To assess the correlation of coronary calcium score (CS) obtained by artificial intelligence (AI) with those obtained by electrocardiography gated standard cardiac computed tomography (CCT) and nongat...
Seventy-six patients received standard CCT and ChCT simultaneously. We compared CS obtained in 4 groups: CSCCT, by the traditional method from standard CCT, 25 cm field of view, 3 mm slice thickness, ...
The CSAICCT was consistent with CSCCT (ρ = 0.994 and ICC of 1.00, P < 0.001) with excellent agreement with respect to cardiovascular (CV) risk categories of the Agatston score (κ = 1.000). The correla...
There was an excellent correlation between CSCCT and CSAICCT, with excellent agreement between CV risk categories. There was also a good correlation between CSCCT and CS obtained by ChCT albeit with a...
Whether the benefits of the robotic platform in bariatric surgery translate into superior surgical outcomes remains unclear. The aim of this retrospective study was to establish the 'best possible' ou...
Benchmark cut-offs were established for consecutive primary robotic bariatric surgery patients of 17 centres across four continents (13 expert centres and 4 learning phase centres) using the 75th perc...
A total of 9097 patients were included, who were mainly female (75.5%) and who had a mean(s.d.) age of 44.7(11.5) years and a mean(s.d.) baseline BMI of 44.6(7.7) kg/m2. In expert centres, 13.74% of t...
The newly established benchmarks suggest that robotic bariatric surgery may enhance surgical safety compared with laparoscopic bariatric surgery; however, the duration of the operation for robotic Rou...
Positron-emission tomography (PET) is widely used for staging lung cancer. Although a correlation between the fluorodeoxyglucose standardized uptake value (SUV) and the histologic grade of the tumor h...
This retrospective cohort study including patients with non-small cell lung cancer age 18-90 years, with clinical stage I-IVA, who underwent curative-intent lung resection....
Data from 726 patients was included in this study. There was a strong correlation between SUV and primary tumor grade in the whole cohort (P<0.001), which was significant in both sexes (P<0.001) and i...
In patients with resectable lung cancer, a significant correlation was observed between the SUV of the primary tumor and its grade. This correlation was maintained for both sexes, age groups, most com...
Despite the recognized high symptom prevalence in haemodialysis population, how these symptoms change over time and its implications for clinical practice and research is poorly understood....
Prevalent haemodialysis patients in the SHAREHD trial reported 17 POS-S Renal symptoms (none, mild, moderate, severe and overwhelming) at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months. To assess the prevalence change...
Five hundred fifty-two participants completed 1725 questionnaires at four timepoints. Across all 17 symptoms with moderate or worse symptom severity at baseline, the majority of the change in symptom ...
Changes in the severity of existing symptoms under standard care were frequent, often occurring within six months. Certain symptoms exhibited clinically meaningful shifts at both the population and in...
Medical Spanish programs commonly engage Spanish-speaking standardized patients (SPs) for communication skills assessment, yet no studies address SP recruitment, selection, or training....
We sent questionnaires to medical Spanish faculty at 20 US medical schools to gauge their practices in recruiting and selecting Spanish-language SPs. We invited faculty to distribute a separate questi...
Eighty percent of faculty (16/20) responded. Standardized patient recruitment sources included institutional English-language SPs, Hispanic student groups and professional organizations, communities, ...
Current approaches to recruitment, training, and language assessment of SPs vary. We propose strategies to ensure that medical Spanish encounters authentically reflect Spanish-speaking patients....
This systematic review aimed to appraise the reliability and comprehensiveness of imaging methods in studies that used three-dimensional assessment of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) in order to pro...
Six databases/search engines were searched up until September 2022. The outcomes of interest included measurements of the mandibular condyle, glenoid fossa, joint spaces, or the entire TMJ. Two checkl...
Out of the 2567 records retrieved, only 14 studies, which used cone bean computed tomography (CBCT), were deemed eligible and thus included in the qualitative analysis. Three studies were deemed of lo...
CBCT-based methods used to assess the positions and morphology of TMJ bony structures appear to be imperfect and lacking in comprehensiveness. Hence, criteria for a standardized assessment method of t...
Accurately, comprehensively, and reliably assessing the osseous structures of the temporomandibular joint will provide valid and valuable diagnostic features of the normal temporomandibular joint, and...
The protocol for this systematic review was registered at the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO, No.: CRD42020199792)....
•Although many methods have been introduced to assess the osseous structure of the temporomandibular joint, they yielded inconsistent findings. •None of the published studies comprehensively assessed ...
Intrathoracic intercostal cryoanalgesia (Cryo) during minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE) reports have been related to improved pain management, although its extent differs amongst s...
Retrospective study including patients undergoing Cryo during MIRPE between October 2018 and May 2023. Results with a standardized perioperative approach were analyzed. We then compared our Cryo cohor...
We performed 176 Cryo during MIRPE (16.8 ± 4.6 years), with a mean postoperative length of stay (LOS) of 1.4 ± 0.8 days and a median total requirement of 7.5 (0.0; 15.0) oral morphine equivalents (OME...
In this study, we reported lessons learned after performing a standardized protocol of perioperative care in patients undergoing Cryo during MIRPE. This protocol enabled the achievement of a short LOS...
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To evaluate a correlation between an MRI-specific marker for cellular density [apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC)] and the expression of Somatostatin Receptors (SSTR) in patients with meningioma of ...
68 Ga-DOTATOC PET/MR imaging was performed in 60 Patients with suspected or diagnosed meningiomas of the skull base and eye socket. Analysis of ADC values succeeded in 32 patients. ADC values (ADC mea...
One out of 32 patients (3%) was diagnosed with lymphoma by histopathological examination and therefore excluded from further analysis. Median ADC mean amounted to 822 × 10 -5 mm²/s -1 (95% CI: 570-149...
The presented data displays no relevant correlations between increased SSTR expression and cellularity in patients with meningioma of the skull base. SSTR-PET and DWI thus may offer complementary info...
Patients with early breast cancer must choose between undergoing breast conservation surgery or mastectomy. This decision is often difficult as there are trade-offs between breast conservation and adv...
To study the impact of a decision aid with a patient preference assessment tool for surgical decision-making on patients' decisional conflict scale (DCS) score....
This 3-group randomized clinical trial was conducted between June 2017 and December 2019 at a single high-volume tertiary care cancer center in Mumbai, India. A research questionnaire comprising 16 qu...
Patients were randomized 1:1:1 to study groups: standard care including clinical explanation about surgery (control), standard care plus the Navya-PPT provided to the patient alone (solo group), and s...
The primary end point of the study was DCS score. The study was 80% powered with 2-sided α = .01 to detect an effect size of 0.25 measured by Cohen d, F test analysis of variance, and fixed effects....
A total of 245 female patients (median [range] age, 48 [23-76] years) were randomized (82 to control, 83 to the solo group, and 80 to the joint group). The median (range) pathological tumor size was 2...
The results of this study demonstrated lower decisional conflict as measured by DCS score following use of the online, self-administered Navya-PPT among patients with early breast cancer choosing betw...
Clinical Trials Registry of India Identifier: CTRI/2017/11/010480....
Venom-induced consumption coagulopathy and thrombocytopenia are common and potentially severe manifestations of viperid snakebite envenoming since they contribute to local and systemic hemorrhage. The...
