Clinical Outcomes and Donor-specific Antibody Rebound 5 y After Kidney Transplant Enabled by Imlifidase Desensitization by Ian S. Jaffe, BS, Anna Runström, MSc, Vasishta S. Tatapudi, MD, Elaina P. Weldon, MSN, ACNP-BC, Cecilia L. Deterville, MS, Rebecca A. Dieter, PharmD, Robert A. Montgomery, MD, DPhil, Bonnie E. Lonze, MD, PhD, Massimo Mangiola, PhD

“…We present 5-y outcomes and donor-specific antibody (DSA) levels for clinical trial participants from a single site who received imlifidase for desensitization before incompatible transplantation (NCT02790437). …”
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Efficacy of Lurasidone in First-Episode Psychosis: Patient Phenotypes, Dosage, and Recommendations from an Expert Panel by Miquel Bernardo, Marina Díaz Marsá, Ana González-Pinto, Manuel Martín Carrasco, Víctor Pérez Sola, Pilar Alejandra Sáiz, Eduard Vieta, Marta Torrens, Celso Arango, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro

“…Furthermore, patients with a first-episode psychosis (FEP) who experience a good early response to antipsychotic medication show a clinical and functional benefit over the longer term if they continue low-dose antipsychotic treatment. …”
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Reasons for Undesirable Pregnancy Outcomes among Women with Appendicitis: The Experience of a Tertiary Center by Baris Mantoglu, Fatih Altintoprak, Necattin Firat, Emre Gonullu, Enis Dikicier, Yesim Akdeniz, Mehmet Aziret, Unal Erkorkmaz

“…Seventy-eight pregnant patients with acute appendicitis who underwent laparoscopic or open technique intervention enrolled in this retrospective study. …”
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COVID-19–sensitive tumour response: 2-year assessment of the SARS-CoV-2 humoral response in cancer patients in oncology hospital in Poland by Piotr Kosiorek, Bożena Mikołuć, Samuel Stróż, Anna Hryniewicz, Dorota E. Kazberuk, Robert Milewski, Anna Grzeszczuk, Magdalena J. Borkowska, Anna Stasiak‐Barmuta

“…Results The obtained results indicate a naturally more significant humoral response in oncological patients who have not been vaccinated and have not undergone anticancer therapy, such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or surgical intervention. …”
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Predictores psicológicos de lesión en jóvenes deportistas / Psychological Predictors of Injury in Young Athletes by Rosendo Berengüí-Gil, Jorge L. Puga

“…Participants were 115 athletes, members of specialization programs, who were administered the Psychological Inventory on Athletic Execution (IPED), Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT) and Profile of Mood States (POMS). …”
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Human health risk from groundwater consumption: A case study in the Apaaso-Tafo Community in the Bono East Region of Ghana by Emmanuel Okyere, Ethel Bentil, Nana Adwoa Kusi-Addai, Lawson Mensah

“…Except for the pH, temperature, turbidity and total coliform bacteria, all parameters met the WHO standards. 40 % of the boreholes contained 50 to 500 cfu/100 mL of coliform bacteria and posed daily infection risks between 1 and 7.63 %. …”
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Hubungan Dukungan Keluarga dengan Kejadian Depresi pada Usia Tua di Nagari Tanjung Banai Aur, Kecamatan Sumpur Kudus, Kabupaten Sijunjung Tahun 2012 by Figa Prima Dani, Yaslinda Yaunin, Edison .

“…Samples in this study were people with age more than 60 years who lives with his/her in Nagari Tanjung Aur Banai, Kecamatan Sumpur Kudus Kabupaten Sijunjung, which were counted as 82 people, and taken by stratified sampling method. old age with depression have low family support. …”
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Magnitude of Prompt HIV-Seropositive Status Disclosure to Partner and Associated Factors among Adult Clients on ART at Holeta Health Center, Central Ethiopia, 2020 by Guta Kebede, Adugna Dufera, Tufa Kolola, Teka Girma, Daniel Belema

“…A cross-sectional study was carried out from September 15, 2019, to March 15, 2020, among 438 people living with HIV who were more than 18 years old and had sexual partner attending ART clinic at Holeta Health Center, central Ethiopia. …”
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Clinical characteristics and associated factors of pediatric acute necrotizing encephalopathy: a retrospective study by Huiling Zhang, Yilong Wang, Qianyun Ding, Xuekun Li, Sheng Ye

“…Laboratory tests revealed that patients who died had higher creatinine, lactate, activated partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time, interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, creatine kinase, and D-dimer than survivors. …”
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Implementasi Load Balancing dan Failover to Device Mikrotik Router Menggunakan Metode NTH (Studi Kasus: PT.GO-JEK Indonesia) by Achmmad Mustofa, Desi Ramayanti

“…So also found on the PT.Gojek Indonesian who has used two ISP. When many requests from users, the network devices will be burdened because they have to do a lot of service processes for requests from users. …”
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Mortality and risk of cardiac complications among immediate survivors of accidental electric shock: a Danish nationwide cohort study by Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sam Riahi, Lars Køber, Steen Møller Hansen, Peter Søgaard, Rikke Mortensen, Søren Hjortshøj

