anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
Medical thoracoscopy is the preferred procedure for performing pleural biopsy in patients with pleural effusions that remain undiagnosed after pleural fluid analysis. Unlike video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery that is performed under general anesthesia and single lung ventilation, medical thoracoscopy is performed under conscious sedation and local anesthesia. Medical thoracoscopy is generally a safe procedure, albeit with a small risk of complications. Surgical site infections (SSI) and empyema are among the important complications of the procedure. Author's center is a tertiary care referral hospital; the majority of the patients are referred to the authors' center late in the course of their illness. In fact, most patients have had several thoracenteses, and many patients have pleural adhesions. The authors have observed a significant incidence of post procedural infections (7.8-10%) in previous studies. In a recent RCT, investigators have demonstrated that the prophylactic use of antibiotics did not reduce the incidence of SSI. Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens, it is conceivable that improving skin antisepsis would decrease surgical-site infections. The aim of preoperative skin preparation is to reduce the risk of SSIs by removing soil and transient organisms from skin. Antiseptics have the ability to bind to the skin's stratum corneum that results in persistent chemical activity on the skin. A SSI occurs when the number of bacteria at the incision site overcome the hosts immune defense mechanism. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that 2% chlorhexidine-based preparations be used to cleanse the site of insertion of vascular catheters. However, the CDC has not issued a recommendation as to which antiseptics should be used preoperatively to prevent postoperative SSIs.

In a previous RCT comparing preoperative cleansing of the patient's skin, chlorhexidine-alcohol was found to be superior to cleansing with povidone-iodine for preventing surgical-site infection after clean contaminated surgery. However, in a pooled analysis of 13 RCTs comparing surgical site preparation for clean surgeries, no clear benefit could be demonstrated of either agent for preventing SSIs. Also, no published randomized studies have examined the effect of one antiseptic preparation over another on the incidence of surgical-site infection during medical thoracoscopy. A recent guideline on medical thoracoscopy has no mention about the preferred agent for skin preparation during MT. At the author's center, povidone-iodine is used for surgical site preparation during MT. The authors hypothesized that chlorhexidine-alcohol would be superior to povidone-iodine in reducing the rate of infectious complications following thoracoscopy. In this study, the investigators propose to investigate the efficacy of chlorhexidine-alcohol scrub in preventing post procedural infectious complications in subjects undergoing medical thoracoscopy.
Subjects will be randomized to receive either CC-220 + tafasitamab or lenalidomide + tafasitamab in 28-day treatment cycles. CC-220 will be given at the RP2D declared in Part 1 of this study and the tafasitamab will be at the same levels as in Part 1. Lenalidomide will be administered to subjects randomized in the control arm at a dose of 25 mg/day orally, for 21 days out of 28, for up to 12 cycles.
Patients with severe, symptomatic aortic stenosis will be recruited and followed up with primary outcome of heart failure death and hospitalisation (n=192). Of these, 170 will have an implantable cardiac monitor placed to detect presence and burden of non-sustained VT.
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the connection between the leakage sign (LS) and hematoma expansion (HE) in cases of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. The investigation employs dual-energy computed tomography angiography (DECTA).
METHODS: A prospective cohort study was conducted, in which clinical and DECTA imaging data were collected from intracerebral hemorrhage patients within 6 hours of onset between January 2021 and June 2023. Exposure factors included DE-LS and traditional imaging biomarkers. The occurrence of HE on computed tomography rescanned within 24 hours was the observed outcome. Exposed and confounding factors were considered in both univariate and multivariate regression analyses based on the results. Logistic and adjusted Poisson regressions were employed, and odds ratios (ORs) and relative risks (RRs) were calculated with 95% confidence intervals.
