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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003918/efficacy-of-low-level-laser-therapy-for-oral-mucositis-in-hematologic-patients-undergoing-transplantation-a-single-arm-prospective-study
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Hiromi Nishi, Susumu Horikoshi, Kouji Ohta, Tetsumi Yoshida, Noriyasu Fukushima, Kyoko Oshita, Syuichi Munenaga, Taro Edahiro, Hiroshi Ureshino, Hideo Shigeishi, Yukio Yoshioka, Masaru Konishi, Noriaki Ide, Yuma Ogawa, Rikou Marukawa, Tomoaki Shintani, Natumi Ino, Mikihito Kajiya, Naoya Kakimoto, Hiroki Ohge, Tatsuo Ichinohe, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi
Oral mucositis significantly affects the quality of life in hematologic cancer patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Despite global evidence supporting the efficacy of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) for mucositis prevention, its clinical adoption in Japan is limited. This study aimed to fill this gap by evaluating the safety and efficacy of LLLT in a Japanese patient population. In a single-group, non-blinded, exploratory trial, we compared 21 LLLT-treated patients against a historical control of 96 patients...
November 13, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003917/metabolic-disorders-the-microbiome-as-an-endocrine-organ-and-their-relations-with-obesity-a-literature-review
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Sorina Ispas, Liliana Ana Tuta, Mihaela Botnarciuc, Viorel Ispas, Sorana Staicovici, Sevigean Ali, Andreea Nelson-Twakor, Cristina Cojocaru, Alexandra Herlo, Adina Petcu
UNLABELLED: The etiology of metabolic disorders, such as obesity, has been predominantly associated with the gut microbiota, which is acknowledged as an endocrine organ that plays a crucial role in modulating energy homeostasis and host immune responses. The presence of dysbiosis has the potential to impact the functioning of the intestinal barrier and the gut-associated lymphoid tissues by allowing the transit of bacterial structural components, such as lipopolysaccharides. This, in turn, may trigger inflammatory pathways and potentially lead to the onset of insulin resistance...
November 13, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003916/pretreatment-tumor-volume-and-tumor-sphericity-as-prognostic-factors-in-patients-with-oral-cavity-squamous-cell-carcinoma-a-prospective-clinical-study-in-95-patients
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Elisabetta Lucchi, Laura Cercenelli, Vincenzo Maiolo, Barbara Bortolani, Emanuela Marcelli, Achille Tarsitano
The prognostic impact of tumor volume and tumor sphericity was analyzed in 95 patients affected by oral cancer. The pre-operative computed tomography (CT) scans were used to segment the tumor mass with threshold tools, obtaining the corresponding volume and sphericity. Events of recurrence and tumor-related death were detected for each patient. The mean follow-up time was 31 months. A p -value of 0.05 was adopted. Mean tumor volume resulted higher in patients with recurrence or tumor-related death at the Student's t -test (respectively, 19...
November 13, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003915/the-role-of-small-airway-disease-in-pulmonary-fibrotic-diseases
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Georgios I Barkas, Zoe Daniil, Ourania S Kotsiou
Small airway disease (SAD) is a pathological condition that affects the bronchioles and non-cartilaginous airways 2 mm or less in diameter. These airways play a crucial role in respiratory function and are often implicated in various pulmonary disorders. Pulmonary fibrotic diseases are characterized by the thickening and scarring of lung tissue, leading to progressive respiratory failure. We aimed to present the link between SAD and fibrotic lung conditions. The evidence suggests that SAD may act as a precursor or exacerbating factor in the progression of fibrotic diseases...
November 13, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003914/molecular-and-cellular-mechanism-of-action-of-chrysotile-asbestos-in-mrc5-cell-line
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Assiya Kussainova, Olga Bulgakova, Akmaral Aripova, Milana Ibragimova, Alessandra Pulliero, Dinara Begimbetova, Rakhmetkazhi Bersimbaev, Alberto Izzotti
Asbestos is a known carcinogen; however, the influence of chrysotile asbestos on the development of tumor-related diseases remains a subject of intense debate within the scientific community. To analyze the effect of asbestos, we conducted a study using the MRC5 cell line. We were able to demonstrate that chrysotile asbestos stimulated the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), leading to cell death and DNA damage in the MRC5 cell line, using various techniques such as ROS measurement, comet assay, MTT assay, and qPCR...
