13666 papers
This retrospective cohort study of nearly one million US kidney transplant candidates found that, among those already waitlisted, a recorded prior malignancy is associated with a modestly higher five-year probability of transplantation—driven by increased living-donor transplants—alongside a higher risk of removal due to being too sick.
This multicohort longitudinal study of over 52,000 middle-aged and older adults found that higher cumulative levels of visual impairment, hearing impairment, and particularly dual sensory impairment are significantly associated with an increased risk of developing incident cardiometabolic diseases.
This single-center retrospective exploratory study of 100 severe trauma patients suggests a preliminary association between early 24-hour plasma transfusion volume and increased 30-day mortality risk, while finding no significant link between transfusion burden or injury severity and early infection-associated organ dysfunction, though the small sample size necessitates validation in larger prospective trials.
This pilot study of 50 hospitalized adults aged 75 and older found that greater thenar muscle thickness, measured via point-of-care ultrasound, is significantly associated with better nutritional status and lower risks of pressure injuries and falls, suggesting its potential utility as a pragmatic marker for geriatric vulnerability despite the study's small sample size and lack of a sarcopenia reference standard.
This case report demonstrates that renal artery stenting is a viable and effective treatment for resolving malignant hypertension and restoring renal growth in an infant with middle aortic syndrome when surgical intervention is not feasible.
This paper presents a fatal case of a 2-day-old infant with refractory primary pulmonary hypertension, ultimately diagnosed post-mortem as Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia with Malpositioned Pulmonary Veins (ACD/MPV), highlighting the critical need for clinical suspicion and thoracic pathology expertise to identify this rare and lethal congenital disorder.
This prospective cross-sectional study reveals that while pregnant patients across all educational backgrounds share a similar high interest in prenatal education, those with lower educational attainment prioritize different informational topics—specifically normal pregnancy changes and labor induction—highlighting the need to individualize counseling content based on educational level.
This paper presents a rare case of primary extramedullary plasmacytoma in the ileum of a 40-year-old patient, highlighting the diagnostic challenges posed by its non-specific symptoms and imaging features, and emphasizing the necessity of histopathological confirmation with immunohistochemistry and systemic workup to differentiate it from other neoplasms and rule out multiple myeloma.
This case-control study conducted in a Brazilian high-risk maternity hospital identifies maternal comorbidities and a history of previous cesarean delivery as the primary determinants driving requests for cesarean sections.
A 2022 cross-sectional study of public hospitals in Reunion Island found that non-surgical management (primarily expectant or pharmacological) was the preferred first-line treatment for the vast majority of patients with non-haemorrhagic early miscarriage, suggesting a need to expand out-of-hospital care networks.