bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
A technical review of percutaneous sclerotherapy with bleomycin for giant hepatic venous malformation
Authors: Ghaemi Omid , Mehrabi Nejad Mohammad-Mehdi , Rouhezamin Mohammad Reza , Ayoobi Yazdi Niloofar , Pourghorban Ramin , Rokni Yazdi Hadi 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
Hepatic venous malformation (HVM), traditionally called liver haemangioma, is considered the most common benign hepatic lesion. Treatment might be indicated in large and symptomatic HVMs. We aim to describe stepwise technical aspects of trans-hepatic percutaneous sclerotherapy of hepatic venous malformation (HVM).

Main text
Patients with symptomatic HVM larger than 5 cm are selected after discussion in hepatobiliary multidisciplinary team. After prophylactic antibiotic and corticosteroid administration, local anaesthesia and conscious sedation are applied. A 22-gauge spinal or Chiba needle is used to obtain percutaneous access to the HVM through normal liver parenchyma under ultrasound guidance. To ensure proper needle placement and to prevent accidental delivery of sclerosant into unintended areas, about 5–10 mL iodine contrast is injected under fluoroscopy. Then, 45–60 IU bleomycin is mixed with 10 mL distilled water and 10 mL lipiodol and is slowly injected under fluoroscopy over a period of 20–30 s. After the needle is removed, manual pressure is applied over the puncture site for a period of 5 min followed by placement of a sandbag. Patients are monitored for 6–8 h post-procedure.

Conclusion
In this technical review, we described our institutional technique of percutaneous sclerotherapy, which could be regarded as an alternative to TAE in the management of HVM.
Reconceptualizing Integrated Knowledge Translation goals: a case study on basic and clinical science investigating the causes and consequences of food allergy
Authors: Dixon Jenna , Shantz Emily , Clarke Ann E. , Elliott Susan J. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) and other forms of research co-production are increasingly recognized as valuable approaches to knowledge creation as a way to better facilitate the implementation of scientific findings. However, the nature of some scientific work can preclude direct knowledge to action as a likely outcome. Do IKT approaches have value in such cases?

Methods
This study used a qualitative case study approach to better understand the function of IKT in a non-traditional application: basic and clinical science investigating the causes and consequences of food allergy. Building off previous baseline findings, data were obtained through in-depth interviews with project scientists and steering committee members and complemented by researcher observation. Data were analyzed through an integrated approach to understand how well participants perceived the stipulated project IKT outcomes had been met and to better understand the relationship between different forms of IKT goals, outcomes, and impacts.

Results
We propose a conceptual model which builds temporal continuity into the IKT work and understands success beyond truncated timelines of any one project. The model proposes project IKT goals be conceptualized through three metaphorical tower blocks: foundational (changing the culture for both scientists and knowledge-users), laying the groundwork (building relationships, networks and sparking scientific inquiry), and putting scientific knowledge to action. Based on this model, this case study demonstrated notable success at the foundational and intermediate blocks, though did not turn basic and clinical research knowledge into actionable outcomes within the project timespan.

Conclusions
We find that current IKT literature which situates success as filling a knowledge to action gap is conceptually inadequate for understanding the full contributions of IKT activities. This work highlights the need for building cultural and scientific familiarity with IKT in order to better enable knowledge to action translation. Improving understanding and communication of science and empowering knowledge-users to engage with the research agenda are long-term strategies to build towards knowledge implementation and lay the ground work for many future research projects.
Exploring the prevalence and factors associated with post-acute COVID syndrome in Egypt: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Azzam Ahmed , Khaled Heba 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Background
Post-COVID-19 survivors may experience long-term symptoms known as Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS). The PCAS symptom spectrum includes a wide range of symptoms affecting different organs. The prevalence and risk factors of PACS may vary across different regions, and a meta-analysis focused on Egypt can help understand the national prevalence and unique population-specific predictors.

Methods
A comprehensive literature search was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines to identify studies published in Egypt that documented symptoms, signs, and post-COVID-19 outcomes in patient cohorts. The results were reported, based on the random effects model, as proportions (%) and odds ratios with 95% CI.

