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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tatu Juvonen, Igor Vendramin, Giovanni Mariscalco, Mikko Jormalainen, Andrea Perrotti, Amélie Hervé, Enzo Mazzaro, Giuseppe Gatti, Matteo Pettinari, Sven Peterss, Joscha Buech, Francesco Nappi, Angel G Pinto, Javier Rodriguez Lega, Marek Pol, Jan Rocek, Petr Kacer, Andreas Rukosujew, Konrad Wisniewski, Daniela Piani, Till Demal, Lenard Conradi, Luisa Ferrante, Mauro Rinaldi, Eduard Quintana, Robert Pruna-Guillen, Sebastien Gerelli, Dario Di Perna, Antonio Fiore, Thierry Folliguet, Metesh Acharya, Zein El-Dean, Mark Field, Manoj Kuduvalli, Francesco Onorati, Alessandra Francica, Timo Mäkikallio, Angelo M Dell'Aquila, Caius Mustonen, Peter Raivio, Stefano Rosato, Fausto Biancari
BACKGROUND: The benefits and harms associated with femoral artery cannulation over other sites of arterial cannulation for surgical repair of acute Stanford type A aortic dissection (TAAD) are not conclusively established. METHODS: We evaluated the outcomes after surgery for TAAD using femoral artery cannulation, supra-aortic arterial cannulation (i.e., innominate/subclavian/axillary artery cannulation), and direct aortic cannulation. RESULTS: 3751 (96...
April 30, 2024: World Journal of Surgery
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MULTICENTER STUDY
HyeYon Yu, Jihun Ahn, Byoung Geol Choi, Soohyung Park, Dong Oh Kang, Cheol Ung Choi, Seung-Woon Rha, Myung Ho Jeong
BACKGROUND: This study compared the safety and effectiveness of paclitaxel/cilostazol-eluting Cilotax stents with those of everolimus-eluting stents in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Real-world data from the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry were examined. METHODS: A total of 5,472 patients with acute myocardial infarction underwent percutaneous coronary intervention with Cilotax stents (n = 212) or everolimus-eluting stents (n = 5,260). The primary end point was the 3-year rate of target lesion failure...
May 1, 2024: Texas Heart Institute Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Polianna Delfino-Pereira, Vanessa das Graças José Ventura, Magda Carvalho Pires, Daniela Ponce, Gabriel Assis Lopes do Carmo, Lilian Pires de Freitas do Carmo, Bruno Barbosa Miranda de Paiva, Alexandre Vargas Schwarzbold, Angélica Gomides Dos Reis Gomes, Bruno Mateus de Castro, Carísi Anne Polanczyk, Christiane Corrêa Rodrigues Cimini, Daniela Antunes de Lima, Fabiano Carvalho de Sousa, Frederico Bartolazzi, Giovanna Grunewald Vietta, Heloisa Reniers Vianna, José Miguel Chatkin, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Luciane Kopittke, Luís César de Castro, Marcelo Carneiro, Priscilla Pereira Dos Reis, Milena Soriano Marcolino
Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), especially those on dialysis or who have received a kidney transplant (KT), are considered more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. This susceptibility is attributed to advanced age, a higher frequency of comorbidities, and the chronic immunosuppressed state, which may exacerbate their susceptibility to severe outcomes. Therefore, our study aimed to compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 in KT patients with those on chronic dialysis and non-CKD patients in a propensity score-matched cohort study...
2024: Frontiers in Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Li Li, Mingze Du, Sheling Wu, Caiyuzhu Wen, Pingping Kong, Junwei Zhang, Yichun Guan
OBJECTIVE: The objective was to analyze the impact of the uterine artery pulsatility index (PI) on pregnancy outcomes by measuring uterine artery blood flow on the day of endometrial transformation in patients undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET). METHODS: This was a case-control study. In total, 2,036 patients who underwent FET at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from October 2019 to September 2020 were included. The patients were divided into a clinical pregnancy group and a nonclinical pregnancy group according to pregnancy outcome...
2024: Frontiers in Endocrinology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sakae Ihara, Nariko Katayama, Waka Nogami, Mizuki Amano, Sachiko Noda, Chika Kurata, Yuki Kobayashi, Yohei Sasaki, Dai Mitsuda, Mire Ozawa, Jun Matsuoka, Ryo Takemura, Hiroyuki Uchida, Atsuo Nakagawa
BACKGROUND: Coping refers to conscious responses to negative circumstances, with the intention of ameliorating these situations. Few studies have compared the differences between psychotherapy and medication treatment for coping strategies for depression. In this study, we investigated the differences in coping strategies between cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) combined with medication (CBT group) and medication alone (pharmacotherapy group) among outpatients with depression. METHODS: A prospective observational study was conducted among 50 patients with major depression (24 and 26 in the CBT and pharmacotherapy groups, respectively)...
