Background The medical literature includes two risk scores predicting the occurrence of abdominal wound dehiscence. These risk indices were validated by the authors on the populations studied.

Comparison of Predicted Dehiscence Risk Calculation of risk scores for all patients revealed significantly higher scores in both abdominal wound dehiscence groups (p < 0.001).

Hearing loss is when you’re unable to partially or completely hear sound in one or both of your ears. It typically occurs gradually over time. NIDCD reports that about 25% of those between the ...

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Diploidization plays a crucial role in overcoming the initial challenges following polyploidy and generating novel variation, thereby contributing to the evolutionary success of angiosperms. However, ...

Objective: Patients with superior canal dehiscence (SCD) have large sound-evoked vestibular reflexes with pathologically low threshold. We wished to determine whether a recently discovered measure of ...

Key messages Negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) probably results in fewer surgical site infections (SSIs) than standard dressings in people with closed wounds after surgery. NPWT probably makes no ...

Deserts exert strong selection pressures on plants, but the underlying genomic drivers of ecological adaptation and subsequent speciation remain la ...