Automatic Classification of Neuromuscular Diseases in Children Using Photoacoustic Imaging [PDF]
Neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) cause a significant burden for both healthcare systems and society. They can lead to severe progressive muscle weakness, muscle degeneration, contracture, deformity and progressive disability. The NMDs evaluated in this study often manifest in early childhood. As subtypes of disease, e.g.
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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis associated to Duchenne muscular dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is the most common muscle disease found in male children. Currently, there is no effective therapy available for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Therefore, it is essential to make a prenatal diagnosis and provide genetic
Bianca Bianco+3 more
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Long-term Evaluation of AAV-CRISPR Genome Editing for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a monogenic disorder and a candidate for therapeutic genome editing. There have been several recent reports of genome editing in preclinical models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy1–6, however, the long-term persistence
Christopher E. Nelson+11 more
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Two-sample nonparametric test for proportional reversed hazards [PDF]
Several works have been undertaken in the context of proportional reversed hazard rate (PRHR) since last few decades. But any specific statistical methodology for the PRHR hypothesis is absent in the literature. In this paper, a two-sample nonparametric test based on two independent samples is proposed for verifying the PRHR assumption.
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David Feder,1 Miriam Eva Koch,1 Beniamino Palmieri,2 Fernando Luiz Affonso Fonseca,1 Alzira Alves de Siqueira Carvalho3 1Pharmacology Department, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil; 2Department of General Surgery ...
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Elevation of transaminases. What if not the liver?
Background. According to Russian studies, the average age of Duchenne muscular dystrophy diagnosis is 7-8 years. This is because, on one hand, Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare disease, and a doctor may never see it throughout their clinical practice.
I. V. Sharkova
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The Statistical Performance of Matching-Adjusted Indirect Comparisons [PDF]
Indirect comparisons of treatment-specific outcomes across separate studies often inform decision-making in the absence of head-to-head randomized comparisons. Differences in baseline characteristics between study populations may introduce confounding bias in such comparisons. Matching-adjusted indirect comparison (MAIC) (Signorovitch et al., 2010) has
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iASiS Open Data Graph: Automated Semantic Integration of Disease-Specific Knowledge [PDF]
In biomedical research, unified access to up-to-date domain-specific knowledge is crucial, as such knowledge is continuously accumulated in scientific literature and structured resources. Identifying and extracting specific information is a challenging task and computational analysis of knowledge bases can be valuable in this direction.
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ZIKQ: An innovative centile chart method for utilizing natural history data in rare disease clinical development [PDF]
Utilizing natural history data as external control plays an important role in the clinical development of rare diseases, since placebo groups in double-blind randomization trials may not be available due to ethical reasons and low disease prevalence. This article proposed an innovative approach for utilizing natural history data to support rare disease
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Automatic Segmentation of Muscle Tissue and Inter-muscular Fat in Thigh and Calf MRI Images [PDF]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of thigh and calf muscles is one of the most effective techniques for estimating fat infiltration into muscular dystrophies. The infiltration of adipose tissue into the diseased muscle region varies in its severity across, and within, patients.
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