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Open AccessCost-effectiveness and cost-utility of a digital technology-driven hierarchical healthcare screening pattern in China
Utilization of digital technologies for cataract screening in primary care is a potential solution for addressing the dilemma between the growing aging population and unequally distributed resources. Here, we ...
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Effectiveness and safety of vonoprazan-based regimens compared with those of proton pump inhibitor (PPI)–based regimens as first-line agents for Helicobacter pylori: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Vonoprazan (VPZ), a reversible H+–K+ ATPase inhibitor, has a relatively fast and sustained acid-suppression action that is unaffected by diet or gene polymorphisms. Several randomized controlled trials have evalu...
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Deoxycholic Acid-Induced Gut Dysbiosis Disrupts Bile Acid Enterohepatic Circulation and Promotes Intestinal Inflammation
A Western diet is a risk factor for the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). High levels of fecal deoxycholic acid (DCA) in response to a Western diet contribute to bowel inflammatory injury. Howev...
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The tumor promoting roles of erythropoietin/erythropoietin receptor signaling pathway in gastric cancer
Erythropoietin (EPO), binding with its receptor (EPOR), plays an important role in erythropoiesis. EPOR is reported to be expressed in various non-hematopoietic cancers, including gastric cancer. Although reco...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Incorporation of 3D Model and Panoramic View for Gastroscopic Lesion Surveillance
Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) is widely used for clinical diagnoses. However, NOTES has two main problems: difficulties brought by endoscope’s flexibility and narrow view of endoscope...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Iterative Method for Gastroscopic Image Registration
Image registration is an essential technology for image guided diagnosis. However, in gastroscopic environment, it is still a challenging work due to the ambiguous and noisy endoscopic images. In this paper, w...
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Design of the Image-Guided Biopsy Marking System for Gastroscopy
Endoscopists currently rely on an invasive biopsy tattooing method to identify previously biopsied sites. In order to better guide endoscopists to find the biopsy positions in follow-ups, we proposed a non-inv...