Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease – A multicenter observational study from India by Sham Santhanam, Pravin Patil, Mohit Goyal, C B Mithun, Parthajit Das, Kavitha Mohanasundaram, Neeraj Jain, Vijaya Prasanna, Keerthi Talari, Himanshu Pathak, Parshant Aggarwal, Deepika Ponnuru, Vikram Raj Jain, Sharath Kumar

“…In our cohort, 372 (60%) patients had not received a diagnosis of their rheumatic disease or the ILD before seeing their rheumatologist. …”
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A Novel Convolutional Neural Network-Based Approach for Fault Classification in Photovoltaic Arrays by Farkhanda Aziz, Azhar Ul Haq, Shahzor Ahmad, Yousef Mahmoud, Marium Jalal, Usman Ali

“…Fault diagnosis in photovoltaic (PV) arrays is essential in enhancing power output as well as the useful life span of a PV system. …”
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Highly Aggressive CD4-Positive Mast Cell Leukaemia (Leukaemic Variant) Associated with Isolated Trisomy 19 and Hemophagocytosis by Neoplastic Mast Cells: A Case Report with Challen... by Dina Sameh Soliman, Ahmad Al-Sabbagh, Feryal Ibrahim, Amna Gameil, Mohamed Yassin, Halima El-Omri

“…In addition, its prompt diagnosis is usually challenging. This is due to its heterogeneity in clinical presentations and cytomorphological and immunophenotypical features together with potential associations with other hematologic neoplasms which can complicate the condition and delay accurate diagnosis. …”
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Comparison of MRI and CT in the Evaluation of Unilateral Maxillary Sinus Opacification by Elise Chua, Annakan V. Navaratnam, Dominic St Leger, Vincent Lam, Samit Unadkat, Alexander Weller

“…A consensus radiological diagnosis was determined, stratified into potentially neoplastic or infectious/inflammatory aetiology, and compared with nasal endoscopy and final diagnosis. …”
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Timing of risk factors, prodromal features, and comorbidities of dementia from a large health claims case–control study by Stefan Teipel, Manas Akmatov, Bernhard Michalowsky, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Jens Bohlken, Jakob Holstiege

“…We included patients with an incident diagnosis of dementia and controls without a diagnosis of dementia matched 1:2 for age, sex, region, and earliest year of outpatient encounter. …”
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Warrick score in rheumatoid-arthritis interstitial lung disease: a promising tool for assessing the extent and progression of lung involvement by Duygu Temiz Karadag, Sevtap Dogan, Neslihan Gokcen, Oznur Sadioglu Cagdas, Ayten Yazici, Ayse Cefle

“…Results Significant correlations were found between Warrick scores and age at RA-ILD diagnosis, age at ILD diagnosis, and baseline DAS28-ESR. …”
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Prevalence of complications and comorbidities associated with obesity: a health insurance claims analysis by Jay P. Bae, David R. Nelson, Kristina S. Boye, Kieren J. Mather

“…Identification of disorders relied on ICD-10 diagnosis code in patient claims and their prevalence was calculated. …”
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Time to antiretroviral therapy initiation in HIV-positive patients with opportunistic infections/AIDS-defining illness in Southern Thailand: a prospective cohort study by Chanadda Wuttikul, Nattasiri Thanawuth, Malee Rojpibulsatit, Sutthiporn Pattharachayakul

“…The three most common OIs were tuberculosis (36.8%), Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (26.1%), and candidiasis (19.0%). 39.9% of patients learned about their HIV-serostatus after OIs/ADI diagnosis. The median time from OIs/ADI diagnosis to ART initiation was 38 days (IQR, 23-71). …”
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Epidemiological Analysis of Fungal Infection Disease in Pediatric Population: Focus on Hospitalization from 2007 to 2022 in Veneto Region in Italy by Lorenzo Chiusaroli, Claudia Cozzolino, Silvia Cocchio, Mario Saia, Carlo Giaquinto, Daniele Donà, Vincenzo Baldo

“…We included all children admitted to the hospital with a primary or secondary diagnosis during admission for other reasons. Data were stratified based on age, year, ward of admission, and type of diagnosis. …”
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Clinical Features of iatrogenic Pharyngo-esophageal perforation in very low birth weight infants by Shu Eguchi, Yoshiya Hisaeda, Toshiko Ukawa, Mayu Koto, Miku Hosokawa, Chisa Tsurisawa, Tomohiro Takeda, Shusuke Amagata, Atsushi Nakao

