... biomarkers and provide a classification rule for predicting malignancy in false negative EBUS-TBNA samples. The study included 112 patients with a new or suspected diagnosis of LC that were referred to ...
Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...
... Clinics Damage Index. Using cluster analysis, groups of patients with similar patterns of damage manifestation were identified and compared. Results: Mean age (years)± S.D. at diagnosis was 14.2 ± 2.89; ...
... dysfunction and the variables: age, Charlon index, dyslipidaemia, benign prostatic hypertrophy, diastolic blood pressure, years of diagnosis of hypertension, number of treatments, Regicor and Framingham-Wilson, ...
Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...
... incidence of AFX in our health-care area was estimated at 0.59 cases every 100 000 inhabitants per year. In our series, 72.6% of the patients were men with mean age at diagnosis of 81 years. Average tumour ...
Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...
Background: PMS2-associated Lynch syndrome is characterized by a relatively low colorectal cancer penetrance compared with other Lynch syndromes. However, age at colorectal cancer diagnosis varies widely, ...
Accurate diagnosis of disease is of fundamental importance in clinical practice and medical research. Before a medical diagnostic test is routinely used in practice, its ability to distinguish between ...
... ± S.D. at diagnosis was 14.2 ± 2.89; 88.7% were female and 93.4% were Caucasian. Mean SLICC/ACR DI ± S.D. was 1.27 ± 1.63. A total of 12 (3.5%) patients died. Three damage clusters were identified: Cluster ...
... dysfunction and the variables: age, Charlon index, dyslipidaemia, benign prostatic hypertrophy, diastolic blood pressure, years of diagnosis of hypertension, number of treatments, Regicor and Framingham-Wilson, ...
... variables associated with quality of life and satisfaction.
Results: Mean age of the patients on diagnosis was 44.878.5years. Forty-one of the patients were carried out a skin-sparing mastectomy (42.7%). ...
... is automatically estimated from the student's actions using Cognitive Diagnosis Models. Then, Simplify ITS uses the information contained in student profile to recommend activities during the learning proce ...
... for the first time that a specific miRNA signature could serve as a novel non-invasive tool to assist in the diagnosis of patients with fDCM caused by LMNA pathogenic mutations.
Let-7a-5p, miR-142-3p, ...
... goal of this study is to propose a multicomponent index (MUL+DO) for the quick and efficient diagnosis of peritoneal infection.
We selected a training cohort of peritoneal effluent samples which were ...
Building prediction models based on complex omics datasets such as transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics remains a challenge in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Regularized regression techniques are ...
... stage at diagnosis. After treatment, anxiety significantly decreased. Conclusions: After treatment, the quality of life score was positively modified, while state and trait anxiety decreased. ...
... persons who had onychocryptosis diagnosed clinically. The presence of onychomycosis confirmed by cultivation, presence of onychocryptosis through clinical diagnosis and a questionnaire was handed out of ...
While evidence for lung cancer screening implementation in Europe is awaited, Rapid Diagnostic Units have been established in many hospitals to accelerate the early diagnosis of lung cancer. We seek to ...
... models to data for the four most productive health services of 10 public hospitals in Galicia, Spain (the same four in each). Production, measured as admissions weighted in accordance with their diagnosis-related ...
Introduction and aims: Peritoneal infection (PI) is very frecuent and negatively impacts on survival of peritoneal dialysis technique. Currently, the gold standard for the diagnosis of ""typical"" bacteria ...
... and above.
Materials and Methods: A cross-divtional study in a random population sample from Cambre (A Coruña-Spain) (n=835) was performed (α =0.05; Precision=±3.4%). The diagnosis of flat foot was stablished ...
... after a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. Controls were inflammatory bowel disease patients who did not develop tuberculosis. For each case, we randomly selected 3 controls matched for sex, age ...
... for any of the previously specified indications were included.In addition to demographic data, all lines of treatment received from the diagnosis and the duration of them were collected.It has been analyzed ...
... months during the period between 01/01/2009 and 31/08/2014, for any of the previously specified indications were included. In addition to demographic data, all lines of treatment received from the diagnosis, ...
Background Differential diagnosis between tachycardia mediated by septal accessory pathways (AP) and atypical atrioventricular nodal reentry can be challenging. We hypothesized that an immediate versus ...
IntroductionThe differential diagnosis of malignant and tuberculous pleural effusion is frequently difficult.
ObjectivesThe aim of our study is to determine the discrimination value of demographic ...
... with COPD exacerbation as a primary diagnosis were included; 75.4% of cases were male with a mean age of 74.9 +/- 10.5 years and an average length of stay of 6.5 +/- 6.1 days. The highest number of admissions ...
... that it may be more efficient than the Efron–Petrosian nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator. Data on the age at diagnosis of childhood cancer in North Portugal are analyzed with the new method. ...