CONCLUSIONS: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted spinal surgeries in Japan, leading to a decrease in surgical volumes and changes in patient characteristics and surgical procedures. However, surgical outcomes remained comparable between
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA) with regional lymph node metastases, which lacks a well-delineated liver mass, may be misdiagnosed as a carcinoma of unknown primary (CUP) origin. The present study reports the case of a 69-year-old man
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mRNA vaccines, such as Pfizer-BioNTech, have demonstrated high efficacy; however, there is limited data on the duration of immune responses besides their relationships with age, gender
Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), also known as Long-Covid (LC), may affect 10-30 % of COVID-infected patients, and is characterized by a variety of debilitating symptoms lasting over 3 months after the acute infection, including but not
CONCLUSIONS: Overall faculty attendance at MGR did not change following the transition to a virtual format regardless of COVID census, but individual attendance habits fluctuated in a bi-directional manner. Incentivizing use of a digital archive may
CONCLUSION: Even under strict infection control measures, respiratory viruses were detected in the nasopharynx of almost all paediatric patients who had asthma exacerbations requiring hospitalization.
Pregnant and postpartum individuals are at significantly higher risk of serious complications related to seasonal and pandemic influenza infections compared with nonpregnant people. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American