Differences between computed tomoghaphy and surgical findings in acute complicated diverticulitis [PDF]
, 2019 Summary Background/Objective: A preoperative reliable classification system between clinical and computed tomography (CT) findings to better plan surgery in acute complicated diverticulitis (ACD) is lacking.
Brachini, Gioia +10 more
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Lower Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Associated with Reduced Diversity of the Colonic Microbiota in Healthy Adults. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 In the United States, there are persistent and widening socioeconomic gaps in morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases. Although most disparities research focuses on person-level socioeconomic-status, mounting evidence suggest that chronic diseases ...
Gregory E Miller +7 more
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Sigmoid volvulus: an uncommon complication of Hirschsprung's disease [PDF]
BMJ Case Reports, 2016 Sigmoid volvulus is a rare and potentially life-threatening condition that is usually seen in adults, however, when diagnosed in children, it is often associated with Hirschsprung's disease (HD). We report a case of an 11-year-old boy who presented with a history of constipation since 1.5 months of age, with acute onset of severe abdominal pain and ...
Devendra K Gupta +3 more
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Impact of multi-targeted antiretroviral treatment on gut T cell depletion and HIV reservoir seeding during acute HIV infection. [PDF]
, 2012 BackgroundLimited knowledge exists on early HIV events that may inform preventive and therapeutic strategies. This study aims to characterize the earliest immunologic and virologic HIV events following infection and investigates the usage of a novel ...
Ananworanich, Jintanat +23 more
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Predicting drug−disease associations via sigmoid kernel-based convolutional neural networks
Journal of Translational Medicine, 2019 Background In the process of drug development, computational drug repositioning is effective and resource-saving with regards to its important functions on identifying new drug–disease associations.
Han-Jing Jiang +2 more
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The Sigmoidal Pregnancy: A Rare Entity Complicated by an Inappropriate Medical Intervention
Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2020 The abdominal ectopic pregnancy is very rare and accounts for less than 1% of all ectopic gestations. Due to the lack of clinical suspicion, many obstetricians confuse it with other diseases and manage it inappropriately.
Antoine Naem +2 more
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Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis accompanied by schistosomiasis: a case report
Journal of International Medical Research, 2022 Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) is a rare disease that most frequently occurs in the large and small intestine and has no obvious clinical symptoms.
Chunyan Yuan +7 more
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Epidemiological Prediction using Deep Learning [PDF]
, 2020 Department of Mathematical SciencesAccurate and real-time epidemic disease prediction plays a significant role in the health system and is of great importance for policy making, vaccine distribution and disease control.
Heo, Jaewoong
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Candida carriage in the alimentary tract of liver transplant candidates [PDF]
, 1994 Thirty randomly selected patients with advanced chronic liver disease, which had been evaluated for possible liver transplantation, were sampled endoscopically at 7 alimentary tract locations to assess the frequency and amount of Candida carriage ...
Ho, M +5 more
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Seven Cases of Sigmoid Volvulus in Parkinson'S Disease
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2016 Non-motor features of Parkinson's disease are receiving greater recognition. Constipation affects up to 50% of patients with Parkinson's disease and sigmoid volvulus remains an under recognised complication with mortality rates up to 50%. The incidence of sigmoid volvulus in the general population is 1.7/100,000/year.
T Daniels, S Blackley, C Maguire
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