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This paper reports a case of refractory ascites in a patient with gastric cancer. A peritoneo-venous shunt(PVS)was inserted in the patient, which contributed to extending the duration of home-based care as well as improving the patient’s quality of life. The patient was a female in her 70s. She was diagnosed with gastric cancer and underwent total…[Read more]

Snakebites are common in India and the most common neurotoxic snakebites in India are due to Common krait (Bungarus caeruleus) and cobra (Naja naja). Severe envenomation may mimic brain death or a locked-in state with flaccid paralysis in a descending manner and total ophthalmoplegia. Usually, patients who receive timely antivenom and ventilator…[Read more]

Yet, across task conditions, we did not find convincing evidence for the notion that conscious access is affected by rapid top-down selection-related modulations of the strength of early sensory representations induced by the preceding visual event. These results cannot easily be explained by existing accounts of how attentional selection shapes…[Read more]

1%) out of 545 LDLTs. Only one patient had iHCC beyond Milan criteria. No tumor recurrence was observed in the iHCC cohort after a median follow-up of 28months. Five-year overall and recurrence-free survival was 96.4%.

Incidence of iHCC in explanted livers after LDLT is low and most patients have very early-stage tumors with excellent…[Read more]

The efficacy of psychedelic-assisted therapies for mental disorders has been attributed to the lasting change from experiential avoidance to acceptance that these treatments appear to facilitate. This article presents a conceptual model that specifies potential psychological mechanisms underlying such change, and that shows substantial parallels…[Read more]

sensitive and racially inclusive.

These results highlight the importance of accounting for spatial heterogeneity in propensity score analysis, and suggest the need for clinical care and management strategies that are culturally sensitive and racially inclusive.

Smoking exerts substantial medical burdens on society. Precise estimation of the…[Read more]