This study describes the clinical heterogeneity of Brazilian patients with 5q spinal muscular atrophy types 2 and 3, highlighting prolonged diagnostic delays and the impact of disease duration on motor function. Early genetic diagnosis and access to multidisciplinary care are crucial to preserve functional outcomes.
Elice Carneiro Batista +31 more
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Optical Coherence Tomography Biomarkers as Potential Predictors for Visual Function and Response to Intravitreal Therapy in Diabetic Macular Edema. [PDF]
Mihalache A +8 more
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True dung beetles are a speciose group of ecosystem engineers that play key roles as detritivores in natural and agricultural landscapes. Scarabaeine beetles show strong thermal plasticity and there is increasing evidence of rapid evolutionary divergence in response to temperature across ecological and evolutionary timescales, with likely consequences ...
Nathan J. McConnell +4 more
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Mental Health and Alcohol Consumption Among University Students in the Post-Pandemic Context: An Exploratory Cross-Sectional Study in Portugal. [PDF]
Moreira MT +10 more
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Occurrence of Impostor Syndrome in Dentistry Faculty and Related Factors
ABSTRACT Aim To investigate the occurrence of Impostor Syndrome (IS) among faculty members of undergraduate dental courses at institutions in a capital city in the Northeast of Brazil. Materials and Methods A quantitative cross‐sectional observational study was conducted involving five higher education institutions.
Matheus Lima Silva da Rocha +6 more
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Purulent Pericardial Abscess Caused by Escherichia coli in an Immunocompromised Patient Presenting With Mixed Septic and Cardiogenic Shock. [PDF]
Pessoa AL +4 more
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Sexual dimorphism and stress‐induced stridulatory responses in Jaguajir rochae (Borelli, 1910). Females exhibited greater absolute pectinal size and higher sound pressure levels, whereas males showed higher pectinal allometric ratios relative to body size, lower sound frequencies, and shorter delta times.
Welton Dionisio‐da‐Silva +4 more
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Lupus-Associated Knee Pain: An Atypical Presentation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in a Young Male. [PDF]
Pessoa AL +4 more
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Escalating Fire‐Driven Forest Loss in Protected Tropical Forests
More than 4 million hectares of protected tropical forest have been lost to stand‐replacing fire since 2001, with annual losses increasing through time in both the Americas and Africa. Protection most commonly reduced the proportion of stand‐replacing fire, but could not decouple temporal fire trends inside PAs from those outside.
Christopher G. Bousfield, Oscar Morton
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Evolving antimicrobial resistance patterns in group B streptococci: A five-year study in a high-risk pregnancy referral center in northeastern Brazil. [PDF]
Gomes JIAB +7 more
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