatural history from 1800 to 1965 [PDF]
Who was truly capable of experiencing pain? In this article, I explore ideas about the distribution of bodily sensitivity in patients from the early nineteenth century to 1965 in Anglo-American societies.
Bourke, Joanna
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ABSTRACT Dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB) patients have pathogenic variants in COL7A1, leading to skin fragility, blistering, and scarring. Beremagene geperpavec‐svdt (B‐VEC) is a replication‐defective herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV‐1)‐based gene therapy vector administered topically to deliver functional COL7A1 to DEB wounds.
Ken Natsuga+12 more
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Relief of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome by spinal cord stimulation
Interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome is a chronic, visceral pain syndrome that affects one in every twenty women. Sacral roots stimulation is successfully used to mitigate pain and urinary symptoms when non surgical treatments are ineffective.
Nazih Moufarrij, Miranda Huebner
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Computation of atomic astrophysical opacities
The revision of the standard Los Alamos opacities in the 1980-1990s by a group from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (OPAL) and the Opacity Project (OP) consortium was an early example of collaborative big-data science, leading to reliable data
Mendoza, Claudio
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How the political elite make decisions
Abstract The political elite make policy decisions in noisy environments and under time pressure, and so are prone to using heuristics. There are conflicting schools of thought as to whether it is appropriate for them to do so. Experienced decision‐makers are thought to be more effective at using heuristics, so it is possible that for the political ...
Conor Wynn, Liam Smith, Catherine Killen
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