RESULTS: The study enrolled a total of 90 patients, of whom 32 cases manifested HE, while 58 cases did not exhibit HE. Univariate analysis revealed statistically significant differences in parameters such as admission diastolic blood pressure, C-reactive protein, Glasgow Coma Scale, baseline hematoma volume, and imaging biomarkers like DE-spot sign and DE-LS. The OR value of DE-LS was determined as 48.21, with an RR value of 7.51. Multivariate adjusted Poisson regression analysis demonstrated that DE-LS was a robust independent predictor (RR = 4.11, 95% confidence interval: 1.49-11.35; P < 0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: DECTA-based DE-LS stands out as an independent predictor of HE. The utilization of RR values over OR values is endorsed when assessing the risk of HE prediction.
Background: Although medical interventions play an important role in preserving lives and maternal comfort they have become increasingly routine in normal childbirth. This may increase the risk of associated complications and a less satisfactory birth experience. Antenatal hypnosis is associated with a reduced need for pharmacological interventions during childbirth. This trial seeks to determine the efficacy or otherwise of antenatal group hypnosis preparation for childbirth in late pregnancy.

Methods / Design: A single centre, randomised controlled trial using a 3 arm parallel group design in the largest tertiary maternity unit in South Australia. Group 1 participants receive antenatal hypnosis training in preparation for childbirth administered by a qualified hypnotherapist with the use of an audio compact disc on hypnosis for re-enforcement; Group 2 consists of antenatal hypnosis training in preparation for childbirth using an audio compact disc on hypnosis administered by a nurse with no training in hypnotherapy; Group 3 participants continue with their usual preparation for childbirth with no additional intervention. Women \> 34 \< 39 weeks gestation, with a singleton, viable fetus, vertex presentation, who are not in active labour or planning a vaginal birth are eligible to participate. Allocation concealment is achieved using telephone randomisation. Participants assigned to hypnosis groups are trained as near as possible to 37 weeks gestation. Group allocations are concealed from treating obstetricians, anaesthetists, midwives and those personnel collecting and analysing data. Our sample size of 135 women / group gives the study 80% power to detect a clinically relevant fall of 20% in the number of women requiring pharmacological analgesia - the primary endpoint. We estimate that approximately 5-10% of women will deliver prior to receiving their allocated intervention. We plan to recruit 150 women / group and perform interim analyses when 150 and 300 participants have been recruited. All participants will be analysed according to the "Intention to treat" principle with comprehensive pre-planned cost- benefit and subgroup analyses.

Discussion: If effective, hypnosis would be a simple, inexpensive way to improve the childbirth experience, reduce complications associated with pharmacological interventions, yield cost savings in maternity care, and provide evidence to guide clinical practice.
Patients receive oral dasatinib twice daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 24 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) is a neurological disorder characterized by an irresistible urge to move the legs and is associated with decreased quality of life and sleep, and may result in cognitive changes. Physical exercise generates cognitive improvements and improves RLS symptoms. Our objective is to analyze recognition memory in the iron-deficient rodent model of RLS, and the effect of exercise. The animals (male Wistar rats) were distributed at 21 days of age into a control group (CTRL) (standard diet) or an ID group (iron-deficient diet). After performance classification (at 77 days of age), the animals were redistributed into CTRL (no exercise), CTRL EX (exercise), ID (no exercise) and ID EX (exercise), totaling 9 animals per group. The exercise groups performed treadmill exercise for four weeks. In the 14th week of the diet, the sleep recording of CTRL and ID animals was carried out to validate the RLS model. The Novel Object Recognition Memory test (NOR) was performed before the start of exercise (8th week of diet) and after the end (14th week) in all groups. The ID group demonstrated worsening sleep parameters and increased paw movements compared to the control group. The ID group demonstrated impairment of recognition memory after 14 weeks of diet compared to the CTRL group, and, the CTRL improved recognition memory in the 14th week compared to the 8th week. No differences were found for the exercise groups. Our findings indicate that the RLS animal model exhibited cognitive alterations associated with recognition memory, and long-term aerobic exercise intervention demonstrated a protective influence against these effects.
