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Laurent Chiche · 2012 · Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
Belimumab is the first biologic approved for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Belimumab is the first of a new class of drug targeting B cell-stimulating factors or their receptors to reach the market. Its target, BLyS,…
View details →Kirsi‐Maija Kaukonen, Suvi T. Vaara, Ville Pettilä et al. · 2013 · Critical Care
INTRODUCTION: Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) and, in particular, older RBCs has been associated with increased short-term mortality in critically ill patients. We evaluated the association between age of transfused RBCs and acute kidney injury (AKI), hospital, and 90-day mortality in critically ill patients. METHODS: We conducted a prospective, observational, predefined sub-study within the FINNish Acute Kidney Injury (FINNAKI) study. This study included all elective ICU admissions with expected ICU stay of more than 24 hours and all emergency admissions from September to November 2011.
View details →Pierina Navarria, Federico Pessina, Stefano Tomatis et al. · 2017 · Oncotarget
// Pierina Navarria 1, * , Federico Pessina 2, * , Stefano Tomatis 1 , Riccardo Soffietti 3 , Marco Grimaldi 4 , Egesta Lopci 5 , Arturo Chiti 5, 7 , Antonella Leonetti 9 , Alessandra Casarotti 2 , Marco Rossi 2 , Luca Cozzi 1 , Anna Maria Ascolese 1 , Matteo Simonelli 6, 7 , Simona Marcheselli 8 , Armando Santoro 6, 7 , Elena Clerici 1 , Lorenzo Bello 2 and Marta Scorsetti 1, 7 1 Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery Department, Humanitas Cancer Center and Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy 2 Neurosurgical Oncology Department, Humanitas Cancer Center and Research Hospital, Rozzano, Italy 3 Consultant
View details →Santiago Moreno, Bernardino Alcázar-Navarrete, Carlos Dueñas et al. · 2022 · Drug Design Development and Therapy
The aim of this report is to review the literature and shed light on the uncertainties surrounding the use of antiviral agents in general and remdesivir in COVID-19 patients. This review evaluated a battery of antiviral compounds and their…
View details →Brian K. Yorkgitis, Danielle Tatum, Sharven Taghavi et al. · 2021 · The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
BACKGROUND Trauma teams are often faced with patients on antithrombotic (AT) drugs, which is challenging when bleeding occurs. We sought to compare the effects of different AT medications on head injury severity and hypothesized that AT…
View details →Mohan Li, Yuelun Zhang, Lijian Pei et al. · 2022 · Frontiers in Oncology
Background Effects of anesthetic interventions on cancer prognosis remain controversial. There is evidence that estrogen receptor (ER)-negative breast cancer patients have an early recurrence peak. We aimed to assess the potential benefit of regional anesthesia-analgesia versus general anesthesia regarding early recurrence in breast cancer according to ER expression. Methods Based on a multicenter randomized controlled trial (clinicaltrials.gov, NCT00418457), we included all the patients from Peking Union Medical College Hospital research center in this study. The primary outcome was breast ca
View details →Jong Hoon Hyun, Moo Hyun Kim, Yujin Sohn et al. · 2021 · BMC Infectious Diseases
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with acute respiratory distress syndrome, and corticosteroids have been considered as possible therapeutic agents for this disease. However, there is limited literature on the appropriate timing of corticosteroid administration to obtain the best possible patient outcomes. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study including patients with severe COVID-19 who received corticosteroid treatment from March 2 to June 30, 2020 in seven tertiary hospitals in South Korea. We analyzed the patient demographics, characteristics, and
View details →Sergio Cleto, Camila Eleutério Rodrigues, Ceila María Sant’Ana Malaque et al. · 2016 · PLoS ONE
BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is a health problem worldwide. Its most severe form is a classic model of sepsis, provoking acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and acute kidney injury (AKI), with associated mortality that remains unacceptably high. We previously demonstrated that early initiation of sustained low-efficiency dialysis (SLED) followed by daily SLED significantly decreases mortality. However, the mode of clearance can also affect dialysis patient outcomes. Therefore, the objective of this study was to compare the effects of SLED with traditional (diffusive) clearance, via hemodia
View details →Anthony Bentley, Samantha Gillard, Michael Spino et al. · 2013 · PharmacoEconomics
