Patients with bronchiectasis feature considerable symptom burden and reduced health-related quality of life (QOL). We provide the psychometric validation of the German translation of the disease-specific Quality of Life Questionnaire-Bronchiectasis (...
Deep learning has been applied to many areas in health care, including imaging diagnosis, digital pathology, prediction of hospital admission, drug design, classification of cancer and stromal cells, doctor assistance, etc. Cancer prognosis is to est...
Background: Sinonasal cancer represents a challenging disease because of its difficult diagnosis and different histology. Despite a multidisciplinary evaluation and treatments, a poor prognosis is still present. We retrospectively analyzed patients w...
The connection between autoimmune disease (AID) and lymphoproliferative disorders is a complex bidirectional relationship that has long been a focus of attention by researchers and physicians. Although advances in pathobiology knowledge have ascertai...
The right heart catheterisation constitutes the gold standard for pulmonary hypertension (PH) diagnosis. However, echocardiography remains a reliable, non-invasive, inexpensive, convenient, and easily reproducible modality not only for the preliminar...
The accurate diagnosis of individual tooth prognosis has to be determined comprehensively in consideration of the broader treatment plan. The objective of this study was to establish an effective artificial intelligence (AI)-based module for an accur...
Background and Purpose: Medulloblastoma (MB) represents the predominant intracranial neoplasm observed in pediatric populations, characterized by a five-year survival rate ranging from 60% to 80%. Anticipating the prognostic outcome of medulloblastom...
In spite of its public health importance, our understanding of the mechanisms of breast carcinogenesis and progress is still evolving. The metabolic syndrome (MS) is a constellation of biochemical abnormalities including visceral adiposity, hyperglyc...
RNA-binding proteins are emerging as critical modulators of oncogenic cell transformation, malignancy and therapy resistance. We have previously found that the RNA-binding protein Cold Shock Domain containing protein E1 (CSDE1) promotes invasion and...
The prognostic significance of tumor-infiltrating neutrophils in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is poorly understood. It is unclear how the presence of neutrophils affects prognosis due to their polarization into cytotoxic N1 or immuno...
Fouling in heat exchanger tubes is a common problem in the operation of condensers. The deposition of fouling can affect the thermal efficiency and safety of the condenser. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the impact of fouling on time and carry...
Background/Objectives: Breast cancer in women is the most commonly diagnosed and most malignant tumor. Although luminal A breast cancer (LumA) has a relatively better prognosis, it still has a persistent pattern of recurrence. Ganoderma lucidum (Curt...
Liquid biopsy is emerging as a potential diagnostic tool for prostate cancer (PC) prognosis and diagnosis. Unfortunately, most circulating tumor cells (CTC) technologies, such as AdnaTest or Cellsearch®, critically rely on the epithelial cell adhesio...
Background: Recent studies have shown that pretreatment inflammatory responses can predict prognosis. However, no reports have analyzed the combined effect of the inflammatory response with pre-treatment and post-neo adjuvant chemotherapy (NACT). Thi...
Vibration signal analysis is the most common technique used for mechanical vibration monitoring. By using vibration sensors, the fault prognosis of rotating machinery provides a way to detect possible machine damage at an early stage and prevent prop...
Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate clinicopathologic features of young patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) and to compare their prognosis with those of older patients Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of...
Canine melanocytic neoplasms have a highly variable biological behavior ranging from benign cutaneous melanocytomas to malignant oral melanomas that readily metastasize to lymph nodes and internal organs. This review focuses on the diagnosis and prog...
Melanocytic tumors are clinically important in veterinary oncology because their biological behavior, diagnosis, and prognosis vary substantially by species and anatomical site. Canine oral melanoma is characterized by aggressive local invasion and e...
Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) is an important cause of moderate vision loss in people with diabetes. Advances in imaging technology have shown that a significant proportion of patients with DMO respond sub-optimally to existing treatment options. Ide...
Ethical discourse on prognosis disclosure is not yet well established. The core of the problem continues to be the dilemma between the right of self-determination and non-maleficence of patients. The prognosis disclosure policy based on Kantian auton...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, posing a serious threat to human health. Metabolic reprogramming represents a critical feature in the process of tumor development and progression, encompassing alterations in sugar...
COVID-19 is characterized by a heterogeneous clinical presentation and prognosis. Risk factors contributing to the development of severe disease include old age and the presence of comorbidities. However, the genetic background of the host has also b...
Prognosis modeling plays an important role in cancer studies. With the development of omics profiling, extensive research has been conducted to search for prognostic markers for various cancer types. However, many of the existing studies share a comm...
Due to the accelerating pace of environmental concerns and fear of the depletion of conventional sources of energy, researchers are working on finding renewable energy sources of power for different axes of life. The transportation sector has interve...
Research on how physicians predict and communicate prognosis focuses primarily on end-of-life care. Unsurprisingly, as genomic technology gains traction as a prognostic tool, the focus has also been on terminality, with research focused on how geneti...
