Neutrophil–Lymphocytes Ratio as Potential Early Marker for Alzheimer’s Disease by Carlo Cervellati, Dario Pedrini, Pietro Pirro, Paola Guindani, Carlo Renzini, Gloria Brombo, Giovanni Zuliani

“…Since immune dysregulation leading to inflammation is regarded as a hallmark of dementia, in particular Alzheimer’s disease (AD), we decided to investigate the potentials of NLR as a diagnostic and predictive biomarker in this clinical setting. …”
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Exploring Interconnections Among Environmental Degradation, Energy Consumption, Information and Communication Technology, and Total Factor Productivity in Iran by M. Abbasian

“…This study, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to evaluate the long-term and short-term dynamic, unit root tests and diagnostic tests CUSUM and CUSUMQ and Canonical Co-Integrating Regression (CCR) Dynamic least squares (DOLS), and fully modified least squares (FMOLS) have been used to validate the results of ADRL estimates. …”
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Evaluation of fecal occult blood testing for rapid diagnosis of invasive diarrhea in young children. by David A Kwasi, Pelumi D Adewole, Olabisi C Akinlabi, Stella E Ekpo, Iruka N Okeke

“…This study aimed to assess the diagnostic utility of stool microscopy and immunochromatographic fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kits for identifying invasive or potentially invasive diarrhea in Ibadan, Nigeria. …”
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Pauci-Immune Necrotizing and Crescentic Glomerulonephritis with Membranous Lupus Nephritis, Fifteen Years after Initial Diagnosis of Secondary Membranous Nephropathy by Ryan Burkhart, Nina Shah, Michael Abel, James D. Oliver, Matthew Lewin

“…The renal biopsy was diagnostic for NCGN superimposed on a secondary membranous nephropathy. …”
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Analysis of Primary Stability of Dental Implants Inserted in Different Substrates Using the Pullout Test and Insertion Torque by Nathalia Ferraz Oliscovicz, Antônio Carlos Shimano, Élcio Marcantonio Junior, César Penazzo Lepri, Andréa Candido dos Reis

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Association between Levels of IgA Antibodies to Tissue Transglutaminase and Gliadin-Related Nonapeptides in Dermatitis Herpetiformis by Justyna Gornowicz-Porowska, Monika Bowszyc-Dmochowska, Agnieszka Seraszek-Jaros, Elżbieta Kaczmarek, Marian Dmochowski

“…Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) and nonapeptides of gliadin (npG) are considered in its pathomechanism/diagnostics. Here, the diagnostic accuracy of anti-tTG/anti-npG IgA ELISAs in Slavic DH patients with active skin rash was assessed through creating receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, determining cutoff values, and calculating correlations between levels of anti-tTG/anti-npG IgA in DH, IgA/neutrophil-mediated non-DH patients and healthy persons. …”
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Methotrexate and Valproic Acid Affect Early Neurogenesis of Human Amniotic Fluid Stem Cells from Myelomeningocele by Vardine Sahakyan, Enrico Pozzo, Robin Duelen, Jan Deprest, Maurilio Sampaolesi

“…We also proposed the detection of early neural gene expression in AFSCs as an additional MMC diagnostic tool.…”
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Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder According to the Crime Types by Hasan KARADAG, M. Hakan TURKCAPAR, S. Olga GURIZ, Kadir OZDEL, Akfer KARAOGLAN KAHILOGULLARI

“…The diagnosis was made according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-IV criteria. …”
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Unmet needs in atopic dermatitis management: an expert consensus by Annalisa Patrizi, Antonio Costanzo, Cataldo Patruno, Valentina Maria Busà, Andrea Chiricozzi, Giampiero Girolomoni

“…Lastly, agreement was assessed in a larger panel of Italian clinicians.Results Overall, 37 clinicians participated to the process. 17 statements reached strong agreement and 2 reached weak agreement.Conclusions In general, the statements reflected the need for accurate and effective diagnostic criteria to support clinical experience, especially in the atypical forms of AD. …”
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A Unique Case of Malignant Pleuropericardial Effusion: HHV-8-Unrelated PEL-Like Lymphoma—A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Farhan Mohammad, Muhammad Neaman Siddique, Faraz Siddiqui, M. Popalzai, Masoud Asgari, Marcel Odaimi

