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It is not so much the diagnosis that offers the surgeon a wide range of opportunities in the technical solutions of rectal prolapse. Currently there are at least 130 different techniques used in the surgical treatment of rectal prolapse and in fact none of these procedures has been shown most effective for any one pati…

The discovery of optic bulb paved the way for the development of safe endoscopic systems not only with diagnostic ability, but also suitable for treatment. At the beginning of the 20th century, the first attempts to use an endoscope in the treatment of hydrocephalus have been made with encouraging results. Although the…

BACKGROUND: Current digital medical databases record systematically coded diagnoses, but many legacy databases are full of hand-written, free text diagnoses, which can only be meaningfully analysed after mapping them to a coding system. While diagnoses can be extracted from full medical notes with good accuracy, no alg…

Direct and free online access to relevant scientific information and full text papers is the daily concern of researchers, whatever their "documentary environment", even more so if it is not easy. The PubMed Central (PMC) data base is one of the solutions offered to those who work in the field of Health and Life scienc…

BACKGROUND: PubMed Central (PMC) is a freely accessible digital repository offering full-text biomedical literature with structured metadata. Despite its scale, its suitability as a resource for systematic reviews, particularly in medical research and education, remains underexplored. METHODS: We studied the proportio…

In this study, authors describe a rare case of a 40-year old patient with a history of chronic pancreatitis due to ethanol abuse, repeatedly hospitalized for intermittent bleeding into gastrointestinal tract (GIT). The sources of bleeding were pseudoaneurysms of the peripancreatic arteries (gastroduodenal artery, right…

BACKGROUND: Children in lower middle-income countries (LMICs) are more at risk of dying, than those in High Income Countries (HICs), due to highly prevalent deadly yet preventable childhood infections. Alongside concerns about the incidence of these infections, there has been a renewed interest in involving community h…

Recent years have seen increased interests in applying the latest technological innovations, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to the field of education. One of the main areas of interest to researchers is the use of ML to assist teachers in assessing students' work on the one hand and t…

OBJECTIVE: Combining text mining (TM) and clinical decision support (CDS) could improve diagnostic and therapeutic processes in clinical practice. This review summarizes current knowledge of the TM-CDS combination in clinical practice, including their intended purpose, implementation in clinical practice, and barriers…

Medication doses, one of the determining factors in medication safety and effectiveness, are present in the literature, but only in free-text form. We set out to determine if the systems developed for extracting drug prescription information from clinical text would yield comparable results on scientific literature and…

BACKGROUND: The function of the thyroid gland during pregnancy undergoes physiological changes to ensure the proper amount of thyroid hormones for both the pregnant woman and the fetus. Multiple pregnancies (MP) are characterized by specific differences compared to single pregnancies, e.g., higher concentrations of hum…

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to perform a systemic evaluation of the risk of bias in randomised controlled trial (RCT) reports published on inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). DESIGN: We assessed the risk of bias using the Cochrane tool, as indicators of poor methodology or subsequently poor reporting. We systematically…

UNLABELLED: Microsurgical breast reconstruction accounts for 22% of breast reconstructions in the UK. Despite thromboprophylaxis, venous thromboembolism (VTE) occurs in up to 4% of cases. Using a Delphi process, this study established a UK consensus on VTE prophylaxis strategy, for patients undergoing autologous breast…

to map the existing knowledge on nursing ethical decision making in the physical restraint of hospitalised adults. (1) Background: physical restraint is a technique that conditions the free movement of the body, with risks and benefits. The prevalence of physical restraint in healthcare suffers a wide variation, consid…

This research presents the results of evaluating multiple free, open-source engines on matching ICD-10 diagnostic codes via full-text searches. The study investigates what it takes to get an accurate match when searching for a specific diagnostic code. For each code the evaluation starts by extracting the words that ma…

OBJECTIVE: This systematic review aims to comparatively analyse the amount of dentin removal by free hand and static guided endodontics with dynamic navigation system (DNS) in endodontic access cavity preparation. METHODS: The systematic review was conducted according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review…

The main challenge in pharyngoesophageal reconstruction is the restoration of swallow and speech functions. The aim of this paper is to review the reconstructive options and associated complications for patients with head and neck cancer. A literature review was performed for pharynoesophagus reconstruction after ablat…

Fatigue is increasingly recognized as a significant problem in patients with chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. In celiac disease, a chronic immune-mediated disease triggered by dietary gluten, conflicting opinions exist regarding both the size of the problem and the effect of a gluten-free diet (GFD) on fat…

A great deal of information on the molecular genetics and biochemistry of model organisms has been reported in the scientific literature. However, this data is typically described in free text form and is not readily amenable to computational analyses. To this end, the BioGRID database systematically curates the biomed…

Petabytes of health data are collected annually across the globe in electronic health records (EHR), including significant information stored as unstructured free text. However, the lack of effective mechanisms to securely share clinical text has inhibited its full utilization. We propose a new method, DataSifterText,…