A Rare Case of Sclerosing Stromal Tumor of the Ovary Presenting in Pregnancy: A Diagnostic Dilemma on Presentation by Minh Nguyen, Namarig Soumit, Abdul Waheed, Jack Sees, Erum Azhar

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A diagnostic host-specific transcriptome response for Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia to guide pediatric patient treatment by Sandra Viz-Lasheras, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Xabier Bello, Irene Rivero-Calle, Ana Isabel Dacosta, Myrsini Kaforou, Dominic Habgood-Coote, Aubrey J. Cunnington, Marieke Emonts, Jethro A. Herberg, Victoria J. Wright, Enitan D. Carrol, Stephane C. Paulus, Werner Zenz, Daniela S. Kohlfürst, Nina Schweintzger, Michiel Van der Flier, Ronald de Groot, Luregn J. Schlapbach, Philipp Agyeman, Andrew J. Pollard, Colin Fink, Taco T. Kuijpers, Suzanne Anderson, Ulrich Von Both, Marko Pokorn, Dace Zavadska, María Tsolia, Henriëtte A. Moll, Clementien Vermont, Michael Levin, Federico Martinón-Torres, Antonio Salas, On behalf of EUCLIDS, PERFORM, and DIAMONDS consortia

“…Its lack of a cell wall makes it resistant to beta-lactams, which are the first-line treatment for typical pneumonia. Current diagnostic tests are time-consuming and have low specificity, leading clinicians to administer empirical antibiotics. …”
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Physical Exercise as a Diagnostic, Rehabilitation, and Preventive Tool: Influence on Neuroplasticity and Motor Recovery after Stroke by Caroline Pin-Barre, Jérôme Laurin

“…First, acute exercise could be used as a diagnostic tool to understand new neural mechanisms underlying stroke physiopathology. …”
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Integrated Analysis Identifies Four Genes as Novel Diagnostic Biomarkers Which Correlate with Immune Infiltration in Preeclampsia by Mu-yi Yang, Ming-hui Ji, Tian Shen, Lei Lei

“…Herein, our team intended to determine potential diagnostic biomarkers for preeclampsia and analyzed associations with immune cells. …”
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Diagnostic Value of Systemic Inflammatory Response Index for Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection in Patients Undergoing Haemodialysis by Jiajia Yang, Hongmei Wang, Qing Hua, Jian Wu, Ying Wang

“…This study was aimed at investigating the diagnostic value of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio (CAR), and systemic inflammatory response index (SIRI) for catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) in patients undergoing haemodialysis. …”
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Enhancing diagnostic outcomes in kidney genetic disorders: the KidGen national kidney genomics study protocol by Amali Mallawaarachchi, Hugh McCarthy, Thomas A. Forbes, Kushani Jayasinghe, Chirag Patel, Stephen I. Alexander, Tiffany Boughtwood, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Aron Chakera, Sam Crafter, Ira W. Deveson, Randall Faull, Trudie Harris, Lilian Johnstone, Matthew Jose, Anna Leaver, Melissa H. Little, Daniel MacArthur, Tessa Mattiske, Christine Mincham, Kathy Nicholls, Catherine Quinlan, Michael C. J. Quinn, Gopala Rangan, Jessica Ryan, Cas Simons, Ian Smyth, Madhivanan Sundaram, Peter Trnka, Laura Wedd, Erik Biros, Zornitza Stark, Andrew Mallett

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Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death in Beta-Thalassemia Major Patients: Noninvasive Diagnostic Tools and Early Markers by Vincenzo Russo, Enrico Melillo, Andrea A. Papa, Anna Rago, Celeste Chamberland, Gerardo Nigro

“…Careful analysis of electrocardiograms and other diagnostic tools may help in early identification of high-risk β-TM patients for arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.…”
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Le diagnostic archéologique des combles de l’abbaye de Reigny à Vermenton (Yonne) by Sylvain Aumard

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5‐Hydroxymethylcytosine Profiles of cfDNA in Urine as Diagnostic, Differential Diagnosis and Prognostic Markers for Multiple Myeloma by Weiwei Xie, Xuehui Li, Hangyu Chen, Jinlin Chu, Lei Zhang, Bo Tang, Wenrong Huang, Linlin Li, Jian Lin, Yujun Dong

