The impact of autopsy participation on clinical residency
Journal of General and Family Medicine, 2021 Background Autopsy has had an essential role in ensuring the quality of education and medical care. However, its role in clinical residency has not been clarified.
Kohta Katayama +7 more
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Using Machine Learning to Fuse Verbal Autopsy Narratives and Binary Features in the Analysis of Deaths from Hyperglycaemia [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Lower-and-middle income countries are faced with challenges arising from a lack of data on cause of death (COD), which can limit decisions on population health and disease management. A verbal autopsy(VA) can provide information about a COD in areas without robust death registration systems.
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Differentiated Diagnosis of Esophagitis in Schoolchildren
Zdorovʹe Rebenka, 2016 Background. The questions of classification and differentiated diagnosis of esophagitis in schoolchildren have been reviewed. The paper describes the most typical symptoms of esophagitis of different origin. Materials and methods.
S.L. Nyankovskyy +3 more
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Comparative analysis of CT virtual autopsy and traditional autopsy: A report of 3 cases
Journal of Forensic Science and Medicine, 2020 The objective of the study is to compare the results of virtual autopsy and traditional autopsy and then to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of them. three cases with postmortem computed tomography (CT) examination and autopsy were selected.
Longda Ma +6 more
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The evolution of minimally invasive tissue sampling in postmortem examination: a narrative review
Global Health Action, 2020 Background Because of low acceptance rates and limited capacity, complete diagnostic autopsies (CDAs) are seldom conducted in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Christina R. Paganelli +8 more
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The ethical implications of verbal autopsy: responding to emotional and moral distress
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background Verbal autopsy is a pragmatic approach for generating cause-of-death data in contexts without well-functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems.
Alex Hinga +4 more
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Fungal infections in liver transplant recipients [PDF]
, 1985 Sixty-two adults who underwent orthotopic liver transplantations between February 1981 and June 1983 were followed for a mean of 170 days after the operation. Twenty-six patients developed 30 episodes of significant fungal infection.
Dummer, JS +6 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The S1025 peptide is the major antidote to the YrzI toxin, which we renamed here as SpyT (Small Peptide YrzI Toxin) and SpyA (Small Peptide YrzI Antitoxin) (1). Degradation of the toxin–antitoxin spyTA mRNA, either by a translation‐dependent cleavage by the endoribonuclease Rae1 (2) or by direct attack by 3′‐exoribonucleases (3), also contributes to ...
Laetitia Gilet +4 more
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Bayesian Hierarchical Factor Regression Models to Infer Cause of Death From Verbal Autopsy Data [PDF]
, 2019 In low-resource settings where vital registration of death is not routine it is often of critical interest to determine and study the cause of death (COD) for individuals and the cause-specific mortality fraction (CSMF) for populations. Post-mortem autopsies, considered the gold standard for COD assignment, are often difficult or impossible to ...
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Minimally invasive, imaging guided virtual autopsy compared to conventional autopsy in foetal, newborn and infant cases: study protocol for the paediatric virtual autopsy trial [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: In light of declining autopsy rates around the world, post-mortem MR imaging is a promising alternative to conventional autopsy in the investigation of infant death.
Bartsch, Christine +12 more
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