Rheumatology

Calcitonin Levels in Thyroid Disease Are Not Affected by Autoimmune Thyroiditis or Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma.

INTRODUCTION: Association between hypercalcitoninemia and pathological conditions such as autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) or differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) has been addressed, with conflicting results. We evaluated the prevalence and the clinical relevance of elevated basal serum calcitonin (CT) levels in non-neoplastic (nodular goiter [NG] and AIT) and neoplastic thyroid diseases (DTC).

Utilisation of artificial intelligence for the development of an EUS-convolutional neural network model trained to enhance the diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis.

OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP) is challenging. Sonographic and cross-sectional imaging findings of AIP closely mimic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and techniques for tissue sampling of AIP are suboptimal. These limitations often result in delayed or failed diagnosis, which negatively impact patient management and outcomes. This study aimed to create an endoscop...

Machine learning integration of scleroderma histology and gene expression identifies fibroblast polarisation as a hallmark of clinical severity and improvement.

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine histologic and gene expression features of clinical improvement in early diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis (dcSSc...

An Artificial Neural Network Model for Assessing Frailty-Associated Factors in the Thai Population.

Frailty, one of the major public health problems in the elderly, can result from multiple etiologic factors including biological and physical changes ...

Turing Universality of Weighted Spiking Neural P Systems with Anti-spikes.

Weighted spiking neural P systems with anti-spikes (AWSN P systems) are proposed by adding anti-spikes to spiking neural P systems with weighted synap...

Fuzzy logic programming and adaptable design of medical products for the COVID-19 anti-epidemic normalization.

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 prevention and control constantly affects lives worldwide. In this paper, household medical products were analyzed using fuzz...

Machine learning predicts stem cell transplant response in severe scleroderma.

OBJECTIVE: The Scleroderma: Cyclophosphamide or Transplantation (SCOT) trial demonstrated clinical benefit of haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSC...

Genomic risk scores for juvenile idiopathic arthritis and its subtypes.

OBJECTIVES: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is an autoimmune disease and a common cause of chronic disability in children. Diagnosis of JIA is bas...

Machine-learning strategies for testing patterns of morphological variation in small samples: sexual dimorphism in gray wolf (Canis lupus) crania.

BACKGROUND: Studies of mammalian sexual dimorphism have traditionally involved the measurement of selected dimensions of particular skeletal elements ...

Knowledge-Based Decision Support in Healthcare via Near Field Communication.

The benefits of automatic identification technologies in healthcare have been largely recognized. Nevertheless, unlocking their potential to support t...

Case of slowly progressive type 1 diabetes mellitus with drastically reduced insulin secretory capacity after immune checkpoint inhibitor treatment for advanced renal cell carcinoma.

We encountered a 55-year-old Japanese man with advanced renal cell carcinoma and slowly progressive type 1 diabetes mellitus (SPT1DM), whose insulin s...

ANTIPROLIFERATIVE PROPERTIES OF ETHANOLIC AND AQUEOUS GRAVIOLA LEAF EXTRACTS ON TONGUE SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA CELL LINE-25.

BACKGROUND: commonly known as Graviola, soursop or guanabana, is an evergreen tree native to the tropics with a long history of use in ethnomedicine ...

Incessant Pericarditis With Recurrent Cardiac Tamponade as the Manifestation of Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type II.

A 23-year-old man was admitted for acute pericarditis that evolved to cardiac tamponade and shock with need of emergent pericardiocentesis and inotrop...

Bayesian machine learning to discover Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors.

Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) has a crucial role in multiple cell signaling pathways including B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) and Fc receptor (FcR) si...

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method for the quantification of an anti-sclerostin monoclonal antibody in cynomolgus monkey serum.

Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) has gradually become a promising alternative to ligand binding assay for the bioanalysis of ...

Unbiased Characterization of Peptide-HLA Class II Interactions Based on Large-Scale Peptide Microarrays; Assessment of the Impact on HLA Class II Ligand and Epitope Prediction.

Human Leukocyte Antigen class II (HLA-II) molecules present peptides to T lymphocytes and play an important role in adaptive immune responses. Charact...

Machine-learning approach expands the repertoire of anti-CRISPR protein families.

The CRISPR-Cas are adaptive bacterial and archaeal immunity systems that have been harnessed for the development of powerful genome editing and engine...

Patterns of 1,748 Unique Human Alloimmune Responses Seen by Simple Machine Learning Algorithms.

Allele specific antibody response against the polymorphic system of HLA is the allogeneic response marker determining the immunological risk for graft...

Digital health technologies: opportunities and challenges in rheumatology.

The past decade in rheumatology has seen tremendous innovation in digital health technologies, including the electronic health record, virtual visits,...

Deep learning based HEp-2 image classification: A comprehensive review.

Classification of HEp-2 cell patterns plays a significant role in the indirect immunofluorescence test for identifying autoimmune diseases in the huma...