Tenecteplase vs Reteplase in Patients with Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Adham Mohamed PharmD, Sara Mahmoud PharmD, Amr M. Fahmi PhD, Ahmed Mahfouz MSc, Tayseer Kanaan MD, Jihad Jaber MD, Mansour Alkhawi MD, Saleh Alkhalaf MD, Hassan Kodimi MD, Ahmed Shaaban MD, Omar Alshibli MD, Awad Almasalmeh MD, Salaheddin Arafa MD, Salah Elbdri MD, Suhail Falah MD, Fayez Altrad MD, Ezeldin Soaly MD, Rasha Elenany PharmD, Sumaya Alyafei PharmD, Abdul Rahman Arabi MD

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Barriers and Facilitators to Collecting Surgical Outcome Data in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An International Survey by Thomas Diehl, MD, Taylor J. Jaraczewski, MD, MS, Kaleem Sohail Ahmed, MBBS, MSAI, Muhammad Rizwan Khan, MBBS, FCPS, FRCS, FACS, MHPE, Ewen M. Harrison, MB, ChB, MSc, PhD, FRCS, Belay Mellese Abebe, MD, Asad Latif, MD, MPH, Nabiha Mughal, MD, Sadaf Khan, MBBS, FACS, FACRS, K. A. Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH, FASA, Girma Tefera, MD, Syed Nabeel Zafar, MBBS, MPH, FACS

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Ventricular assist device implantation in children with a mechanical valve: An ACTION registry analysis by Sabena F. Hussain, MD, MSc, Elyse Miller, MD, Othman Aljohani, MBBS, MPH, Scott Auerbach, MD, David Bearl, MD, Victor Benvenuto, MD, Erica Bonura, MD, Richard L. Crawford, Anna Joong, MD, Jameson Dyal, MD, Christina Hartje-Dunn, MD, Sujit Jana, MD, Sonia Kaushal, MD, Melanie Lynn, MD, Joseph Spinner, MD, Laura Radel, MD, Alexander Raskin, MD, Diana Torpoco-Rivera, MD, Sarah J. Wilkens, MD, MPH, Chet R. Villa, MD

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Adapting the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to High-Income Settings: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial Protocol by Nathan Turley, MA, MBA, Karolina Kogut, BA, Barbara Burian, PhD, Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C, James Etheridge, MD, MPH, Yves Sonnay, MScPH, William Berry, MD, MPH, Alan Merry, MD, MBChB, Alexander Hannenberg, MD, Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH, Roger D. Dias, MD, PhD, MBA, Kathryn Hagen, MD, George Molina, MD, MPH, Lisa Spruce, DNP, RN, Carla Williams, RN, MHSM, Mary E. Brindle, MD, MPH, FRCSC

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October 7th Mass Casualty Attack in Israel: Injury Profiles of Hospitalized Casualties by Sharon Goldman, MPH, Ari M. Lipsky, MD, Irina Radimislensky, BSc, Adi Givon, BSc, Ofer Almog, MD, Avi Benov, MD, Israel Trauma Group, Eldad Katorza, MD, MSC, MBA, H. Bahouth, A. Bar, A. Braslavsky, D. Czeiger, D. Fadeev, A. L. Goldstein, I. Grevtsev, G. Hirschhorn, I. Jeroukhimov, A. Kedar, Y. Klein, A. Korin, B. Levit, I. Schrier, A. D. Schwarz, W. Shomar, D. Soffer, M. Weiss, O. Yaslowitz, I. Zoarets

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Leveraging Comprehensive Echo Data to Power Artificial Intelligence Models for Handheld Cardiac Ultrasound by D.M. Anisuzzaman, PhD, Jeffrey G. Malins, PhD, John I. Jackson, PhD, Eunjung Lee, PhD, Jwan A. Naser, MBBS, Behrouz Rostami, PhD, Grace Greason, BA, Jared G. Bird, MD, Paul A. Friedman, MD, Jae K. Oh, MD, Patricia A. Pellikka, MD, Jeremy J. Thaden, MD, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, MD, MSc, MBA, Zachi I. Attia, PhD, Sorin V. Pislaru, MD, PhD, Garvan C. Kane, MD, PhD

