Anemia

Soluble interleukin-2 receptor is a sensitive diagnostic test in adult HLH.

Serum soluble interleukin-2 receptor (sIL-2r) is an important disease marker in hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), but there are no published data on its diagnostic value in adults. We conducted a single-center retrospective study of 78 consecutive adults who had sIL-2r measured for suspected HLH. Serum sIL-2r levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (adult reference range,...

Endothelial markers in high altitude induced systemic hypertension (HASH) at moderate high altitude.

BACKGROUND: Chronic intermittent hypoxia is known to induce systemic arterial hypertension whereas chronic hypoxia causes pulmonary arterial hypertension. High altitude (HA) induced systemic hypertension (HASH) in previously normotensive lowlanders following acclimatisation and prolonged stay at moderate HA is a commonly encountered medical problem. HASH has been attributed to increased sympatheti...

Serum ferritin as a non-invasive marker in the prediction of hepatic fibrosis among Egyptian patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Many studies have found a relationship between hepatic iron, serum ferritin, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or its ...

Surface electromyography based muscle fatigue detection using high-resolution time-frequency methods and machine learning algorithms.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Surface electromyography (sEMG) based muscle fatigue research is widely preferred in sports science and occupational/rehabil...

Efficacy of Long-Term Oral Vitamin B12 Supplementation after Total Gastrectomy: Results from a Prospective Study.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Vitamin B (VB12) deficiency is a common complication after total gastrectomy which may be associated with megaloblastic anemia ...

The diagnostic value of hepcidin to predict the presence and severity of appendicitis in children.

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic capacity of hepcidin in pediatric acute appendicitis and its accuracy as a predictor...

A deep convolutional neural network for classification of red blood cells in sickle cell anemia.

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hematological disorder leading to blood vessel occlusion accompanied by painful episodes and even death. Red blood cell...

Poor vitamin D status increases the risk of anemia in school children: National Food and Nutrition Surveillance.

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to investigate the association between 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25[OH]D) concentrations and the risk of anemia in a large coh...

Robot-assisted assessment of muscle strength.

Impairment of neuromuscular function in neurological disorders leads to reductions in muscle force, which may lower quality of life. Rehabilitation ro...

Identification of potentially oncogenic alterations from tumor-only samples reveals Fanconi anemia pathway mutations in bladder carcinomas.

Cancer is caused by germline and somatic mutations, which can share biological features such as amino acid change. However, integrated germline and so...

The effectiveness of Robot-Assisted Gait Training versus conventional therapy on mobility in severely disabled progressIve MultiplE sclerosis patients (RAGTIME): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Gait and mobility impairments affect the quality of life (QoL) of patients with progressive multiple sclerosis (MS). Robot-assisted gait t...

Performance analysis of a machine learning flagging system used to identify a group of individuals at a high risk for colorectal cancer.

Individuals with colorectal cancer (CRC) have a tendency to intestinal bleeding which may result in mild to severe iron deficiency anemia, but for man...

Unsupervised frequency-recognition method of SSVEPs using a filter bank implementation of binary subband CCA.

OBJECTIVE: Recently developed effective methods for detection commands of steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain-computer interface ...

Elevated Plasma Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin Level as a Risk Factor for Anemia in Patients with Systemic Inflammation.

Studies on neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) as an iron-regulatory protein are limited. This study investigated the relationships betw...

tESA: a distributional measure for calculating semantic relatedness.

BACKGROUND: Semantic relatedness is a measure that quantifies the strength of a semantic link between two concepts. Often, it can be efficiently appro...

A Time to Pause and Reflect: When a Patient with Autoimmune Hepatitis Stops Responding to Corticosteroids.

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) with features of autoimmunity (AI) is a challenging diagnosis to make particularly due to its apparent corticosteroid...

Tissue Liquefaction Liposuction for Body Contouring and Autologous Fat Transfer: A Retrospective Review Over 3 Years.

Tissue liquefaction lipoplasty is a novel, low-energy method cleared for use in aesthetic body contouring and autologous fat transfer. This is a retr...

A Novel Sensitive Method to Measure Catechol-O-Methyltransferase Activity Unravels the Presence of This Activity in Extracellular Vesicles Released by Rat Hepatocytes.

There is a clear need for drug treatments to be selected according to the characteristics of an individual patient, in order to improve efficacy and r...

Identifying Key Symptoms Differentiating Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome from Multiple Sclerosis.

It is unclear what key symptoms differentiate Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and Chronic Fatigue syndrome (CFS) from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The curr...

ANA-Negative Presentation of SLE in Man with Severe Autoimmune Neutropenia.

. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, inflammatory, connective tissue disease that commonly affects the joints and a variety of organs du...