Results
A total of 16 studies with 3097 COVID-19 survivors and an age range of 3 to 94 years were included in the analysis. The pooled prevalence of COVID-19 survivors experiencing at least one persistent symptom, regardless of hospitalization status, was high at 78.3%. A total of 54 clinical symptoms or conditions were reported among the survivors. The most commonly reported symptom was fatigue, which affected approximately half of all survivors (48.1%). Bone ache or myalgia, anorexia, anxiety, dyspnea, and depression were also among the most frequently reported symptoms at 32.9%, 32.8, 31.5, 19.9, and 19.5, respectively. The pooled prevalence of Post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis (PCPF) among hospitalized Covid survivors was 40%. The study found that female sex, severe COVID, and the presence of any comorbidity were independent risk factors for PACS (P < 0.05).

Conclusion
This meta-analysis of 16 studies conducted in Egypt highlights the high prevalence of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome. The high prevalence of Post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis and psychological disorders, particularly anxiety and depression, is a cause for concern. There was also a single report on post-COVID diabetes mellitus, stroke, migraine, and coagulative ocular disorders that need further investigation. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first systematic review and meta-analysis conducted at a national level to determine the prevalence and predictors of post-COVID syndrome. Larger studies with a longer follow-up period are still needed to confirm these findings and explore other potential risk factors and modifiers of the Post-COVID syndrome.
Material Culture as an Index of Modernity in Spain’s Silent Film Era
Authors: Mercer Leigh 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This essay examines the display of technological objects, consumer goods, and other materials within the earliest Spanish realist cinema, as well as the manipulation of things in pioneering fantasy films, to reveal how Spanish filmmakers projected the modernity of Spain and thereby addressed foreign objectification of their nation as exotic or different. Through an analysis of several actualities, point-of-view rail films, and factory films produced in Barcelona between 1900 and 1930, as well some key Segundo de Chomón trick films shot in the city, this article shows how this early Barcelona film culture deployed material forms to mark the agency and cosmopolitanism of turn-of-the-century Spain and to contest the “cabinet of curiosities vision” that French actuality filmmakers in particular had once imposed on the nation.
The Probable Revolution
Authors: Douglas Lee 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
On April 25, 1974, everyday Portuguese citizens transformed a military coup into collective popular resistance, thus initiating a revolutionary process that marked an end to the Estado Novo. Image-makers, aware of the historical event unraveling in plain view, occupied public plazas and roamed city avenues to document a popular uprising that marked a clear end to Portugal’s Fascist project. In this impetus to record radical change, film and its associated technologies promised not only to document, capture, and freeze history in the making but also to make it material, to transform the push and pull of the revolutionary project into something that could be preserved and kept. The article questions the notion that digitization produces a straightforward dematerialization of the analogue print by proposing the concept of digital (im)materiality. This (im)materiality, it argues, not only allows the transformation of revolutionary images into heritage but also makes possible their (re)activation in ways that both speak to the past and reinvent the future. Attending to the (im)materiality of Portuguese militant cinema makes it possible to approach these images not as texts to be interpreted but as social artifacts through which meaning, knowledge, and memories are made. Following Morgan Adamson’s call to consider how “images of resistance endure” and how “enduring images resist,” the article traces the (im)materiality of Portugal’s revolutionary filmic images with the aim of thinking across temporalities. So while, on one hand. the text unpacks how images of the Portuguese Revolution were produced and, subsequently, transformed into heritage, it also reflects on the author’s own engagement with the Revolution’s visual archives and her co-direction of the film essay A revolução (é) provável (The Revolution [Is] Probable, 2022), where splicing, cutting, and juxtaposing digitized images makes it possible to interrogate the material texture of history while also producing other forms or knowledge and knowing.
With Strings Attached
Authors: Nair Parvati 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The urban fabric of contemporary Spain has long included the presence of street vendors. Selling a range of counterfeit goods, from Ray-Ban sunglasses to Gucci bags and Nike trainers, these hawkers are mostly undocumented migrants from developing countries. They occupy patches of pavement where footfall is heavy, so as to illicitly, albeit very publicly, sell their goods, laid out on mantas, or blankets. Attached to these blankets are four strings, one fixed at each corner, that are then joined together at the center of the rectangle. When police are sighted, the strings can be grabbed and pulled up, instantly converting the manta into a sack that can be hoisted on the migrant’s back as they flee to evade detention. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Barcelona in 2018, this article explores ideological dynamics that produce the contexts and tensions experienced by the manteros. The strings of their sack facilitate a fluidity between physical mobility and immobility, or between migrancy and detention, metaphoric of the precarity of lives and livelihoods that are borderline. Through a conceptual lens shaped from theories of sociomateriality, the article explores the systems and practices of neoliberalism in Europe from the perspective of the street vendors, who embody and perform the bordering mechanisms that propel such economies. As such, Spain and Catalonia’s alignment with the European Union comes into view, as does the granularity of Spanish democracy and its tensions, especially within the context of Catalonia’s struggles with the central government. To read the lives and contexts of undocumented migrants as street vendors leads to a questioning of neoliberal democracy and its dependency on bordering mechanisms that assign migrant lives and bodies to socioeconomic margins. Yet, neoliberalism also defines its own hegemony through the construction and perpetuation of such margins, so that bordering becomes a self-perpetuating sociopolitical dynamic.
Between Skin and Stone
Authors: Walsh Michaela Django 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This piece, written in the form of a letter to my son, explains the meaning of his name. In Spanish the word lienzo is a type of drystone wall. Spanning rural areas of Mexico, the lienzo has—for centuries—been a way to gently delineate space. I frame the composition of this hand-stacked structure, which is designed to accommodate movement in relation to the biopolitical technology of the U.S.-Mexico border fence, migrant dispossession, and my own family’s experiences navigating borders and cleaved spaces.
Drugs prescribed for Phelan-McDermid syndrome differentially impact sensory behaviors in shank3 zebrafish models.
Authors: Kozol Robert A. , Dallman Julia E. 
Published: September 2023

