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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sven Zenker, Daniel Strech, Roland Jahns, Gabriele Müller, Fabian Prasser, Christoph Schickhardt, Georg Schmidt, Sebastian C Semler, Eva Winkler, Johannes Drepper
BACKGROUND: The digitalization in the healthcare sector promises a secondary use of patient data in the sense of a learning healthcare system. For this, the Medical Informatics Initiative's (MII) Consent Working Group has created an ethical and legal basis with standardized consent documents. This paper describes the systematically monitored introduction of these documents at the MII sites. METHODS: The monitoring of the introduction included regular online surveys, an in-depth analysis of the introduction processes at selected sites, and an assessment of the documents in use...
April 19, 2024: Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz
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Laurie Keefer, Jana G Hashash, Eva Szigethy, Emeran A Mayer
DESCRIPTION: Pain is a common symptom among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Although pain typically occurs during episodes of inflammation, it is also commonly experienced when intestinal inflammation is quiescent. Many gastroenterologists are at a loss how to approach pain symptoms when they occur in the absence of gut inflammation. We provide guidance in this area as to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of pain among patients with IBD. METHODS: This CPU was commissioned and approved by the AGA Institute Clinical Practice Updates Committee (CPUC) and the AGA Governing Board to provide timely guidance on a topic of high clinical importance to the AGA membership and underwent internal peer review by the CPUC and external peer review through standard procedures of Gastroenterology...
April 17, 2024: Gastroenterology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maurice J Meade, Haylea Blundell, Eva A Meade, Caitlin Giulieri, Tony Weir
OBJECTIVES: To survey treatment-planning practices of orthodontists related to the Invisalign Lite clear aligner appliance (Align Technology, San Jose, Calif). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients satisfying inclusion and exclusion criteria and treated with Invisalign Lite were selected from a database containing more than 17,000 patients. Relevant data regarding treatment-planning practices were obtained from Align Technology's treatment-planning facility, ClinCheck, and evaluated...
May 1, 2024: Angle Orthodontist
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Birgitta Schiller, Martin Kuska, Stella Becher-Urbaniak, Eva Wimmer, Manfred Reisinger, Kathrin Mörtl
The temporary closure of the Outpatient Psychotherapy Clinic at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna during the Covid-19 pandemic demanded an immediate and unexpected reaction to assure further psychotherapeutic services. Both psychotherapists and patients were forced into a rapid transition to online psychotherapy. While Covid-19 research has comprehensively described challenges of online psychotherapies, we were interested in learning specifically how early stage psychotherapists-in-training, who started their clinical work with patients exclusively in the online setting, experienced this unprecedented clinical situation...
April 30, 2024: Heliyon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Antonio Llombart-Cussac, José Manuel Pérez-Garcia, Manuel Ruiz Borrego, Pablo Tolosa, Salvador Blanch, Adela Fernández-Ortega, Ander Urruticoechea, Isabel Blancas, Cristina Saura, Beatriz Rojas, Begoña Bermejo, José Ponce Lorenzo, María Gion, Patricia Cortez-Castedo, Elisenda Llabres, Elena Galve, Juan Fernando Cueva, Ana López, José Luis Alonso-Romero, Santiago González-Santiago, Eduardo Martínez de Dueñas, Eva Ciruelos, Griselda Martrat, Petra Gener, Daniel Alcalá-López, Miguel Sampayo-Cordero, Fernando Gómez-Peralta, Javier Cortés
BACKGROUND: Hyperglycaemia is an early and frequent adverse event during alpelisib treatment. METALLICA aimed to evaluate prophylactic metformin to prevent or reduce hyperglycaemia occurrence in patients with HR+/HER2-/ PIK3CA -mutated advanced breast cancer (ABC). METHODS: Between August 13th, 2020 and March 23rd, 2022, this 2-cohort, phase 2, multicentre, single-arm trial (NCT04300790) enrolled patients with HR+/HER2-/PIK3CA-mutated ABC: cohort A, normal glycaemia (fasting plasma glucose <100 mg/dL [<5...
May 2024: EClinicalMedicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Nina Ditsch, Michael Untch, Peter A Fasching, Steffi Busch, Johannes Ettl, Renate Haidinger, Christian Jackisch, Diana Lüftner, Lothar Müller, Volkmar Müller, Eugen Ruckhäberle, Eva Schumacher-Wulf, Christoph Thomssen, Nadia Harbeck, Rachel Wuerstlein
BACKGROUND: The "International Consensus Conference for Advanced Breast Cancer" was initiated more than 10 years ago. The rationale was to standardize treatment of advanced breast cancer (ABC) based on available evidence and to ensure that all ABC patients worldwide receive adequate treatment and access to new therapies. TOPICS OF ABC7: The 7th International Consensus Conference for ABC (ABC7) took place from November 9 to 11, 2023 - as in previous years in Lisbon/Portugal...
