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Registered at clinicaltrials.gov with study number NCT03426787.

Registered at clinicaltrials.gov with study number NCT03426787.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) contributes to and complicates chronic kidney disease (CKD). We describe AKI documented in hospital encounters in patients with CKD from the CKD Queensland registry.

A retrospective cohort study during 2011 to2016.

Participants had been admitted to a hospital in Queensland.

AKI was identified from

codes.

All-cause mortality with or without kidney replacement therapy (KRT), start-up KRT and maintenance KRT, costs of care.

Time to outcomes for those with versus without AKI was evaluated using Cox regression models. Mann-Whitney test was used to compare number of admissions, hospitalized days and costs by AKI status.

Among 6,365 patients followed up for up to 5.4 years, 2,199 (35%) had 4,711 hospital encounters with an AKI diagnosis. Those with AKI were older (68 vs 64 years old), were more often men (36.7% vs 32.2%;

< 0.001), had more advanced CKD stages (stage 3b, 34%; stage 4, 35%; and stage 5, 10%), had more admissions (12 vs 5;

< 0.001), and stayed in thengly increased deaths, increased rates of KRT, and higher hospital costs.

AKI is associated with strikingly increased deaths, increased rates of KRT, and higher hospital costs.

Despite extensive research on health care access for individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD), there is little research on the relationship between health care access barriers and psychological distress.

An observational study based on the publicly available 2013 to 2017 US National Health Interview Survey data.

3,923 respondents 18 years or older who self-reported a diagnosis of CKD in the preceding 12 months.

Psychological distress was measured using the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K6). Barriers to health care access included lack of health insurance coverage, lack of a usual source of health care, and financial barriers to accessing/obtaining health care, including medical specialist services, prescription drugs, mental health counseling, and dental care.

Multinomial logistic regression with 3 levels of K6 scores (no distress, mild to moderate distress, and serious distress) as the dependent variable.

15% of respondents reported mild to moderate and 11% reported serious psychologtreated as needed, and offered case management and social services to help them navigate the health care system and alleviate personal stressors.Current stem cell transplantation approaches lack efficacy, because they limit cell survival and retention and, more importantly, lack a suitable cellular niche to modulate lineage-specific differentiation. Here, we evaluate the intrinsic ability of type I oligomeric collagen matrices to modulate dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) endothelial and odontogenic differentiation as a potential stem cell-based therapy for regenerative endodontics. DPSCs were encapsulated in low-stiffness (235 Pa) and high-stiffness (800 Pa) oligomeric collagen matrices and then evaluated for long-term cell survival, as well as endothelial and odontogenic differentiation following in vitro cell culture. Moreover, the effect of growth factor incorporation, i.e., vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) into 235 Pa oligomeric collagen or bone morphogenetic protein (BMP2) into the 800 Pa oligomeric collagen counterpart on endothelial or odontogenic differentiation of encapsulated DPSCs was investigated. find protocol DPSCs-laden oligomeric collagen matrices allowed long-term cell survival. Real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) data showed that the DPSCs cultured in 235 Pa matrices demonstrated an increased expression of endothelial markers after 28 days, and the effect was enhanced upon VEGF incorporation. There was a significant increase in alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity at Day 14 in the 800 Pa DPSCs-laden oligomeric collagen matrices, regardless of BMP2 incorporation. However, Alizarin S data demonstrated higher mineralization by Day 21 and the effect was amplified in BMP2-modified matrices. Herein, we present key data that strongly support future research aimed at clinical translation of an injectable oligomeric collagen system for delivery and fate regulation of DPSCs to enable pulp and dentin regeneration at specific locations of the root canal system.

This manuscript reviews the current state of veterinary medical electronic health records and the ability to aggregate and analyze large datasets from multiple organizations and clinics. We also review analytical techniques as well as research efforts into veterinary informatics with a focus on applications relevant to human and animal medicine. Our goal is to provide references and context for these resources so that researchers can identify resources of interest and translational opportunities to advance the field.

This review covers various methods of veterinary informatics including natural language processing and machine learning techniques in brief and various ongoing and future projects. After detailing techniques and sources of data, we describe some of the challenges and opportunities within veterinary informatics as well as providing reviews of common One Health techniques and specific applications that affect both humans and animals.

Current limitations in the field of veterinary informatics corporate institutions, and many small private practices, and inconsistent data formats that make many integration problems difficult. Despite those limitations, there have been significant advancements in the field in the last few years and continued development of a few, key, large data resources that are available for interested clinicians and researchers. These real-world use cases and applications show current and significant future potential as veterinary informatics grows in importance. Veterinary informatics can forge new possibilities within veterinary medicine and between veterinary medicine, human medicine, and One Health initiatives.

Informatics tools that support next-generation sequencing workflows are essential to deliver timely interpretation of somatic variants in cancer. Here, we describe significant updates to our laboratory developed bioinformatics pipelines and data management application termed Houston Methodist Variant Viewer (HMVV).

We collected feature requests and workflow improvement suggestions from the end-users of HMVV version 1. Over 1.5 years, we iteratively implemented these features in five sequential updates to HMVV version 3.

We improved the performance and data throughput of the application while reducing the opportunity for manual data entry errors. We enabled end-user workflows for pipeline monitoring, variant interpretation and annotation, and integration with our laboratory information system. System maintenance was improved through enhanced defect reporting, heightened data security, and improved modularity in the code and system environments.

Validation of each HMVV update was performed according to expert guidelines.