13396 papers
This study developed and externally validated the EXPOS Score, a six-variable bedside tool that effectively predicts the risk of first-pass failure during video laryngoscopic intubation in critically ill adults.
This prospective cohort study demonstrates that a right ventricular pacing burden exceeding 40% is independently associated with early, subclinical impairment of left ventricular global longitudinal strain in patients with structurally normal hearts, a change detectable by speckle-tracking echocardiography before conventional ejection fraction declines.
In children and adolescents with sickle cell disease in Eastern Uganda, self- or caregiver-reported hearing difficulty demonstrates very low sensitivity and minimal agreement with objective pure-tone audiometry findings, indicating that symptom enquiry alone is insufficient for identifying hearing loss and should not preclude routine audiologic evaluation.
This study demonstrates that while CT tube replacement and system parameter updates do not affect conventional image quality indicators, they induce significant, material-dependent Hounsfield Unit drifts that necessitate re-measuring multi-material baselines and reconstructing electron density conversion curves to ensure accurate radiotherapy dose calculations.
This cross-sectional study of adults with chronic conditions in Sichuan, China, found that poorer sleep quality and a higher burden of chronic conditions are consistently and independently associated with increased psychological distress, while morningness exhibits a weaker, less robust inverse relationship.
This retrospective case-control study concludes that while seborrheic dermatitis exhibits a modest systemic inflammatory signature detectable by CRP and ESR, blood count-derived indices show poor discriminatory power and lack association with disease severity, rendering them unsuitable for clinical assessment of the condition.
This retrospective cohort study in Shiraz, Iran, found that while sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass achieved comparable weight loss and improvements in most cardiometabolic indices over 12 months, RYGB resulted in a significantly greater reduction in the lipoprotein combine index (LCI).
This prospective observational study reveals that in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia, the duration of parenteral nutrition is strongly correlated with circulating microplastic burden, which is independently associated with increased disease severity, suggesting microplastics may act as a mediator linking prolonged plastic-based infusion systems to worse pulmonary outcomes.
This study at Pharos University demonstrates that patients who completed comprehensive case care reported significantly better oral health-related quality of life and favorable clinical outcomes compared to those awaiting treatment, highlighting the positive impact of multidisciplinary dental care on both clinical health and patient well-being.
This longitudinal single-patient study demonstrates that prolonged-release fampridine induces a marked, reproducible, and sustained multidomain improvement in a severely disabled patient with GAA-FGF14 ataxia, as confirmed by a rigorous OFF–ON–OFF–ON dechallenge/rechallenge design and 52 weeks of continuous treatment.