Hamzah, Roszymah Yusof, Nurasyikin Tumian, Nor Rafeah Abdul Aziz, Suria Mohammad Basri, Nur Syahida Leong, Tze Shin Ho, Kim Wah Selvaratnam, Veena Tan, Sen Mui Muhamad Jamil, Siti Afiqah
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Journal of blood medicine
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is well characterized in Western, European and other Asia-Pacific countries. Nevertheless, the clinical epidemiology, treatment pattern and disease outcome of ITP in Malaysia are still limited and not well known. This study aimed to describe the clinical epidemiology, treatment outcome and mortality of ITP patients in ...
Farooqi, Muhammad Khan, Anum Jacobs, Asaf D'Souza, Vanessa Consiglio, Faith Karmen, Carol L Dornbush, Rhea Hasnat, Gull Shamir Ferrando, Stephen J
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Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
The acute phase of Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is well known. However, there is now an increasing number of patients suffering from the post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC Post COVID-19 condition occurs in individuals with a history of probable or confirmed SARS CoV-2 infection, usually 3 months from the onset of COVID-19 with symptoms and ...
Almendingen, Kari Skotheim, Torhild Ervik, Bjørn Magnus, Ellen Merethe
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Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare
Health personnel had greater odds of contracting COVID-19 during its first wave in Norway, compared with all working-age individuals. Students in health care, but also in social care and teacher education programs may be exposed to the risk of being infected themselves and to infect others through their mandatory practical training. Online educatio...
Rogers, Jane E Leung, Michael Johnson, Benny
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Cancer Management and Research
Anal squamous cell carcinoma (SCAC) is a human papillomavirus (HPV) driven malignancy. Given inadequate HPV-vaccination rates, SCAC will continue to be a public health concern. SCAC is commonly diagnosed in the local or locoregional setting in which definitive chemoradiation provides the opportunity for cure and has high control rates. A minority o...
Sakulchit, Teeranai Thepbamrung, Suphakorn
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Open access emergency medicine : OAEM
To identify factors associated with unscheduled emergency department (ED) revisits within 72 hours in children with acute dyspnea from lower respiratory tract diseases. This retrospective cohort study included pediatric patients (age group: one month to 15 years old) who visited the ED with acute lower respiratory tract diseases between January 1st...
Suzuki, Yusuke Kitaguchi, Yoshiaki Ueno, Fumika Droma, Yunden Goto, Norihiko Kinjo, Takumi Wada, Yosuke Yasuo, Masanori Hanaoka, Masayuki
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International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
The associations between morphological phenotypes of COPD based on the chest computed tomography (CT) findings and clinical characteristics in surgically resected patients with COPD and concomitant lung cancer are unclear. The purpose of this study was to clarify the differences in clinical characteristics and prognosis among morphological phenotyp...
Wu, Xuelin Hu, Yongxuan
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Infection and drug resistance
Cutaneous fungal infections are common in humans and are associated with significant physical and psychological distress to patients. Although conventional topical and/or oral anti-fungal medications are commonly recommended treatments, drug resistance has emerged as a significant concern in this patient population, and safer, more efficacious, and...
Wilson, Natalia A Tcheng, James E Graham, Jove Drozda, Joseph P Jr
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Medical devices (Auckland, N.Z.)
The requirement for medical device manufacturers to label their devices with a unique device identifier (UDI) was formalized by the 2013 US Food and Drug Administration Unique Device Identification System Rule. However, parallel regulatory requirement for US health systems to use UDIs, particularly the electronic documentation of UDIs during patien...
Lv, Linshuoshuo Sun, Xiaohui Liu, Bin Song, Jie Wu, David J H Gao, Yun Li, Aole Hu, Xiaoqin Mao, Yingying Ye, Ding
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Clinical epidemiology
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third-most frequently diagnosed cancer globally. Studies have linked low serum albumin with increased risk of CRC, but the causal nature of the association remains unclear. In the present study, we explored the potential causal relationship using bidirectional Mendelian randomization (MR). Instrumental variants for al...
Yang, Lili Yu, Siyi Zhang, Leixiao Peng, Wei Hu, Youping Feng, Fen Yang, Jie
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Nature and science of sleep
Gender differences in hippocampal and parahippocampal gyrus (HIP/PHG) volumes have been reported in sleep disorders. Therefore, this study investigated the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between chronic insomnia disorder (CID) and the HIP/PHG functional connectivity (FC) network. For this study, 110 patients diagnosed with CID (43 ...