The invention relates to a preparation technology and a production method of a novel sweet osmanthus decoction integrated dosage form. The novel sweet osmanthus decoction integrated dosage form consists of the following raw material active ingredients in parts by weight: 0.6 part of dried ginger, 9 parts of cassia bark core, 9 parts of liquoric root and 3.9 parts of contracted fructus amomi. The production process comprises ultrasonic speed fluid energy milling, alcohol-water extraction, ultrasonic wave smashing and extracting, water decoction concentration, ultrasonic speed spray drying, nanometer grinding, high-pressure homogenization, nanoparticle preparation and the like. In the invention, the advantages of multi-coordination, multi-targeting and the like represented in a nano-carrier coupling technique are utilized. After large-scale production is performed, the production cost can be reduced greatly, the product quality can be enhanced greatly, and the targeting property and controlled release property of a medicament can be enhanced. A sweet osmanthus decoction can be administrated internally and externally, and can be taken at four time intervals according to midnight-noon ebb-flow and the qi-blood flow rule of a human body. The sweet osmanthus decoction can be prepared into a film forming agent and a transdermal agent which are attached to different positions of a human body respectively according to midnight-noon ebb-flow and the qi-blood flow rule of the human body and can be directly absorbed through skin.
BACKGROUND: Many individuals with neurodegenerative (NDD) and immune-mediated inflammatory disorders (IMID) experience debilitating fatigue. Currently, assessments of fatigue rely on patient reported outcomes (PROs), which are subjective and prone to recall biases. Wearable devices, however, provide objective and reliable estimates of gait, an essential component of health, and may present objective evidence of fatigue. This study explored the relationships between gait characteristics derived from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and patient-reported fatigue in the IDEA-FAST feasibility study.
METHODS: Participants with IMIDs and NDDs (Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington's disease (HD), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), primary Sjogren's syndrome (PSS), and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)) wore a lower-back IMU continuously for up to 10 days at home. Concurrently, participants completed PROs (physical fatigue (PF) and mental fatigue (MF)) up to four times a day. Macro (volume, variability, pattern, and acceleration vector magnitude) and micro (pace, rhythm, variability, asymmetry, and postural control) gait characteristics were extracted from the accelerometer data. The associations of these measures with the PROs were evaluated using a generalised linear mixed-effects model (GLMM) and binary classification with machine learning.
RESULTS: Data were recorded from 72 participants: PD = 13, HD = 9, RA = 12, SLE = 9, PSS = 14, IBD = 15. For the GLMM, the variability of the non-walking bouts length (in seconds) with PF returned the highest conditional R2, 0.165, and with MF the highest marginal R2, 0.0018. For the machine learning classifiers, the highest accuracy of the current analysis was returned by the micro gait characteristics with an intrasubject cross validation method and MF as 56.90% (precision = 43.9%, recall = 51.4%). Overall, the acceleration vector magnitude, bout length variation, postural control, and gait rhythm were the most interesting characteristics for future analysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Counterintuitively, the outcomes indicate that there is a weak relationship between typical gait measures and abnormal fatigue. However, factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted gait behaviours. Therefore, further investigations with a larger cohort are required to fully understand the relationship between gait and abnormal fatigue.
The invention relates to an external rheumatoid bone rubbing wine with no side effect. The wine is prepared with a traditional Chinese medicine special formula, and can be used for smearing and spraying. The medicinal wine has high permeability, and can penetrate skin, muscles, and bones rapidly. Compared with existing external rheumatic drugs, the wine has the advantages of fast effect, fast pain relieving, and fast recovery. The wine is suitable to be used against symptoms such as non-swelling rheumatic pains, joint pains, muscle pains, numb fingers and toes, and the like caused by wind, cold, and humidity. An instant effect can be provided for slight rheumatic pains, small joint pains, and muscle pains, and pains can be relieved instantly. The wine can also be used in preventing the invasion of wind, cold, and humidity during trip and travel, and in alpine and humid areas.