April 2024: Breast Care
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eva Darenova, Robert Knott, Tomáš Vichta
Recent changes in water availability can be crucial for the development, growth and carbon budget of forests. Therefore, our aim was to determine the effect of reduced throughfall and severe summer drought on stem CO2 efflux as a function of temperature and stem increment. Stem CO2 efflux was measured using the chamber method on oak and hornbeam under four treatments: coppice, thinned coppice, and both coppice and thinned coppice with 30 %-reduced throughfall. The first year of the experiment had favourable soil water availability and the second year was characterized by a dry summer...
February 2024: AoB Plants
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Julia Sabin, Elisa Salas, Jesús Martín-Martínez, Antonio Candeliere-Merlicco, Francisco Javier Barrero, Ana Alonso, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Laura Borrega, María Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Montserrat Gómez-Gutiérrez, Sara Eichau, Miguel Ángel Hernández-Pérez, Carmen Calles, Eva Fernández-Díaz, Olga Carmona, Aida Orvíz, Ana López-Real, Pablo López-Muñoz, Amelia Mendoza, Eduardo Agüera, Jorge Maurino, Javier Ballesteros
A multicenter study involving 204 adults with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) assessed the dimensionality and item characteristics of the Mishel-Uncertainty of Illness Scale (MUIS), a generic self-assessment tool. Mokken analysis identified two dimensions in the MUIS with an appropriate item and overall scale scalability after excluding nonclassifiable items. A refined 12-item MUIS, employing a grade response model, effectively discriminated uncertainty levels among RRMS patients (likelihood ratio test p -value = ...
2024: Multiple Sclerosis Journal—Experimental, Translational and Clinical
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Eva Rawlings Parker, Carolyn G Ahlers, Alexander B Hicks
Keratoacanthoma (KA) is a common, low-grade, rapidly growing cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma that presents as an enlarging crateriform nodule, which may spontaneously involute but rarely metastasizes. Immunosuppression, ultraviolet light, viral infection, surgical procedures, and trauma are associated with their development. Overall, tattoo-induced squamous cell neoplasms are infrequently described in the literature. Carcinogenesis is hypothesized to result from trauma caused by the tattooing procedure or a foreign body reaction to the pigment...
April 2024: Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thomas Klein, Julia Grüner, Maximilian Breyer, Jan Schlegel, Nicole Michelle Schottmann, Lukas Hofmann, Kevin Gauss, Rebecca Mease, Christoph Erbacher, Laura Finke, Alexandra Klein, Katharina Klug, Franziska Karl-Schöller, Bettina Vignolo, Sebastian Reinhard, Tamara Schneider, Katharina Günther, Julian Fink, Jan Dudek, Christoph Maack, Eva Klopocki, Jürgen Seibel, Frank Edenhofer, Erhard Wischmeyer, Markus Sauer, Nurcan Üçeyler
Acral burning pain triggered by fever, thermal hyposensitivity and skin denervation are hallmarks of small fibre neuropathy in Fabry disease, a life-threatening X-linked lysosomal storage disorder. Variants in the gene encoding alpha-galactosidase A may lead to impaired enzyme activity with cellular accumulation of globotriaosylceramide. To study the underlying pathomechanism of Fabry-associated small fibre neuropathy, we generated a neuronal in vitro disease model using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells from three Fabry patients and one healthy control...
2024: Brain communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Modeling the risk of aquatic species invasion spread through boater movements and river connections.
Amy C Kinsley, Szu-Yu Zoe Kao, Eva A Enns, Luis E Escobar, Huijie Qiao, Nicholas Snellgrove, Ulirich Muellner, Petra Muellner, Ranjan Muthukrishnan, Meggan E Craft, Daniel J Larkin, Nicholas B D Phelps
Aquatic invasive species (AIS) are one of the greatest threats to the functioning of aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Once an invasive species has been introduced to a new region, many governments develop management strategies to reduce further spread. Nevertheless, managing AIS in a new region is challenging because of the vast areas that need protection and limited resources. Spatial heterogeneity in invasion risk is driven by environmental suitability and propagule pressure, which can be used to prioritize locations for surveillance and intervention activities...