BACKGROUND: Patients with β-thalassaemia major experience chronic iron overload due to regular blood transfusions. Chronic iron overload can be treated using iron-chelating therapies such as desferrioxamine (DFO), deferiprone (DFP) and…
View details →Melvin L.K. Chua, Grace Kusumawidjaja, Patricia Gan et al. · 2016 · OncoTargets and Therapy
BACKGROUND: Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive primary brain tumor with high relapse rate. In this study, we aimed to determine if dose-escalated (DE) radiotherapy improved tumor control and survival in GBM patients.…
View details →Paweł Mateusz Nowak, Edyta Sekuła, Paweł Kościelniak · 2020 · Chromatographia
Abstract The choice between capillary electrophoresis (CE) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is not easy and depends on many factors. An attempt to facilitate this choice is this work, in which both techniques have been…
View details →Juan José Yepes-Núñez, Anita Rajasekhar, Maryam Rahman et al. · 2020 · Blood Advances
The impact of pharmacologic prophylaxis for venous thromboembolism in patients undergoing neurosurgical intervention remains uncertain. We reviewed the efficacy and safety of pharmacologic compared with nonpharmacologic thromboprophylaxis…
View details →Kogieleum Naidoo, Santhanalakshmi Gengiah, Nonhlanhla Yende‐Zuma et al. · 2022 · EClinicalMedicine
Background HIV-TB treatment integration reduces mortality. Operational implementation of integrated services is challenging. This study assessed the impact of quality improvement (QI) for HIV-TB integration on mortality within primary…
View details →Tom Burns · 2010 · The Psychiatrist
Summary UK mental healh services have been distinguished by their continuity of care but recently there has been a move to separating consultant responsibility for in-patient and out-patient care. Local examples of the success of this…
View details →Sergio Luis‐Lima, Tomás H. Higuera Linares, Laura Henríquez-Gómez et al. · 2019 · Journal of Clinical Medicine
Type 2 diabetes mellitus represents 30-50% of the cases of end stage renal disease worldwide. Thus, a correct evaluation of renal function in patients with diabetes is crucial to prevent or ameliorate diabetes-associated kidney disease. The reliability of formulas to estimate renal function is still unclear, in particular, those new equations based on cystatin-C or the combination of creatinine and cystatin-C. We aimed to assess the error of the available formulas to estimate glomerular filtration rate in diabetic patients. We evaluated the error of creatinine and/or cystatin-C based formulas
View details →David Curtis · 2014 · The Psychiatric Bulletin
Summary In the Oxford Community Treatment Order Evaluation Trial (OCTET), patients were randomised either to be made subject to a community treatment order (CTO) or to be managed with Section 17 leave and discharge. No differences in…
View details →Rezzy Eko Caraka, Yusra Yusra, Toni Toharudin et al. · 2021 · Sustainability
Background and objectives: The impacts of COVID-19 are like two sides of one coin. During 2020, there were many research papers that proved our environmental and climate conditions were improving due to lockdown or large-scale restriction…
View details →Rachael Storo, Cole Easson, Mahmood Shivji et al. · 2021 · Frontiers in Microbiology
Profiles of symbiotic microbial communities (“microbiomes”) can provide insight into the natural history and ecology of their hosts. Using high throughput DNA sequencing of the 16S rRNA V4 region, microbiomes of five shark species in South…
View details →Cristina Neves Girao Salgado Soares, Flávia Lucisano Botelho do Amaral, Marcelo Ferraz Mesquita et al. · 2017 · PubMed
This in vitro study evaluated the efficacy of toothpastes containing abrasive and chemical whitening agents in reducing the extrinsic discoloration of dental enamel. Sixty slabs of dentin from human teeth were sealed so that only the…
View details →Yan Tong, Peter Jezzard, Thomas W. Okell et al. · 2020 · Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
PURPOSE: To improve the labeling efficiency of pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) at 7T using parallel transmission (pTx). METHODS: maps were acquired in the labeling plane for tagging pulse design. Complex weights of the labeling pulses for each of the 8 transmit channels were calculated to produce a homogenous radiofrequency (RF) -shimmed labeling across the ROIs. Variable-Rate Selective Excitation (VERSE) pulses were also implemented as a part of the labeling pulse train. Whole-brain perfusion-weighted images were acquired under conditions of RF shimming, VERSE with RF shimmin
View details →Falko Dahm, Hassan Syed, Sebastian Tomescu et al. · 2022 · Arthroscopy
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate biomechanical differences of medial patellofemoral ligament (MPFL) reconstruction, medial quadriceps tendon femoral ligament (MQTFL) reconstruction, and a combination of these techniques…
