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INTRODUCTION: Cancer diagnosis and treatment can impair fertility, and younger female patients with cancer have a particularly strong need for fertility preservation. Fertility preservation decision aids are thought to help patients make proactive and informed treatment decisions. This systematic review aims to assess…

Monkeypox virus has emerged in different parts of the world with varying clinical symptoms and outcomes. To date, only a few studies have reported cardiac manifestations among monkeypox-infected patients. We aim to systematically evaluate the symptoms, imaging findings, management, and outcomes among monkeypox-induced…

BACKGROUND: Heat-not-burn (HNB) technology by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been classified as a modified risk tobacco product, which can be a better option for those populations who cannot give up the habit of smoking. The outlook on the effects of these products is quite controversial in the scientific wo…

This study's objective is to determine if the combined use of bone substitutes and collagen membranes is related to worse postoperative outcomes after intra-osseous oral cystectomies. Additional risk factors mentioned in the existing literature were retrospectively analysed by reviewing the medical records and imaging…

Many baseball pitching studies have used inverse dynamics to assess throwing arm kinetics as high and repetitive kinetics are thought to be linked to pitching injuries. However, prior studies have not used participant-specific body segment inertial parameters (BSIPs), which are thought to improve analysis of high-accel…

BACKGROUND: Breast reconstruction is an important coping tool for patients undergoing a mastectomy. There are numerous surgical techniques in breast reconstruction surgery (BRS). Regardless of the technique used, creating a symmetric outcome is crucial for patients and plastic surgeons. Three-dimensional surface imagin…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of OnabotulinumtoxinA treatment in the management of overactive bladder syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis was performed including randomized controlled clinical trials that compared the use of OnabotulinumtoxinA with…

BACKGROUND: The frequency of genital involvement in pemphigus vulgaris (PV) has not been clearly defined. OBJECTIVES: We sought to evaluate the frequency of cervical, vaginal, and vulvar involvement in PV and to determine their association with genital symptoms, clinical involvement, and cytological status. METHODS:…

PURPOSE: To report the visual outcomes and complications of congenital cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens implantation in microphthalmic eyes of children younger than 4 years of age. METHODS: This retrospective interventional case series included 14 microphthalmic eyes from 10 children who underwent congen…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to determine the pulpotomy-to-crown ratio (PCR) in a high-early childhood caries patient population and factors associated with choice of pulpotomy and crown treatments. METHODS: This was a retrospective quality assurance chart review. Five calibrated examiners (kappa=0.86) rated radi…

Functional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in six patients harboring proven intracerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) using a noninvasive blood oxygen level-dependent technique based on the documented discrepancy between regional increases in blood flow and oxygen utilization in response to regiona…

BACKGROUND: There is evidence that drinking alcohol increases the risk of recurrent breast cancer. It is unclear whether Australian women with breast cancer are aware of this evidence or modify their alcohol intake accordingly. OBJECTIVE: This article reports a secondary analysis of data from the Women's Wellness afte…

PURPOSE: Long-term caregiving tasks can be exhausting for family caregivers, resulting in high psychological morbidity. The study aims to explore the experiences, challenges, and strengths of family caregivers providing care for cancer patients in palliative care, in-patient or at home. METHOD: Nine caregivers were in…

Bladder cancer is the 5th most common cancer in Canada and a quarter of diagnosed patients have muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Standard treatment options, systemic therapy and radical cystectomy (RC) are associated with high rates of adverse outcomes. Recently, trimodal treatment (TMT), a bladder preservation s…

Numerous studies have highlighted the pivotal role of alterations in the monetary reward system in the development and maintenance of substance use disorder (SUD). Although these alterations have been well documented in various forms of SUD, the electrophysiological mechanisms specific to opioid use disorder (OUD) rema…

The study's main goal was the diagnostic adequacy of pancreatic endoscopic ultrasonographic (EUS) fine-needle biopsy (FNB) and associated predictive factors. The secondary objective was to define the diagnostic accuracy of EUS-FNB in the diagnosis of pancreatic masses and pancreatic malignancies. None of the studies re…

PURPOSES: Several studies have reported no differences in outcomes between total hip arthroplasty (THA) of osteotomized hips and primary hip THA. However, our results were worse after THA for converted osteotomized hips. Therefore, this study's aim was to clarify the differences between THA after osteotomy and primary…

The authors aimed to evaluate the factors affecting clinical outcomes of cystine stone disease in children and to understand the change in disease management over time. Between January 1991 and September 2017, the demographic and clinical data of pediatric patients with documented cystine stone disease were retrospecti…

Telemedicine allows health care professionals to diagnose and treat patients remotely. Enuresis is one of the most common chronic problems in childhood and specialized care can be limited. Utilization of telemedicine in this setting has not been previously analyzed.This study's aim is to evaluate the feasibility and ef…

Previous research indicates that exposure to noise during sleep can cause sleep disturbance. Seamen on board vessels are frequently exposed to noise also during sleep periods, and studies have reported sleep disturbance in this occupational group. However, studies of noise and sleep in maritime settings are few. This s…