Women’s Experience with Stress Urinary Incontinence: Insights from Social Media Analytics.
To capture the complete patient experience, knowledge and perceptions among women with stress...
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A Systematic Review of Complications in Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Pediatric Urologic Literature.
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has been gaining momentum in pediatric urology and it is...
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PROMOTION DISPARITIES IN ACADEMIC UROLOGY.
To better understand promotion timelines across gender and race/ethnicity and how academic output...
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Traumatic spinal cord injury confers bladder cancer risk to patients managed without permanent urinary catheterization: lessons from a comparison of clinical data with the national database.
Life expectancy for people with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is increasing due to advances...
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Perioperative antithrombotic (antiplatelet and anticoagulant) therapy in urological practice: a critical assessment and summary of the clinical practice guidelines.
The perioperative management of patients who are receiving antithrombotic (antiplatelet or...
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Comparison of Decompressing Stoma vs Stent as a Bridge to Surgery for Left-Sided Obstructive Colon Cancer.
Bridge to elective surgery using self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) placement is a debated...
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Hospital Volume of Antireflux Surgery in Relation to Endoscopic and Surgical Re-interventions.
To test the hypothesis that higher hospital volume decreases endoscopic and surgical...
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Case distributions in general surgery residency: Subspecialization occurs before fellowship.
In the era of subspecialization and duty-hour restrictions, many General Surgery residents desire...
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Effectiveness of Preoperative Iron Supplementation in Major Surgical Patients with Iron Deficiency: A Prospective Observational Study.
To evaluate the effectiveness of routine intravenous iron in surgical patients with iron...
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Interventions and Operations 5 Years After Bariatric Surgery in a Cohort From the US National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network Bariatric Study.
Additional data comparing longer-term problems associated with various bariatric surgical...
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NCF1-339 polymorphism is associated with altered formation of neutrophil extracellular traps, high serum interferon activity and antiphospholipid syndrome in systemic lupus erythematosus.
OBJECTIVES: A single nucleotide polymorphism in the NCF1 gene (NCF1-339, rs201802880), encoding...
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In an early SLE cohort the ACR-1997, SLICC-2012 and EULAR/ACR-2019 criteria classify non-overlapping groups of patients: use of all three criteria ensures optimal capture for clinical studies while their modification earlier classification and treatment.
Classification criteria are biased towards classifying long-standing disease. We compared the...
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The 2019 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for IgG4-related disease.
IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) can cause fibroinflammatory lesions in nearly any organ....
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Interleukin 1 receptor antagonist () gene variants predict radiographic severity of knee osteoarthritis and risk of incident disease.
In these studies, we examined the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the...
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Efficacy and safety of NI-0101, an anti-toll-like receptor 4 monoclonal antibody, in patients with rheumatoid arthritis after inadequate response to methotrexate: a phase II study.
Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) form immune complexes with citrullinated proteins...
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REALizing and improving management of stable COPD in China: a multi-center, prospective, observational study to realize the current situation of COPD patients in China (REAL) – rationale, study design, and protocol.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fifth leading cause of death in China with a...
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Knockdown of circ-ABCB10 promotes sensitivity of lung cancer cells to cisplatin via miR-556-3p/AK4 axis.
Due to the acquired drug resistance, the potency of cisplatin-based chemotherapy is limited in...
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Effects of high-flow nasal cannula in patients with persistent hypercapnia after an acute COPD exacerbation: a prospective pilot study.
Persistent hypercapnia after COPD exacerbation is associated with excess mortality and early...
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Pleural fluid ADA activity in tuberculous pleurisy can be low in elderly, critically ill patients with multi-organ failure.
Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity is typically elevated in patients with tuberculous pleural...
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The Quality of End-of-Life Care Among Intensive Care Unit Versus Ward Decedents.
Admissions to intensive care units (ICUs) are common during terminal hospitalizations, but little...
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