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767 versus 0.725 for OS and 0.775 versus 0.715 for CSS), with better discrimination than that of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage model and the calibration was validated in the SEER validation cohort. The model’s 3- and 5-year OS and CSS were superior to AJCC and T staging on the analysis decision curve. The prognosis prediction…[Read more]

The jumping spider tribe Ballini is reviewed in the Afrotropical Region. The genera Afromarengo Benjamin, 2004 and Goleta Peckham Peckham, 1894 are redefined. In Afromarengo, A. coriacea (Simon, 1900) is illustrated and A. ghanaensis sp. nov. (♀, from Ghana) and A. ugandensis sp. nov. (♂♀, from Uganda and D.R. Congo) are newly described. For…[Read more]

e the shape and appearance of the painful CRPS hand to that desired by the patient result in a rapid amelioration of pain and body perception disturbance in people with longstanding CRPS. These findings highlight the future potential of this drug-free approach in the treatment of refractory CRPS.Dynamically inhomogeneous polymer systems exhibit…[Read more]

Rising health care costs and the high number of uninsured Americans has led to the increasing popularity of a single payer alternative. While opinions of physicians at large have been studied, we present the first data examining the views of United States (U.S.) board-certified plastic surgeons on a single payer health care system and its…[Read more]

The best cut-off value of CAR for initial and repeated IVIG resistance prediction was 2.07 and 3.34, with a corresponding sensitivity of 0.610 and 0.548, a specificity of 0.552 and 0.813, respectively. KN93 The value of CAR was not better than either CRP or ALB alone for both initial and repeated IVIG resistance prediction.

A higher CAR…[Read more]

Our findings point to a new dorsal hippocampus ensemble coding scheme that simultaneously supports navigational processes at both fine- and coarse-grained resolutions. VIDEO ABSTRACT.Europe is the historical cradle of viticulture, but grapevines (Vitis vinifera) have been increasingly threatened by pathogens of American origin. The invasive…[Read more]

There are few data on the prevalence and clinical consequences of coronary artery aneurysms (CAA) in adult patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS).

We performed a retrospective cohort study of 109 patients with pathogenic variants in the FBN1 gene. Diameters of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) and right coronary artery (RCA) were measured…[Read more]