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Lourdes M DelRosso, Daniel L Picchietti, Denise Sharon, Karen Spruyt, Judith A Owens, Arthur S Walters, Marco Zucconi, Raffaele Ferri
This systematic review evaluates the scientific literature on pediatric periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD), adhering to PRISMA guidelines and utilizing PICOS criteria. The search across PubMed, EMBASE, and Scopus yielded 331 articles, with 17 meeting inclusion criteria. Diagnostic criteria evolved, with polysomnography and PLMS index ≥5 required since 2003. Also, PLMD diagnosis mandates clinical consequences like insomnia, hypersomnia, and fatigue, excluding comorbidities causing sleep disruption...
April 16, 2024: Sleep Medicine Reviews
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claire Cordella, Lauren Di Filippo, Vijaya B Kolachalama, Swathi Kiran
PURPOSE: Speech fluency has important diagnostic implications for individuals with poststroke aphasia (PSA) as well as primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and quantitative assessment of connected speech has emerged as a widely used approach across both etiologies. The purpose of this review was to provide a clearer picture on the range, nature, and utility of individual quantitative speech/language measures and methods used to assess connected speech fluency in PSA and PPA, and to compare approaches across etiologies...
April 23, 2024: American Journal of Speech-language Pathology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
JingWen Li, Wai Ying Kot, Colman Patrick McGrath, Bik Wan Amy Chan, Joshua Wing Kei Ho, Li Wu Zheng
BACKGROUND: The objective of this study is to examine the application of AI algorithms in detecting OPMD and oral cancerous lesions, and to evaluate the accuracy variations among different imaging tools employed in these diagnostic processes. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A systematic search was conducted in four databases: Embase, Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus. The inclusion criteria included studies using machine learning algorithms to provide diagnostic information on specific oral lesions, prospective or retrospective design, and inclusion of OPMD...
April 23, 2024: International Journal of Surgery
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Tomasz Iskra, Martyna Dziedzic, Jakub Wilk, Julia Toppich, Piotr Pisera, Jan Banach, Michał Bonczar, Patryk Ostrowski, Bernard Solewski, Krzysztof Balawender, Jerzy Walocha, Mateusz Koziej
PURPOSE: In the present study, we want to systematize the previous studies on the scapular foramina (SF) and nutrient foramina (NF) with emphasis on the clinical relevance of this topic. Although seemingly not important, radiologists, clinicians and surgeons should be aware of the presence and characteristics of the SF and NF and look out for possible mistakes that may cause harm to the patients during either the diagnostic process or surgery. METHODS: A comprehensive search was conducted in multiple databases, including PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library and Google Scholar...
April 23, 2024: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy: SRA
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anne Pelletier Cameron, Doreen E Chung, Elodi J Dielubanza, Ekene Enemchukwu, David A Ginsberg, Brian T Helfand, Penny Holland, Brian J Linder, Leila Rahimi, W Stuart Reynolds, Eric S Rovner, Lesley Souter, Anne M Suskind, Elizabeth Takacs, Blayne Welk, Ariana L Smith
PURPOSE: The purpose of this guideline is to provide evidence-based guidance to clinicians of all specialties on the evaluation, management, and treatment of idiopathic overactive bladder (OAB). The guideline informs the reader on valid diagnostic processes and provides an approach to selecting treatment options for patients with OAB through the shared decision-making process that will maximize symptom control and quality of life, while minimizing adverse events and burden of disease...
April 23, 2024: Journal of Urology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nicole Ferko, Stacey Priest, Lamees Almuallem, Alicyia Walczyk Mooradally, Di Wang, Abril Oliva Ramirez, Erika Szabo, Arturo Cabra
Aims: This systematic literature review (SLR) consolidated economic and healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) evidence for positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) to inform future economic evaluations. Materials and Methods: An electronic search was conducted in MEDLINE, Embase, and Cochrane databases from 2012-2022. Economic and HCRU studies in adults who underwent PET- or SPECT-MPI for coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis were eligible...
April 23, 2024: Journal of Medical Economics
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Mamta Patel, Amit K Mittal, Vibha Joshi, Mohit Agrawal, Shoban Babu Varthya, Lokesh Saini, Aswini Saravanan, Abhishek Anil, Tanuja Rajial, Samhita Panda, Suryanarayanan Bhaskar, Sarbesh Tiwari, Kuldeep Singh
When non-invasive tests are unable to define the epileptogenic zone in patients, intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is a method of localising the epileptogenic zone. Compared to non-invasive evaluations, it offers more precise information about patterns of epileptiform activity, which results in useful diagnostic information that supports surgical decision-making. The primary aim of the present study was to assess the utility of iEEG for definitive surgery for patients suffering from drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE)...
