Mathematical Modeling of the Transmission of Foot And Mouth Disease Virus in Cloven-Hooved Animals. by Mbasa, Nikora

“…We show that at a particular point in time,t, if the product of the population growth rater= Bµ and the sum of the natural death rate and the number of infected animals (weighted by the exposure rate) is greater than the product of the basic reproduction number and the number of susceptible animals, then the endemic equilibrium point will be stable and the disease will persist in the animal population. …”
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Impact of Coronary Artery Disease and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation by Anthony G. Matta, Thibault Lhermusier, Francisco Campelo Parada, Frederic Bouisset, Ronan Canitrot, Vanessa Nader, Stéphanie Blanco, Meyer Elbaz, Jerome Roncalli, Didier Carrié

“…Also, no significant difference regarding in-hospital death was observed. In parallel, performing PCI prior to TAVI did not increase the risk of in-hospital death and complications. …”
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Pembrolizumab plus Pemetrexed and Platinum in Metastatic Non-Squamous Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Real-Life Study at a Portuguese Centre by Maria João Santos, Filipa Ferro, Andrea Machado, Ana Sofia Vilariça, Direndra Hasmucrai, Paula Alves

“… First-line therapy for metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer without targetable mutations is platinum-based chemotherapy plus pembrolizumab if programmed death ligand 1 is < 50%. The aim of this real-life retrospective study is to assess the efficacy and safety of this therapy. …”
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The transcriptional response of cortical neurons to concussion reveals divergent fates after injury by Mor R. Alkaslasi, Eliza Y. H. Lloyd, Austin S. Gable, Hanna Silberberg, Hector E. Yarur, Valerie S. Tsai, Mira Sohn, Gennady Margolin, Hugo A. Tejeda, Claire E. Le Pichon

“…To investigate the mechanism controlling layer V neuron death, we genetically silenced candidate stress response pathways. …”
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Determinants of mortality and prolonged hospital stay among dengue patients attending tertiary care hospital: a cross-sectional retrospective analysis by Yusra Habib Khan, Tauqeer Hussain Mallhi, Amer Hayat Khan, Azmi Sarriff, Azreen Syazril Adnan

“…Early identification of dengue cases with high propensity of increased hospital stay and death could be of value in isolating patients in need of early interventions. …”
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Chronic Kidney Disease and Mortality in Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Recipients by Aamir Cheema, Tejwant Singh, Manreet Kanwar, Karuna Chilukuri, Viqar Maria, Fareena Saleem, Katrina Johnson, John Frank, Luis Pires, Sohail Hassan

“…Incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) remains high. …”
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Indicators Of Morbidity And Mortality From Diseases of the Digestive System in the Krasnodar Krai and the Quality of Medical Care for Gastroenterological Patients by N. V. Korochanskaya, V. M. Durleshter, O. V. Kovalevskaya, S. N. Serikova, K. I. Popandopulo

“…About 70% of the causes of death from DD among people of working age account for liver diseases. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of selective digestive decontamination (SDD) versus selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD) in intensive care units with low levels of antimicrobial resist... by Marc J M Bonten, Denise van Hout, Nienke L Plantinga, Patricia C Bruijning-Verhagen, Evelien A N Oostdijk, Anne Marie G A de Smet, G Ardine de Wit, Cornelis H van Werkhoven

“…At a willingness-to-pay value of €33 633 per one prevented in-hospital death, SDD had a probability of 90.0% to be cost-effective as compared with SOD.Conclusion In Dutch ICUs, SDD has a very high probability of cost-effectiveness as compared to SOD. …”
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Clinical Characteristics of Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Combined with Gastrointestinal Perforation and Prognostic Value of Circulating Tumor DNA by Hong Yang, Dongwen Rong, Wenhui Yang

“…Patients were divided into the death group (n = 78) and the survival group (n = 19) according to their survival status at 3 years after surgery. …”
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TNF Superfamily: A Growing Saga of Kidney Injury Modulators by Maria D. Sanchez-Niño, Alberto Benito-Martin, Sara Gonçalves, Ana B. Sanz, Alvaro C. Ucero, Maria C. Izquierdo, Adrian M. Ramos, Sergio Berzal, Rafael Selgas, Marta Ruiz-Ortega, Jesus Egido, Alberto Ortiz

“…TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL and its potential decoy receptor osteoprotegerin are the two most upregulated death-related genes in human diabetic nephropathy. …”
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Single component organic photosensitizer for tumor Photodynamic/Photothermal immunotherapy via apoptosis and pyroptosis by Miao-Yan Xu, Jie Zeng, Xin-Hao Han, Duo-Duo Wei, Bing Fan, Xin‑Hui Qu, Shaorong Huang, Xiao-Jian Han

