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This observational study aims to investigate the long-term outcomes of transconjunctival lower eyelid blepharoplasty, with a specific focus on changes in lower eyelid hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation and morphological alterations of wrinkles at short-term and long-term posto…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a disparity as a difference or a gap that exist between two groups, which is both statistically significant, larger than 10%, and indicates poor quality for the minority (non-referent) group. Despite advances in public…

This study aims to compare clinical outcomes (informed choice and genetic counselling outcomes) and cost (provider and patient time, travel, and telehealth platform) between telegenetics and in-person genetic counselling.

This study aims to explore the use of proximal femoral head for the assessment of skeletal maturity in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. The aim is to validate the use of the stages of proximal femoral epiphyseal closure in assessing pubertal growth landmarks in this patient co…

This is a combination of retrospective and prospective observational study that will be performed across NCG and other participating centers to report compliance to chemoradiation for cervical cancer. This audit will include patients treated with standard of care treatment, in th…

Beyond EV-B, there are clinical observations to implicate other viruses in birth defects, including CHD. Since the Rubella epidemic of 1960s', however, viruses have received little attention and certainly no comprehensive study, especially using next generation sequencing (NGS), …

Accurate prediction of postoperative morbidity and mortality is essential for optimizing perioperative management in patients undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery. This study evaluates the predictive performance of commonly used perioperative risk scoring systems in patient…

To discuss the effects of improving the irritable bowel syndrome patients' quality of life and defecation after implementing acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical nerve stimulation.

A high percentage of women are either overweight or obese before pregnancy and many women are exceeding the gestational weight gain recommendations when pregnant. Excessive gestational weight gain increases the risk of maternal and fetal complications. To help with this, women ne…

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a debilitating condition involving excessive and uncontrollable worry and anxiety. Difficulty tolerating the uncertainties of life, known as intolerance of uncertainty (IU), has been shown to be key in the development and maintenance of GAD s…

This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication.

Background: Visuospatial attention enables individuals to detect and process relevant stimuli efficiently. The posterior parietal cortex (PPC), a core hub of the dorsal attention network, exerts top-down control over visual scanning and is closely linked to alpha-band oscillation…

Shoulder dysfunction frequently occurs after cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) implantation, adversely affecting quality of life. While early postoperative exercise is known to be effective in the short term, data on long-term durability is limited. This 3-year longitu…

This study uses \[11C\]NPA positron emission tomography (PET) and a d-amphetamine challenge to image amphetamine induced dopamine release in the striatum in subjects with cocaine use disorders (CUD). Amphetamine-induced dopamine release data from this study will be correlated wit…

This cohort study compares to groups of patients with reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Patients in group 1 had ACL-reconstruction in the years 2001-2010 with a transphyseal drilling technique. Patient in group 2 had ACL-reconstruction in the years 2013-2018 wit…

Serum exchangeable copper (EC) and relative exchangeable copper (REC) are blood tests developed to improve the assessment of copper levels in patients with Wilson's disease. EC measures the fraction of copper in the blood that is not bound to ceruloplasmin and reflects copper acc…

The proposed study will be conducted to investigate the mechanism of patients' responses to prone positioning with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and non-COVID-19 ARDS utilizing lung ultrasound.

This study investigates changes in physical measures of pelvic health and patient-reported outcomes of sexual function, intimate relationship, and quality of life over time in women undergoing radiation therapy for pelvic cancer. Evaluating vaginal changes prior to and after a co…

This study titled "Prospective, Multicentre Study to Assess Performance of the MonoCer Acetabular Cup in Primary Total Hip Replacement" is a multi-centre prospective registry-nested cohort study, using AOANJRR's web-based data collection system integrated with Registry data colle…

The study objectives are to find out: 1) palliative chemotherapy patterns and prognosis in patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer in Korea's real clinical settings, and 2) reasons adopted by clinicians in choosing therapeutic drugs.