Steroids

Exploring Anti-osteoporosis Medicinal Herbs using Cheminformatics and Deep Learning Approaches.

BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a prevalent disease for the aged population. Chinese herbderived natural compounds have anti-osteoporosis effects. Due to the complexity of chemical ingredients and natural products, it is necessary to develop a high-throughput approach with the integration of cheminformatics and deep-learning methods to explore their mechanistic action, especially herb/drug-gene intera...

Interleukin-6 and interleukin-8 levels in children with aplastic anemia and its correlation with disease severity and response to immunosuppressive therapy.

BACKGROUND: Aplastic anemia (AA) is an uncommon condition characterized by pancytopenia and hypocellular bone marrow. Interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 have been shown to inhibit myelopoiesis and are major mediators of tissue damage. The primary goal of this study was to determine the IL-6 and IL-8 levels in children with AA, as well as their relationship to illness severity and immunosuppressive medica...

The possible role of artificial intelligence in deciding postnatal steroid management in extremely premature ventilated infants.

Clinical decision support (CDS) has shown a positive effect on physicians. There is variability among physicians about using postnatal steroids (PNS) ...

Deep Learning Algorithm Trained on Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Predict Outcomes of Transforaminal Epidural Steroid Injection for Chronic Lumbosacral Radicular Pain.

BACKGROUND: Transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI) are widely used to alleviate lumbosacral radicular pain. Knowledge of the therapeutic o...

Robotic Kidney Transplantation Under Regional Hypothermia.

The technique of robotic kidney transplantation (RKT) under regional hypothermia is being described. It may be performed in all patients requiring kid...

Development of Needle Guide Unit Considering Buckling Bone-Perforation Control Strategy Based on Computed Tomography-Guided Needle Insertion Robot.

A computed tomography (CT)-guided robotic assistance system is useful for needle insertion into metastatic carcinoma of vertebrae, which has limited p...

Optical bone densitometry robust to variation of soft tissue using machine learning techniques: validation by Monte Carlo simulation.

SIGNIFICANCE: To achieve early detection of osteoporosis, a simple bone densitometry method using optics was proposed. However, individual differences...

Construction of a 5-feature gene model by support vector machine for classifying osteoporosis samples.

Osteoporosis is a progressive bone disease in the elderly and lacks an effective classification method of patients. This study constructed a gene sign...

Augmenting Osteoporosis Imaging with Machine Learning.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: In this paper, we discuss how recent advancements in image processing and machine learning (ML) are shaping a new and exciting era ...

Predictive Value of Immune Cell Functional Assay for Non-Cytomegalovirus Infection in Lung Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Prospective Observational Study.

INTRODUCTION: Immune cell functional assay (ImmuKnow®) is a non-invasive method that measures the state of cellular immunity in immunosuppressed patie...

Therapeutic monitoring of mycophenolic acid in renal transplanted patients by a validated HPLC method.

INTRODUCTION: Mycophenolate mofetil and its active metabolite mycophenolic acid are routinely used as immunosuppressant drugs in solid organ transplan...

Predictors of bleeding event among elderly patients with mechanical valve replacement using random forest model: A retrospective study.

Available classification tools and risk factors predicting bleeding events in elderly patients after mechanical valve replacement may not be suitable ...

High-dimensional profiling clusters asthma severity by lymphoid and non-lymphoid status.

Clinical definitions of asthma fail to capture the heterogeneity of immune dysfunction in severe, treatment-refractory disease. Applying mass cytometr...

Opportunistic Screening at Abdominal CT: Use of Automated Body Composition Biomarkers for Added Cardiometabolic Value.

Abdominal CT is a frequently performed imaging examination for a wide variety of clinical indications. In addition to the immediate reason for scannin...

Dermoscopic Features of Giant Molluscum Contagiosum in a Patient with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.

Giant molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a peculiar variant of the disease with the presence of multiple or single lesions larger than 5 mm. In contrast to...

A Case of Dapsone-induced Mild Methemoglobinemia with Dyspnea and Cyanosis.

Dear Editor, Dapsone is a dual-function drug with antimicrobial and antiprotozoal effects and anti-inflammatory features (1). In dermatology, it is a ...

[A comparative study on treatment of lumbar degenerative disease with osteoporosis by manual and robot-assisted cortical bone trajectory screws fixation].

OBJECTIVE: To compare the safety and accuracy of manual and robot-assisted cortical bone trajectory (CBT) screws fixation in the treatment of lumbar d...

A fatal invasive pulmonary infection in an adult patient with malignant lung adenocarcinoma.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: complex as a ubiquitous environmental mold is increasingly reported to cause an invasive fungal infection in immunosuppressiv...

Artificial neural network and bioavailability of the immunosuppression drug.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The success of organ transplant is determined by number of demographic, clinical, immunological and genetic variables. Artificial i...

Application of Machine Learning Methods in Predicting Nuclear Receptors and their Families.

Nuclear receptors (NRs) are a superfamily of ligand-dependent transcription factors that are closely related to cell development, differentiation, rep...