“…Pyroptosis is the programmed cell death of inflammation and an effective way to eliminate tumors. …”
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Hepatocyte Rho-associated kinase signaling is required for mice to survive experimental porphyria-associated liver injury by Jessica M. Herrera, Yun Weng, Tyler J. Lieberthal, Marcus Paoletti, Tammy T. Chang

“…RNA-seq analysis showed upregulation of cell death, inflammatory, and profibrotic pathways in DDC-injured DKO liver as compared to DDC-injured WT liver. …”
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Persistent Mortality Risk From Device-related Healthcare-associated Infection in Kidney Transplant Recipients Despite Multifaceted Interventions Action Calls for a Zero-tolerance P... by Maria Bethânia Peruzzo, MD, Luana Oliveira Calegari, MSc, Renato Demarchi Foresto, MD, PhD, Helio Tedesco-Silva, MD, PhD, José Medina Pestana, MD, PhD, Lúcio Requião-Moura, MD, PhD

“…Despite the significant reduction in d-HAIs after the bundle implementation, d-HAIs were associated with a 2.6-fold higher risk of death (hazard ratio [HR], 2.63; P < 0.001) regardless of the study period. …”
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Socioeconomic environment and survival in patients after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): a longitudinal study for the City of Vienna by Christian Roth, Michael Kühn, Rudolf Berger, Sonja Spitzer, Vanessa di Lego

“…On weekends, it is the only hospital in charge of treating STEMIs and thus provides representative data for the Viennese population.Participants The study comprises a total of 1481 patients with STEMI, including women and men aged 24–94 years.Primary and secondary outcome measures Primary outcome measures are age at STEMI and age at death. We further distinguish between deaths from coronary artery disease (CAD), deaths from acute coronary syndrome (ACS), and other causes of death. …”
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Incidence and risk factors for mortality of vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective analysis using the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database by Hideo Yasunaga, Hirotaka Chikuda, Kiyohide Fushimi, Hiromasa Horiguchi, Toru Akiyama, Kazuo Saita

“…A higher rate of in-hospital mortality was significantly associated with haemodialysis use (ORs, 10.56 (95% CI 8.12 to 13.74)), diabetes (2.37 (1.89 to 2.98)), liver cirrhosis (2.63 (1.49 to 4.63)), malignancy (2.68, (2.10 to 3.42)) and infective endocarditis (3.19 (1.80 to 5.65)).Conclusions Our study demonstrates an increasing incidence of VO, and defines risk factors for death with a nationwide database. Several comorbidities were significantly associated with higher rates of in-hospital death in VO patients.…”
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Combination of ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related inhibition with ablative radiotherapy remodels the tumor microenvironment and enhances immunotherapy response in lung cancer by Jenny Ling-Yu Chen, Chun-Kai Pan, Li-Cheng Lin, Yu-Sen Huang, Tsung-Hsuan Huang, Shu-Jyuan Yang, Sung-Hsin Kuo, Yu-Li Lin

“…The tumor microenvironment was assessed in irradiated flank and non-irradiated lung tumors. Programmed death-ligand 1 expression was upregulated after irradiation. …”
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Development and Validation of a Risk Prediction Model for Ventricular Arrhythmia in Elderly Patients with Coronary Heart Disease by Ying Dong, Yajun Shi, Jinli Wang, Qing Dan, Ling Gao, Chenghui Zhao, Yang Mu, Miao Liu, Chengliang Yin, Rilige Wu, Yuqi Liu, Yang Li, Xueping Wang

“…Background. Sudden cardiac death is a leading cause of death from coronary heart disease (CHD). …”
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Burying Bob by Joost Fontein

“… The death of Robert Mugabe, or 'Rob' as he was irreverently known by many Zimbabweans, was always likely to be something of an event. …”
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Correlation between Ferroptosis-Related Gene Signature and Immune Landscape, Prognosis in Breast Cancer by Jiahao Zhu, Qingqing Chen, Ke Gu, You Meng, Shengjun Ji, Yutian Zhao, Bo Yang

“…Breast cancer (BC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and second leading cause of cancer-related death in women worldwide. Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent newly discovered mode of cell death, can be induced by lenaltinib and plays an important role in the biological behaviors of BC. …”
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Disturbance of Inorganic Phosphate Metabolism in Diabetes Mellitus: Its Relevance to the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy by H. Vorum, J. Ditzel

“…Any interruption of optimal ATP production might lead to cell injury and possible cell death, and evidence will be provided herein that such cell death does occur in diabetic retinopathy. …”
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