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Mild troponin elevation in patients admitted to the emergency department with atrial fibrillation: 30-day post-discharge prognostic significance.

Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) often undergo troponin (Tn) testing in the emergency department (ED), but the clinical significance of mildly elevated values remains unclear. We evaluated short-term 30-day post-discharge outcomes in AF patients according to troponin levels. Out of 2181 AF patients evaluated in the ED (June 2014 to June 2015), we included consecutive admitted patients. Patie...

HHV-8-associated haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in a patient with advanced AIDS.

We present a patient with advanced AIDS admitted with recurrent shock of unclear aetiology, fevers, altered mental status and refractory cytopenias. His case posed a diagnostic challenge because evaluation of septic shock in the setting of advanced AIDS requires a time-consuming work-up for broad infectious aetiologies that can delay consideration of other diagnoses, including primary or secondary...

[Surveillance of Sensitivity to Penicillin in streptococcus Agalactiae recovered from pregnant women between 35-37 weeks of gestation].

Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) cause severe infections in newborns under three months. Meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis are the main infectious diseas...

Lung abscess caused by serotype 6B.

Lung abscess has been considered to be a rare complication of pneumococcal infection, and most cases are reported to be serotype 3. A 67-year-old man...

Azithromycin and Chloramphenicol Diminish Neutrophil Extracellular Traps (NETs) Release.

Neutrophils are one of the first cells to arrive at the site of infection, where they apply several strategies to kill pathogens: degranulation, respi...

Artificial lateral line based local sensing between two adjacent robotic fish.

The lateral line system (LLS) is a mechanoreceptive organ system with which fish and aquatic amphibians can effectively sense the surrounding flow fie...

Monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibility of udder pathogens recovered from cases of clinical mastitis in dairy cows across Europe: VetPath results.

VetPath is an ongoing pan-European antimicrobial susceptibility monitoring programme collecting pathogens from diseased cattle, pigs and poultry not r...

Probiotic lactic acid bacteria isolated from traditional Korean fermented foods based on β-glucosidase activity.

This study was designed to isolate lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with β-glucosidase activity and probiotic properties from Korean fermented foods. Among ...

Examining accident reports involving autonomous vehicles in California.

Autonomous Vehicle technology is quickly expanding its market and has found in Silicon Valley, California, a strong foothold for preliminary testing o...

Using Machine Learning to Define the Association between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and All-Cause Mortality (from the Henry Ford Exercise Testing Project).

Previous studies have demonstrated that cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong marker of cardiovascular health. Machine learning (ML) can enhance the p...

TEPAPA: a novel in silico feature learning pipeline for mining prognostic and associative factors from text-based electronic medical records.

Vast amounts of clinically relevant text-based variables lie undiscovered and unexploited in electronic medical records (EMR). To exploit this untappe...

Lightweight predicate extraction for patient-level cancer information and ontology development.

BACKGROUND: Knowledge engineering for ontological knowledgebases is resource and time intensive. To alleviate these issues, especially for novices, au...

Leveraging machine learning-based approaches to assess human papillomavirus vaccination sentiment trends with Twitter data.

BACKGROUND: As one of the serious public health issues, vaccination refusal has been attracting more and more attention, especially for newly approved...

Optimization on machine learning based approaches for sentiment analysis on HPV vaccines related tweets.

BACKGROUND: Analysing public opinions on HPV vaccines on social media using machine learning based approaches will help us understand the reasons behi...

Machine Learning Principles Can Improve Hip Fracture Prediction.

Apply machine learning principles to predict hip fractures and estimate predictor importance in Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA)-scanned men and...

Controlling testing volume for respiratory viruses using machine learning and text mining.

Viral testing for pediatric inpatients with respiratory symptoms is common, with considerable associated charges. In an attempt to reduce testing volu...

An expert system for selecting wart treatment method.

As benign tumors, warts are made through the mediation of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and may grow on all parts of body, especially hands and feet. The...

Retinal Microvasculopathy Is Common in HIV/AIDS Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana.

. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ocular disorders in HIV positive patients attending the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Ghana. . A cross...

Kinetics Extraction Modelling and Antiproliferative Activity of Water Extract.

is widely grown in tropical Asia and locally known "belalai gajah" or Sabah snake grass. It has been used as a natural product to treat skin rashes, ...

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Study for the Detection and Quantitation of Cholesterol in HSV529 Therapeutic Vaccine Candidate.

This study describes the NMR-based method to determine the limit of quantitation (LOQ) and limit of detection (LOD) of cholesterol, a process-related ...