Participants in this arm will receive access to the Carers-ID online programme. Participants will be able to access the online programme for 2 weeks.
The invention relates to a medicinal liquor for treating traumatic injury. Traumatic injury is a microcirculation disturbance through direct trauma, or indirect trauma and long-term strain. The key point for treating traumatic injury is for enhancing stomach qi of patient and enhancing qi transformation. The medicinal liquor selects dysosma pleiantha, Paris polyphylla Sin, Begonia henryi Hemsl, Disporopsis fuscopicta and liquor and immerses for 30-60 days. The invention emphasizes syndrome differentiation and treatment while selecting the medicinal liquor. According to the invention, several traditional Chinese medicinal materials are selected, the medicinal liquor is simple, the effect is obvious, and the medicinal liquor has the function of relieve swelling and pain.
Sjögren's syndrome is an autoimmune disorder characterized by glandular and extra-glandular manifestations. In the absence of another connective tissue disease, it is called primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS). The hallmark symptoms of pSS are dry eyes and dry mouth due to the decreased lacrimal and salivary gland functions. However, other tissue and organs may also be affected including the vaginal mucosa. Regarding to the genital involvement in pSS, vaginal dryness and resultant vaginal discomfort, and pain are reported as the common complaints. The transudate released by vaginal mucosa is the main resource of vaginal secretions.The human microbiome was reported to have a potential impact in etiopathogenesis of certain autoimmune disorders. The previous research revealed significant alterations in the gut, eye, and oral flora of the pSS patients. The disturbed oral flora due to immunodeficiency and reduced salivary flow was also reported to make the SS patients to prone to bacterial infections and recurrent oral candidiasis. Vaginitis has been defined as a spectrum of symptoms suggesting vulvovaginal discomfort such as itching, burning, irritation, and abnormal discharge. Even the vaginitis is an evidence of disturbance in vaginal flora, previous prospective research on vaginal microbiome of pSS patients either excluded the cases with vaginitis or not mentioned from the presence of vaginitis in women with pSS. To the best of our knowledge, there has not been any study yet to define the characteristics of vaginal flora through the presence of clinical signs and symptoms in women with pSS. To gain more insight into the clinical context of the gynecologic complaints, sexual dysfunction, and presence of vaginitis in pSS, the current study aims to identify the associations between these issues and pSS related disease parameters. In this prospective cohort study, we planned to include sexually active 118 women at reproductive age who had the symptoms of itching, burning, irritation, and abnormal discharge. Women with pSS (study group, n=49) will be compared with women who had not any other disease or complaint rather than vaginal discharge (control group, n=69). Besides the physical examination and gynecological evaluation including sterile speculum examination enabling swab sampling for vaginal discharge and PAP smear; the Visual analogue scales (VAS) for dyspareunia, and vaginal dryness and The European League Against Rheumatism Sjögren's Syndrome Disease Activity Index (ESSDAI), and Sjögren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI) Sjögren's syndrome disease activity will be also performed. Correlation and regression analyses will be also performed for pSS related parameters.
Continuing Maintenance Therapy- Patients with biochemically detectable disease who have failed to achieve Complete remission (CR) or Very good Partial Remission (VGPR) by IMWG criteria and/or MRD-positive and/or high risk features. They will continue maintenance therapy until disease progression with monitoring every 3 months as per standard of care (SOC), or more often if required. In case of disease progression these patients will be switched to a different treatment and withdraw from the study. QOL will be assessed.