April 18, 2024: Conservation Biology
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Cornelia Tolg, Kathleen Allen Hill, Eva Ann Turley
The progression of primary tumors to metastases remains a significant roadblock to the treatment of most cancers. Emerging evidence has identified genes that specifically affect metastasis and are potential therapeutic targets for managing tumor progression. However, these genes can have dual tumor promoter and suppressor functions that are contextual in manifestation, and that complicate their development as targeted therapies. CD44 and RHAMM/HMMR are examples of multifunctional proteins that can either promote or suppress metastases, as demonstrated in experimental models...
April 18, 2024: Advanced biology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Irene Nakatudde, Elizabeth Katana, Eva Laker Agnes Odongpiny, Esther Alice Nalugga, Barbara Castelnuovo, Mary Glenn Fowler, Philippa Musoke
BACKGROUND: Dolutegravir (DTG)-based antiretroviral therapy (ART) is currently the preferred first-line treatment for persons living with HIV (PLHIV) including children and adolescents in many low- and middle-income countries including Uganda. However, there are concerns about excessive weight gain associated with DTG especially in adults. There remains paucity of current information on weight-related outcomes among adolescents on DTG. We determined the prevalence of excessive weight gain and associated factors among adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) receiving DTG-based ART in Kampala, Uganda...
April 18, 2024: AIDS Research and Therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Esmee Ten Berk de Boer, Adam Ameur, Ignas Bunikis, Marlene Ek, Eva-Lena Stattin, Lars Feuk, Jesper Eisfeldt, Anna Lindstrand
Long-read genome sequencing (lrGS) is a promising method in genetic diagnostics. Here we investigate the potential of lrGS to detect a disease-associated chromosomal translocation between 17p13 and the 19 centromere. We constructed two sets of phased and non-phased de novo assemblies; (i) based on lrGS only and (ii) hybrid assemblies combining lrGS with optical mapping using lrGS reads with a median coverage of 34X. Variant calling detected both structural variants (SVs) and small variants and the accuracy of the small variant calling was compared with those called with short-read genome sequencing (srGS)...
April 18, 2024: Scientific Reports
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Tessa Camenzind, Carlos A Aguilar-Trigueros, Stefan Hempel, Anika Lehmann, Milos Bielcik, Diana R Andrade-Linares, Joana Bergmann, Jeane Dela Cruz, Jessie Gawronski, Polina Golubeva, Heike Haslwimmer, Linda Lartey, Eva Leifheit, Stefanie Maaß, Sven Marhan, Liliana Pinek, Jeff R Powell, Julien Roy, Stavros D Veresoglou, Dongwei Wang, Anja Wulf, Weishuang Zheng, Matthias C Rillig
Trait-based frameworks are promising tools to understand the functional consequences of community shifts in response to environmental change. The applicability of these tools to soil microbes is limited by a lack of functional trait data and a focus on categorical traits. To address this gap for an important group of soil microorganisms, we identify trade-offs underlying a fungal economics spectrum based on a large trait collection in 28 saprobic fungal isolates, derived from a common grassland soil and grown in culture plates...
April 18, 2024: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sara Monzón, Sarai Varona, Anabel Negredo, Santiago Vidal-Freire, Juan Angel Patiño-Galindo, Natalia Ferressini-Gerpe, Angel Zaballos, Eva Orviz, Oskar Ayerdi, Ana Muñoz-Gómez, Alberto Delgado-Iribarren, Vicente Estrada, Cristina García, Francisca Molero, Patricia Sánchez-Mora, Montserrat Torres, Ana Vázquez, Juan-Carlos Galán, Ignacio Torres, Manuel Causse Del Río, Laura Merino-Diaz, Marcos López, Alicia Galar, Laura Cardeñoso, Almudena Gutiérrez, Cristina Loras, Isabel Escribano, Marta E Alvarez-Argüelles, Leticia Del Río, María Simón, María Angeles Meléndez, Juan Camacho, Laura Herrero, Pilar Jiménez, María Luisa Navarro-Rico, Isabel Jado, Elaina Giannetti, Jens H Kuhn, Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Nicholas Di Paola, Jeffrey R Kugelman, Susana Guerra, Adolfo García-Sastre, Isabel Cuesta, Maripaz P Sánchez-Seco, Gustavo Palacios
The 2023 monkeypox (mpox) epidemic was caused by a subclade IIb descendant of a monkeypox virus (MPXV) lineage traced back to Nigeria in 1971. Person-to-person transmission appears higher than for clade I or subclade IIa MPXV, possibly caused by genomic changes in subclade IIb MPXV. Key genomic changes could occur in the genome's low-complexity regions (LCRs), which are challenging to sequence and are often dismissed as uninformative. Here, using a combination of highly sensitive techniques, we determine a high-quality MPXV genome sequence of a representative of the current epidemic with LCRs resolved at unprecedented accuracy...
