HER2-related biomarkers predict clinical outcomes with trastuzumab deruxtecan treatment in patients with HER2-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer: biomarker analyses of DESTINY... by Salvatore Siena, Kanwal Raghav, Toshiki Masuishi, Kensei Yamaguchi, Tomohiro Nishina, Elena Elez, Javier Rodriguez, Ian Chau, Maria Di Bartolomeo, Hisato Kawakami, Fumitaka Suto, Makito Koga, Koichiro Inaki, Yusuke Kuwahara, Issey Takehara, Daniel Barrios, Kojiro Kobayashi, Axel Grothey, Takayuki Yoshino

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Efficacy and safety of sublingual immunotherapy using a combination of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus and Blomia tropicalis extracts in patients with allergic rhinitis: A randomize... by Priscilla Rios Cordeiro Macedo, MD, MSc, Priscila Moraes, MD, Luísa Karla Arruda, MD, PhD, Fábio Fernandes Morato Castro, MD, PhD, Jorge Kalil, MD, PhD, Clóvis Eduardo Santos Galvão, MD, PhD

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Effect of arm-ergometry versus treadmill supervised exercise on health-related quality of life and mental health in patients with peripheral artery disease: secondary outcomes from... by Sandra Magalhães, Mário Santos, Sofia Viamonte, Fernando Ribeiro, Joana Martins, Cristine Schmidt, Henrique Cyrne-Carvalho

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RECIST 1.1 versus mRECIST for assessment of tumour response to molecular targeted therapies and disease outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma: a systematic review and... by Yao Yang, Yuping Bai, Hongli Yu, Qiang Zhu, Xiaoyu Xie, Yuemin Feng

“…HRs with corresponding 95% CIs were used for meta-analysis.Results 23 studies comprising 2574 patients were included in systematic review. The ORR according to mRECIST is higher than RECIST1.1 (15.9% vs 7.8%, p<0.001). …”
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Emulation of ARISTOTLE and ROCKET AF trials in real-world atrial fibrillation patients results in similar efficacy and safety as original landmark trials: insights from the GARFIEL... by Ralf E Harskamp, Karen Pieper, A John Camm, Ajay K Kakkar, Jelle C L Himmelreich, Saverio Virdone, Jean-Pierre Bassand, Frank Misselwitz, Freek W A Verheugt, Frank Cools, Harry Gibbs, Antônio C Pereira-Barretto

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High SUVs Have More Robust Repeatability in Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer: Results from a Prospective Test-Retest Cohort Imaged with 18F-DCFPyL by Rudolf A. Werner, Bilêl Habacha, Susanne Lütje, Lena Bundschuh, Takahiro Higuchi, Philipp Hartrampf, Sebastian E. Serfling, Thorsten Derlin, Constantin Lapa, Andreas K. Buck, Markus Essler, Kenneth J. Pienta, Mario A. Eisenberger, Mark C. Markowski, Laura Shinehouse, Rehab AbdAllah, Ali Salavati, Martin A. Lodge, Martin G. Pomper, Michael A. Gorin, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Steven P. Rowe

“…On a compartment-based level, wCOVs for volumetric features were ≥22.8%, demonstrating no significant differences between LN and bone lesions (PSMA-TV, P =0.63; TL-PSMA, P =0.9). Findings on an entire tumor burden level were also corroborated in a hottest lesion analysis investigating the SUVmax of the most intense lesion per patient (R2, 0.99; wCOV, 11.2%). …”
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Comparative Lipid-Lowering/Increasing Efficacy of 7 Statins in Patients with Dyslipidemia, Cardiovascular Diseases, or Diabetes Mellitus: Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analyse... by Xiaodan Zhang, Lu Xing, Xiaona Jia, Xiaocong Pang, Qian Xiang, Xia Zhao, Lingyue Ma, Zhiyan Liu, Kun Hu, Zhe Wang, Yimin Cui

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Phase I study of intratumoral administration of CV8102 in patients with advanced melanoma, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin, squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, or ade... by Lucie Heinzerling, Michael Fluck, Caroline Robert, Celeste Lebbe, Erika Richtig, Sven D Koch, Ulrike Gnad-Vogt, Tobias Seibel, Thomas Eigentler, Juan Martin-Liberal, Sebastian Ochsenreither, Peter Mohr, Patrick Terheyden, Carsten Weishaupt, Michael Erdmann, Lukas Koch, Ainara Soria, Igor Samoylenko, Jürgen Krauß, Peter Brossart, Franz Georg Bauernfeind, Marina Gonzalez, Peter Wengenmayer, Ioannis Thomas, Artem Poltoratskiy, Marina Sekacheva, Beate Schmitt-Bormann, Gianluca Quintini, Martin Falk, Paula Codó, Arjun Oberoi, Jana Hess, Yulia Semiletova, Casilda Llacer Perez, Oliver Schönborn-Kellenberger

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Two-year trajectory of functional recovery and quality of life in post-intensive care syndrome: a multicenter prospective observational study on mechanically ventilated patients wi... by Junji Hatakeyama, Kensuke Nakamura, Shigeaki Inoue, Keibun Liu, Kazuma Yamakawa, Takeshi Nishida, Shinichiro Ohshimo, Satoru Hashimoto, Naoki Kanda, Shotaro Aso, Shinya Suganuma, Shuhei Maruyama, Yoshitaka Ogata, Akira Takasu, Daisuke Kawakami, Hiroaki Shimizu, Katsura Hayakawa, Takeshi Yoshida, Taku Oshima, Tatsuya Fuchigami, Hironori Yawata, Kyoji Oe, Akira Kawauchi, Hidehiro Yamagata, Masahiro Harada, Yuichi Sato, Tomoyuki Nakamura, Kei Sugiki, Takahiro Hakozaki, Satoru Beppu, Masaki Anraku, Noboru Kato, Tomomi Iwashita, Hiroshi Kamijo, Yuichiro Kitagawa, Michio Nagashima, Hirona Nishimaki, Kentaro Tokuda, Osamu Nishida

