BACKGROUND: Approximately half of patients who achieve successful reperfusion do not achieve functional independence. The present study sought to investigate the clinical outcomes and safety of intraarterial or intravenous tirofiban as adjunct therapy in patients with acute basilar artery occlusion who had achieved successful recanalization with en...
PURPOSE: Transarterial radioembolization (TARE) with Yttrium-90 resin microspheres is a treatment option for patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). However, optimising the timing of TARE in relation to systemic therapies and patient selection remains challenging. We report here on the effectiveness, safety, and prognostic factors asso...
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: The ConcePTION project aims to improve the way medication use during pregnancy is studied. This includes exploring the possibility of developing a distributed data processing and analysis infrastructure using a common data model that could form a foundational platform for future surveillance and research. A prerequisite ...
Published in Pathologie (Heidelberg, Germany)
Hintergrund Obduktionen gelten seit langem als der Goldstandard für die Qualitätssicherung in der Medizin. Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat ihr Potenzial für das Verständnis der Pathophysiologie, Therapie und Krankheitsbewältigung wieder in den Fokus gerückt. Im April 2020 wurde das Deutsche Register für COVID-19-Obduktionen (DeRegCOVID) eingerichtet, gef...
Published in Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Objective To investigate the association between body mass index (BMI), obesity, clinical outcomes, and mortality following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in Brazil using a large sample with one year of follow-up from the Brazilian Registry of Cardiovascular Surgeries in Adults (or BYPASS) Registry database. Methods A multicenter cohort-stu...
Published in The Journal of Haemophilia Practice
Introduction System change addresses the fundamental causes of persistent, complex problems to achieve large-scale, sustainable solutions at multiple levels. Recognising the need for system change to ensure equitable access to healthcare for people with bleeding disorders and other rare diseases, the European Haemophilia Consortium (EHC) establishe...
Little is known about intimate partner homicide (IPH) perpetrator´s healthcare contacts and mental health problems before the killing. The aim was to compare male and female IPH perpetrators with matched controls from the general population by analysing differences in healthcare utilization and mental and behavioural disorders. This study includes ...
Published in BMC Cancer
Background Genitourinary sarcomas are rare in adults and few large-scale studies on adult genitourinary sarcoma are reported. We aimed to elucidate the clinical characteristics, survival outcomes, and prognostic factors for overall survival of adult genitourinary sarcoma in Japan. Methods A hospital-based cancer registry data in Japan was used to i...
Published in Journal of Medical Systems
With the increasing need for timely submission of data to state and national public health registries, current manual approaches to data acquisition and submission are insufficient. In clinical practice, federal regulations are now mandating the use of data messaging standards, i.e., the Health Level Seven (HL7®) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Re...
Published in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Background To describe the implementation of a registry system for patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) in Iran to obtain more information about its nature, prevalence, and annual incidence, as well as extend insight into the etiology, pathogenesis, and eventually make an accurate prognosis of different medical or surgical treatment methods. Met...