April 18, 2024: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca Moser, Sophie Pfeiffer, Lisena Cala, Evelyn Klein, Marion Kiechle, Sophie T Behzadi, Eva Fallenberg, Stephanie E Combs, Wolfgang Weber, Kai J Borm
Metastasis-directed therapy has the potential to improve progression-free and overall survival in oligometastatic disease (OMD). For breast cancer, however, randomized trials have failed so far to confirm this finding. Because the concept of metastasis-directed therapy in OMD is highly dependent on the accuracy of the imaging modality, we aimed to assess the impact of 18 F-FDG PET/CT on the definition of OMD in breast cancer patients. Methods: Eighty patients with a total of 150 18 F-FDG PET/CT images (between October 2006 and January 2022) were enrolled in this retrospective study at the Technical University of Munich...
April 18, 2024: Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chryso Th Pallari, Souzana Achilleos, Annalisa Quattrocchi, John Gabel, Elena Critselis, Maria Athanasiadou, Mohammad Reza Rahmanian Haghighi, Stefania Papatheodorou, Tianyu Liu, Andreas Artemiou, Jose M Rodriguez-Llanes, Catherine M Bennett, Claudia Zimmermann, Eva Schernhammer, Natalia Bustos Sierra, Reindert Ekelson, Jackeline Lobato, Laylla Macedo, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Julia Critchley, Lucy Goldsmith, Gleb Denissov, Nolwenn Le Meur, Levan Kandelaki, Kostas Athanasakis, Binyamin Binyaminy, Tamar Maor, Fabrizio Stracci, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Kairat Davletov, Nataliya Glushkova, Cyndy Martial, Marie Chan Sun, Terje P Hagen, Mario Chong, Manuel Barron, Błażej Łyszczarz, Ivan Erzen, Pedro Arcos Gonzalez, Bo Burström, Nataliia Pidmurniak, Olesia Verstiuk, Qian Huang, Antonis Polemitis, Andreas Charalambous, Christiana A Demetriou
INTRODUCTION: To examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, we estimated excess all-cause mortality in 24 countries for 2020 and 2021, overall and stratified by sex and age. METHODS: Total, age-specific and sex-specific weekly all-cause mortality was collected for 2015-2021 and excess mortality for 2020 and 2021 was calculated by comparing weekly 2020 and 2021 age-standardised mortality rates against expected mortality, estimated based on historical data (2015-2019), accounting for seasonality, and long-term and short-term trends...
April 18, 2024: BMJ Global Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katharina Steinert, Anna K Atanasoff-Kardjalieff, Elias Messner, Markus Gorfer, Eva-Maria Niehaus, Hans-Ulrich Humpf, Lena Studt-Reinhold, Svetlana A Kalinina
The soil and indoor fungus Stachybotrys chartarum can induce respiratory disorders, collectively referred to as stachybotryotoxicosis, owing to its prolific production of diverse bioactive secondary metabolites (SMs) or mycotoxins. Although many of the toxins responsible for the harmful effects on animals and humans have been identified in the genus Stachybotrys, a number of secondary metabolites remain elusive. Through in silico analyses, we have identified 37 polyketide synthase (PKS) genes, highlighting that the chemical profile potential of Stachybotrys is far from being fully explored...
April 16, 2024: Fungal Genetics and Biology: FG&B
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ruta Zukauskaite Ruta, Morten Horsholt Kristensen, Jesper Grau Eriksen, Jørgen Johansen, Eva Samsøe, Lars Johnsen, Camilla Kjær Lønkvist, Cai Grau, Christian Rønn Hansen
INTRODUCTION: Treatment planning using a five-millimetre geometrical margin from GTV to high-dose CTV (CTV1) has been used in DAHANCA treatment centres since 2013. We aimed to evaluate changes in CTV1 volumes, local control (LC), and recurrence pattern after the implementation of five-millimetre geometrical margins nationally. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 1,948 patients with pharyngeal, and laryngeal squamous cell carcinomas completed definitive IMRT-based treatment in 2010-2012 and 2013-2015 in three centres...
April 16, 2024: Radiotherapy and Oncology
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