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Spatial and temporal changes of breast-conserving surgery rates and its influential factors among Chinese patients with breast cancer from 2013 to 2019: a registry-based study by Pengpeng Ye, Yuan Yang, Wei Hu, Lingyan Dai, Erwei Song, Shunrong Li, Liling Zhu, Kai Chen, Yanjie Xu, Xiaoyu Wang, Jianli Zhao, Jianrong He, Queran Lin, Tongrui Shang, Xiujuan Gui, Ziliang Zhong, Qianru Chen, Qing Yan, Xiaoliang Huang, Zijian Liang

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Risk factors associated with poor pain outcomes following primary knee replacement surgery: Analysis of data from the clinical practice research datalink, hospital episode statisti... by Hasan Raza Mohammad, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Antonella Delmestri, John Broomfield, Rita Patel, Joerg Huber, Cesar Garriga, Christopher Eccleston, Rafael Pinedo-Villanueva, Tamer T Malak, Nigel Arden, Andrew Price, Vikki Wylde, Tim J Peters, Ashley W Blom, Andrew Judge

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>We quantified the relative importance of individual risk factors including mild pre-operative pain, smoking, deprivation, obesity and opioid use in terms of the absolute proportions of patients achieving poor pain outcomes. These findings will support development of interventions to reduce the numbers of patients who have poor pain outcomes.…”
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Nomograms Predicting Survival, Recurrence and Beneficiary Identification of Adjuvant Chemotherapy in Treatment-naïve Patients with Rectal Cancer who Underwent Upfront Curative Rese... by Yukihide Kanemitsu, MD, Tomofumi Uotani, MD, Shunsuke Tsukamoto, PhD, Hideki Ueno, PhD, Megumi Ishiguro, PhD, Soichiro Ishihara, PhD, Koji Komori, PhD, Kenichi Sugihara, PhD, Study Group for Nomogram of the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum

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Very Small Embryonic-Like Stem Cells, Endothelial Progenitor Cells, and Different Monocyte Subsets Are Effectively Mobilized in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Patients after G-CSF Tr... by Andrzej Eljaszewicz, Lukasz Bolkun, Kamil Grubczak, Malgorzata Rusak, Tomasz Wasiluk, Milena Dabrowska, Piotr Radziwon, Wojciech Marlicz, Karol Kamiński, Janusz Kloczko, Marcin Moniuszko

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Practice on Metered Dose Inhaler Techniques and Its Associated Factors among Asthmatic Patients at Debre Markos Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, East Gojjam, Ethiopia: A Prospec... by Tadele Asmare, Anteneh Belayneh, Bekalu Dessie

“…Results are presented in tables, figures, numbers, and percentages. Result. A total of 166 patients had involved in the study, of which 52.4% were females. …”
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Prospective and Longitudinal Analysis of Lymphocyte Subpopulations in SARS-CoV-2 Positive and Negative Pneumonia: Potential Role of Decreased Naïve CD8⁺ in COVID-19 Pati... by Makhabbat Bekbossynova, Lyudmila Akhmaltdinova, Kuanysh Dossybayeva, Ainur Tauekelova, Zauresh Smagulova, Tatyana Tsechoeva, Gulsimzhan Turebayeva, Aliya Sailybayeva, Zhanar Kalila, Takhmina Mirashirova, Timur Muratov, Dimitri Poddighe

“…Notably, this aspect was maintained during the follow-up period for at least 9 months. <b>Conclusions</b>: COVID-19 pneumonia seems to be associated with a lower number of naïve CD8⁺ T cells compared to pneumonia patients negative for this virus. …”
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Identifying the key components of social support for patients living with type 2 diabetes: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis of type 2 diabetes social support in... by Reda Madroumi, Lisa Newson, Frederick Kanayo Umeh, Helen Poole, Andrew Jones

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The value of revascularization and adherence to therapy in the development of cardiovascular complications in long-term monitoring of patients with myocardial infarction of the rig... by V.Y. Tseluyko, T.A. Lozova, V.P. Zheleznyy, O.S. Sasyuk

“…The 1st group included 68 (43.9 %) patients who underwent surgical treatment, 87 (56.1 %) patients under conservative strategy composed the 2nd group. …”
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Beating-Heart Coronary Artery Bypass grafting (BH-CABG) in patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD): comparison of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) predicted risk with ac... by Louis Samuels, Anastasia Arce, Samiat Agunbiade, Suzanne Raws, Afshin Parsikia

“…Prolonged Lengths of Stay occurred in 3 patients (5.5%) compared to a predicted 16.9%. One-year mortality occurred in 8 patients (14.5%). …”
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Clinical outcomes of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy following autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in 38 patients with refractory/relapsed primary or second... by Jiaying Wu, Wanying Liu, Yang Cao, Yang Yang, Zhen Shang, Mi Zhou, Yicheng Zhang, Fankai Meng, Xiaojian Zhu, Yi Xiao

“…After therapy, the best overall response rate (ORR) of all patients was 78.9%. Subgroup analysis found that a lower ORR was observed in patients with lactate dehydrogenase levels above the upper limit of normal (60.0% vs. 91.3%, P = 0.039). …”
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Prescription pattern, glycemic control status, and predictors of poor glycemic control among diabetic patients with comorbid chronic kidney disease in Ethiopia: a facility-based cr... by Oumer Sada Muhammed, Minimize Hassen, Samuel Mamusha

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