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Handling rescue therapy in myasthenia gravis clinical trials: why it matters and why you should care

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Abstract Myasthenia gravis (MG) clinical trials typically allow rescue therapy during follow‐up in the event of marked worsening of MG symptoms. Failure to appropriately address rescue therapy in defining treatment effects and planning statistical analyses may yield biased estimates, increase false positive rates, or decrease statistical power – all of
Justin M. Leach, Inmaculada Aban, Gary Cutter, Michael Benatar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Trial Readiness in Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy R1 (LGMDR1): A GRASP Consortium Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Identifying functional measures that are both valid and reliable in the limb girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) population is critical for quantifying the level of functional impairment related to disease progression in order to establish clinical trial readiness in the context of anticipated therapeutic trials.
Stephanie M. Hunn, Lindsay N. Alfano, Aileen Jones, Amanda Butler, Linda P. Lowes, Megan A. Iammarino, Natalie F. Reash, Lindsay Pietruszewski, Sandhya Sasidharan, Melissa Currence, Jeffrey M. Statland, Talia Strahler, Robert Will, Matthew Wicklund, Stacy Dixon, Renee Augsburger, Tahseen Mozaffar, Katie M. Laubscher, Shelley R. H. Mockler, Katherine D. Mathews, Nikia Stinson, Doris G. Leung, Molly M. Stark, Rebecca A. Horton, Peter B. Kang, Meredith K. James, Amanda Clause, Conrad C. Weihl, Nicholas E. Johnson, GRASP‐LGMD Consortium   +29 more
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Incidence of and Risk of Mortality After Hip Fractures in Rheumatoid Arthritis Relative to the General Population

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Osteoporosis, a known complication of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), increases the risk of hip fracture, which is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Fracture risk estimates in patients with RA treated with contemporary treatment strategies are lacking.
C. Allyson Jones, Pierre Guy, Hui Xie, Eric C. Sayre, Kai Zhao, Diane Lacaille   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discriminant audio properties in deep learning based respiratory insufficiency detection in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]

Artificial Intellingence in Medicine Proceedings 2023, page 271-275
This work investigates Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems that detect respiratory insufficiency (RI) by analyzing speech audios, thus treating speech as a RI biomarker. Previous works collected RI data (P1) from COVID-19 patients during the first phase of the pandemic and trained modern AI models, such as CNNs and Transformers, which achieved $96.5\%$
arxiv   +1 more source

Ageism in Rheumatology: the Healthcare Professional's Perspective

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Ageism (age‐based stereotypes, prejudice, or discrimination) is prevalent and linked to prolonged disability and reduced lifespan in older adults. Little is known about ageism within rheumatology. This study explores the healthcare professional's (HCP) perception of the care of older adults and how ageist attitudes or perspectives may impact ...
Aaron P. Smith, Pooja M. Achanta, Jiha Lee, Namrata Singh, Una E. Makris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motion Compensated Whole-Heart Coronary Magnetic Resonance Angiography using Focused Navigation (fNAV) [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Background: RSN whole-heart CMRA is a technique that estimates and corrects for respiratory motion. However, RSN has been limited to a 1D rigid correction which is often insufficient for patients with complex respiratory patterns. The goal of this work is therefore to improve the robustness and quality of 3D radial CMRA by incorporating both 3D motion ...
arxiv  

Estimation of Physical Activity Level and Ambient Condition Thresholds for Respiratory Health using Smartphone Sensors [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
While physical activity has been described as a primary prevention against chronic diseases, strenuous physical exertion under adverse ambient conditions has also been reported as a major contributor to exacerbation of chronic respiratory conditions.
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Activation of SIRT1 Reduces Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells Fibrosis in Hypoxia Through SIRT1‐FoxO1‐FoxO3‐Autophagy Pathway

Advanced Biology, EarlyView.
Hypoxia promotes the epithelial‐mesenchymal transition (EMT) of renal tubular epithelial cells via the SIRT1‐FoxO1‐FoxO3‐autophagy pathway, thereby resulting in the fibrosis of renal tubular epithelial cells. Activation of SIRT1 or induction of autophagy inhibits this process, alleviating hypoxia‐induced fibrosis.
Guangyu Wang, Lijuan Zhang, Jiaorong Tan, Fei Li, Yishan Jin, Limei He, Xin Yang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protocol for diaphragm pacing in patients with respiratory muscle weakness due to motor neurone disease (DiPALS): a randomised controlled trial

BMC Neurology, 2012
Background Motor neurone disease (MND) is a devastating illness which leads to muscle weakness and death, usually within 2-3 years of symptom onset.
McDermott Christopher J, Maguire Chin, Cooper Cindy L, Ackroyd Roger, Baird Wendy O, Baudouin Simon, Bentley Andrew, Bianchi Stephen, Bourke Stephen, Bradburn Mike J, Dixon Simon, Ealing John, Galloway Simon, Karat Dayalan, Maynard Nick, Morrison Karen, Mustfa Naveed, Stradling John, Talbot Kevin, Williams Tim, Shaw Pamela J   +20 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optical flow-based vascular respiratory motion compensation [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This paper develops a new vascular respiratory motion compensation algorithm, Motion-Related Compensation (MRC), to conduct vascular respiratory motion compensation by extrapolating the correlation between invisible vascular and visible non-vascular. Robot-assisted vascular intervention can significantly reduce the radiation exposure of surgeons.
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