Background: Altered sensory processing is a pervasive symptom in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); people with Phelan McDermid syndrome (PMS), in particular, show reduced responses to sensory stimuli. PMS is caused by deletions of the terminal end of chromosome 22 or point mutations in Shank3. People with PMS can present with an array of symptoms including ASD, epilepsy, gastrointestinal distress, and reduced responses to sensory stimuli. People with PMS are often medicated to manage behaviors like aggression and/or self-harm and/or epilepsy, and it remains unclear how these medications might impact perception/sensory processing. Here we test this using zebrafish mutant shank3ab PMS models that likewise show reduced sensory responses in a visual motor response (VMR) assay, in which increased locomotion is triggered by light to dark transitions. Methods: We screened three medications, risperidone, lithium chloride (LiCl), and carbamazepine (CBZ), prescribed to people with PMS and one drug, 2-methyl-6-(phenylethynyl) pyridine (MPEP) tested in rodent models of PMS, for their effects on a sensory-induced behavior in two zebrafish PMS models with frameshift mutations in either the N- or C- termini. To test how pharmacological treatments affect the VMR, we exposed larvae to selected drugs for 24 hours and then quantified their locomotion during four ten-minute cycles of lights on-to-off stimuli. Results: We found that risperidone partially normalized the VMR in shank3 models. LiCl and CBZ had no effect on the VMR in any of the three genotypes. MPEP reduced the VMR in wildtype (WT) to levels seen in shank3 models but caused no changes in either shank3 model. Finally, shank3 mutants showed resistance to the seizure-inducing drug pentylenetetrazol (PTZ), at a dosage that results in hyperactive swimming in WT zebrafish. Conclusions: Our work shows that the effects of drugs on sensory processing are varied in ways that can be genotype- and drug-dependent.
Case Report: IgG4-related kidney disease complicated by interstitial pneumonia
Authors: Mima Akira , Lee Rina , Murakami Ami , Gotoda Hidemasa , Akai Ryosuke , Lee Shinji 
Published: September 2023

Immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4)-related disease is a systemic inflammatory disorder characterized by tubulointerstitial nephritis with IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration. We report the case of an 84-year-old male who presented with a history of dyspnea on exertion and cough. The lymph nodes were palpated in the axilla. Urinalysis revealed mild proteinuria and increased levels of NAG and β2-microglobulin. Blood tests showed hyperglobulinemia with a marked elevation of serum IgG4 levels. Chest computed tomography showed bilateral ground-glass and reticular opacities in the lower and peripheral portions of the lungs. Ga-67 scintigraphy showed kidney uptake. The patient was diagnosed with IgG4-related kidney disease based on the renal pathology indicative of typical tubulointerstitial nephritis with extensive IgG4-positive plasma cell infiltration. The patient was treated with prednisolone and showed a prompt response in his clinical condition. The patient achieved normalization of serum IgG4 levels 6 months after the initiation of treatment. Although IgG4-related disease is thought to be potentially associated with organ fibrosis, there are few reports on combination of interstitial pneumonia and IgG4-related kidney disease. Our case report presents a possible pattern of IgG4-related disease.
Analyses of spike protein from first deposited sequences of SARS-CoV2 from West Bengal, India
Authors: Begum Feroza , Mukherjee Debica , Thagriki Dluya , Das Sandeepan , Tripathi Prem Prakash , Banerjee Arup Kumar , Ray Upasana 
Published: September 2023

India has recently started sequencing SARS-CoV2 genome from clinical isolates. Currently only few sequences are available from three states in India. Kerala was the first state to deposit complete sequence from two isolates followed by one from Gujarat. On April 27, 2020, the first five sequences from the state of West Bengal (Eastern India) were deposited on GISAID, a global initiative for sharing avian flu data. In this study, we have analysed the spike protein sequences from all five isolates and also compared their similarities or differences with other sequences reported in India and with isolates of Wuhan origin. We report one unique mutation at position 723 and another at 1124 in the S2 domain of spike protein of the isolates from West Bengal only. There was one mutation downstream of the receptor binding domain at position 614 in S1 domain which was common with the sequence from Gujarat (a state of western India). Mutation in the S2 domain showed changes in the secondary structure of the spike protein at region of the mutation. We also studied molecular dynamics using normal mode analyses and found that this mutation decreases the flexibility of S2 domain. Since both S1 and S2 are important in receptor binding followed by entry in the host cells, such mutations may define the affinity or avidity of receptor binding.
Gentrificación e inmigración: una relación frente a la crisis migratoria y habitacional chilena
Authors: Contreras Gatica Yasna , Seguel Calderón Beatriz 
Published: September 2023

Ciudades intermedias del norte chileno que atraen población migrante/inmigrante, experimentan un explosivo aumento de asentamientos informales precarios en la periferia los cuales son respuesta a amplios procesos de especulación inmobiliaria, aumento del valor del alquiler y subalquiler, desplazamiento frente a un mercado de la vivienda y del suelo que es abusivo, desregulado e incluso racista. Frente a dichas condiciones, este artículo analiza la relación entre gentrificación e inmigración, considerando la crisis migratoria y habitacional que enfrenta el país al menos desde hace tres años. La discusión comprende 84 entrevistas en profundidad en las ciudades intermedias de Iquique y Antofagasta, así como también entrevistas a actores clave. La relación entre gentrificación e inmigración devela la brecha de política asociada al menos a cuatro dimensiones interrelacionadas (i) restricción, negación o limitación de acceso a la vivienda en áreas centrales; (ii) urbanización pirata y mercado de la vivienda eclusionario; (iii) construcción de programas y/o políticas habitacionales que disminuyen la agencia política de los más vulnerables; y, (iv) consolidación de asentamientos precarios autoconstruidos como estrategia de sobrevivencia, racismo, resistencia, espara y/o cambio
High-frequency plasma spark discharge assessment in pulse-scanning digital holographic interferometry
Authors: Kozhevnikova Anastasiia M. , Alekseenko Igor V. , Schitz Dmitry V. 
Published: September 2023