This study is to identify the optimum prognosis index for brain metastases by machine learning. Seven hundred cancer patients with brain metastases were enrolled and divided into 446 training and 254 testing cohorts. Seven features and seven predicti...
Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly aggressive neuroendocrine tumour that can metastasise early, may show resistance to systemic treatment, and has a poor prognosis. The use of tobacco products is closely related to the duration of their use, a...
Cuproptosis is a newfound cell death form that depends on copper (Cu) ionophores to transport Cu into cancer cells. Studies on the relationship have covered most common cancer types and analyzed the links between cuproptosis-related genes (CRGs) and...
Although flavonoid phytoestrogens have been suggested to be associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer (CRC), their influence on CRC prognosis remains uncertain. A population-based cohort of 2051 patients diagnosed with stage I–III CRC i...
Due to the high death rate associated with gastric cancer, a great deal of research has been conducted on this disease. The goal of this paper was to start a trimestral review of 2024 for the year that had just started. The scientific literature from...
Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne infectious disease caused by organisms in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) complex. In many low and middle-income countries, TB remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Once a patient has been diagnosed w...
Background. Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe condition. Our aim was to describe the profile and prognosis of patients with multivalvular infective endocarditis (MIE) and compare them to single-valve IE (SIE). Methods. We used a retrospective a...
Background: In this study, we evaluated the changes in clinicopathological features and prognosis in patients with thyroid cancer in the last two decades using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database (SEER) data. Methods: Data from t...
Delayed diagnosis and intervention of blunt bowel and mesenteric injury (BBMI) is a hazard because of poor prognosis. Computed tomography (CT) is the standard imaging tool to evaluate blunt abdominal trauma (BAT). However, a high missed diagnosis rat...
Objectives: We systematically reviewed the literature to address the question of which of the three hemodynamic factors predicts prognosis best in heart failure patients when directly compared to each other: cardiac output, preload or afterload. Meth...
Fault prognosis is a key enabler of predictive maintenance in modern industrial systems, where heterogeneous sensing, modeling, and data analytics coexist under varying operating conditions. This paper proposes a reliability-aware health index fusion...
Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) denotes a serious type of hemorrhagic stroke that often leads to a poor prognosis and poses a significant socioeconomic burden. Timely assessment of the prognosis of SAH patients is of paramount clinical importance for m...
Background: While communication plays an important role in medicine, it also often represents a challenge when the topic at hand is the prognosis of a high-risk condition. When it comes to pediatric oncology, the challenge becomes even greater for ph...
Corrosion is the leading cause of failure for Offshore Wind Turbine (OWT) structures and it is characterized by a low probability of detection. With focus on uniform corrosion, we propose a corrosion detection and prognosis system coupled with a Deci...
Ovarian cancer (OC) is one of the most common cancers in women. Biomarkers for OC are still being sought. The aim of this review was to evaluate microRNAs in the prognosis and diagnosis of OC. We conducted a literature review searching for articles p...
Platelets are critical components of a number of physiologic processes, including tissue remodeling after injury, wound healing, and maintenance of vascular integrity. Increasing evidence suggests that platelets may also play important roles in cance...
Cancer is one of the most detrimental diseases globally. Accordingly, the prognosis prediction of cancer patients has become a field of interest. In this review, we have gathered 43 state-of-the-art scientific papers published in the last 6 years tha...
The reliable prediction of future system behavior using sensor data is often hindered by inherent uncertainties, especially in cases where the data undergo gradual changes over time. These uncertainties typically arise from environmental factors or s...
This paper comprehensively analyzes advanced Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis (FDP) techniques employed in aerial and space agents such as satellites, spacecraft, and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The critical engineering functions of fault diagnosti...
Molecular prognosis markers hold promise for improved prediction of patient survival, and a pathway or gene set may add mechanistic interpretation to their prognostic prediction power. In this study, we demonstrated a novel strategy to identify progn...
Background: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is associated with numerous manifestations of cirrhosis. To determine whether the presence of SIBO affects the prognosis in cirrhosis was the aim of the study. Methods: This prospective cohort...
The use of metabolome genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) has been shown to be effective in identifying functional genes in complex diseases. While mGWAS has been applied to biomedical and pharmaceutical studies, its potential in predicting gastr...
Background: Poststroke dysphagia is a common condition that can lead to complications such as aspiration pneumonia and malnutrition, significantly affecting the quality of life. Most patients recover their swallowing function spontaneously, but in ot...
Cancer is a multifactorial disease that affects millions of people every year and is one of the most common causes of death in the world. The high mortality rate is very often linked to late diagnosis; in fact, nowadays there are a lack of efficient...
Cutaneous melanoma is the most aggressive of skin tumors. In order to discover new biomarkers that could help us improve prognostic prediction in melanoma patients, we have searched for germline DNA variants associated with melanoma progression. Thus...
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