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Background: ICDs and pacemakers for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) are complex devices with different sensors and automatic algorithms implanted in patients with advanced cardiac diseases. Data on the perioperative management and outcome of...

This study aimed to propose a mapping framework with entropy-based metrics for validating the effectiveness of the transition between International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10)-coded datasets and a new context of ICD-11. Firstly,...

Background and Objectives: There is limited knowledge on ICD lead lifespan, the reasons for lead failure, and the influence of lead models. Our aim in this study was to compare the lifetime of individual lead models and the reasons for their extracti...

The classification of personality disorders (PDs) has changed fundamentally from ICD-10 to ICD-11; the distinct diagnostic categories of ICD-10 are replaced by a dimensional approach in ICD-11. In ICD-11, various levels of severity are determined by...

The International Classification of Diseases, 10th edition (ICD-10), has been widely used for the classification of patient diagnostic information. This classification is usually performed by dedicated physicians with specific coding training, and it...

Background: Pediatric patients with cardiomyopathies are at risk of malignant arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). An ICD may prevent SCD. The aim of this study was to evaluate ICD implantation outcomes, and to compare transvenous and subcutan...

Background and purpose: Subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillators (S-ICDs) have emerged in recent years as a valid alternative to traditional transvenous ICDs (TV-ICDs). Therefore, the number of S-ICD implantations is rising, leading to a...

Background: Catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) is associated with arrhythmic events which may lead to sudden cardiac death (SCD). A leading therapy for CPVT besides medical treatment with beta-blockers is the use of an impla...

Background: In the last decade, newer generation ICD leads have been developed based on mechanistic insides of priorly failing leads. The aim of our study was to assess the long-term performance and mechanisms of failure of the 2013-introduced Biotro...

Background/Objectives: Ertugliflozin showed a beneficial effect to reduce arrhythmic burden in heart failure patients with an ejection fraction less than 50% with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) with or without cardiac resynchronizati...

Cancer registries are fundamental tools for collecting epidemiological cancer data and developing cancer prevention and control strategies. While cancer registration is common in the human medical field, many attempts to develop animal cancer registr...

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally recognized medical classification system that aids in the identification of diseases and the regulation of health trends. The ICD framework makes it easy to keep track of records and ev...

Drug-related problems (DRPs), i.e., adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and medication errors (MEs), constitute a serious threat to the patient’s safety. DRPs are often insufficiently captured by clinical routine documentation, and thus, they frequently re...

Automatic International Classification of Disease (ICD) coding, a system for assigning proper codes to a given clinical text, has received increasing attention. Previous studies have focused on formulating the ICD coding task as a multi-label predict...

In this survey, we discuss the task of automatically classifying medical documents into the taxonomy of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), by the use of deep neural networks. The literature in this domain covers different techniques....

The Clinical Descriptions and Diagnostic Guidelines (CDDG) for Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MBND) in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) are a substantial improvement over their equivalent in t...

Current guidelines advocate for the use of prophylactic implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) for all patients with symptomatic heart failure (HF) with low ejection fraction (EF). As many patients will never use their device and some are pro...

This paper reports on the first ICD-11 morbidity pilot for inpatient discharges in a public general hospital. We detail the pilot methodology, lessons learned in terms of facilitators and challenges, physician-reported opinion, and considerations for...

The search for novel metabolic biomarkers is intense but has had limited practical outcomes for medicine. Part of the problem is that we lack knowledge of how different comorbidities influence biomarkers’ performance. In this study, 49 metaboli...

Chemsex is a phenomenon involving the intentional use of psychoactive substances before or during sexual activity, especially among men who have sex with men (MSM). It is associated with various health risks, including substance dependence, risky sex...

Adjustment disorder (AD) is one of the most frequent mental health conditions after stressful life experiences in the medical setting. The diagnosis has been conceptually redefined in International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) and now includes...

We describe the case of a 57-year-old man who had received a biventricular ICD (implantable cardioverter-defibrillator) 2 years previously for malignant ventricular arrythmia and cardiac arrest in the setting of ischaemic heart disease. He experience...

Sepsis is a severe condition induced by microbial infection. It elicits a systemic inflammatory response, leading to multi-organ failure, and the liver, as a scavenger, plays a significant role in this process. Controlling hepatic inflammation and ma...

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) included internet game disorder (IGD) in section III of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) on the condition that it guaranteed more clinical research and experien...

Background: In total, 6.6% to 11% of patients with an initially implanted implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) will develop significant bradycardia and the need for pacing in subsequent years. As the leadless pacemaker (LP) and subcutaneous i...