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Impact of Mandatory Preoperative Dental Screening on Infective Endocarditis in Patients Undergoing Surgical Valve Replacement by Lytfi Krasniqi, MD, Poul Erik Mortensen, MD, Emil Johannes Ravn, MD, Marlene Tofterup, MD, Henrik Nissen, MD, PhD, Christian Juhl Terkelsen, MD, PhD, DMSCi, Niels Holmark Andersen, MD, PhD, DMSCi, Ivy Modrau, MD, DMSCi, Kasper Stokbro, DDS, PhD, Jonas A. Povlsen, MD, PhD, Oke Gerke, MSc, PhD, DMSCi, Jesper Hallas, MD, DMSCi, Marie-Annick Clavel, DVM, PhD, Lars Peter Schødt Riber, MD, PhD, DMSCi, Jordi Sanchez Dahl, MD, PhD, DMSCi

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Is Associated With Endothelial Dysfunction in Women With HIV by Nishant Vatsa, MD, Alireza Rahbar, MD, Tanveer Kauser, MPH, Ariel Kirksey, BS, Daniel A. Gold, MD, Vardhmaan Jain, MD, Matthew E. Gold, MD, Heqiong Wang, MD, MPH, Christina Mehta, PhD, MSPH, Caitlin A. Moran, MD, Alicia K. Smith, PhD, Kimbi Hagen, EdD, Med, Ighovwerha Ofotokun, MD, MSc, Cecile D. Lahiri, MD, MS, Laurence Sperling, MD, Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, Puja K. Mehta, MD, Arshed A. Quyyumi, MD, Gretchen N. Neigh, PhD, Vasiliki Michopoulos, PhD

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Brief Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Women With Myocardial Infarction by Tanya M. Spruill, PhD, Chorong Park, PhD, RN, Jolaade Kalinowski, EdD, Milla E. Arabadjian, PhD, RN, Yuhe Xia, MSc, Amanda J. Shallcross, ND, MPH, Pallavi Visvanathan, PhD, Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, MD, MS, Anaïs Hausvater, MD, Sripal Bangalore, MD, MHA, Hua Zhong, PhD, Ki Park, MD, Puja K. Mehta, MD, Dwithiya K. Thomas, MD, Jeffrey Trost, MD, Kevin R. Bainey, MD, Bobak Heydari, MD, Janet Wei, MD, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, PhD, RN, Gbenga Ogedegbe, MD, MPH, Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, MS, Judith S. Hochman, MD, Harmony R. Reynolds, MD

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Naxos Disease and Related Cardio-Cutaneous Syndromes by Alexandros Protonotarios, MD, Angeliki Asimaki, Ph.D, Cristina Basso, MD, Zafeirenia Xylouri, MD, Emanuele Monda, MD, Ioannis Protonotarios, MD, Giulia Crisci, MD, Dominic JR. Abrahms, MMBS, MD, MBA, Aris Anastasakis, MD, Loizos Antoniades, MD, Athanasios Bakalakos, MD, Andreina Carbone, MD, Aman S. Coonar, MD, Juan Ramon Gimeno, MD, George Lazaros, MD, Stamatis Lerakis, MD, Luisa Mestroni, MD, George Papadopoulos, MD, Leandro Pecchia, MD, Francesca Romana Prandi, MD, Petros Syrris, MD, Julia Cadrin-Turigny, MD, Anargyros Vasilakis, MSc, Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD, PhD, Stamatios Gaetano Thiene, MD, Perry M. Elliott, MD, Juan Pablo Kaski, MD, William J. McKenna, MD, Eduardo Bossone, MD, Giuseppe Limongelli, MD, Adalena Tsatsopoulou, MD

