Pulmonology

CONDITIONS OF PROOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF CISTUS AND POMEGRANATE POLYPHENOLS IN V79 CELL CULTURES.

Polyphenol rich extracts obtained from cistus herb (Cistus incanus L.) and pomegranate peels (Punica granatunm L.) added at high concentrations (25-100 pg/mL) to V79 (Chinese hamster lung fibroblast) cell cultures, markedly increased intracellular level of ROS (reactive oxygen species). Also in cells exposed to the exogenous oxidant - H₂0₂, [100 μM, 30 min., 37'C] intracellular ROS level was augme...

An artificial neural network prediction model of congenital heart disease based on risk factors: A hospital-based case-control study.

An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed to predict the risks of congenital heart disease (CHD) in pregnant women.This hospital-based case-control study involved 119 CHD cases and 239 controls all recruited from birth defect surveillance hospitals in Hunan Province between July 2013 and June 2014. All subjects were interviewed face-to-face to fill in a questionnaire that covered 36 C...

Prediction of pathologic femoral fractures in patients with lung cancer using machine learning algorithms: Comparison of computed tomography-based radiological features with clinical features versus without clinical features.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this article is to compare the predictive power of two models trained with computed tomography (CT)-based radiological feature...

PREDICTIVE MODELING OF HOSPITAL READMISSION RATES USING ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD-WIDE MACHINE LEARNING: A CASE-STUDY USING MOUNT SINAI HEART FAILURE COHORT.

Reduction of preventable hospital readmissions that result from chronic or acute conditions like stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneu...

Robotic-Assisted Inferior Vena Cava Filter Retrieval.

Although anticoagulation remains the mainstay of therapy for patients with venous thromboembolism, guidelines recommend the use of inferior vena cava ...

Machine Learning Models of Post-Intubation Hypoxia During General Anesthesia.

Fine-meshed perioperative measurements are offering enormous potential for automatically investigating clinical complications during general anesthesi...

KAI1/CD82, Metastasis Suppressor Gene as a Therapeutic Target for Non-Small-Cell Lung Carcinoma.

Lung cancer is the most frequent malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide; it is the second most common cancer, comprising 1...

Gastric Volume and Its Relationship to Underlying Pathology or Acid-suppressing Medication.

BACKGROUND: Pulmonary aspiration during sedation is a major concern for sedation providers, making identifying high-risk patients a priority. Gastric ...

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Prolonged Infusion Aztreonam for Multi-Drug Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: A Case Report.

Aztreonam, a broad-spectrum monobactam, is typically reserved for multidrug resistant (MDR) infections. Pharmacokinetic (PK) data to guide dosing in c...

Development of Asian Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Survival Prediction Model Using an Innovative Method of Bayesian Network.

We constructed a novel prognostic model using an innovative method of Bayesian Network (BN) to predict Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer survival status with...

Comparison of Catecholamine Values Before and After Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm in Professional Cyclists.

BACKGROUND: The concentration of circulating catecholamine increases during exercise in healthy athletes, but the variation has not been studied much ...

[Some features controlling the blood D-dimer level after resection of malignant brain glioma].

UNLABELLED: A high blood D-dimer level is often diagnosed in patients with malignant brain glioma (MBG), with 24% of these patients being detected wit...

Aortic dissection masquerading as a bicuspid aortic valve.

A 37-year-old male presented to the Emergency Department with acute worsening of back pain and new onset dyspnea. Transthoracic echocardiography revea...

Preclinical Evaluation of Ga-MAA from Commercial Available Tc-MAA Kit.

Tc-Macroaggregated Albumin (Tc-MAA) has been used as a perfusion agent. This study described development of the Ga-MAA via commercially available kits...

Similarity measurement of lung masses for medical image retrieval using kernel based semisupervised distance metric.

PURPOSE: To develop a new algorithm to measure the similarity between the query lung mass and reference lung mass data set for content-based medical i...

A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing the Effect of Neostigmine and Metoclopramide on Gastric Residual Volume of Mechanically Ventilated ICU Patients.

BACKGROUND: In critically ill patients, enteral feeding through the nasogastric tube is the method of choice for nutritional support. Gastrointestinal...

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor as a novel biomarker of portopulmonary hypertension.

Portopulmonary hypertension (POPH) is a poorly understood complication of liver disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. We sought...

A new look at bronchopulmonary dysplasia: postcapillary pathophysiology and cardiac dysfunction.

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right ventricular function are the focus of cardiovascular effects of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). We assessed ca...

Relevance of angiopoietin-2 and soluble P-selectin levels in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension receiving combination therapy with oral treprostinil: a FREEDOM-C2 biomarker substudy.

UNLABELLED: Studies have suggested roles for angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) and soluble P-selectin (sP-selectin) as biomarkers of disease severity and treatme...

The effects of pulmonary vasodilating agents on right ventricular parameters in severe group 3 pulmonary hypertension: a pilot study.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-approved vasodilators improve right ventricular (RV) function in patients with PAH. However, whether PAH-approve...