In our previous studies, we found that isocorydine (ICD) could be a potential antitumor agent in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Derivate isocorydine (d-ICD), a more effective antitumor agent, has been demonstrated to inhibit proliferation and drug r...

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has been developed and edited by the World Health Organisation and represents the global standard for recording health information and causes of death. The ICD-11 is the eleventh revision and came in...

We investigated the p75 Neurotrophin Receptor (p75NTR) expression and cleavage product p75NTR Intracellular Domain (p75ICD) as potential oncogenic and metastatic markers in human Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma (LSCC). p75NTR is highly expressed in...

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most prevalent type of lymphoma that is potentially curable by chemotherapy. Immunogenic cell death (ICD) is regarded as an essential process for the clearance of residual tumor cells. However,...

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease in which non-motor symptoms may appear before motor phenomena, which include Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs). The objective of this study is to identify factors associated with the development...

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has an important role in building applications for clinical medicine. Extremely large ICD coding label sets and imbalanced label distribution bring the problem of inconsistency between the local batc...

Acute heat illness (AHI) from extreme environmental heat exposure can lead to emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalization, and even death. While the ICD ninth revision codes for AHI have been validated in the U.S., there have been no studies on...

(1) Background: In patients suffering from heart failure, the main causes of death are either hemodynamic failure, or ventricular arrhythmias. The only tool to significantly reduce arrhythmic sudden death is the implantable cardioverter defibrillator...

Background: Decision-making in primary prevention is not always trivial and many clinical scenarios are not reflected in current guidelines. To help evaluate a patient’s individual risk, a new score to predict the benefit of an implantable defi...

Background: An atrioventricular defibrillator system with a floating atrial dipole (VDD ICD) can provide atrial sensing by a single lead. Our aim was to compare the arrhythmia detection efficacy of VDD ICDs with conventional single- (VVI) and dual-ch...

Background: Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) leads are considered a risk factor for major complications (MC) during transvenous lead extraction (TLE). Methods: We analyzed 3878 TLE procedures (including 1051 ICD lead extractions). Results...

Background: Despite the survival benefit of ICDs in patients with HFrEF, most recipients do not receive appropriate therapy during follow-up. Existing risk models based on echocardiographic and clinical parameters show limited predictive accuracy for...

The International Statistical Classification of Disease and Related Health Problems (ICD) is an international standard system for categorizing and reporting diseases, injuries, disorders, and health conditions. Most previously-proposed disease predic...

It is unknown whether the digital application of automated ICD-9-CM codes recorded in the medical history are useful for a first screening in the detection of polypathological patients. In this study, the objective was to identify the degree of intra...

With the inclusion of Internet gaming disorder (IGD) in both the DSM-5 and ICD-11, understanding the prevalence and diagnostic discrepancies is crucial for developing appropriate interventions. This study presents a meta-analysis of the prevalence of...

The International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) introduces fundamentally new diagnostic descriptions for personality disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Instead of the traditional categorical taxonomies, both personality disord...

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was one of the earliest healthcare systems globally to implement the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11) across its 140 clinic...

Background: Adolescents affected by Gaming Disorder (GD) show substantial impairments in daily functioning. GD was included in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as a new diagnosis coming into effect in January...

The role of prognostic risk scores in predicting the competing risk of non-sudden death in heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) receiving an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is unclear. To this goal, we evaluated...

The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria are consensus criteria for the diagnosis of malnutrition. This study aimed to investigate and compare the prevalence of malnutrition using the GLIM, European Society for Clinical Nutrit...

An electrical storm (ES) is defined as the presence of at least three episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation within 24 h. This patient had a previously known arterial hypertension, type II diabetes mellitus, and chr...

Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) is the most widely used prognostic marker in cardiovascular diseases. LV global function index (LVGFI) is a novel marker which incorporates the total LV structure in the assessment of LV cardiac performa...

Background/Objectives: Identifying social determinants of health (SDOH) is important for effective clinical care. The ICD-10 introduced diagnostic categories to describe patients’ adverse SDOH, but these codes are infrequently used across healt...

Transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) using the MitraClip™ device has been established as a suitable alternative to mitral valve surgery in patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and high or prohibitive surgical risk. Only limited in...

We used machine learning (ML) to characterize 894,154 medical records of outpatient visits from the Veterans Administration Central Data Warehouse (VA CDW) by the likelihood of assignment of 200 International Classification of Diseases (ICD) code blo...