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89), in particular among female adolescents (APC = 40.30).
These data document a substantial change in the utilization of inpatient neuropsychiatric services for children and adolescents, with a major increase in psychiatric hospitalizations and a parallel decrease in neurological ones. These trends call for greater attention to early preventive intervention in mental healthcare system.
These data document a substantial change in the utilization of inpatient neuropsychiatric services for children and adolescents, with a major increase in psychiatric hospitalizations and a parallel decrease in neurological ones. These trends call for greater attention to early preventive intervention in mental healthcare system.
To construct a modified tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system for stage I-III colon cancer patients with lymph nodes examined (LNE) < 12.
The clinicopathological and survival data of 3870 stage I-III colon cancer patients with LNE < 12 from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database between 2010 and 2015 (development cohort) and 126 stage I-III patients with LNE < 12 from the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University between 2011 and 2015 (validation cohort) were identified. The optimal stratification of LNR for cancer-specific survival (CSS) was achieved using X-tile software. The predictive accuracy of the modified stage (mStage) was determined by the concordance index (C-index).
The modified N stage (mN stage) was built based on the LNR (mN0 LNR = 0, mN1 0 < LNR < 0.4 or cancer nodule formation and mN2 0.4 ≤ LNR ≤ 1). Preferable C-indices could be found for mStage compared with TNM stage in both development (0.750 vs 0.727) and validation cohorts (0.682 vs 0.646). Besides, patients with mStage A and B diseases could not benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy, while in patients with mStage C-F diseases, those receiving radical surgery plus adjuvant chemotherapy presented better CSS than those with radical surgery alone.
The mStage system could predict the prognosis of colon cancer patients with LNE < 12 accurately and showed superior predictive power compared with conventional TNM staging system. Moreover, adjuvant chemotherapy might play inequable roles in patients with different mStage diseases.
The mStage system could predict the prognosis of colon cancer patients with LNE less then 12 accurately and showed superior predictive power compared with conventional TNM staging system. Moreover, adjuvant chemotherapy might play inequable roles in patients with different mStage diseases.
Early hemorrhage control is important in trauma-related death prevention. Tranexamic acid (TXA) has shown to be beneficial in patients in hemorrhagic shock, although widespread adoption might result in incorrect TXA administration leading to increased morbidity and mortality.
A 7-year prospective cohort study with consecutive trauma patients admitted to a Level-1 Trauma Center ICU was performed to investigate administration of both pre- and in-hospital TXA and its relation to morbidity and mortality. Indication for prehospital and in-hospital TXA administration was (suspicion of) hemorrhagic shock, and/or systolic blood pressure (SBP) ≤ 90mmHg. Demographics, data on physiology, resuscitation and outcomes were prospectively collected.
Four hundred and twenty-two patients (71% males, median ISS 29, 95% blunt injuries) were included. Even though TXA patients were more severely injured with more deranged physiology, no differences in outcome were noted. Overall, thrombo-embolic complication rate was 8%. In based on SBP alone in patients who do not yet show signs of deranged physiology on arrival in ED.Phenotype is one of the most significant concepts in genetics, which is used to describe all the characteristics of a research object that can be observed. Considering that phenotype reflects the integrated features of genotype and environment factors, it is hard to define phenotype characteristics, even difficult to predict unknown phenotypes. Restricted by current biological techniques, it is still quite expensive and time-consuming to obtain sufficient structural information of large-scale phenotype-associated genes/proteins. Various bioinformatics methods have been presented to solve such problem, and researchers have confirmed the efficacy and prediction accuracy of functional network-based prediction. But general functional descriptions have highly complicated inner structures for phenotype prediction. To further address this issue and improve the efficacy of phenotype prediction on more than ten kinds of phenotypes, we first extract functional enrichment features from GO and KEGG, and then use node2vec to learn functional embedding features of genes from a gene-gene network. All these features are analyzed by some feature selection methods (Boruta, minimum redundancy maximum relevance) to generate a feature list. Such list is fed into the incremental feature selection, incorporating some multi-label classifiers built by RAkEL and some classic base classifiers, to build an optimum multi-label multi-class classification model for phenotype prediction. According to recent researches, our method has indeed identified many literature-supported genes/proteins and their associated phenotypes, and even some candidate genes with re-assigned new phenotypes, which provide a new computational tool for the accurate and effective phenotypic prediction.Working memory and episodic memory are two different processes, although the nature of their interrelationship is debated. As these processes are predominantly studied in isolation, it is unclear whether they crucially rely on different neural substrates. To obtain more insight in this, 81 adults with sub-acute ischemic stroke and 29 elderly controls were assessed on a visual working memory task, followed by a surprise subsequent memory test for the same stimuli. Multivariate, atlas- and track-based lesion-symptom mapping (LSM) analyses were performed to identify anatomical correlates of visual memory. Behavioral results gave moderate evidence for independence between discriminability in working memory and subsequent memory, and strong evidence for a correlation in response bias on the two tasks in stroke patients. LSM analyses suggested there might be independent regions associated with working memory and episodic memory. Lesions in the right arcuate fasciculus were more strongly associated with discriminability in working memory than in subsequent memory, while lesions in the frontal operculum in the right hemisphere were more strongly associated with criterion setting in subsequent memory. These findings support the view that some processes involved in working memory and episodic memory rely on separate mechanisms, while acknowledging that there might also be shared processes.
