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Relationship of troponins with in-hospital mortality in adults with covid-19 in a colombian caribbean city: a nested case-control study

Microbes, Infection and Chemotherapy, 2023
Background: myocardial injury, characterized by elevated cardiac troponin levels, is a common finding in severe COVID-19 cases, occurring in up to 38% of patients. It has been identified as an independent predictor of mortality. Objective: our aim is to
MARIA CLARA OSPINO GUERRA, Carlos H. Murgas-Cañas, Jessica L. Ospino-Guzman, Lourdes Varela-Prieto, Rodolfo Cano-Rivera, Rusvelt Vargas-Moranth   +5 more
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Prior-predictive value from fast-growth simulations: Error analysis and bias estimation

, 2014
Variants of fluctuation theorems recently discovered in the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes may be used for the efficient determination of high-dimensional integrals as typically occurring in Bayesian data analysis.
Barykina, Elena, Engel, Andreas, Favaro, Alberto, Nickelsen, Daniel   +3 more
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Diagnostic accuracy of multidetector computed tomography scan in mediastinal masses assuming histopathological findings as gold standard [PDF]

, 2018
Purpose: Aim of the study was to: 1) present MDCT characteristics of different mediastinal mass lesions, 2) estimate proportion of benign and malignant mediastinal mass lesions based on MDCT findings, and 3) find out the diagnostic accuracy with ...
Jaipal, Usha, Mannan, Nima, Pandey, Somshankar, Yadav, Rajkumar   +3 more
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RT‐PCR–Based Detection of Bone Marrow Involvement in Ewing Sarcoma: Diagnostic Validity and Prognostic Relevance

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In Ewing sarcoma (EwS), metastases, including those to bone marrow (BM), are the main factors influencing prognosis. Although reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT‐PCR) offers greater sensitivity, the current EWING protocol defines BM metastases solely using light microscopic detection.
Thanh Pham, Andreas Ranft, Victor Rechl, Susanne Jabar, Wolfgang Hartmann, Kim Falkenberg, Heribert Jürgens, Norbert Graf, Torsten Keßler, Markus Metzler, Thomas Klingebiel, Thorsten Simon, Martin Benesch, Uta Dirksen   +13 more
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A comparative analysis of the different HIV testing techniques used in Zambia: data from a clinical performance study

BMC Research Notes
Background Approximately 40 million people globally are living with HIV (PLWH) and more than 50% of these PLWH reside in Eastern and Southern Africa. Zambia has an adult HIV-1 prevalence (ages 15–49) of 11.1 [10.5–11.6] %, among the highest in the world (
Loveness Mukuka, Andros Theo, Precious Simushi, Mowa Zambwe, Peter J. Chipimo   +4 more
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Machine Learning in Falls Prediction; A cognition-based predictor of falls for the acute neurological in-patient population [PDF]

, 2016
Background Information: Falls are associated with high direct and indirect costs, and significant morbidity and mortality for patients. Pathological falls are usually a result of a compromised motor system, and/or cognition. Very little research has been
Bussas, Matthias, Doogan, Catherine, Király, Franz J, Mateen, Bilal A., Playford, E Diane, Saverino, Alessia, Waller, Denise   +6 more
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Survival for Children Diagnosed With Wilms Tumour (2012–2022) Registered in the UK and Ireland Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of Childhood (IMPORT) Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Improving Population Outcomes for Renal Tumours of childhood (IMPORT) is a prospective clinical observational study capturing detailed demographic and outcome data on children and young people diagnosed with renal tumours in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Naomi Ssenyonga, Angela Lopez‐Cortes, Reem Al‐Saadi, Suzanne Tugnait, Kristina Dzhuma, Catriona Duncan, Gordan Vujanic, Tanzina Chowdhury, Claudia Allemani, Michel P. Coleman, Kathy Pritchard‐Jones, the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Renal Tumour Special Interest Group, Hugh Bishop, Anthony McCarthy, Pamela Kearns, Helen Rees, Amos Burke, Meriel Jenney, Jane Pears, Hamish Wallace, Milind Ronghe, Tanzina Chowdhury, Susan Picton, Emma Ross, Lisa Howell, Bernadette Brennan, Gail Halliday, Richard Grundy, Shaun Wilson, Sucheta Vaidya, Daniel Yeomanson, Jessica Bate, Vesna Pavasovic, Jessica Bate, Sabine Irtan, Jesper Brok, Minou Oostveen, Kristina Dzhuma, Mark Weeks, Richard Williams, Mark Powis, Max Pachl, Bruce Okoye, Naima Smeulders, Gordan Vujanic, Oystein Olsen, Tom Watson, Susan Shelmerdine, Dan Saunders, Angela Lopez-Cortes, Taryn Treger, Tom Jackson, Suzanne Tugnait, Lisa Howell, Tanzina Chowdhury, Sam Behjati, Angela Polanco   +56 more
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Abnormal eye movements: relationship with clinical symptoms and predictive value for Alzheimer’s disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
BackgroundAbnormal eye movements occur at the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the characteristics of abnormal eye movements of patients with AD and their relationship with clinical symptoms remain inconsistent, and their predictive ...
Jing Qi, Tenghong Lian, Peng Guo, Mingyue He, Jinghui Li, Jing Li, Dongmei Luo, Yanan Zhang, Yue Huang, Yue Huang, Gaifen Liu, Gaifen Liu, Zijing Zheng, Huiying Guan, Weijia Zhang, Hao Yue, Zhan Liu, Fan Zhang, Yao Meng, Ruidan Wang, Wenjing Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang   +23 more
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Diagnostic efficacy and importance of fine-needle aspiration cytology of thyroid nodules

Journal of Cytology, 2014
Background: Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) in the diagnosis of thyroid nodules is an easy and cost-effective method. The increase in malignancy rates of the excised nodules due to the high sensitivity and specificity rates of the FNAC is ...
Asli Muratli, Nilsen Erdogan, Sezgin Sevim, Isik Unal, Serap Akyuz   +4 more
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Executive Stock Option Exercises and the Predictive Ability of Transaction Value [PDF]

, 2004
This paper investigates the predictive ability of executives’ stock option exercises by categorising all exercises by the overall value of the transaction. This measure incorporates the cost to the executive of exercising the option, together with the
Kyriacou, K, Mase, B
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