“…The definition included association with HHV-8 virus as a mandatory diagnostic criterion. However, cases were later reported where PEL-like disease process was diagnosed in HHV-8 negative patients. …”
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Bell’s Palsy: A Prospective Study by Ahmed Hassan Kamil Mustafa, Ahmed Mohammed Suleiman

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Thermal-Aware Multiconstrained Intrabody QoS Routing for Wireless Body Area Networks by Muhammad Mostafa Monowar, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Fuad Bajaber, Md. Abdul Hamid, Atif Alamri

“…Wireless body area networks (WBANs) can be formed including implanted biosensors for health monitoring and diagnostic purposes. However, implanted biosensors could cause thermal damages on human tissue as it exhibits temperature rise due to wireless communication and processing tasks inside the human body. …”
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An annotated heterogeneous ultrasound database by Yuezhe Yang, Yonglin Chen, Xingbo Dong, Junning Zhang, Chihui Long, Zhe Jin, Yong Dai

“…Abstract Ultrasound is a primary diagnostic tool commonly used to evaluate internal body structures, including organs, blood vessels, the musculoskeletal system, and fetal development. …”
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Lateral Ventricular Volume Asymmetry and Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter Predict Intracranial Pressure in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients by Yang Wang, Ziming Yuan, Zuoyan Zhang, Jiawei Shang, Mingna Li, Wei Wang

“…ONSD combining with LVR may further improve the diagnostic evaluation.…”
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Duplication of the External Auditory Canal: Two Cases and a Review of the Literature by John K. Goudakos, Sarantis Blioskas, George Psillas, Victor Vital, Konstantinos Markou

“…The objective of the present paper is to describe the clinical presentation, diagnostic process, surgical treatment, and outcome of 2 patients with first branchial cleft anomaly. …”
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A New Model for Providing Cell-Free DNA and Risk Assessment for Chromosome Abnormalities in a Public Hospital Setting by Robert Wallerstein, Andrea Jelks, Matthew J. Garabedian

“…Patients were presented with four pathways for aneuploidy risk assessment and diagnosis: (1) cfDNA; (2) integrated screening; (3) direct-to-invasive testing (chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis); or (4) no first trimester diagnostic testing/screening. Patients underwent follow-up genetic counseling and detailed ultrasound at 18–20 weeks to review first trimester testing and finalize decision for amniocentesis. …”
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Evaluation of feasibility accuracy and safety after 79 O-ARM based stereotactic brain biopsies by Inès Bouscatel, Benoit Marlier, Claude-Fabien Litré, Valéry Batchinsky-Parrou, Maxime Rivollier, Stanislas Loniewski, Jean-Charles Kleiber

“…Abstract Frame-based Stereotactic Brain Biopsy (FSBB) is a minimally invasive procedure with a view to increasing the diagnostic yield. The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy and safety of FSBB with the help of the intraoperative 3D O-ARM system. …”
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The importance of inflammatory biomarkers in detecting and managing latent tuberculosis infection by Harinisri Gunasekaran, Harinisri Gunasekaran, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Uma Devi Ranganathan, Ramalingam Bethunaickan, Ramalingam Bethunaickan, Ramalingam Bethunaickan

“…Identification of inflammatory mediators and utilizing them as diagnostic biomarkers for detecting the various stages of TB disease might help identify the reservoirs of Mtb infection even before they become symptomatic so that preventative treatment can be started early. …”
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Retinal Artery Occlusion Associated with Prepapillary Arterial Loop: An Isolated Ocular Disease? Case Report and Literature Review by Mansour AM, Parodi MB, Casella AMB, Kheir WJ, Bashshur ZF

“…There is no definite need for additional diagnostic testing in such patients with a negative systemic history.Keywords: prepapillary arterial loop, branch retinal artery occlusion, systemic workup…”
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3D Curvelet-Based Segmentation and Quantification of Drusen in Optical Coherence Tomography Images by M. Esmaeili, A. M. Dehnavi, H. Rabbani

“…Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) is a widely used interferometric diagnostic technique in ophthalmology that provides novel in vivo information of depth-resolved inner and outer retinal structures. …”
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