Long-Term Outcome of Childhood-Onset Epilepsy
A prospective, long-term population-based study was conducted to determine the evolution of drug resistance and remission in 144 patients with childhood-onset epilepsy followed at University of Turku, Finland, and Epilepsy Research Group, Berlin, Germany.
J Gordon Millichap
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Fast COVID-19 Infection Prediction with In-House Data Using Machine Learning Classification Algorithms: A Case Study of Iran [PDF]
To mitigate COVID-19’s overwhelming burden, a rapid and efficient early screening scheme for COVID-19 in the first-line is required. Much research has utilized laboratory tests, CT scans, and X-ray data, which are obstacles to agile and real-time ...
Ali Shabrandi +4 more
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Incidence of symptomatic toxoplasma eye disease: aetiology and public health implications. [PDF]
Ocular disease is the commonest disabling consequence of toxoplasma infection. Incidence and lifetime risk of ocular symptoms were determined by ascertaining affected patients in a population-based, active reporting study involving ophthalmologists ...
Murray, PI +24 more
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Temporal Dynamics of Host Molecular Responses Differentiate Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Influenza A Infection. [PDF]
Exposure to influenza viruses is necessary, but not sufficient, for healthy human hosts to develop symptomatic illness. The host response is an important determinant of disease progression.
Varkey, Jay B +60 more
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Does residual foraminal stenosis at levels not covered by anterior cervical discectomy and fusion aggravate postoperative outcomes in cervical radiculopathy? [PDF]
Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Purpose To evaluate whether untreated foraminal stenosis (FS) at levels not included in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) impacts postoperative outcomes in patients with cervical radiculopathy and ...
Sehan Park +4 more
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Obesity is associated with an increased risk of contracting infections. This study aimed to estimate the risk of COVID-19 infection associated with obesity and to assess its role in the specific antibody response against SARS-CoV-2 in 2021.
Daniel Montes-Herrera +7 more
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Endovascular treatment with angioplasty or stenting versus endarterectomy in patients with carotid artery stenosis in the Carotid And Vertebral Artery Transluminal Angioplasty Study (CAVATAS): long-term follow-up of a randomised trial [PDF]
Endovascular treatment (angioplasty with or without stenting) is an alternative to carotid endarterectomy for carotid artery stenosis but there are scarce long-term efficacy data showing that it prevents stroke.
Mccollum, Charles +44 more
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Adjacent Segment Disease after Lumbar Spine Fixation [A Systematic Review] [PDF]
Background: Disc degeneration is a common form of adjacent segment disease [ASD] that occurs less frequently than laxity, instability, stenosis, nucleus pulposus herniation, hypertrophic facet arthritis, and vertebral compression fractures.The aim of the
Muhammed Abd ElMenem Negm +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound surgery for treatment of uterine fibroids [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of a treatment strategy for symptomatic uterine fibroids, which starts with Magnetic Resonance-guided Focused Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) as compared with current practice comprising uterine artery ...
Cairns, JA +6 more
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ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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