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Public versus private insurance on short-term outcomes of autologous and implant-based breast reconstruction in the United States
While insurance coverage for mastectomy-related breast reconstruction is mandated in the US, the impact of insurance type on breast reconstruction outcomes has not been explored. This study aimed to compare sh...
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Effect of hospital teaching status on in-hospital outcomes of autologous and implant-based breast reconstruction
Hospital’s teaching status has been shown to impact surgical outcomes. However, the impact of hospital teaching status on breast reconstruction outcomes remains unexplored. Therefore, this study aimed to compa...
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African Americans have worse in-hospital outcomes in autologous and implant-based breast reconstruction: a population-based study from the National Inpatient Sample from 2015 to 2020
African Americans have a long history of disparities in healthcare. However, whether their racial disparity exists in breast reconstruction outcomes is less clear. This study compared short-term outcomes of Af...
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Open AccessCoronary artery bypass grafting outcomes of patients with human immunodeficiency virus: a population-based study of National Inpatient Sample from 2015 to 2020
Individuals affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a growing demand for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) due to heightened risk for cardiovascular diseases and extended life expectancy. Howe...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic disparity in transcatheter and surgical aortic valve replacement: a population study of National Inpatient Sample from 2015 to 2020
There is limited data on the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on transcatheter (TAVR) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) outcomes for aortic stenosis (AS). This study conducted a population-based...
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Open AccessDiagnostic value of routine blood tests in differentiating between SARS-CoV-2, influenza A, and RSV infections in hospitalized children: a retrospective study
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), influenza A, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections have similar modes of transmission and clinical symptoms. There is a need to iden...
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Development and validation of a 30-day point-scoring risk calculator for small bowel obstruction surgery
Small bowel obstruction (SBO) is one of the most frequent causes of general emergency surgery. The 30-day mortality rate post-surgery ranges widely from 2 to 30%, contingent upon the patient population, which ...
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Mendelian randomization study on causal association of FAM210B with drug-induced lupus
Due to the complexity of drug-induced lupus (DIL) pathogenesis, more susceptibility factors need to be discovered. FAM210B is a new mitochondrial protein whose function has not been fully elucidated. This stud...
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Effect of hypothyroidism on short-term outcomes after autologous and implant-based breast reconstruction
Hypothyroidism has high prevalence in elderly women, which overlaps with the patient population who opt for post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. While hypothyroidism was shown to impact outcomes in other sur...
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Disparity Among African Americans in Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Procedure: A National Inpatient Sample Analysis from 2015 to 2020
Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) is a procedure used to alleviate patients with chronic liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension. Racial disparities were present in TIPS where numerous studi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Novel High Step-Up 9-level Inverter Based on Switching Capacitance with Reduced Circuit Devices
The renewable energy systems generally have low DC voltage output, traditionally, the inverter demand the low voltage should be boosted by the step-up link, but this boost link will limit the inverter efficien...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Power-Balanced Modified TPWM Strategy for Three-Phase Cascaded H-bridge Inverters
For realizing the power balance between cascaded H-bridge cells and enhancing the utilization ratio of DC voltage, a power-balanced modified trapezoidal pulse width modulation (PB-MTPWM) strategy is proposed f...
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A Clinical Analysis of Prognosis and Patient-Reported Outcomes of Oncoplastic Breast-Conserving Surgery for Early Breast Cancer: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Approximately 25–30% of patients suffer from breast deformity and/or asymmetry after conventional breast-conserving surgery (CBCS). Generally, it is thought that oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery (OBCS) re...
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A Novel Inverter Topology and its Power Balancing Optimization
Aiming at the problems of poor quality of the output voltage waveform of the existing multi-level inverters and many switching devices and DC power supplies, a novel cascadable basic unit topology is proposed....
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A novel hybrid quasi-Z-source inverter topology and its modulation strategy
In view of the fact that the number of units required for the symmetric quasi-Z source cascaded H-bridge increases rapidly with the increase of the number of output levels and the switching frequency of the qu...
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RC-qTPWM method with high DC voltage utilization ratio and power balance for three-phase CHB inverters
In this paper, a modified method named reconstructed carrier quasi-trapezoidal pulse width modulation (RC-qTPWM) is proposed to improve the DC voltage utilization ratio, decrease the line voltage total harmoni...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Slicing Mechanism Deployment in 5G Networks for Robotic Use Cases
Robotics is a rapidly growing field that is set to play an important role in automating many activities. The requirements that a robot can have for effective use can have large appeals. For example, in the cas...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Use Cases for Network Applications to Enable Connected Intelligence
Robots are expected to be more intelligent in consuming digital infrastructures during the process of continual learning. The future of connected Robotics should be skillful in maximizing Quality of Experience...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Implementing Network Applications for 5G-Enabled Robots Through the 5G-ERA Platform
Novel orchestration architectures for 5G networks have primarily focused on enhancing Quality of Service, yet have neglected to address Quality of Experience concerns. Consequently, these systems struggle with...
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Open AccessMendelian Randomization Study on Causal Association of Pyroglutamine with COVID-19
Glutamine family amino acids such as glutamate, pyroglutamate, and glutamine have been shown to play important roles in COVID-19. However, it is still unclear about the role of pyroglutamate in COVID-19. Thus,...