November 12, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003913/lymphangioleiomyomatosis-with-tuberous-sclerosis-complex-a-case-study
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Aleksandra Marciniak, Jolanta Nawrocka-Rutkowska, Agnieszka Brodowska, Andrzej Starczewski, Iwona Szydłowska
Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is characterized by lung cysts that cause lung deterioration, changes in the lymphatic system, and tumors in the kidneys. It mainly affects women of reproductive age and is a progressive disease. LAM can occur as an isolated disease or coexist with tuberous sclerosis (TSC). The source of LAM cells is unknown. Patients with confirmed LAM should be treated with an mTOR inhibitor, sirolimus, or everolimus. We present a case of LAM with TSC in a patient whose symptoms, including those in the lymph nodes and chyaloperitoneum, mainly concern the abdominal cavity...
November 12, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003912/pulmonary-artery-embolization-in-the-management-of-hemoptysis-related-to-lung-tumors
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Amandine Claudinot, Frédéric Douane, Olivier Morla, Christophe Perret, Marine Neveu, Francine Thouveny, Antoine Bouvier, José Hureaux, Arnaud Le Guen, Jérémy Jouan, Jean-François Heautot, Antoine Larralde, Damiano Cerasuolo, Emmanuel Bergot, Audrey Fohlen, Jean-Pierre Pelage
(1) Background: Bronchial artery embolization has been shown to be effective in the management of neoplastic hemoptysis. However, knowledge of pulmonary artery embolization is lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of pulmonary artery embolization in patients presenting with hemoptysis related to lung tumors. (2) Methods: This retrospective study reviewed all consecutive patients with cancer and at least one episode of hemoptysis that required pulmonary artery embolization from December 2008 to December 2020...
November 12, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003911/a-linear-predictor-based-on-ftir-spectral-biomarkers-improves-disease-diagnosis-classification-an-application-to-multiple-sclerosis
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Francesca Condino, Maria Caterina Crocco, Domenico Pirritano, Alfredo Petrone, Francesco Del Giudice, Rita Guzzi
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system that can lead to long-term disability. The diagnosis of MS is not simple and requires many instrumental and clinical tests. Sampling easily collected biofluids using spectroscopic approaches is becoming of increasing interest in the medical field to integrate and improve diagnostic procedures. Here we present a statistical approach where we combine a number of spectral biomarkers derived from the ATR-FTIR spectra of blood plasma samples of healthy control subjects and MS patients, to obtain a linear predictor useful for discriminating between the two groups of individuals...
November 11, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003910/car-t-cell-therapy-in-the-treatment-of-pediatric-non-hodgkin-lymphoma
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Magdalena Ostojska, Emilia Nowak, Julia Twardowska, Monika Lejman, Joanna Zawitkowska
Non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) are a group of cancers that originate in the lymphatic system, especially from progenitor or mature B-cells, T-cells, or natural killer (NK) cells. NHL is the most common hematological malignancy worldwide and also the fourth most frequent type of cancer among pediatric patients. This cancer can occur in children of any age, but it is quite rare under the age of 5 years. In recent decades, available medicines and therapies have significantly improved the prognosis of patients with this cancer...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003909/combination-of-biological-therapy-in-severe-asthma-where-we-are
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Lorenzo Carriera, Marta Fantò, Alessia Martini, Alice D'Abramo, Genesio Puzio, Marco Umberto Scaramozzino, Angelo Coppola
Biological drugs have revolutionized the management of severe asthma. However, a variable number of patients remain uncontrolled or only partially controlled even after the appropriate administration of a biologic agent. The combination of two biologics may target different inflammatory pathways, and it has been used in patients suffering from uncontrolled severe asthma with evidence of both allergic and eosinophilic phenotypes or severe asthma and type2 comorbidities. Combination therapy has also been used to handle anti-IL4/13R induced hypereosinophilia...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003908/finite-element-analysis-of-normal-and-dysplastic-hip-joints-in-children