2024: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lei Teng, Liuyuan Zhao, Hongxue Shao, Junzhu Dai, Huichao Zou
BACKGROUND: Studies have reported that blood transfusion may have an association with survival outcomes of cancer patients. This study was aimed at finding the effect of intra-operative blood transfusion on the prognosis of patients of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS: This was a retrospective study. HCC patients who underwent tumor resection from January 2013 to November 2018 at Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital were included. The survival time of patients receiving or not receiving blood transfusion during the operation were compared...
2024: Cancer Management and Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claudia Bruno, Carolyn E Cesta, Vidar Hjellvik, Sinna Pilgaard Ulrichsen, Marte-Helene Bjørk, Buket Öztürk Esen, Malcolm B Gillies, Mika Gissler, Alys Havard, Øystein Karlstad, Maarit K Leinonen, Mette Nørgaard, Sallie-Anne Pearson, Johan Reutfors, Kari Furu, Jacqueline M Cohen, Helga Zoega
BACKGROUND: Antipsychotics are commonly prescribed to treat a range of psychiatric conditions in women of reproductive age and during pregnancy, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, autism spectrum disorder, and insomnia. This study aimed to evaluate whether children exposed to antipsychotic medication prenatally are at increased risk of specific neurodevelopmental disorders and learning difficulties. METHODS: Our population-based cohort study used nationwide register data (1 January 2000-31 December 2020) on pregnant women diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder and their live-born singletons from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden...
April 2024: EClinicalMedicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yolanda Lawson, Gregory E Wilding, Ali A El-Solh
Existing evidence linking insomnia to all-cause mortality in older individuals remains inconclusive. We conducted a retrospective study of a large cohort of veterans aged 65-80 years old identified from the Corporate Data Warehouse, a large data repository derived from the Veterans Health Administration integrated medical records. Veterans' enrollees with and without International Classification of Diseases, Ninth and Tenth Revision, codes corresponding to insomnia diagnosis between 1 January 2010 and 30 March 2019 were assessed for eligibility...
April 29, 2024: Journal of Sleep Research
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
Elgin Orçum Uzunlu, Zeki Oğurtan
This study delves into the impact of mesenchymal stem cells derived from bone marrow (BM-MSCs) and those sourced from dental pulp (DP-MSCs) on the recovery of motor function and morphological aspects of the rat's sciatic nerve after crush injuries. The findings highlight that the groups treated with BM-MSCs, DP-MSCs or a combination of both (BM + DP-MSCs) displayed enhanced sciatic functional index values when juxtaposed with the sham group. This points to bettered motor functionalities. A deeper morphological analysis showed that all the groups had retained perineurium structure and fascicular arrangement...
May 2024: Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nischal Ranganath, Leslie C Hassett, Omar M Abu Saleh, Zachary A Yetmar
PURPOSE: The optimal duration of therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infection (PSA-BSI) is unknown, with prolonged therapy frequently favored due to severity of infection, patient complexity, risk of multi-drug resistance, and high mortality. We therefore conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies with head-to-head comparison of short versus prolonged therapy for PSA-BSI. METHODS: A comprehensive search including Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and Scopus was performed...
April 27, 2024: Journal of Hospital Infection
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanfang Liu, Yongtao Gao, Cuie Lu, Junjie Chen, Saisai Huang
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of intravenous anesthetic drugs on fertilization rate in subjects receiving oocyte retrieval by assisted reproduction technology (ART). METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was designed. The clinical information of subjects who received oocyte retrieval procedure was collected. The subjects were divided into two groups based on the type of anesthesia used: the no-anesthesia group and the intravenous anesthesia group...
April 29, 2024: BMC Anesthesiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hyo Jung Cho, Eunyoung Lee, Soon Sun Kim, Jae Youn Cheong
This study evaluated the effect of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) on cancer development, particularly in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), in individuals with concomitant fatty liver disease (FLD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Using data from Korea's Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service, we performed Kaplan-Meier and Cox regression analyses in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and T2DM (NAFLD-T2DM cohort) and those with chronic viral hepatitis (CVH) alongside FLD and T2DM (FLD-T2DM-CVH cohort)...
April 29, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ren Yanhong, Zhao Shuai, Chen Dan, Sun Xiaomin
Mycoplasma pneumoniae necrotizing pneumonia (MPNP) has a long and severe disease course, which seriously threatens to jeopardize patients' lives and health. Early prediction is essential for good recovery and prognosis. In the present study, we retrospect 128 children with MPNP and 118 children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia combined with pulmonary consolidation to explore the predictive value of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in children with MPNP by propensity score matching method, multiple logistic regression analysis, dose-response analysis and decision curve analysis...