Since 2008, guidelines recommend that patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer (BC) should receive adjuvant chemotherapy in combination with trastuzumab in Germany. However, recent studies highlight that a substantial share of patients do not receive trastuzumab. We investigate which patient characteristics are associated with a tumor board recommendation for trastuzumab in Breast Cancer Centers (BCC) certified by the German Cancer Society (DKG) and the German Society for Senology, and if the recommendation differs between BCCs.
Multi-level modeling was performed using quality assurance data based on 3052 HER2-positive, operated patients with a first diagnosis of early BC treated between 2006 and 2019 in 17 BCCs in Germany to investigate whether trastuzumab recommendation varies with patient sex, age, and disease characteristics, as well as over time and across BCCs.
Tumor board recommendations for trastuzumab differ substantially between BCCs (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] null model ation is increasing since 2006 (positive cohort effect). Recommendation of trastuzumab for HER2-positive BC patients in BCCs is significantly associated with patients' age and the recommendations for other additional therapy strategies, apart from surgery. The quality assurance data analyzed do not include potentially relevant confounders, such as socioeconomic status or comorbidities.
Due to polypharmacy and the rising popularity of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), oncology patients are particularly at risk of drug-drug interactions (DDI) or herb-drug interactions (HDI). The aims of this study were to assess DDI and HDI in outpatients taking oral anticancer drug.
All prescribed and non-prescribed medications, including CAM, were prospectively collected by hospital pharmacists during a structured interview with the patient. DDI and HDI were analyzed using four interaction software programs Thériaque
, Drugs.com
, Hédrine, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) database. All detected interactions were characterized by severity, risk and action mechanism. The need for pharmaceutical intervention to modify drug use was determined on a case-by-case basis.
294 patients were included, with a mean age of 67years [55-79]. The median number of chronic drugs per patient was 8 [1-29] and 55% of patients used at least one CAM. At least 1 interaction was found for 267 patients (90.8%) 263 (89.4%) with DDI, 68 (23.1%) with HDI, and 64 (21.7%) with both DDI and HDI. Only 13% of the DDI were found in Thériaque
and Drugs.com
databases, and 125 (2.5%) were reported with similar level of risk on both databases. 104 HDI were identified with only 9.5% of the interactions found in both databases. 103 pharmaceutical interventions were performed, involving 61 patients (20.7%).
Potentially clinically relevant drug interaction were frequently identified in this study, showing that several databases and structured screening are required to detect more interactions and optimize medication safety.
Potentially clinically relevant drug interaction were frequently identified in this study, showing that several databases and structured screening are required to detect more interactions and optimize medication safety.For patients with single ventricle physiology, being able to initially establish systemic blood flow and control pulmonary blood flow is critical to their long-term health. Recently, there have been descriptions in achieving this by a purely transcatheter approach with stenting of the ductus arteriosus and implanting pulmonary flow restrictors, a very appealing prospect. We review a case series of 6 patients who underwent a percutaneous modified stage 1 approach using modified Microvascular plugs (MVP) at our center between September 2019 and December 2019. The initial procedure was technically successful in all patients with single-stage ductal stenting and placement of bilateral modified MVP via femoral access. Four patients underwent repeat cardiac catheterization prior to subsequent surgery that demonstrated elevated QpQs (> 21) in 3 of the 4 patients with an elevated mean distal PA pressure > 20 mmHg in all patients. In some patients, the device migrated into the distal right pulmonary artery. 5-Chloro-2'-deoxyuridine supplier One patient after Glenn shunt was found to have significant LPA stenosis requiring stenting.