Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Ensemble Machine Learning for Malaria Diagnosis in Resource-Limited Settings Using Clinical and Demographic Features

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to shoulder the heaviest burden of malaria. The 2024 WHO malaria report highlighted that Africa contributed an alarming 94% of the global cases and 95% of the deaths. In the WHO African region, progress towards elimination and management of malaria is hindered by weak health systems, and lack of traditional diagnostic methods such as microscopy and malaria rapid diagno...

Risk factor identification and classification of malnutrition among under-five children in Bangladesh: Machine learning and statistical approach

This study aims to understand the factors that resulted in under-five children's malnutrition from the Multiple Indicator Cluster (MICS-2019) nationwide surveys and classify different malnutrition stages based on the four well-established machine learning algorithms, namely - Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Multi-layer Perceptron (MLP) neural network. Ac...

Natural Language Processing Accurately Differentiates Cancer Symptom Information in Electronic Health Record Narratives.

PURPOSE: Identifying cancer symptoms in electronic health record (EHR) narratives is feasible with natural language processing (NLP). However, more ef...

Machine Learning for Clinical Decision Support of Acute Streptococcal Pharyngitis: A Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND: Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is the predominant bacterial pathogen of pharyngitis in children. However, distinguishing GAS from viral phary...

Comparative analysis of machine learning algorithms for predicting diarrhea among under-five children in Ethiopia: Evidence from 2016 EDHS.

: Diarrhea is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in under-5 children globally, especially in developing countries like Ethiopia. Limited researc...

Antegrade Colonic Enema Channels in Pediatric Patients Using Appendix or Cecal Flap: A Comparative Robotic Open Series.

We present perioperative outcomes of a single-center experience with robot-assisted antegrade colonic enema (ACE) channel creation for the treatment ...

Successful Resuscitation of a Young Girl Who Drank Rivastigmine With Respiratory Failure.

Rivastigmine is a non-competitive reversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase which is approved as one of the fi rst-line treatment options for Alzhe...

Acute kidney injury due to overcorrection of hypovitaminosis D: A tertiary center experience in the Kashmir Valley of India.

Vitamin D deficiency state is endemic in the Kashmir valley of the Indian subcontinent. Clinicians frequently treat patients with Vitamin D for divers...

Rare Manifestation of Digoxin Toxicity: Right Bundle Branch Block.

A 76-year-old female, with medical history significant for systolic congestive heart failure, who presented to the emergency department with lethargy ...

Diagnosis and Management of Polycythemia Vera in a Ferret ().

A 5-y-old female ferret (Mustela putorius furo) was evaluated for diarrhea, anorexia, and lethargy for 1 wk. Only mild dehydration was detected on phy...

[A Case of Eosinophilic Enteritis Needed to Distinguish from a Tumor of the Small Intestine].

A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia 6 months ago and was under follow-up at our hospital. She had originallypresented to our hospit...

Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy for women with endometrial cancer - complications, women´s experiences, quality of life and a health economic evaluation.

This thesis contains four studies all focusing on women with endometrial cancer undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH). Women wi...

Current status of laparoscopic and robotic ventral mesh rectopexy for external and internal rectal prolapse.

External and internal rectal prolapse with their affiliated rectocele and enterocele, are associated with debilitating symptoms such as obstructed def...

Renoprotective Effects of Shout Camphor Medicinal Mushroom (Taiwanofungus camphorates, Basidiomycetes) Mycelia on Several Media in Mice with Chronic Kidney Disease.

Taiwanofungus camphoratus has been widely used in Taiwan as a folk medicine to prevent and treat liver diseases, diarrhea, abdominal pain, itchy skin,...

Molecular Evaluation of High Fluoroquinolone Resistant Genes in Endemic Cases of Shigellosis, Northeast Part of Karnataka, India.

OBJECTIVES: Shigellosis is an acute infection of the intestine caused by bacteria in the genus Shigella and also an important cause of diarrhea in dev...

[Hepatic Resection of Multiple Liver Metastases from Gastric Cancer after Molecular Targeted Chemotherapy(S-1 plus Cisplatin plus Trastuzumab)].

A 62-year-old man was diagnosed with gastric cancer and underwent distal gastrectomy, and D1+b lymph node dissection. He was diagnosed postoperatively...

[R0 Resection by Distal Pancreatectomy with En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection after Down-Staging by FOLFIRINOX Therapy in a Case of Pancreas Cancer--Report of a Case].

The patient, a 55-year-old man, was diagnosed elsewhere as having cancer of the tail of the pancreas and was referred to our hospital. Abdominal compu...