In this paper, we consider the method for observing and detecting of high-frequency pulsed plasma spark discharge by means of stroboscopic digital holographic interferometry to demonstrate the feasibility of the electron concentration assessment in nonthermal plasma. A spark discharge with a 5 kHz frequency and 1250 ns duration has been exited between two electrodes in atmospheric pressure. The sequence of holograms acquired due to the proper synchronization between plasma pulses, laser radiation, and the camera’s frame grabbing that ensure the recording of the plasma pulses at different moments of time, and the temporal optical scanning of plasma pulse were realized. We also show that the phase difference contrast variation corresponds to the plasma’s instant and indicates a change in the electron concentration in the discharge. The concentration of electrons at different moments of plasma existence has been estimated. The limitations of the proposed method are considered, and its applicability for the study of low-temperature pulsed plasma are discussed.
Chronic rhinosinusitis is not associated with increased incidence of acute myocardial infarction: A national population-based study
Authors: Kim Hyun Jung , Ahn Hyeong Sik , Mo Ji-Hun , Son Sumin , Kim Seung Ho , Kim Ikhee , Lee Ki-Il 
Published: September 2023

Background & aims
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most prevalent upper respiratory tract diseases. However, little is known the effect of CRS on the cardiovascular aspects of patients. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with CRS compared with that in the general population.

Methods
This retrospective cohort study was performed using the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database. To minimize confounding, age, sex, and cardiovascular risk profiles were adjusted. The primary endpoint was newly diagnosed AMI in patients between January 2005 and December 2018. The relative risk of AMI in patients with CRS was compared with that in controls. Kaplan–Meier survival curves and Cox proportional regression tests were used for statistical analyses.

Results
Among 5,179,981 patients from the NHIS database, 996,679 patients with CRS were selected. The control group was 10 times (n = 9,966,790) the number of individuals in the CRS group. The CRS group had better cardiovascular profiles than those of the control group and had an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.99 (95% confidence interval, 0.97–1.02) for AMI.

Conclusion
There was no significant association between the two groups regardless of the presence of nasal polyps. This is the first study adjusting cardiovascular risk profiles and analyzing the relationship between CRS and AMI. CRS was not associated with a high incidence of AMI after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors.
A Study of Blood Glucose Level in the Newborn
Authors: Munir Muzief , Husada T. , Rotty R. E. J. 
Published: September 2023

One hundred and thirteen newborns admitted to the nursery ward of the Child Health Department from June 1, 1976 until December 31, 1976 were selected for this study. They were, 34 normally delivered term infants, 26 SGA with birth-weight ranging 1750-2400 gm and 30 high risk term infants and 23 premature. Blood glucose was examined at l, 3 and 6 hours after birth using 0-Toluidine method.
It was found that in the normal term infants there was a significant increase of mean blood glucose level at 3 hours after birth (p<0.05), followed by a slight decrease at 6 hours of age. In small for gestational age and premature infants a slight increase was observed at 3 hours of age, followed by a moderate but insignificant decrease at 6 hours of age. In the high-risk-term-infants, almost no fluctuation of blood glucose level was detected throughout the study.
This study shows that 6-hour-fasting period for normal term, S.G.A. and premature infants with birth weight ranging from 1750-2500 grams, and high risk-term infants is justified to be safe with regard to the risk of hypoglycemia.
Measles Morbidity and Mortality in the Department of Child Health, Dr. Pirngadi General Hospital, Medan, in 1973-1977
Authors: Rangkuti S. M. , Nazir Nasril , Sutanto A. H. , Lubis Aswin , Siregar Helena 
Published: September 2023

One hundred seventy-six cases with measles have been hospitalized at the Department of Child Health, Dr. Pirngadi General Hospital, Medan in 1973 - 1977.
The case fatality rate was 26.1%. The most frequent complications found were Pneumonia, Encephalitis, Diarrhea and Dehydration.
Age specific mortality, as expected, was highest in the 0 - 1 year age group (38.6%). A high proportion of the survivors (22.2%) showed recidual signs of brain damage and blind-ness.
This study proved that active immunization against measles in Indonesia must have priority.