Yang, He S. Racine-Brzostek, Sabrina E. Karbaschi, Mohsen Yee, Jim Dillard, Alicia Steel, Peter A.D. Lee, William T. McDonough, Kathleen A. Qiu, Yuqing Ketas, Thomas J.
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Biosensors & Bioelectronics
• Novel testing-on-a probe (TOP) biosensors employ Cy5-Streptavidin-polysaccharide with improved conjugation chemistry. • TOP assays allow rapid, sensitive, specific and fully automated detection of SARS-CoV-2 total (TAb) and surrogate neutralizing antibodies (SNAb). • Simple dip-and-read steps on a clinically available platform. • Disposable cartr...
Nagasawa, Kyohei Iwata, Mitsunaga Nihashi, Takashi Terasawa, Teruhiko
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Medicine
Objectives: Controversies emerge over routine performances of whole-body computed tomography (WBCT) in patients with blunt polytrauma. The existing randomized and non-randomized evidence is inconclusive, and during observations of non-trauma, incidental findings, detected by WBCT, have left uncertainty regarding their consequences and optimal manag...
Lin, Cheng-Kai Chen, Po-Yuan Wu, Yu-ying Wu, Cheng-Chun Chen, Han-Jung Liang, Cheng-Loong Lee, Yi-Che Lin, Chi-Wei Hung, Chao-Ming Wang, Hao-Kuang
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Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Background Statin treatment improves clinical outcomes in patients with ischemic strokes, although there is no evidence regarding the safety of statin therapy in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). This study aimed at evaluating the effects of continuing statin treatment after ICH. Methods Data were obtained from the National Health Insur...
Teshale, Achamyeleh Birhanu Tsegaye, Adino Tesfahun Wolde, Haileab Fekadu
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HIV/AIDS (Auckland, N.Z.)
Background Despite the accessibility and higher coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV/AIDS is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Ethiopia also shares the high burden of HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the incidence of mortality and its predictors am...
Rana, Sameer Hughes, Laura A. Rana, Siddharth Adam, Laura A.
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Critical Care Explorations
To determine if ICU reorganization due to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic affected outcomes in critically ill patients who were not infected with coronavirus disease 2019. Design: This was a Before-After study, with coronavirus disease 2019-induced ICU reorganization as the intervention. A retrospective chart review of adult patients admitted...
Li, Pengyang Lu, Xiaojia Teng, Catherine Hadley, Michelle Cai, Peng Dai, Qiying Wang, Bin
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Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy
Purpose Hyperlipidemia (HLD) is one of the most common cardiovascular risk factors and is prevalent in patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TCM), but the association between HLD and TCM patients’ outcomes is unclear. We investigated the impact of HLD on the in-hospital outcomes of TCM patients. Patients and Methods Our retrospective cohort study...
Marcolino, Milena S. Ziegelmann, Patricia K. Souza-Silva, Maira V.R. do Nascimento, Israel J. Borges Oliveira, Luana M. Monteiro, Luanna S. Sales, Thaís L.S. Ruschel, Karen B. Martins, Karina P.M.P. Etges, Ana Paula B.S.
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International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Objectives To describe clinical characteristics, laboratory and imaging findings, as well as in-hospital outcomes of COVID-19 patients admitted to Brazilian hospitals. Methods Cohort study of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients hospitalized from March to September 2020 at 25 hospitals. Study data were collected from medical records using Researc...
Egonyu, J.P. Miti, M.M. Tanga, C.M. Leonard, A. Subramanian, S.
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Journal of Insects as Food and Feed
Reliance on seasonal wild harvests of the edible long-horned grasshopper Ruspolia differens (Serville) (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) needs to be broken through developing efficient mass rearing protocols. This study aimed at boosting productivity of laboratory colonies of R. differens through understanding ways of minimising cannibalism, selecting su...
Torbic, Heather Abdul-Wahab, Sinan Samir Ennala, Sravanthi Guduguntla, Nagamani Han, Xiaozhen Wang, Xiaofeng Duggal, Abhijit Krishnan, Sudhir
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Critical Care Explorations
Previous literature has not compared prescribing practices of IV immunoglobulin in medical ICU survivors and nonsurvivors. The objective of this study was to study IV immunoglobulin use in patients admitted to a medical ICU evaluating differences between hospital survivors and nonsurvivors in regards to level of evidence supporting use, prescribing...
Duivenvoorden, Raphaël Franssen, Casper F M Hemmelder, Marc H Hilbrands, Luuk B Jager, Kitty J Noordzij, Marlies Vart, Priya Gansevoort, Ron T
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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
Diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease have been listed as risk factors for severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) since the first report of the disease in January 2020. However, this report did not mention chronic kidney disease (CKD) nor did it provide information on the relevance of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) or a...
