To investigate the effectiveness of oocyte thawing cycles in the clinical application of assisted reproductive technology (ART)....
The clinical data of 78 cases who underwent oocyte thawing cycles in our center were retrospectively analyzed. All patients in this study received oocyte cryopreservation for the husband reason. Accor...
Clinical pregnancy outcomes of oocyte thawing cycles were not significantly different from that of fresh oocytes, but vitrification affected the number of two pronuclei zygotes developing to cleavage ...
The overall clinical outcomes of oocyte vitrification were similar to that of fresh oocytes, but the cleavage rate and embryo quality of frozen oocytes were slightly reduced. Freezing of oocytes in wo...
In finding effects of a binary treatment, practitioners use mostly either propensity score matching (PSM) or inverse probability weighting (IPW). However, many new treatment effect estimators are avai...
Spontaneous rupture is a fatal complication of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study compared the prognosis of spontaneously ruptured HCC (srHCC) with that of non-ruptured HCC (nrHCC)....
A total of 185 srHCC patients and 1085 nrHCC patients treated by hepatectomy between February 2005 and December 2017 at Zhongshan Hospital were retrospectively reviewed and enrolled. The overall survi...
Before PSM, patients with srHCC who underwent hepatectomy (n = 185) had a poorer prognosis than those with nrHCC (n = 1085; 5-year OS, 39.1% vs 59.2%, P < 0.001; 5-year TTR, 83.8% vs 54.9%, P < 0.001)...
Spontaneous rupture of HCC is not a risk factor for survival. If resected eventually, srHCC may achieve comparable survival with nrHCC....
The purpose of this study was to compare the short-term outcomes between laparoscopic Hartmann reversal (LHR) and open Hartmann reversal (OHR) in patients who had undergone Hartmann surgery for colore...
The patients who underwent Hartmann reversal (HR) at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University from Jun 2013 to Jun 2022 were retrospectively enrolled. The LHR group and the OHR gr...
A total of 89 patients who underwent Hartmann reversal (HR) were enrolled in this study. There were 48 (53.9%) patients in the LHR group and 41 (46.1%) patients in the OHR group. After 1:1 ratio PSM, ...
Based on the current evidence, although there was no difference in short-term prognosis, LHR still had some advantages considering that it was less invasive to the patient....
Infection is a serious complication of primary total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) and can lead to implant failure and revision surgery. Various demographic, comorbidity, and surgical factors have been ass...
A retrospective cohort study was conducted using data from a single institution from 2002 to 2022. Patients who underwent primary TAA and had subsequent infection were identified through annual regist...
A total of 1863 patients who underwent primary TAA were identified, and 19 were diagnosed with an infection. The identifiable overall infection rate was 1.0%. After PSM, there were no significant diff...
This study demonstrated high rates of a history of smoking and diabetes in the infected TAA cohort. The diabetes rate in the infected group was significantly higher than the noninfected controls. Two-...
Level III, case-control study....
Minimal invasiveness improves outcome in many surgical fields including urology. We aimed to assess intraoperative performance and clinical outcome of miniaturized holmium laser enucleation of prostat...
We ran a propensity score-matched analysis among all consecutive laser enucleations of prostate performed between 9/2022 and 2/2023. It resulted in two matched comparison groups: MiLEP 22 FR (n = 40) ...
MiLEP was associated with significantly less intraoperative irrigation (20.5 L vs 15 L, p = 0.002...
MiLEP is feasible and provides better maintenance of body core temperature, reduction in amount of fluid irrigation, and decrease in need for meatal dilation without affecting effectiveness in compari...
Causal inference in observational research requires a careful approach to adjustment for confounding. One such approach is the use of propensity score analyses. In this editorial, we focus on the role...
Studies have reported ambiguous results regarding the efficacy of ablation for early-stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our study compared outcomes of ablation versus resection for HCC ≤50 mm to id...
The National Cancer Database was queried for patients with stage I and II HCC ≤50 mm who underwent ablation or resection (2004-2018). Three cohorts were created based on tumor size: ≤20, 21-30, and 31...
In total, 36.47% (n = 4263) and 63.53% (n = 7425) of patients underwent resection and ablation, respectively. After matching, resection was associated with a significant survival benefit compared to a...
While resection offers a survival benefit over ablation in the treatment of early-stage HCC ≤50 mm, ablation may provide a feasible bridging strategy in patients awaiting transplantation....
With a rapidly aging global population, the health of older adults is a national priority for countries across the world. Dusty weather has been demonstrated to be a potential risk factor of cognitive...
Data on individual characteristics were obtained from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) 2018, whereas data on air pollution were sourced from environmental monitoring statio...
This study included 8,604 participants older than 60 years old. After controlling air pollutant weather, dusty weather was demonstrated to be positively associated with a decline in cognitive function...
Older adults living in dusty weather regions suffered a higher level of cognitive impairment, and such adverse effects were more substantial among females compared with their male counterparts. Target...
Thrombosis is a unique complication of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Although antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) are detected in COVID-19 patients, their clinical significance remains elusive. W...
This retrospective single-center nested case-control study included 594 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 between January 2020 and August 2021. Thrombotic complications were collected from medical r...
Among the patients, 31 patients with thrombosis and 62 patients without were compared. The prevalence of any aPLs was indifferent regardless of the thrombosis (41.9% in those with thrombosis...
Although aPLs were frequently detected in Japanese COVID-19 patients, their prevalence and titer were irrelevant to thrombotic complications. While COVID-19 patients have lower levels of serum β2GPI t...
