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We conclude that when a causative virus needs to be rapidly identified from an infectious sample, MinION sequencing is currently the method of choice.

To explore the existence of new predictors of the

Ga-Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA) PET/CT detection rate at biochemical recurrence (BCR) and to determine the detection rate of

Ga-PSMA PET/CT dependent of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels.

In total, 189 PCa patients scanned with

Ga-PSMA PET/CT for detection of BCR after curatively intended treatment with either radical prostatectomy (

= 153) or radiotherapy (

= 36) were included. Clinicopathological information at the time of diagnosis (PSA, clinical tumor-stage, International Society of Urological Pathology Grade Group and whether

Ga-PSMA PET/CT was used for primary staging), treatment (RT/RP and histopathology of the prostatectomies), and pre-PET PSA were collected from medical records.

Of the 189

Ga-PSMA PET/CT scans, 103 (54.5%) were positive for BCR of PCa. No significant coherency was observed between detection rate and any clinicopathological variables at diagnosis. Detection rates significantly increased with rising PSA <0.5 ng/mL = 28%, 0.5 ≤ 1 ng/mL = 39%, 1 ≤ 2 ng/mL = 64%, 2 ≤ 5 ng/mL = 87.5% and ≥5 ng/mL = 97%.

The detection rate of PCa recurrence was strongly dependent of pre-PET PSA levels. None of the additional clinical variables acquired during primary staging, prostatectomy pathology reports, nor primary staging imaging modality affected the detection rate.

The detection rate of PCa recurrence was strongly dependent of pre-PET PSA levels. None of the additional clinical variables acquired during primary staging, prostatectomy pathology reports, nor primary staging imaging modality affected the detection rate.Respiratory motion degrades the quantification accuracy of PET imaging by blurring the radioactivity distribution. In the case of post-SIRT PET-CT verification imaging, respiratory motion can lead to inaccuracies in dosimetric measures. Using an anthropomorphic phantom filled with 90Y at a range of clinically relevant activities, together with a respiratory motion platform performing realistic motions (10-15 mm amplitude), we assessed the impact of respiratory motion on PET-derived post-SIRT dosimetry. Two PET scanners at two sites were included in the assessment. The phantom experiments showed that device-driven quiescent period respiratory motion correction improved the accuracy of the quantification with statistically significant increases in both the mean contrast recovery (+5%, p = 0.003) and the threshold activities corresponding to the dose to 80% of the volume of interest (+6%, p less then 0.001). Although quiescent period gating also reduces the number of counts and hence increases the noise in the PET image, its use is encouraged where accurate quantification of the above metrics is desired.

Uric acid (UA) is the final product of purine metabolism and a marker of oxidative stress that may be involved in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular and thromboembolic disease. The aim of the current study is to investigate the potential value of UA to creatinine ratio (UA/Cr) as a diagnostic tool for the outcome of patients admitted with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) and the correlations with other parameters.

We evaluated 116 patients who were admitted for PE in a respiratory medicine department. PE was confirmed with computed tomography pulmonary angiography. Outcomes evaluated were hospitalization duration, mortality or thrombolysis and a composite endpoint (defined as mortality or thrombolysis). Patients were assessed for PE severity with the PE Severity Index (PESI) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2019 risk stratification.

The median (interquartile range) UA/Cr level was 7.59 (6.3-9.3). UA/Cr was significantly associated with PESI (

0.001), simplified PESI (

0.019), and ESC 201patients at risk of adverse outcomes.Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) is a widely used and accepted treatment of choice for oocyte fertilization. However, the quality of sperm selection depends on the accurate visualization of the morphology, which can be achieved with a high image resolution. We aim to correct the conviction, shown in a myriad of publications, that an ultra-high magnification in the range of 6000×-10,000× can be achieved with an optical microscope. The goal of observing sperm under the microscope is not to simply get a larger image, but rather to obtain more detail-therefore, we indicate that the optical system's resolution is what should be primarily considered. We provide specific microscope system setup recommendations sufficient for most clinical cases that are based on our experience showing that the optical resolution of 0.5 μm allows appropriate visualization of sperm defects. Last but not least, we suggest that mixed research results regarding the clinical value of IMSI, comparing to ICSI, can stem from a lack of standardization of microscopy techniques used for both ICSI and IMSI.

Multiple sclerosis patients often develop neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction with a potential risk of upper urinary tract damage. Diagnostic tools are urodynamics, bladder diary, uroflowmetry, and post-void residual, but recommendations for their use are controversial.

We aimed to identify clinical parameters indicative of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction in multiple sclerosis patients.

207 patients were prospectively assessed independent of the presence of lower urinary tract symptoms. We analyzed Expanded Disability Status Scale scores, uroflowmetry, post-void residual, rate of urinary tract infections, standardized voiding frequency, and voided volume in correlation with urodynamic findings.