“…We examined whether electric shock patients have an increased risk of developing cardiac disease, cardiac arrhythmias or death compared with the general Danish population.Design Matched cohort study.Setting A nationwide study in Denmark from 1994 to 2011.Participants We identified 11 462 Danish patients who visited an emergency ward or were admitted to a hospital due to electric shock from 1994 to 2011. …”
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Flanker Task-Elicited Event-Related Potential Sources Reflect Human Recombinant Erythropoietin Differential Effects on Parkinson’s Patients by Maria L. Bringas Vega, Shengnan Liu, Min Zhang, Ivonne Pedroso Ibañez, Lilia M. Morales Chacon, Lidice Galan Garcia, Vanessa Perez Bocourt, Marjan Jahanshahi, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa

“…The samples were 18 medicated PD patients (nine of them received rHuEPO in addition to their usual anti-PD medication through random allocation and the other nine patients were on their regular anti-PD medication only) and 9 age and education-matched healthy controls (HCs) who completed the flanker task with simultaneous EEG recordings. …”
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Nutritional knowledge and practices of low-income women during pregnancy: a qualitative study in two Oaxacan cities by Marian Marian, Ramona L. Pérez, Amanda C. McClain, Samantha Hurst, Elizabeth Reed, Kathryn M. Barker, Rebecka Lundgren

“…Methods Guided by Ecological Systems Theory and an Intersectionality Framework, this qualitative study was carried out in Oaxaca City and Puerto Escondido, in Oaxaca, a Mexican state with high levels of food insecurity. Women who had at least one child in the past five years and had lived in Oaxaca for the past five years were eligible to participate. …”
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Intrahepatic Lipid Content and Insulin Resistance Are More Strongly Associated with Impaired NEFA Suppression after Oral Glucose Loading Than with Fasting NEFA Levels in Healthy Ol... by Francis M. Finucane, Stephen J. Sharp, Mensud Hatunic, Alison Sleigh, Ema De Lucia Rolfe, Avan Aihie Sayer, Cyrus Cooper, Simon J. Griffin, David B. Savage, Nicholas J. Wareham

“…We performed a cross-sectional analysis of 70 healthy participants in the Hertfordshire Physical Activity Trial (39 males, age 71.3 ± 2.4 years) who underwent oral glucose tolerance testing with glucose, insulin, and NEFA levels measured over two hours. …”
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An analysis of referral patterns of traumatic brain injury at Groote Schuur Hospital Trauma Centre by N Parker, T Navsaria, M Lopez, L Marineau, R Maine, K Chu, T Govender, D McPherson, P Navsaria

“…This was a retrospective audit of all patients admitted to the Trauma Centre who had a brain CT scan for suspected TBI between 1 February 2022 and 31 March 2022. …”
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Risk Factors of Noncompliance to Preventive Mass Drug Administration for Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis: A Case-Control Study in Jawi District, Northwest Ethiopia by Fetene Mihretu, Gebeyehu Tsega, Melesse Belayneh, Mesafint Molla Adane

“…A case-control study was conducted in Jawi District, Northwest Ethiopia. All individuals who are permanently living in the study area and registered on the annual chemotherapy registration book since 2015 were included in this study. …”
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Scrotal Skin Metastases Revealing a Prostatic Adenocarcinoma by Idriss Ziani, Zayd El Boukili El Makhoukh, Ahmed Ibrahimi, Omar Bellouki, Jihane Benahmed, Yasmine Laraqui, Fouad Zouidia, Hachem El Sayegh, Lounis Benslimane, Yassine Nouini

“…We report the case of a 78-year-old patient, who initially consulted for nonspecific scrotal skin lesions evolving for 4 months. …”
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Evaluation of Tumor Viability for Primary and Bone Metastases in Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Using Whole-Body Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Hiromichi Iwamura, Yasuhiro Kaiho, Jun Ito, Go Anan, Nozomi Satani, Tomonori Matsuura, Ryo Tamura, Kazuhiro Murakami, Kaneki Koyama, Makoto Sato

“…In contrast to bone scan and computed tomography (CT), which depend on osteoblastic response to detect bone metastasis, whole-body magnetic resonance imaging (WB-MRI) may be able to directly detect viable tumors. A 75-year-old male who had progressive metastatic prostate cancer during primary androgen deprivation therapy was referred to our hospital. …”
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A Longer Duration of Intravenous Antibiotic Treatment for Patients with Early Periprosthetic Joint Infections Is Not Associated with a Lower Failure Rate by Janneke Meijer, Alex Soriano, Wierd Zijlstra, Bas ten Have, Saad Tarabichi, Paul Jutte, Javad Parvizi, Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker

“…This observation remained when excluding patients who failed during IV therapy. A longer duration of IV therapy seemed beneficial for those patients with a high pre-operative C-reactive protein level and lack of modular component exchange. …”
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Prescription of Strong Opioids in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain in the Province of Valladolid (Spain) by Rodrigo Enríquez de Salamanca Gambara, Ana María Sierra Santos, Ana María Ruiz San Pedro, Federico Montero Cuadrado, Irene Muñoz León, Miguel Ángel Castro Villamor, Alicia Córdoba Romero, Ana María Del Olmo Tornero, Lucía Pérez Pérez, León Morales-Quezada

“…The highest consumption in nº DDDs was in patients who lived in nursing homes, were over 70 years old and were resident in rural areas. …”
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