April 20, 2024: World Neurosurgery
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Abel A Pavía-López, José A Magaña-Serrano, José A Cigarroa-López, Adolfo Chávez-Mendoza, José L Mayorga-Butrón, Diego Araiza-Garaygordobil, Juan B Ivey-Miranda, Gustavo F Méndez-Machado, Héctor González-Godínez, Luisa F Aguilera-Mora, Antonio Jordán-Ríos, Luis Olmos-Domínguez, Marcos J Olalde-Román, Emma M Miranda-Malpica, Zuilma Vázquez-Ortiz, Jorge Rayo-Chávez, Alexandra A Mendoza, Manlio F Márquez-Murillo, Sergio A Chávez-Leal, Amada Álvarez-San Gabriel, Marissa A Silva-García, Alex D Pacheco-Bouthiller, Jorge A Aldrete-Velazco, Carlos A Guizar-Sánchez, Efraín Gaxiola-López, Arturo Guerra-López, Lourdes Figueiras-Graillet, Gustavo Sánchez-Miranda, Genaro H Mendoza-Zavala, Moisés Aceves-García, Adolfo Chávez-Negrete, Marisol Arroyo-Hernández, Bertha B Montaño-Velázquez, Luis F Romero-Moreno, María M Baquero-Hoyos, Liliana Velasco-Hidalgo, Ana L Rodríguez-Lozano, Nancy E Aguilar-Gómez, Mario Rodríguez-Vega, Jorge E Cossío-Aranda
Chronic heart failure continues to be one of the main causes of impairment in the functioning and quality of life of people who suffer from it, as well as one of the main causes of mortality in our country and around the world. Mexico has a high prevalence of risk factors for developing heart failure, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity, which makes it essential to have an evidence-based document that provides recommendations to health professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients...
2024: Archivos de Cardiología de México
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Pradeep, V Anitharaj, B Sangeetha
Rickettsial infections are emerging and/or re-emerging disease that poses a serious global threat to humans and animals. Transmission to humans and animals is through the bite of the ectoparasites including ticks, fleas and chigger mites. Most of the rickettsial diseases are endemic in India, but underdiagnosed. This review is aimed at analyzing the prevalence of rickettsiosis in India and the advancement of rickettsial diagnosis. We have conducted a systematic review on the prevalence of rickettsial disease in India ranging from 1...
January 1, 2024: Journal of Vector Borne Diseases
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Angela Luo, Muhammet Enes Gurses, Neslihan Nisa Gecici, Giovanni Kozel, Victor M Lu, Ricardo J Komotar, Michael E Ivan
Craniosynostosis refers to the premature fusion of one or more of the fibrous cranial sutures connecting the bones of the skull. Machine learning (ML) is an emerging technology and its application to craniosynostosis detection and management is underexplored. This systematic review aims to evaluate the application of ML techniques in the diagnosis, severity assessment, and predictive modeling of craniosynostosis. A comprehensive search was conducted on the PubMed and Google Scholar databases using predefined keywords related to craniosynostosis and ML...
April 22, 2024: Child's Nervous System: ChNS: Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
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S Adeleh Razavi, Babak Khorsand, Pouya Salehipour, Mehdi Hedayati
BACKGROUND: Thyroid cancer (TC) is the predominant malignancy within the endocrine system. However, the standard method for TC diagnosis lacks the capability to identify the pathological condition of all thyroid lesions. The metabolomics approach has the potential to manage this problem by identifying differential metabolites. AIMS: This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the NMR-based metabolomics studies in order to identify significant altered metabolites associated with TC...
April 2024: Cancer Medicine
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Erica Sande Teige, Urd Sortvik, Gülen Arslan Lied
PURPOSE: The diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is based on symptom-based criteria due to lack of reliable disease-specific biomarkers. Gut microbiota is perturbed in IBS and when comparing different methods used to analyze gut microbiota, the results might be obscured. Therefore, in this systematic review we aimed to investigate the profile of fecal bacterial markers and dysbiosis index (DI) in patients with IBS and IBS subgroups compared to healthy controls (HCs) conducted by the same method (GA-map Dysbiosis Test based on16S rRNA sequencing)...
2024: Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology
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Sun Kim, Melike Hazal Can, Tefera B Agizew, Andrew F Auld, Maria Elvira Balcells, Stephanie Bjerrum, Keertan Dheda, Susan E Dorman, Aliasgar Esmail, Katherine Fielding, Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Colleen F Hanrahan, Wakjira Kebede, Mikashmi Kohli, Anne F Luetkemeyer, Carol Mita, Byron W P Reeve, Denise Rossato Silva, Sedona Sweeney, Grant Theron, Anete Trajman, Anna Vassall, Joshua L Warren, Marcel Yotebieng, Ted Cohen, Nicolas A Menzies
BACKGROUND: Globally, over one-third of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) disease diagnoses are made based on clinical criteria after a negative diagnostic test result. Understanding factors associated with clinicians' decisions to initiate treatment for individuals with negative test results is critical for predicting the potential impact of new diagnostics. METHODS: We performed a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis using studies conducted between January/2010 and December/2022 (PROSPERO: CRD42022287613)...