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Prognostic Value of Postpercutaneous Coronary Intervention Murray-Law-Based Quantitative Flow Ratio by Daixin Ding, PhD, Jinlong Zhang, MD, PhD, Peng Wu, PhD, Zhiqing Wang, MD, PhD, Huiping Shi, MSc, Wei Yu, PhD, Xinyang Hu, MD, PhD, Jeehoon Kang, MD, Joo-Yong Hahn, MD, Chang-Wook Nam, MD, Joon-Hyung Doh, MD, Bong-Ki Lee, MD, Weon Kim, MD, Jinyu Huang, MD, Fan Jiang, MD, Hao Zhou, MD, Peng Chen, MD, Lijiang Tang, MD, Wenbing Jiang, MD, Xiaomin Chen, MD, Wenming He, MD, Sung Gyun Ahn, MD, Myeong-Ho Yoon, MD, Ung Kim, MD, You-Jeong Ki, MD, Eun-Seok Shin, MD, Seung-Jea Tahk, MD, Jun Pu, MD, William Wijns, MD, PhD, Jian’an Wang, MD, PhD, Bon-Kwon Koo, MD, PhD, Shengxian Tu, PhD

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Durvalumab, Tremelimumab, and Platinum Chemotherapy in EGFR Mutation–Positive NSCLC: An Open-Label Phase 2 Trial (ILLUMINATE) by Chee Khoon Lee, PhD, Bin-Chi Liao, MD, Shalini Subramaniam, MMed (Clin Epi), Chao-Hua Chiu, MD, Antony J. Mersiades, MMed (Clin Epi), Chao-Chi Ho, MD, PhD, Chris Brown, MBiostats, Chun-Liang Lai, MD, PhD, Brett G.M. Hughes, M.B.B.S. (Hons), Tsung-Ying Yang, MD, PhD, Ken O’Byrne, MD, Yung-Hung Luo, MD, PhD, Sonia Yip, PhD, Ching-Liang Ho, MD, Victoria Bray, PhD, Wu-Chou Su, MD, PhD, Melissa Moore, PhD, Wei-Lien Feng, MS, Ya-Ying Bai, MS, Kate Ford, MHSc, Michelle M. Cummins, PhD, Martin R. Stockler, MSc (Clin Epi), Benjamin J. Solomon, PhD, Thomas John, PhD, James Chih-Hsin Yang, MD, PhD

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Efficacy and Safety of Allisartan Isoproxil/Amlodipine in Patients With Essential Hypertension Uncontrolled by Amlodipine: A Phase III, Multicenter, Double‐Blind, Parallel‐Group, R... by Hongjie Chi, Xin Zhang, Shumei Ma, Gang Pan, Xiaojuan Lian, Yan Chen, Haotian Pei, Zichen Liu, Xiangmin Lin

“…In this phase III, multicenter, double‐blind, parallel‐group, randomized controlled trial, patients aged 18–70 years with mean sitting systolic blood pressure (msSBP) between 140 and <180 mmHg and mean sitting diastolic blood pressure (msDBP) between 90 and <110 mmHg, following a 4‐week treatment with AML 5 mg, were randomized 1:1 to receive either ALI/AML or AML once daily for 12 weeks. …”
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Intravenous liposomal irinotecan in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer after ≥ 2 prior lines of chemotherapy: a phase Ib study by Ying Fan, Qingyuan Zhang, Min Yan, Xiujuan Qu, Yongmei Yin, Tao Sun, Jin Yang, Ying Wang, Xu Wang, Zhaofeng Niu, Xinshuai Wang, Sanyuan Sun, Weihong Zhao, Yanping Liu, Miao Niu, Xuemin Zhao, Binghe Xu

“…Among 87 evaluable patients with mTNBC, 22 patients (25.3%) achieved overall response. …”
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Triple-negative breast cancer modifies the systemic immune landscape and alters neutrophil functionality by Noor A. M. Bakker, Hannah Garner, Ewald van Dyk, Elisa Champanhet, Chris Klaver, Maxime Duijst, Leonie Voorwerk, Iris Nederlof, Rosie Voorthuis, Marte C. Liefaard, Marja Nieuwland, Iris de Rink, Onno B. Bleijerveld, Hendrika M. Oosterkamp, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Marleen Kok, Karin E. de Visser