FIELD: cosmetology. SUBSTANCE: composition has a powder-like fraction of density D that can be applied on skin. Fraction is dispersed in binding agent formed by emulsion. Emulsion has lipid and an aqueous phase where particles of the above indicated fraction have size 0.5-100 mcm. Volume concentration of composition part is equal to critical concentration C of particles. Content of filling agent T is measured by formula as %. EFFECT: improved quality and property of composition, improved transparency of making-up. 22 cl, 5 ex, 3 tbl, 6 dwg
The Vivaer procedure will be performed in the study clinic using the Vivaer ARC Stylus and Aerin Console. The Vivaer ARC Stylus is a disposable handheld device capable of delivering bipolar radiofrequency energy to tissue when connected to the Aerin Console radiofrequency generating device. Participants in this study will undergo bilateral treatment of the nasal valves in a single study session. Each side of the nose will be treated with up to four (4) non-overlapping applications of RF energy at the junction of the upper and lower lateral cartilage on the lateral nasal wall. Treatment settings to be used are: temperature 60° C, power 4 watts, treatment time 18 seconds, and cooling time 12 seconds. No repeat ("touch up") procedures will be permitted after the initial procedure through the end of the study (24 months).
Glassy coatings are made by curing in situ a coating of a sol gel, xerogel or heat-consolidated gel composition comprising a hydrolysable silicic ester, a solvent, and alkoxides of a Group IA metal and of one metal selected from Al, Zr and a Group V B metal. The metal alkoxides are preferably the following combinations:- i) Al, Ti, Na; ii) Zr, Na. The composition may also contain a filler, e.g. talc, mica, laponite, zeolite, kaolinite or vermiculite, which may be coated with titanium dioxide, chromium oxide or ferric oxide. The solvent may be a ketone or alcohol. The composition may be cured to form the glassy coating by the use of laser radiation or a butane gas flame. Use is made of very miniature flames so as to avoid vital tissue when curing on a tooth in situ. Part of the silicic ester may be replaced with other glass formers such as a boron-based sol gels. The coating may be applied to teeth as a dental fissure sealant or varnish to protect restorations, or (if filled) as an inherently coloured cosmetic coating, or as a prophylactic coating. In an application for slow drug release the coating may be charged with a drug, eg for treating dentine hypersensitivity or peridontal disease.
The control group will have their claims data analyzed for a 12 month period. We will be examining these data for hospital admissions, new vascular events (AMI, stroke, acute coronary syndrome admission), or repeat or new cardiovascular procedures.
Fat embolism syndrome (FES) is a potentially life-threatening condition that develops when fat embolism leads to clinical symptoms and multisystem dysfunction. The classic triad of respiratory distress, neurologic symptoms, and petechial rash are non-specific, and the lack of specific laboratory tests makes the diagnosis of FES difficult. Although FES is most common after long bone fractures, multiple conditions some of which are atraumatic have been associated with the development of FES. We report a case of FES that occurred in the setting of a non-traumatic compartment syndrome of the upper extremities. The pathologic and clinical findings, pathophysiology, diagnostic challenges, and pathologic methods to properly diagnose FES are discussed with a review of the relevant literature. This case highlights the importance of the autopsy in making a diagnosis of FES in cases where death could otherwise be incorrectly attributed to multi-organ system failure, shock, or sepsis.
Intramedullary Nailing: Alignment will be obtained by closed or limited open reduction of the fracture. A standard reamed intramedullary nail is inserted. Access above the patella, through the patella tendon or parapatellar access is used according to surgeon preferences. One or more cortical screws may be used if deemed appropriate due to fracture pattern. Patients are administered preoperative antibiotics (Dicloxacillin) 15 minutes before surgery commences. Postoperative antibiotics is administered by discretion of the surgeon based on individual patient considerations.
NEW MATERIAL:A compound expressed by formula I (R is H or methyl). EXAMPLE:Benzoylmethyl 2-(2,6-dichloroanilino)phenylacetate. USE:An anti-inflammatory and analgesic agent having little damaging action on stomach mucous membrane. PREPARATION:A compound expressed by formula II or a salt or a reactive functional derivative thereof is reacted with an esterifying agent expressed by formula III in a solvent if necessary under cooling or heating in a closed vessel and/or inert gas atmosphere to give the compound expressed by formula I . In case the compound expressed by formula II is a face acid, the reaction is preferably carried out in the presence of a condensing agent, e.g. N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, or base.