“…In addition to a frontal X-ray, a lateral X-ray and contrast study may be useful for early diagnosis.…”
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Leptomeningeal Dissemination in Choroid Plexus Tumors: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Appearance and Risk Factors by Daniel Nunes do Espirito Santo, Monika Warmuth-Metz, Camelia-Maria Monoranu, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Torsten Pietsch, Jürgen Krauß, Tilmann Schweitzer, Brigitte Bison, Matthias Eyrich, Uwe Kordes, Denise Obrecht-Sturm, Mirko Pham, Annika Quenzer

“…Conclusions: LMD can occur in both high- and lower-grade CPT, presenting at diagnosis as well as in relapsed lower-grade cases. …”
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Analysis of partial discharges in supporting insulators by D. A. Polyakov, K. I. Nikitin, N. A. Tereshchenko, A. S. Novoselov, Ya. P. Bilevich

“…Therefore, the article investigates the diagnosis of insulators by the method of partial discharges as a tool for personnel protection. …”
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Commonly prescribed medications and risk of pneumonia and all-cause mortality in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a UK population-based cohort study by Ann D. Morgan, Georgie M. Massen, Hannah R. Whittaker, Iain Stewart, Gisli Jenkins, Peter M. George, Jennifer K. Quint

“…Results A total of 17,105 people met our study inclusion criteria; 62.6% were male and 15.9% were current smokers. Median age at IPF diagnosis was 76.7 years (IQR: 69.6–82.7). 19.9% were regularly prescribed PPIs, and 16.0% ICS, prior to IPF diagnosis. …”
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Real-world clinical utility of Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra in the assessment of tuberculosis in a low-TB-incidence, high-resource setting by Robert C Free, Manish Pareek, Hemu Patel, Pranabashis Haldar, Jee Whang Kim, Richard Halliwell, Nelun Perera, Gerrit Woltmann, Alison Glimour-Caunt, Raman Verma

“…Background Tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis in the UK is impacted by delay and suboptimal culture-based microbiological confirmation rates due to the high prevalence of paucibacillary disease. …”
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Seleksi Fitur dengan Particle Swarm Optimization pada Klasifikasi Penyakit Parkinson Menggunakan XGBoost by Deni Kurnia, Muhammad Itqan Mazdadi, Dwi Kartini, Radityo Adi Nugroho, Friska Abadi

“… Penyakit Parkinson merupakan gangguan pada sistem saraf pusat yang mempengaruhi sistem motorik. Diagnosis penyakit ini cukup sulit dilakukan karena gejalanya yang serupa dengan penyakit lain. …”
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IgG4 as a Biomarker in Graves’ Orbitopathy by Michał Olejarz, Ewelina Szczepanek-Parulska, Daniela Dadej, Nadia Sawicka-Gutaj, Remigiusz Domin, Marek Ruchała

“…We strongly recommend considering the diagnosis of GO with elevated IgG4 in patients with an established diagnosis of GD, elevated serum IgG4 levels, and clinical features of ophthalmic disease overlapping with those of IgG4-related orbital disease.…”
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Blood Cell Ratio Combinations for Diagnosing Periprosthetic Joint Infections: A Preliminary Study by Yu Y, Wen Y, Xia J, Dong G, Niu Y

“…However, subgroup analysis revealed no significant differences in combined inflammatory biomarker levels between the two groups.Conclusion: PAR and CAR prove to be effective combined inflammatory biomarkers for PJI diagnosis, whereas other markers exhibited limited diagnostic utility for PJI.Keywords: prosthetic joint infection, blood cell ratio combinations, PAR, CAR, MSIS…”
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Outcomes of Open Reduction and Modified McLaughlin’s Procedure in Neglected Posterior Shoulder Dislocation by Vikas, Jatin Prakash, Karan Maggo, Jujhar Singh, Ankesh Jain, Naval Bhatia

“…Results: The study included 13 patients (4 females, 9 males) with a mean age of 40.69 years and a mean delay of 8.5 weeks from injury to diagnosis. The average follow-up period was 18 months. …”
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Feasibility of remote robot empowered teleultrasound scanning for radioactive patients by Ying Liang, Lu Wang, Manuel Escobar Amoresa, Zirui Jiang, Bo Yu, Jiami Li, Man Lu

“…Abstract To investigate the feasibility of robot-assisted teleultrasound diagnosis for radioactive patients compared with conventional ultrasound diagnosis. …”
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Identifying malignant pleural effusion from tubercular pleural effusion by study of cancer ratio and cancer ratio plus by Subhankar Saren, Animesh Mandal, Amit Kumar Das, Ranjit Kumar Haldar, Sudipta Pandit

“…CR with levels above 20 showed very strong statistical association with MPE diagnosis in patients of pleural effusion (P<0.001). …”
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