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Active tuberculosis (TB) develops in approximately 10% of people with a latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). TB guidelines recommend that LTBI screening and treatments target high-risk patients. Malignancies are not universally considered a high-risk factor for active TB. This study aimed to determine the degrees to which active TB risk was associated with various cancers in a Korean population.

This study involved patients aged ≥20 years who were diagnosed with cancer at Ulsan University Hospital (UUH) from January 2000 to December 2014 and individuals who visited UUH for health screening and were age- and sex-matched randomly with cases in a 12 ratio. Using retrospective cohort study, the development of bacteriologically confirmed TB (BCTB) within 3 years after enrollment was investigated. The relative risks of BCTB were estimated using incidence rate ratios (IRRs) and a Poisson regression analysis.

During the study period, 380 of 34,783 cancer patients and 79 of 69,566 control subjects developed BCTindicated by IRRs of 20-75. These findings suggest that patients with high-risk cancers should be targeted for LTBI screening and treatment.

Cytology samples are the main resources to detect driver oncogene alterations for advanced lung cancer patients. To explore the value of liquid-based cytology in the detection of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), we analyzed data from a large cohort of EGFR mutation-positive patients.

We analyzed the clinicopathological characteristics of 8,029 NSCLC cases tested for EGFR mutation by liquid-based cytology specimens and 1,934 NSCLC cases tested by formalin-fixed and paraffine-embedded (FFPE) samples in the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital from September 2015 to December 2019. Before detection, we evaluated the number of tumor cells in the liquid-based cytology slide, and samples with more than 50 tumor cells and visible sediment were selected for DNA extraction after centrifugation.

The positive rate of EGFR mutation in liquid-based cytology-tested cases was 47.18%, higher than the 41.37% tested through FFPE sample (P<0.01). Accordingly, the mutation rate of EGFR in adenocarcinoma (AC) and NSCLC was higher than that of the FFPE sample (60.01%

. 54.15%, P<0.01; 30.54%

21.99%, P<0.01). The positive rate of EGFR mutation in pleural effusion was 62.67%, which was the highest rate among liquid-based cytology sample t (P<0.01).

Using quality control and standard procedure, it was found that liquid-based cytology specimen testing is a convenient and reliable method of EGFR detection, as validated by analysis of a large cohort. EGFR mutation detection should also be carried out in NSCLC patients diagnosed by cytology more than in AC patients.

Using quality control and standard procedure, it was found that liquid-based cytology specimen testing is a convenient and reliable method of EGFR detection, as validated by analysis of a large cohort. EGFR mutation detection should also be carried out in NSCLC patients diagnosed by cytology more than in AC patients.

The effectiveness of preemptive analgesia (PA) for relieving postoperative pain and reducing the side effects of analgesics following video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) has not yet been determined. This study intends to test the clinical application value of PA in the perioperative period of VATS.

From January 2018 to August 2018, we divided patients who underwent VATS in our hospital into a trial group (PA group) and a control group (traditional analgesia group, TA group). The PA group received a PA program, and the TA group was administered a conventional postoperative analgesia scheme. We compared the two groups according to the intensity of postoperative pain using the numeric rating scale (NRS), the incidence rate of analgesic drug-related adverse reactions, and the severity of stress-induced inflammation.

One hundred five cases from the PA group, and 80 cases from the TA group were included in the analysis. There were no significant differences between the two groups in baseline characterfollowing VATS and reduce the incidence rate of analgesic drug-related adverse effects.

PA can relieve postoperative pain following VATS and reduce the incidence rate of analgesic drug-related adverse effects.

Bacterial and fungal infections that caused by various kinds of pathogens are frequently-occurring disease all over the world. To overcome the shortcomings of traditional culture method, we have adapted next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology to identify pathogens.

In this study, clinical samples from 20 patients pre-diagnosed with bacterial and fungal infections in the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital of Tongji University, China, were investigated retrospectively to compare the NGS with conventional "gold standard" culture methods.

The detection rates of bacterial or fungal infections were 95.0% (19/20) by NGS and 60.0% (12/20) by culture method. Selleckchem TAS4464 There was a significant difference between the results of NGS and traditional culture method by using McNemar's χ

test (P=0.008).

NGS, as an emerging diagnostic technology, shows outstanding advantages in the diagnosis of bacterial and fungal infections, and optimizes the treatment of infectious diseases. The clinical application and future development of NGS technology are worthy of expectation.

NGS, as an emerging diagnostic technology, shows outstanding advantages in the diagnosis of bacterial and fungal infections, and optimizes the treatment of infectious diseases. The clinical application and future development of NGS technology are worthy of expectation.

In the present post hoc analysis of the DACAB trial, we evaluated the effects of ticagrelor with or without aspirin on 1-year vein graft outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) with and without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) (on-pump and off-pump).

The DACAB trial was a multicenter, randomized, open-label, parallel control study enrolling 500 patients with 1,460 vein grafts undergoing CABG. For current post-hoc study, all patients in the DACAB study were included in the analysis to compare the effects of different antiplatelet regimens under on/off pump. Patients were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 antiplatelet treatment regimens (ticagrelor plus aspirin, T + A; ticagrelor alone, T; or aspirin alone, A) within 24 hours after CABG, and were stratified into on-pump and off-pump subgroups. The primary outcome was 1-year vein graft patency rate.

Totally 121 patients underwent on-pump CABG (39 with 121 vein grafts in T + A, 36 with 101 vein grafts in T, and 46 with 137 vein grafts in A) and 379 patients underwent off-pump CABG (129 with 336 vein grafts in T + A, 130 with 387 vein grafts in T, and 120 with 348 vein grafts in A).