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Diagnostics, Volume 10, Issue 8

August 2020 - 101 articles

Cover Story: COVID-19 is especially severe in patients with cardiovascular disease. However, its severity among patients with certain forms of precapillary pulmonary hypertension is lower than expected. Both pathologies share common features. Could these common characteristics explain this good adaptation? Could these patients have obtained benefits from their specific therapies? This review will begin a dialogue to further explore the particular scenario of COVID-19 in precapillary pulmonary hypertension. View this paper
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Articles (101)

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
5,943 Views
15 Pages

An Adoptive Threshold-Based Multi-Level Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Glaucoma Eye Disease Detection and Classification

  • Muhammad Aamir,
  • Muhammad Irfan,
  • Tariq Ali,
  • Ghulam Ali,
  • Ahmad Shaf,
  • Alqahtani Saeed S,
  • Ali Al-Beshri,
  • Tariq Alasbali and
  • Mater H. Mahnashi

Glaucoma, an eye disease, occurs due to Retinal damages and it is an ordinary cause of blindness. Most of the available examining procedures are too long and require manual instructions to use them. In this work, we proposed a multi-level deep convol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,204 Views
13 Pages

Background: Intubation of a patient in different positions may be done not only in emergency settings, but also in routine anesthesia (e.g., prone position for lumbar spine surgery). Methods: The aim of the study was to compare the classic Macintosh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,967 Views
15 Pages

Clinical Significance and Diagnostic Value of Pain Extent Extracted from Pain Drawings: A Scoping Review

  • Marco Barbero,
  • Marcos J. Navarro-Santana,
  • María Palacios-Ceña,
  • Ricardo Ortega-Santiago,
  • Corrado Cescon,
  • Deborah Falla and
  • César Fernández-de-las-Peñas

The current scoping review aimed to map current literature investigating the relationship between pain extent extracted from pain drawings with clinical, psychological, and psycho-physiological patient-reported outcome measures in people with pain. E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,431 Views
10 Pages

Due to the lack of protective immunity in the general population and the absence of effective antivirals and vaccines, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues in some countries, with local epicentres emerging in others. Due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,875 Views
19 Pages

The Oncogenic Roles of PTTG1 and PTTG2 Genes and Pseudogene PTTG3P in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas

  • Inga Grzechowiak,
  • Justyna Graś,
  • Dominika Szymańska,
  • Martyna Biernacka,
  • Kacper Guglas,
  • Paulina Poter,
  • Andrzej Mackiewicz and
  • Tomasz Kolenda

Background: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas are a group of heterogeneous diseases that occur in the mouth, pharynx and larynx and are characterized by poor prognosis. A low overall survival rate leads to a need to develop biomarkers for early...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,425 Views
17 Pages

The Influence of Radical Prostatectomy on the Expression of Cell-Free MiRNA

  • Maria Yu. Konoshenko,
  • Olga E. Bryzgunova,
  • Evgeniy A. Lekchnov,
  • Evgeniya V. Amelina,
  • Sergey V. Yarmoschuk,
  • Svetlana V. Pak and
  • Pavel P. Laktionov

MiRNAs of blood and urine have been shown to represent a convenient source of biomarkers for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis and assessment of the therapy effectiveness due to their high stability and representation and the low invasiveness of sample...

  • Review
  • Open Access
76 Citations
6,885 Views
37 Pages

Oxidative Stress Markers in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Systematic Review

  • Małgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka,
  • Radosław Kempiński,
  • Mariusz A. Bromke and
  • Katarzyna Neubauer

Precise diagnostic biomarker in inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) is still missing. We conducted a comprehensive overview of oxidative stress markers (OSMs) as potential diagnostic, differential, progression, and prognostic markers in IBD. A Pubmed,...

  • Guidelines
  • Open Access
53 Citations
8,454 Views
25 Pages

Recommendations for Lung Ultrasound in Internal Medicine

  • Natalia Buda,
  • Wojciech Kosiak,
  • Marcin Wełnicki,
  • Agnieszka Skoczylas,
  • Robert Olszewski,
  • Jakub Piotrkowski,
  • Szymon Skoczyński,
  • Elżbieta Radzikowska,
  • Ewa Jassem and
  • Elżbieta Magdalena Grabczak
  • + 3 authors

A growing amount of evidence prompts us to update the first version of recommendations for lung ultrasound in internal medicine (POLLUS-IM) that was published in 2018. The recommendations were established in several stages, consisting of: literature...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,045 Views
18 Pages

Somatostatin Receptor PET/CT Imaging for the Detection and Staging of Pancreatic NET: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

  • Matteo Bauckneht,
  • Domenico Albano,
  • Salvatore Annunziata,
  • Giulia Santo,
  • Priscilla Guglielmo,
  • Viviana Frantellizzi,
  • Alessia Branca,
  • Cristina Ferrari,
  • Antonio Vento and
  • Alessia Mirabile
  • + 4 authors

We investigated the diagnostic performance of Somatostatin Receptor Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (SSR-PET/CT) for the detection of primary lesion and initial staging of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs). A comprehensive lit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,471 Views
9 Pages

Design of Liver Functional Reserve Estimation Technique Based on Optical Densitometry

  • Ekaterina Savchenko,
  • Ilya Kolokolnikov,
  • Elena Velichko,
  • Victor Osovskikh,
  • Lyubov Kiseleva and
  • Zhyldyz Musakulova

This work is aimed at creating a modified invasive technique for assessing the liver’s functional reserves. A study of the degree of hepatodepression is carried out by measuring the plasma elimination of indocyanine green using the method of op...

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