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Acute Hemorrhage into Adrenal Pseudocyst Presenting with Shock: Diagnostic Dilemmas Report of Three Cases and Review of Literature by Amarapathy Sivasankar, Sathyanesan Jeswanth, Maria Antony Johnson, Palaniappan Ravichandran, Shanmugasundaram Rajendran, Devy Gounder Kannan, Rajagopal Surendran

“…Pregnancy was associated in two cases. The diagnostic dilemmas are discussed with special reference to their unusual presentations, diagnosis, and treatment. …”
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miRNAs and Hematological Markers in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease—A New Diagnostic Path? by Agata Michalak, Małgorzata Guz, Joanna Kozicka, Marek Cybulski, Witold Jeleniewicz, Ilona Telejko, Karolina Szczygieł, Ewa Tywanek, Halina Cichoż-Lach

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Evaluation of the functional gastrointestinal diseases concept from standpoints of Rome IV (2016) diagnostic criteria (review) by D. N. Andreyev, A. V. Zaborovsky, A. S. Trukhmanov, I. V. Mayev, V. T. Ivashkin

“…The classification of FGID is revised in updated Rome criteria, diagnostic features of several nosological entities were specified.…”
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Men's more frequent predisposing factors in infectious endocarditis facilitate improvement of outcomes by shortening of diagnostic delay by S. Andreß, K. Reischmann, S. Markovic, F. Rohlmann, B. Hay, W. Rottbauer, D. Buckert, S. d'Almeida

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Hearing Screening Combined with Target Gene Panel Testing Increased Etiological Diagnostic Yield in Deaf Children by Le Xie, Yue Qiu, Yuan Jin, Kai Xu, Xue Bai, Xiao-Zhou Liu, Xiao-Hui Wang, Sen Chen, Yu Sun

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The Potential Diagnostic Value of Immune-Related Genes in Interstitial Fibrosis and Tubular Atrophy after Kidney Transplantation by Bin Yang, Dike Shi, Yahong Chen, Yi Zhu

“…The aim of this study was to reveal new diagnostic markers of IF/TA based on bioinformatics analysis. …”
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Evidence assessing the diagnostic performance of medical smartphone apps: a systematic review and exploratory meta-analysis by Livia Faes, Lucas M Bachmann, Martin K Schmid, Michael A Thiel, Rahel Buechi, Nicolas S Bodmer, Oliver Job, Kenny R Lienhard

“…We comprehensively assessed papers investigating the diagnostic value of available diagnostic health applications using inbuilt smartphone sensors.Methods Systematic Review—MEDLINE, Scopus, Web of Science inclusive Medical Informatics and Business Source Premier (by citation of reference) were searched from inception until 15 December 2016. …”
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CLDN4 as a Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarker and Its Association with Immune Infiltrates in Ovarian Cancer by Pan Hu, Li Lei, Ying Wang, Xue Tian, Xia Wei, Ni Jiang, Lubin Liu

“…The findings of the ROC assays then confirmed the diagnostic utility of the test in screening OC specimens to differentiate them from nontumor specimens. …”
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Effects of Age and Sex on Estimated Diabetes Prevalence Using Different Diagnostic Criteria: The Tromsø OGTT Study by Moira Strand Hutchinson, Ragnar Martin Joakimsen, Inger Njølstad, Henrik Schirmer, Yngve Figenschau, Johan Svartberg, Rolf Jorde

“…In total, 294 subjects met one or more of the diagnostic criteria for diabetes; 95 met the HbA1c criterion only, 130 met the glucose criteria only, and 69 met both. …”
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Betatrophin Acts as a Diagnostic Biomarker in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Is Negatively Associated with HDL-Cholesterol by Min Yi, Rong-ping Chen, Rui Yang, Xian-feng Guo, Jia-chun Zhang, Hong Chen

“…Our findings indicate that betatrophin could be a potent diagnostic biomarker for T2DM.…”
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Diagnostic performance of the DISQVER metagenomic sequencing tool for the identification of pathogens in febrile neutropenic patients: the ADNEMIA trial by Geneviève Héry-Arnaud, Christophe Burucoa, Marie Kempf, David Boutoille, Yohann Foucher, Philippe Lanotte, Maxime Pichon, Stéphane Corvec, Cécile Le Brun, Helene Pailhories

“…Sequencing technologies have led to the development of diagnostic approaches based on the detection of circulating DNA in blood. …”
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