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[7 ] National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA, USA; Department of Radiology and Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford ...

Undiagnosed HIV infection remains a key driver of transmission in South Africa, and male construction workers are among the least likely to know their status. To explore the factors associated with ...

Across the sciences, each discipline develops its own domain ontology—its structural assumptions about what exists, from particles and fields to molecules, cells, minds, and social agents. Yet beneath ...

This study provides preliminary insights into the causal relationships between immune cells, inflammatory proteins, and AD; however, numerous avenues warrant further investigation to deepen our ...

The early and precise diagnosis, along with the individualized management of acute myocardial infarction (AMI), remains a paramount challenge in contemporary cardiovascular medicine. Despite ...

According to statistics in China, 11.39 million patients have coronary heart disease (CHD); therefore, CHD poses a severe threat to human life and health [1]. Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...

Malnutrition is a common yet long-neglected comorbidity among patients with heart failure (HF). Depending on the diagnostic criteria and population studied, the prevalence ranges from 15% to 60%, ...

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It was another scorching hot and humid day in Tokyo. Near the Imperial Palace and the Diet buildings, the Supreme Court was surrounded by hundreds of people with disabilities, their families and ...

Despite increasing use of minimally invasive techniques, limited literature has described minithoracotomy for removal of left atrial masses, such as myxomas. This study was aimed at addressing this ...