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Zsuzsánna Incze-Bartha, Sandor Incze-Bartha, Zsuzsánna Simon Szabó, Andrei Marian Feier, Vlad Vunvulea, Ioan Alin Nechifor-Boilă, Ylenia Pastorello, Dezso Szasz, Lóránd Dénes
From a surgical point of view, quantification cannot always be achieved in the developmental deformity in hip joints, but finite element analysis can be a helpful tool to compare normal joint architecture with a dysplastic counterpart. CT scans from the normal right hip of an 8-year-old boy and the dysplastic left hip of a 12-year-old girl were used to construct our geometric models. In a three-dimensional model construction, distinctions were made between the cortical bone, trabecular bone, cartilage, and contact nonlinearities of the hip joint...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003907/understanding-cognitive-deficits-in-people-with-high-blood-pressure
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Weixi Kang, Sònia Pineda Hernández
High blood pressure is associated with an elevated risk of dementia. However, much less is known about how high blood pressure is related to cognitive deficits in domains including episodic memory, semantic verbal fluency, fluid reasoning, and numerical ability. By analyzing data from 337 participants (57.39% female) with a history of clinical high blood pressure diagnosis with a mean age of 48.78 ± 17.06 years and 26,707 healthy controls (58.75% female) with a mean age of 45.30 ± 15.92 years using a predictive normative modeling approach and one-sample t-tests, the current study found that people with high blood pressure have impaired immediate (t(259) = -4...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003906/exploring-the-association-linking-head-position-and-sleep-architecture-to-motor-impairment-in-parkinson-s-disease-an-exploratory-study
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Oriella Gnarra, Carmen Calvello, Tommaso Schirinzi, Francesca Beozzo, Claudia De Masi, Matteo Spanetta, Mariana Fernandes, Piergiorgio Grillo, Rocco Cerroni, Mariangela Pierantozzi, Claudio L A Bassetti, Nicola Biagio Mercuri, Alessandro Stefani, Claudio Liguori
Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) tend to sleep more frequently in the supine position and less often change head and body position during sleep. Besides sleep quality and continuity, head and body positions are crucial for glymphatic system (GS) activity. This pilot study evaluated sleep architecture and head position during each sleep stage in idiopathic PD patients without cognitive impairment, correlating sleep data to patients' motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS). All patients underwent the multi-night recordings, which were acquired using the Sleep Profiler headband...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003905/systems-biology-in-cancer-diagnosis-integrating-omics-technologies-and-artificial-intelligence-to-support-physician-decision-making
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Alaa Fawaz, Alessandra Ferraresi, Ciro Isidoro
Cancer is the second major cause of disease-related death worldwide, and its accurate early diagnosis and therapeutic intervention are fundamental for saving the patient's life. Cancer, as a complex and heterogeneous disorder, results from the disruption and alteration of a wide variety of biological entities, including genes, proteins, mRNAs, miRNAs, and metabolites, that eventually emerge as clinical symptoms. Traditionally, diagnosis is based on clinical examination, blood tests for biomarkers, the histopathology of a biopsy, and imaging (MRI, CT, PET, and US)...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003904/speaking-of-the-devil-diagnostic-errors-in-interstitial-lung-diseases
#35
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Raluca Ioana Arcana, Radu Adrian Crișan-Dabija, Bogdan Caba, Alexandra-Simona Zamfir, Tudor Andrei Cernomaz, Andreea Zabara-Antal, Mihai Lucian Zabara, Ștefăniță Arcana, Dragoș Traian Marcu, Antigona Trofor
Interstitial lung diseases are respiratory diseases, which affect the normal lung parenchyma and can lead to significant pulmonary fibrosis, chronic respiratory failure, pulmonary hypertension, and ultimately death. Reuniting more than 200 entities, interstitial lung diseases pose a significant challenge to the clinician, as they represent rare diseases with vague and insidious respiratory symptoms. As such, there are many diagnostic errors that can appear along the journey of the patient with ILD, which leads to significant delays with implications for the prognosis and the quality of life of the patient...