“…Vδ1 γδ T cells from mTNBC patients produced more IL17 than those from HDs. …”
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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Mapping Biopsy for Primary Extramammary Paget’s Disease in Reducing Recurrence Following Surgical Excision by Thirrisha Murugan, Louis Choon Kit Wong, MD, Xing-Yi Sarah Ong, MD, Sze Huey Tan, PhD, Joey Wee-Shan Tan, MSc, Ying Liu, PhD, Nicholas B. Shannon, PhD, MD, Jianbang Chiang, MBBS, MRCP, MMed, Eileen Poon, MBBS, MRCP, MMED, Jason Yongsheng Chan, MBBS, MRCP, MMed, FAMS, PhD, Valerie Shiwen Yang, MB BChir, PhD, MRCP, FAMS, Nagavalli Somasundaram, MBBS, MRCP, MMED, Mohamad Farid, MBBS, MRCP, MMed, Ru Xin Wong, MBBS, FRCR, Wen Long Nei, MBBS, FRCR, Jin Wei Kwek, MBBS, FRCR, FAMS, Choon Hua Thng, MBBS, FRCR, FAMS, Tiffany Hennedige, MBBS, FRCR, MMed, MCI, Po Yin Tang, BMEDSc, MBBS, FRCPath, FRCAPA, Sathiyamoorthy Selvarajan, MBBS, PGDCP, FRCPath, MCS, FAMS, Kae Jack Tay, MBBS, MRCS, MMed, MCI, FAMS, Mohamed Rezal Abdul, MB, BCh, BAO, LRCP&SI, MSurg, Jolene Si Min Wong, MBBS, MMed, FRCS, Chin Jin Seo, MB, BCh, BAO, MMed, FRCS, Khee Chee Soo, MBBS, MD, FRACS, FACS, Claramae Shulyn Chia, MBBS, MMed, FRCS, Chin-Ann Johnny Ong, MBBS, MMed, FRCS, PhD

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Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China: future reversal of increasing vegetation greening in response to an evolving environment by Jing Fu, Baoling Su, Jianxin Qin, Yong Hu

“…The Mid-Spine Belt of Beautiful China (MSBBC), a novel geographical designation, encompasses agro-pastoral production and living spaces in China. …”
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Genome-wide identification of high-affinity nitrate transporter 2 (NRT2) gene family under phytohormones and abiotic stresses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa) by Yanyan Luo, Lili Nan

“…In this study, the NRT2s gene family were systematically analyzed in alfalfa. We identified three MsNRT2 genes from the genomic database. They were named MsNRT2.1-2.3 based on their chromosomal location. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Anti-Inflammatory Actions of 6-(Methylsulfinyl)hexyl Isothiocyanate Derived from Wasabi (Wasabia japonica) by Takuhiro Uto, De-Xing Hou, Osamu Morinaga, Yukihiro Shoyama

“…6-(Methylsulfinyl)hexyl isothiocyanate (6-MSITC) is a major bioactive compound in wasabi (Wasabia japonica), which is a typical Japanese pungent spice. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Aprocitentan in the Treatment of Hypertension: A Meta-Analysis of Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials by Li Zheng, Ming Liu, Xiaotong Gu, Yatong Zhang, Yan Wang

“…Results: This meta-analysis included five RCTs, which incorporated 1224 patients, and displayed that aprocitentan can reduce the mean sitting systolic blood pressure (msSBP) [(low dose subgroup: mean difference (MD): –3.85 mmHg; 95% confidence interval (CI): –7.47 to –0.23; p = 0.040; medium dose group: MD: –5.56 mmHg; 95% CI: –10.69 to –0.44; p = 0.030)], mean sitting diastolic blood pressure (msDBP) (low dose subgroup: MD: –3.95 mmHg; 95% CI: –4.06 to –3.85; p < 0.001; medium dose group: MD: –4.75 mmHg; 95% CI: –5.91 to –3.60; p < 0.001), 24-hour ambulatory systolic blood pressure (maSBP) (low dose group: MD: –4.18 mmHg; 95% CI: –4.32 to –4.04; p < 0.001; medium dose group: MD: –5.89 mmHg; 95% CI: –6.03 to –5.75; p < 0.001), and 24-hour ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (maDBP) (low dose group: MD: –4.33 mmHg; 95% CI: –4.42 to –4.24; p < 0.001; medium dose group: MD: –5.82 mmHg; 95% CI: –5.91 to –5.73; p < 0.001). …”
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