Transplantation

Y-Site Compatibility of Intravenous Levetiracetam With Commonly Used Critical Care Medications.

Levetiracetam is an antiepileptic medication commonly used in critical care areas for seizure treatment or prophylaxis. Compatibility data of levetiracetam with other critical care medications are limited, which can make administration challenging. This study aims to assess the physical Y-site compatibility of intravenous levetiracetam with some other commonly used critical care medications. Y-s...

Correlation of Troponin Level (Troponin T, Troponin I) With PELOD-2 Score in Sepsis as a Predictive Factor of Mortality.

BACKGROUND: Sepsis in children with cardiovascular involvement can increase mortality. Recently, many studies have been conducted to investigate troponin as an early marker of myocardial dysfunction, associated with pediatric sepsis score. Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction 2 (PELOD-2) score is recent scoring to assess organ dysfunction in sepsis children.

Research Note: Longitudinal monitoring of chicken houses in a commercial layer farm for antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli with special reference to plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance.

Plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR) genes located on conjugative plasmids can be transferred to other bacteria in the absence of antimicrobia...

Secretion of equine chorionic gonadotropin and its association with supplementary corpus luteum formation and progesterone concentration in Hokkaido native pony recipient mares.

The objectives of this study were to determine the plasma profile of equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and its association with the formation of sup...

Reconstruction error based deep neural networks for coronary heart disease risk prediction.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide; if suffering from CHD and being in its end-stage, the most advanced trea...

Autologous fat graft assisted by stromal vascular fraction improves facial skin quality: A randomized controlled trial.

BACKGROUND: Cell-assisted lipotransfer (CAL) promotes the survival of fat grafts with high vascular density and improves skin quality by increasing co...

Comparative clinical evaluation of atlas and deep-learning-based auto-segmentation of organ structures in liver cancer.

BACKGROUND: Accurate and standardized descriptions of organs at risk (OARs) are essential in radiation therapy for treatment planning and evaluation. ...

Predictors, Presentation, and Treatment Outcomes of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Liver Transplantation: A Large Single Center Experience.

BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation (LT) is an accepted therapeutic option for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis. Despite carefu...

Using the Chou's 5-steps rule to predict splice junctions with interpretable bidirectional long short-term memory networks.

Neural models have been able to obtain state-of-the-art performances on several genome sequence-based prediction tasks. Such models take only nucleoti...

Simple water-based tacrolimus enemas for refractory proctitis.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Rectal ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD) often do not respond to conventional therapies. Oral and suppository tacr...

Rapid Stability Indicating HPLC Method for the Analysis of Leflunomide and Its Related Impurities in Bulk Drug and Formulations.

OBJECTIVES: Leflunomide (LFNM) is a drug that belongs to isoxazole derivatives and has immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory activities. A literatur...

Splice sites detection using chaos game representation and neural network.

A novel method is proposed to detect the acceptor and donor splice sites using chaos game representation and artificial neural network. In order to ac...

Predicting individual decision-making responses based on single-trial EEG.

Decision-making plays an essential role in the interpersonal interactions and cognitive processing of individuals. There has been increasing interest ...

DeepHLApan: A Deep Learning Approach for Neoantigen Prediction Considering Both HLA-Peptide Binding and Immunogenicity.

Neoantigens play important roles in cancer immunotherapy. Current methods used for neoantigen prediction focus on the binding between human leukocyte ...

Pregnancy After Liver Transplantation: Outcomes From a Single-Center Experience.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Although much has been learnt regarding pregnancy after liver transplantation, data from India are scant. Hence, we evaluated t...

Using machine learning techniques to develop risk prediction models to predict graft failure following kidney transplantation: protocol for a retrospective cohort study.

A mechanism to predict graft failure before the actual kidney transplantation occurs is crucial to clinical management of chronic kidney disease pati...

CT and MRI compatibility of flexible 3D-printed materials for soft actuators and robots used in image-guided interventions.

PURPOSE: Three-dimensional (3D) printing allows for the fabrication of medical devices with complex geometries, such as soft actuators and robots that...

Is obesity a contraindication for kidney donation?

INTRODUCTION: To enlarge the donor pool, kidney donors with obesity have been considered. We hypothesized that it is safe for patients with obesity to...

What microsurgeon, orthopaedic and plastic surgeon should know about bionic hand.

Hand loss is a catastrophic event that generates significant demands for orthopedics and prosthetics. In the course of history, prostheses evolved fro...

Physicochemical stability of an admixture of lidocaine and ketamine in polypropylene syringe used in opioid-free anaesthesia.

OBJECTIVES: Opioid-free anaesthesia is a treatment strategy of pain management based on the use of drugs such as lidocaine, ketamine and dexmedetomidi...