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Laparoscopic management of symptomatic uterine myoma in pregnancy: A case report and critical analysis of literature
No full text: Abdominal pain during pregnancy poses diagnostic and management challenges. Uterine leiomyomas complicate 2 to 10% of pregnancies, with severe pain in some cases necessitating surgical intervention. While myomectomy during pregnancy is generally avoided due to increased vascularity and risk of hemorrhagic complications, specific indications warrant consideration, such as severe pain from torsion, hemoperitoneum, or red degeneration. We describe a case of acute abdominal pain at 19 weeks of pregnancy caused by acute uterine myoma degeneration, detailing the diagnostic process, differential diagnosis, and treatment. Our case, along with a discussion of the scarce available literature, highlights that laparoscopic myomectomy during pregnancy is a feasible option for managing symptomatic fibroids. Timely diagnosis, centralized care, and tailored surgical planning are critical to optimizing maternal and fetal outcomes
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Minimally invasive vs. open surgery: comparison of surgical complications in radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer
Full text linkWound Infiltration with Local Anesthetics versus Transversus Abdominis Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Management in Gynecological Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
No full textObjective: Postoperative pain management significantly influences recovery speed, hospital stay duration, and healthcare costs. In light of inconsistencies in clinical trial outcomes, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the efficacy of the Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) block compared to local anesthetic wound infiltration (WI) for postoperative pain management in gynecological surgery. Data sources: Systematic searches were conducted across PubMed/MEDLINE, ScienceDirect, the Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases to identify all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing TAP block and WI in adult patients undergoing gynecological surgical procedures. Additionally, the reference lists of the identified studies were manually reviewed. Only studies published in English were eligible for inclusion in the analysis. Methods of study selection: The Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome (PICO) framework for the review included: (1) adult patients who underwent gynecological surgical procedures; (2) postoperative TAP block as the intervention; (3) comparison with local anesthetic wound infiltration; (4) primary outcome: postoperative pain at 1, 4, 12, and 24 hours; secondary outcomes: postoperative opioid consumption, opioid-related side effects and patient satisfaction. STATA software, version 18 (Stata Corp, College Station, TX, USA), was used for the analysis. Tabulation, integration, and results: A total of 213 papers were initially identified. Of these, 10 RCTs encompassing a total of 604 patients met the inclusion criteria. The meta-analysis showed that in minimally invasive surgery TAP block was associated with lower pain scores at rest and 1, 4, 12, and 24 hours compared to the WI group. Furthermore, the TAP block resulted in a reduction in opioid consumption at 24 hours, although there was no significant difference in opioid-related adverse effects. Two studies presented data on patient-reported satisfaction, and a pooled analysis was not feasible due to heterogeneity. Conclusion: TAP block seems to provide better postoperative pain control after laparoscopic gynecologic procedures and reduces opioid use compared to WI in gynecologic surgery
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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