Hepatitis C prevalence and cascade of care among patients in the decentralised opioid agonist therapy programme of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland: a cross-sectional study by Kerstin Wissel, Pietro Vernazza, Stefan Kuster, Katharina Hensel-Koch, Andrea Bregenzer

“…AIM: To describe HCV prevalence and cascade of care among patients in the decentralised OAT programme of the canton of St Gallen, Switzerland, and compare it to contemporaneous data from the centralised setting. …”
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Validation of the TDN grade in an independent cohort of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage patients by Vincens Kaelin, Alexis Paul Romain Terrapon, Anna Zeitlberger, Svenja Maschke, Sara Bonasia, Ahmed El-Garci, Oliver Bozinov, Marian Neidert, Isabel Hostettler

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Smartphone-based real-life activity data for physical performance outcome in comparison to conventional subjective and objective outcome measures after degenerative lumbar spine su... by Stefanos Voglis, Michal Ziga, Anna M. Zeitlberger, Marketa Sosnova, Oliver Bozinov, Luca Regli, David Bellut, Astrid Weyerbrock, Martin N. Stienen, Nicolai Maldaner

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Quality of Surgical Outcome Reporting in Randomised Clinical Trials of Multimodal Rectal Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review by Joanna Janczak, Kristjan Ukegjini, Stephan Bischofberger, Matthias Turina, Philip C. Müller, Thomas Steffen

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Lung cancer and smoking trends in the young in Switzerland: a study based on data of the National Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Registration and of the Swiss Health Surveys by Seyed Mohsen Mousavi, Sabine Schmid, Thomas Cerny, Martin Früh

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Screening is associated with lower mastectomy rates in eastern Switzerland beyond stage effects by Christian Herrmann, Rudolf Morant, Esther Walser, Mohsen Mousavi, Beat Thürlimann

“…We included women with invasive-non-metastatic breast cancer (BC) in the screening age group 50–69-year-olds in the canton of St.Gallen. We compared mastectomy rates among cancer patients detected through the organised screening programme (MSP) vs. otherwise detected by stage. …”
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Frailty assessment for COVID-19 follow-up: a prospective cohort study by Christophe Von Garnier, Manuela Funke-Chambour, Lise Piquilloud, Marco Mancinetti, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Christian Garzoni, Martin H Brutsche, Ilena Müller, Anja Renner, Christian Clarenbach, Alexandra Lenoir, Bruno Naccini, Sebastian Ott, Maura Prella, Yok-Ai Que, Paola Marina Soccal, Thomas K Geiser, Sabina Guler

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ROBOT VISION: CALIBRATION OF WIDE-ANGLE LENS CAMERAS USING COLLINEARITY CONDITION AND K-NEAREST NEIGHBOUR REGRESSION by J. C. K. Chow, J. C. K. Chow, J. C. K. Chow, I. Detchev, K. D. Ang, K. D. Ang, K. Morin, K. Mahadevan, N. Louie

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Dysmenorrhea in adolescents requires careful investigation of endometriosis—an analysis of early menstrual experiences in a large case-control study by Samia El-Hadad, Daksha Lässer, Maike-Katja Sachs, Alexandra Sabrina Kohl Schwartz, Alexandra Sabrina Kohl Schwartz, Felix Haeberlin, Stephanie von Orelli, Markus Eberhard, Brigitte Leeners

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Mild COVID-19 induces early, quantifiable, persistent troponin I elevations in elder men by Justus J. Bürgi, Matthias Rösslein, Matthias Rösslein, Oliver Nolte, Oliver Nolte, Peter Wick, Peter Wick, Regine Garcia Boy, Siegfried Stranders, Günter Dollenmaier, Karen Peier, Karen Peier, Brigitte Nohynek, Aldo Fischer, Raphael Stolz, Michele Cettuzzi, Lukas Graf, Wolfgang Korte, Wolfgang Korte

“…This course was repeated in patients observed long-term.ResultsThis study enrolled 278 individuals from the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, aged 12–92 years (59.5% women), who had mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms (outpatients only) and a diagnosis confirmed by positive RT-PCR. …”
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Impact of respirator versus surgical masks on SARS-CoV-2 acquisition in healthcare workers: a prospective multicentre cohort by Sabine Haller, Sabine Güsewell, Thomas Egger, Giulia Scanferla, Reto Thoma, Onicio B. Leal-Neto, Domenica Flury, Angela Brucher, Eva Lemmenmeier, J. Carsten Möller, Philip Rieder, Markus Rütti, Reto Stocker, Danielle Vuichard-Gysin, Benedikt Wiggli, Ulrike Besold, Stefan P. Kuster, Allison McGeer, Lorenz Risch, Matthias Schlegel, Andrée Friedl, Pietro Vernazza, Christian R. Kahlert, Philipp Kohler

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Stent-screw assisted internal fixation with apex pushing technique for kyphosing thoracolumbar fractures (SAIFAP) by Stefan Motov, Gregor Fischer, Thomas Forster, Roman Schwizer, Benjamin Martens, Martin Stienen

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Ectopic Adrenocortical Tissue in the Spermatic Cord in a 44-Year-old Man by Gautier Müllhaupt, Livio Mordasini, Tobias Gramann, Vera Ertel, Hans-Peter Schmid, Dominik Abt

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Mutant TP53 driving the Warburg Effect in Mantle Cell lymphoma by Johannes Kliebhan, Andrej Besse, Kerstin Kampa‐Schittenhelm, Marcus Schittenhelm, Christoph Driessen

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Comparison of temporal evolution of computed tomography imaging features in COVID-19 and influenza infections in a multicenter cohort study by Tim Fischer, Yassir El Baz, Giulia Scanferla, Nicole Graf, Frederike Waldeck, Gian-Reto Kleger, Thomas Frauenfelder, Jens Bremerich, Sabine Schmidt Kobbe, Jean-Luc Pagani, Sebastian Schindera, Anna Conen, Simon Wildermuth, Sebastian Leschka, Carol Strahm, Stephan Waelti, Tobias Johannes Dietrich, Werner C. Albrich

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Local tumor microbial signatures and response to checkpoint blockade in non-small cell lung cancer by Maximilian Boesch, Florent Baty, Werner C. Albrich, Lukas Flatz, Regulo Rodriguez, Sacha I. Rothschild, Markus Joerger, Martin Früh, Martin H. Brutsche

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Text mining-based measurement of precision of polysomnographic reports as basis for intervention by Florent Baty, Jemima Hegermann, Tiziana Locatelli, Claudio Rüegg, Christian Gysin, Frank Rassouli, Martin Brutsche

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HSV-pneumonitis in a patient with lung cancer receiving check point inhibitors – a case report by Johannes Sumer, Frederike Waldeck, Nadja Fischer, Christina Appenzeller, Markus Koster, Martin Früh, Werner C. Albrich

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Clinical Image: In vivo urate spherulites in a patient with gout by Ian Pirker, Madalina Nussberger, Johannes vonKempis

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Vertebral osteomyelitis with <i>Campylobacter jejuni</i> – a case report and review of the literature of a very rare disease by S. Greminger, C. Strahm, J. Notter, B. Martens, S. F. Helfenstein, J. Den Hollander, M. Frischknecht

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