April 8, 2024: medRxiv
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Siwei Liu, Changjiang Li, Siyan Xu, Yanan Guo, Huajie Luo
BACKGROUND: It is controversial that Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) is involved in the pathogenesis or development of laryngopharyngeal reflux disease (LPRD). OBJECTIVE: To investigate the potential association between LPRD and H pylori infection. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A systematic review was performed of studies assessing the diagnosis or treatment of LPRD among patients with H pylori infection. Data sources are PubMed/MEDLINE, EMBASE[Ovid], Cochrane Library, and Web of Science, and ClinicalTrials...
April 20, 2024: Journal of Voice
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E Umans, M Boogaerts, B Vergauwe, A Verest, S Van Calenbergh
BACKGROUND: Vaginal foreign bodies represent a clinical and diagnostical challenge in pediatric gynecology. Several case reports, case series and retrospective studies have been published, highlighting rare or complex cases. A comprehensive systematic review is lacking. METHODS: Published English-language articles on vaginal foreign objects in patients aged 16 years and younger, with full-text availability were included. Articles on adult patients and patients with an object migrating from the abdominal cavity into the vagina were excluded...
April 15, 2024: European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benjamin Bardel, Samar S Ayache, Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur
OBJECTIVE: Electroencephalography (EEG) can highlight significant changes in spontaneous electrical activity of the brain produced by altered brain network connectivity linked to inflammatory demyelinating lesions and neuronal loss occurring in multiple sclerosis (MS). In this review, we describe the main EEG findings reported in the literature to characterize motor network alteration in term of local activity or functional connectivity changes in patients with MS (pwMS). METHODS: A comprehensive literature search was conducted to include articles with quantitative analyses of resting-state EEG recordings (spectrograms or advanced methods for assessing spatial and temporal dynamics, such as coherence, theory of graphs, recurrent quantification, microstates) or dynamic EEG recordings during a motor task, with or without connectivity analyses...
April 1, 2024: Clinical Neurophysiology: Official Journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dimitrios S Karagiannakis, George Markakis, Vasileios Lekakis
OBJECTIVES: To systematically review the accuracy of spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) by 2D- Shear Wave Elastography (2D-SWE) in predicting high risk for bleeding varices (HRV) in cirrhotic patients. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Medline, Cochrane, and Google Scholar databases were searched up to 31/05/2023 for all human studies using 2D-SWE to estimate SSM and endoscopy to detect HRV. Meta-analysis was performed using a generalized linear mixed model...
April 18, 2024: European Journal of Radiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matteo Pavone, Marta Goglia, Cristina Taliento, Lise Lecointre, Nicolò Bizzarri, Francesco Fanfani, Anna Fagotti, Giovanni Scambia, Jacques Marescaux, Denis Querleu, Barbara Seeliger, Chérif Akladios
OBJECTIVE: Obesity represents an exponentially growing preventable disease leading to different health complications, particularly when associated with cancer. In recent years, however, an 'obesity paradox' has been hypothesized where obese individuals affected by cancer counterintuitively show better survival rates. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to assess whether the prognosis in gynecological malignancies is positively influenced by obesity. METHODS: This study adheres to PRISMA guidelines and is registered with PROSPERO...
April 19, 2024: International Journal of Gynecological Cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sean Halstead, Chester Cao, Grímur Høgnason Mohr, Bjørn H Ebdrup, Toby Pillinger, Robert A McCutcheon, Joseph Firth, Dan Siskind, Nicola Warren
BACKGROUND: People with severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and bipolar disorder, face poorer health outcomes from multiple chronic illnesses. Physical multimorbidity, the coexistence of two or more chronic physical conditions, and psychiatric multimorbidity, the coexistence of three or more psychiatric disorders, are both emerging concepts useful in conceptualising disease burden. However, the prevalence of physical and psychiatric multimorbidity in this cohort is unknown...
April 17, 2024: Lancet Psychiatry
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REVIEW
Sophie Mandl, Johanna Alexopoulos, Stephan Doering, Brigitte Wildner, Rainer Seidl, Lisa Bartha-Doering
BACKGROUND: Prenatal maternal distress can negatively affect pregnancy outcomes, yet its impact on the offspring's brain structure and function remains unclear. This systematic review summarizes the available literature on the relationship between prenatal maternal distress and brain development in fetuses and infants up to 12 months of age. METHODS: We searched Central, Embase, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and PSYNDEXplus for studies published between database inception and December 2023...
April 16, 2024: Early Human Development
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