We found a significant correlation between post-void residual (odds ratio (OR) 4.17, confidence interval (CI) 1.20-22.46), urinary tract infection rate (OR 3.91, CI 1.13-21.0), voided volume (OR 4.53, CI 1.85-11.99), increased standardized voiding frequency (OR 7.40, CI 2.15-39.66), and urodynamic findings indicative of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction. Expanded Disability Status Scale shows no correlation. Those parameters (except post-void residual) are also associated with reduced bladder compliance, as potential risk for kidney damage.

Therefore, bladder diary and urinary tract infection rate should be routinely assessed to identify patients who require urodynamics.

Therefore, bladder diary and urinary tract infection rate should be routinely assessed to identify patients who require urodynamics.

Early detection of expanded-spectrum cephalosporinase (ESC) hydrolyzing ß-lactamases is essential for antibiotic stewardship. Here we have developed a multiplex lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA) that detects cefotaxime-hydrolyzing activity as well as the most prevalent ESC-hydrolyzing ß-lactamases the CTX-M-like.

The Rapid LFIA ESC test was evaluated retrospectively on 188 (139 Enterobacterales, 30

spp. and 14

spp.) agar-grown bacterial isolates with well-characterized ß-lactamase content. One single colony was resuspended in 150 µL extraction buffer containing cefotaxime, incubated at room temperature for 30 min prior to loading on the LFIA for reading within 10 min.

Out of the 188 isolates, all 17 that did not express a β-lactamase hydrolyzing cefotaxime gave negative results, and all 171 isolates expressing a β-lactamase known to hydrolyze cefotaxime, gave a positive test result. In addition, all 86 isolates expressing a CTX-M-variant belonging to one of the five CTX-M-subgroups were correctly identified. The sensitivity and specificity was 100% for both tests.

The results showed that the multiplex LFIA was efficient, fast, low cost and easy to implement in routine laboratory work for the confirmation of ESC hydrolyzing activity and the presence of CTX-M enzymes.

The results showed that the multiplex LFIA was efficient, fast, low cost and easy to implement in routine laboratory work for the confirmation of ESC hydrolyzing activity and the presence of CTX-M enzymes.It is crucial to find new diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers. A total of 80 patients were enrolled in the study. The study group consisted of 37 patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, and the control group consisted of 43 patients with benign ovarian cystic lesions. Three proteins involved in the immune response were studied PD-1, PD-L1, and CTLA-4. The study material was serum and peritoneal fluid. The ROC curve was plotted, and the area under the curve was calculated to characterize the sensitivity and specificity of the studied parameters. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed simultaneously using the Cox regression model. The cut-off level of CTLA-4 was 0.595 pg/mL, with the sensitivity and specificity of 70.3% and 90.7% (p = 0.000004). Unfavorable prognostic factors determined in serum were PD-L1 (for PFS HR 1.18, 95% CI 1.11-1.21, p = 0.016; for OS HR 1.17, 95% CI 1.14-1.19, p = 0.048) and PD-1 (for PFS HR 1.01, 95% CI 0.91-1.06, p = 0.035). Unfavorable prognostic factors determined in peritoneal fluid were PD-L1 (for PFS HR 1.08, 95% CI 1.01-1.11, p = 0.049; for OS HR 1.14, 95% CI 1.10-1.17, p = 0.045) and PD-1 (for PFS HR 1.21, 95% CI 1.19-1.26, p = 0.044). We conclude that CTLA-4 should be considered as a potential biomarker in the diagnosis of ovarian cancer. PD-L1 and PD-1 concentrations are unfavorable prognostic factors for ovarian cancer.Classification of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) and drug-sensitive tuberculosis (DS-TB) from chest radiographs remains an open problem. Our previous cross validation performance on publicly available chest X-ray (CXR) data combined with image augmentation, the addition of synthetically generated and publicly available images achieved a performance of 85% AUC with a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). However, when we evaluated the CNN model trained to classify DR-TB and DS-TB on unseen data, significant performance degradation was observed (65% AUC). P5091 Hence, in this paper, we investigate the generalizability of our models on images from a held out country's dataset. We explore the extent of the problem and the possible reasons behind the lack of good generalization. A comparison of radiologist-annotated lesion locations in the lung and the trained model's localization of areas of interest, using GradCAM, did not show much overlap. Using the same network architecture, a multi-country classifier was able to identify the country of origin of the X-ray with high accuracy (86%), suggesting that image acquisition differences and the distribution of non-pathological and non-anatomical aspects of the images are affecting the generalization and localization of the drug resistance classification model as well. When CXR images were severely corrupted, the performance on the validation set was still better than 60% AUC. The model overfitted to the data from countries in the cross validation set but did not generalize to the held out country. Finally, we applied a multi-task based approach that uses prior TB lesions location information to guide the classifier network to focus its attention on improving the generalization performance on the held out set from another country to 68% AUC.