November 10, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003903/analysis-of-prevalence-and-clinical-features-of-aortic-stenosis-in-patients-with-and-without-bicuspid-aortic-valve-using-machine-learning-methods
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Olga Irtyuga, Mary Babakekhyan, Anna Kostareva, Vladimir Uspensky, Michail Gordeev, Giuseppe Faggian, Anna Malashicheva, Oleg Metsker, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Georgy Kopanitsa
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most commonly diagnosed valvular heart disease, and its prevalence increases with the aging of the general population. However, AS is often diagnosed at a severe stage, necessitating surgical treatment, due to its long asymptomatic period. The objective of this study was to analyze the frequency of AS in a population of cardiovascular patients using echocardiography (ECHO) and to identify clinical factors and features associated with these patient groups. We utilized machine learning methods to analyze 84,851 echocardiograms performed between 2010 and 2018 at the National Medical Research Center named after V...
November 9, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003902/mirna-based-technologies-in-cancer-therapy
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Maria Pagoni, Claudia Cava, Diamantis C Sideris, Margaritis Avgeris, Vassilios Zoumpourlis, Ioannis Michalopoulos, Nikolaos Drakoulis
The discovery of therapeutic miRNAs is one of the most exciting challenges for pharmaceutical companies. Since the first miRNA was discovered in 1993, our knowledge of miRNA biology has grown considerably. Many studies have demonstrated that miRNA expression is dysregulated in many diseases, making them appealing tools for novel therapeutic approaches. This review aims to discuss miRNA biogenesis and function, as well as highlight strategies for delivering miRNA agents, presenting viral, non-viral, and exosomic delivery as therapeutic approaches for different cancer types...
November 9, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003901/exome-sequencing-reveals-novel-germline-variants-in-breast-cancer-patients-in-the-southernmost-region-of-thailand
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Panupong Sukpan, Surasak Sangkhathat, Hutcha Sriplung, Wison Laochareonsuk, Pongsakorn Choochuen, Nasuha Auseng, Weerawan Khoonjan, Rusta Salaeh, Kornchanok Thangnaphadol, Kasemsun Wanawanakorn, Kanyanatt Kanokwiroon
Germline carriers of pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes are at an increased risk of breast cancer (BC). We characterized germline variants in a cohort of 151 patients diagnosed with epithelial BC in the southernmost region of Thailand, where the predominant ethnicity differs from that of the rest of the country. Whole exome sequencing was used to identify and subsequently filter variants present in 26 genes known to be associated with cancer predisposition. Of the 151 individuals assessed, 23, corresponding to 15...
November 9, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003900/gender-related-factors-influence-the-subjective-perception-of-deformity-in-patients-undergoing-surgery-for-idiopathic-scoliosis
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Davide Bizzoca, Giuseppe Solarino, Anna Maria Moretti, Lorenzo Moretti, Pasquale Dramisino, Andrea Piazzolla, Biagio Moretti
The present study aims to depict the importance of gender-related factors in the subjective perception of spine deformity in adolescents undergoing posterior instrumented fusion for scoliosis. Patients undergoing posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion (PSF) for idiopathic adolescent scoliosis (AIS) were recruited. The following data were recorded: gender, age, parents' civil status, Tegner Activity Scale (TAS), body mass index (BMI), concomitant diseases, and history of neuropsychological disorders. Each patient underwent clinical and radiological evaluations according to the protocol used at our institution...
November 9, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38003899/using-a-deep-learning-model-to-address-interobserver-variability-in-the-evaluation-of-ulcerative-colitis-uc-severity
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Jeong-Heon Kim, A Reum Choe, Yehyun Park, Eun-Mi Song, Ju-Ran Byun, Min-Sun Cho, Youngeun Yoo, Rena Lee, Jin-Sung Kim, So-Hyun Ahn, Sung-Ae Jung
The use of endoscopic images for the accurate assessment of ulcerative colitis (UC) severity is crucial to determining appropriate treatment. However, experts may interpret these images differently, leading to inconsistent diagnoses. This study aims to address the issue by introducing a standardization method based on deep learning. We collected 254 rectal endoscopic images from 115 patients with UC, and five experts in endoscopic image interpretation assigned classification labels based on the Ulcerative Colitis Endoscopic Index of Severity (UCEIS) scoring system...
November 8, 2023: Journal of Personalized Medicine
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