View details →Georgia Verardi, Maximiliano Sérgio Cenci, Tamires Timm Maske et al. · 2016 · Brazilian Oral Research
Oral rehabilitation with osseointegrated implants is a way to restore esthetics and masticatory function in edentulous patients, but bacterial colonization around the implants may lead to mucositis or peri-implantitis and consequent implant loss. Peri-implantitis is the main complication of oral rehabilitation with dental implants and, therefore, it is necessary to take into account the potential effects of antiseptics such as chlorhexidine (CHX), chloramine T (CHT), triclosan (TRI), and essential oils (EO) on bacterial adhesion and on biofilm formation. To assess the action of these substance
View details →Takeshi Kuroda, Naohito Tanabe, Daisuke Kobayashi et al. · 2012 · BMC Nephrology
BACKGROUND: The kidney is a major target organ for systemic amyloidosis that often affects the kidney including proteinura, and elevated serum creatinine (Cr). The correlation between amount of amyloid deposits and clinical parameters is not known. The aim of this study was to clarify correlation the amyloid area in all renal biopsy specimen and clinical parameters. METHODS: Fifty-eight patients with an established diagnosis of AL amyloidosis participated in the study. All patients showed amyloid deposits in renal biopsies. We retrospectively investigated the correlation between clinical data
View details →W. Roether, J. E. Lupton · 2011 · Ocean Science
Abstract. Observations of tritium and 3He in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 1987–2009, confirm the enhanced vertical mixing of intermediate waters into the deep waters that has been noted and associated with the Eastern Mediterranean Transient in…
View details →Remco van Dijk, Sem J. Aronson, Dirk R. de Waart et al. · 2017 · Scientific Reports
Abstract We aimed to identify potent biliverdin reductase (BVRA) inhibitors as a novel concept for the treatment of severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia. 1280 FDA-approved compounds were screened in vitro for their ability to inhibit…
View details →Nadia A. Abdelmegeed Abdelwahed, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah · 2022 · Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal
Purpose The study investigates the intention to adopt climate change and the pro-environmental behaviours among the residents of a developing country (Pakistan) through the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Design/methodology/approach…
View details →Yukari Kobayashi, Jennifer A. Tremmel, Yuhei Kobayashi et al. · 2015 · Journal of the American Heart Association
Background Although a myocardial bridge ( MB ) is often regarded as a benign coronary variant, recent studies have associated MB with focal myocardial ischemia. The physiological consequences of MB on ventricular function during stress…
View details →Lily R. Aleksandrova, Yu Tian Wang, Anthony G. Phillips · 2017 · Chronic Stress
The prevailing hypothesis of ketamine's unique antidepressant effects implicates N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) inhibition-dependent enhancement of α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor-mediated transmission,…
View details →Arran T. Reader, Victoria S. Trifonova, H. Henrik Ehrsson · 2021 · European Journal of Neuroscience
Body ownership refers to the distinct sensation that our observed body belongs to us, which is believed to stem from multisensory integration. This is commonly shown through the rubber hand illusion (RHI), which induces a sense of ownership over a false limb. Whilst the RHI may interfere with object-directed action and alter motor cortical activity, it is not yet clear whether a sense of ownership over an artificial hand has functional consequences for movement production per se. As such, we performed two motion-tracking experiments (n = 117) to examine the effects of the RHI on the reaction t
View details →Thi Yen Loan Le, Hilda A. Pickett, Andrian Yang et al. · 2019 · Scientific Reports
We have previously reported a subpopulation of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) within the platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha (PDGFRα)/CD90 co-expressing cardiac interstitial and adventitial cell fraction. Here we further characterise PDGFRα/CD90-expressing cardiac MSCs (PDGFRα + cMSCs) and use human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT) over-expression to increase cMSCs ability to repair the heart after induced myocardial infarction. hTERT over-expression in PDGFRα + cardiac MSCs (hTERT + PDGFRα + cMSCs) modulates cell differentiation, proliferation, survival and angiogenesis re
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