Healthy Nails versus Long Lives: An Analysis of a Dutch Priority Setting Proposal [PDF]
, 2020 How should governments balance saving people from very large individual disease burdens (such as an early death) against saving them from middling burdens (such as erectile dysfunction) and minor burdens (such as nail fungus)? This chapter considers this
Voorhoeve, Alex
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How to allocate scarce health resources without discriminating against people with disabilities [PDF]
, 2016 One widely used method for allocating health care resources involves the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to rank treatments in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained.
John, Tyler M. +2 more
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Novel VAC14 Variants Identified in a Patient with Striatonigral Degeneration and Prolonged Survival
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Silvestre Cuinat +6 more
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Surgery in patients aged ≥ 80 years: mortality and recovery in a nationwide cohort study*
Anaesthesia, EarlyView.Summary Introduction As the global population ages, the demand for surgical interventions in older adults is rising. Older patients face increased risks due to age‐related physiological changes and comorbidities, making surgery and postoperative care challenging.
Jesper Eriksson +5 more
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The novel de novo mutation of KIF1A gene as the cause for Spastic paraplegia 30 in a Japanese case
eNeurologicalSci, 2019 Spastic paraplegia 30 is a recently established autosomal recessive disease characterized by a complex form of spastic paraplegia associated with neuropathy.
Keisuke Yoshikawa +11 more
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Early feasibility of an embedded bi-directional brain-computer interface for ambulation [PDF]
Current treatments for paraplegia induced by spinal cord injury (SCI) are often limited by the severity of the injury. The accompanying loss of sensory and motor functions often results in reliance on wheelchairs, which in turn causes reduced quality of life and increased risk of co-morbidities.
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Spinal cystic echinococcosis - a systematic analysis and review of the literature : part 2. treatment, follow-up and outcome [PDF]
, 2013 Bone involvement in human cystic echinococcosis (CE) is rare, but affects the spine in approximately 50% of cases. Despite significant advances in diagnostic imaging techniques, surgical treatment and introduction of pharmacological therapy, spinal ...
Blum, Johannes +4 more
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Artificial Organs, EarlyView.Nociceptive withdrawal reflex elicited by electrical stimulation via one pair of stimulation electrodes. • Activating leg flexor muscles via reflex‐based circuits can be used to facilitate locomotion and support gait rehabilitation. • Three studies were included in this review, two of these in meta‐analyses.
Carmen Krewer +3 more
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Paraparesis secondary to erratic migration of Dioctophyma renale in a dog
Ciência Rural, 2016 : A 4 years old mongrel stray bitch, weighing 16kg was submitted to physical examination to demonstrated inability of locomotion with the pelvic limbs. Extradural spinal cord compression was observed in myelotomography of the thoracolumbar segment.
Fernando Swiech Bach +2 more
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Artificial Organs, Volume 49, Issue 5, Page 729-748, May 2025.The current review synthesizes consumer perspectives regarding applications of Functional Electrical Stimulation and robotic Exoskeleton in Rehabilitation. The benefits, limitations, implantation barriers, and consumer expectations for each technology are highlighted.
Yalian Pei +5 more
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