April 29, 2024: Scientific Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jaeyun Lee, Chan-Young Jung, Hyosang Kim, Hwa Jung Kim, Youngmin Ko, Hyunwook Kwon, Sung Shin, Young Hoon Kim, Su-Kil Park, Chung Hee Baek
BACKGROUND: Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ACEi/ARBs) can cause acute kidney injury under dehydratation or in hemodynamically unstable conditions. Regarding kidney transplantation (KT), the risk of using ACEi/ARBs before surgery is not well established. Therefore, we evaluated the clinical outcomes to determine the effect of preoperative use of ACEi/ARBs on KT. METHODS: We retrospectively collected 1187 patients who received living-donor KT between January 2017 and December 2021...
April 29, 2024: Journal of Nephrology
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COMPARATIVE STUDY
Ryoma Oda, Kan Kajimoto, Taira Yamamoto, Daisuke Endo, Takeshi Kinoshita, Atsushi Amano, Minoru Tabata
PURPOSE: To compare the outcomes of left circumflex artery (LCx) revascularization using an internal thoracic artery (ITA) or radial artery (RA) as the second arterial graft. METHODS: Patients who underwent primary isolated coronary artery bypass grafting with left anterior descending artery revascularization using an ITA and LCx revascularization using another bilateral ITA (BITA group) or an RA (ITA-RA group) were included. All-cause mortality (primary endpoint), cardiac death, major adverse cardiac events, in-hospital death, and deep sternal wound infection (secondary endpoints) were evaluated...
2024: Annals of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
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Roee Noy, Flóra Macsi, Yotam Shkedy, Omri Simchon, Natalia Gvozdev, Danny Epstein
INTRODUCTION: Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy (PDT) is a safe and cost-effective alternative to surgical tracheostomy. Cirrhotic patients often require ICU admission and prolonged mechanical ventilation. Patients with liver cirrhosis (LC) are known to have coagulopathy and relatively safe and simple procedures such as tracheostomy may be associated with high complication rates, specifically high bleeding rates. Current guidelines are unable to make a specific recommendation on the safety of PDT among cirrhotic patients...
April 29, 2024: European Surgical Research. Europäische Chirurgische Forschung. Recherches Chirurgicales Européennes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Björn Pasternak, Viktor Wintzell, Anders Hviid, Björn Eliasson, Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir, Christian Jonasson, Kristian Hveem, Henrik Svanström, Mads Melbye, Peter Ueda
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether use of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP1) receptor agonists is associated with increased risk of thyroid cancer. DESIGN: Scandinavian cohort study. SETTING: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, 2007-21. PARTICIPANTS: Patients who started GLP1 receptor agonist treatment were compared with patients who started dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) inhibitor treatment, and in an additional analysis, patients who started sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor treatment...
April 10, 2024: BMJ: British Medical Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tatsunori Hanai, Kayoko Nishimura, Shinji Unome, Takao Miwa, Yuki Nakahata, Kenji Imai, Atsushi Suetsugu, Koji Takai, Masahito Shimizu
AIM: Nutritional counseling improves malnutrition, which determines the prognosis of patients with chronic liver disease. In this study, we investigated the effects of nutritional counseling on mortality and the risk of overt hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in patients with alcohol-associated liver disease. METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study, we included 211 patients with alcohol-associated liver disease who visited Gifu University Hospital between August 2008 and June 2023...
April 29, 2024: Hepatology Research: the Official Journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ran Yan, Wakana Murakami, Shabnam Mortazavi, Tiffany Yu, Fang-I Chu, Stephanie Lee-Felker, Kyunghyun Sung
OBJECTIVES: To compare the quantitative background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) in women with different lifetime risks and BRCA mutation status of breast cancer using screening MRI. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study included screening MRI of 535 women divided into three groups based on lifetime risk: nonhigh-risk women, high-risk women without BRCA mutation, and BRCA1/2 mutation carriers. Six quantitative BPE measurements, including percent enhancement (PE) and signal enhancement ratio (SER), were calculated on DCE-MRI after segmentation of the whole breast and fibroglandular tissue (FGT)...
April 29, 2024: European Radiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kimaya Meher, Harshad Paithankar, Ramakrishna V Hosur, Manu Lopus
Fabrication of gold nanoparticles (GNPs) with phytochemicals is an emerging green nanotechnology approach with therapeutic implications. Garlic, known for its culinary and medicinal properties, has been extensively investigated for its anticancer properties. Here, we report a method to substantially enhance the antiproliferative potency of garlic by functionalizing its phytochemicals to GNPs and demonstrate a possible mechanism of action of these nanoparticles in the triple-negative breast cancer cell line, MDA-MB-231...
April 29, 2024: Biomedical Materials
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