Nanobody (Nb) has gained significant attention in immunoassays owing to its numerous advantages, particularly its ease of molecular evolution. However, the limited understanding of how high sensitivit...
Ultrasound (US) and computed tomography (CT) are commonly used in the diagnosis of pediatric neck abscesses. The objective of this study is to determine the sensitivity and specificity of US and CT in...
Retrospective review of pediatric patients admitted to a tertiary care center from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2020, with neck abscesses....
Tertiary care center....
The sensitivity and specificity of US and CT were calculated by comparing imaging performed within 24 h of incision and drainage (I&D). Multiple regression was used to evaluate the association of clin...
There were 171 patients included in this study, with a median age of 1.5 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 1-5 years). I&D was done in 156 patients (91.2%), while 15 (8.8%) were treated with antibioti...
Neck US has a low sensitivity for diagnosing pediatric neck abscesses, when compared to CT, but remains a useful initial investigation given its high PPV. Clinicians should have a low threshold for pu...
Level 4....
Ovarian cancer is usually detected at later stages and no effective screening approach, has been identified. Therefore, sensitive and specific biomarkers for detecting ovarian cancer are urgently need...
This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of six biomarkers for the early clinical diagnosis of ovarian cancer....
The study included 120 patients (benign ovarian tumors and early and late ovarian carcinoma) and 30 control healthy volunteers. MiRNA-204, CA125, CA19.9, hepcidin, microfibril-associated glycoprotein ...
The combined area under the receiver operating characteristic curves for miRNA-204, CA125, and CA19.9 were 0.938, 1.000, and 0.998 for benign tumors and early and late ovarian carcinomas, respectively...
The positive predictivity of miRNA-204, CA125, and CA19.9 for ovarian cancer is high (59.57%, 58.24%, and 61.67%, respectively). Thus, the combination of these three biomarkers is a good diagnostic to...
Reducing the age of first autism diagnosis facilitates access to critical early intervention services. A current "waitlist crisis" for autism diagnostic evaluation thus demands that we consider novel ...
Identifying nonspecific low back pain (LBP) in medico-administrative databases is a major challenge because of the number and heterogeneity of existing diagnostic codes and the absence of standard def...
The objective of this study was to estimate the diagnostic performance (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value) for recognizing ventriculoperitoneal shunt (...
A prospective cohort study was conducted between 2021 and 2022 including all patients 0-18 years of age who had a VPS and attended the hospital's ER with symptoms that could correspond to VPS blockage...
Ninety-one patients were surveyed, and 59.3% showed evidence of a confirmed VPS blockage. Parental sensitivity was 66.7%, with a specificity of 21.6%. An association was found between parents who coul...
Parents who are more knowledgeable of their child's disease, as well as parents who have good communication with their neurosurgeon, were found to have better diagnostic sensitivity....
To compare four plaque indices used in orthodontics. An objective, quantitative plaque index and three subjective conventional plaque indices were analyzed. The study included n = 50 photographs of n ...
The frequency of bone metastases in individuals increases at advanced stages of cancer, mostly in patients suffering from lung, breast, or prostate cancer. The study aims to evaluate the effectiveness...
Retrospective study design was adopted for the analysis of 120 recruited patients (with the presence of bone metastasis) following a series of examinations and tests....
Better sensitivity (73.33%) and specificity (94.66%) for MRI as compared to SPECT. MRI also proved to be more sensitive (68%) and specific (95.74%), as compared to the findings of the CT scan....
The results conclude that MRI provided favorable diagnostic performance for bone metastasis. It emphasizes that diagnosis using MRI may enable practitioners to devise optimal carcinoma treatment strat...
Preeclampsia is a heterogeneous and multiorgan cardiovascular disorder of pregnancy. Here, we report the development of a novel strip-based lateral flow assay (LFA) using lanthanide-doped upconversion...
Following heat illness, a return to activity may require passing a heat tolerance test (HTT). However, there are several logistical limitations to the widespread use of the HTT. Thus, it would be adva...
Sixty-five subjects visited the lab on 3 separate days. The first visit consisted of completing a maximal oxygen uptake (VO2 max) test to assess cardiovascular fitness. For lab visits 2 and 3, subject...
Forty-eight subjects were classified as heat-intolerant and 17 subjects as heat-tolerant. Using the criterion of a HR ≥130 bpm at 30 min of exercise in the thermoneutral environment, specificity (54%)...
Exercise in a thermoneutral environment had a positive predictive value of 100%, thus, if a subject has a HR ≥130 bpm at 30 min of exercise in a thermoneutral environment, they are very likely to fail...
