Associations of diagnostic awareness with psychosocial symptoms and survival time in patients with advanced lung cancer.

Objective: Disclosing the diagnosis of lung cancer to patients is an issue, especially in the Middle East where cultural factors may prohibit disclosure from being done. The psychosocial consequences of diagnostic awareness and its impact on life expectancy of disclosure are an important issue that may influence this decision. The present study evaluated the effects of diagnostic awareness on psychosocial symptomatology and survival time in advanced lung cancer patients in Turkey.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: Diagnostic challenges and treatment strategies - A case report and literature review.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs) are rare benign mesenchymal tumors that present diagnostic challenges due to their diverse clinical and radiological manifestations. We present a case of a 19-year-old female with a history of intermittent hemoptysis. Imaging studies suggested a mediobasal lung lesion, prompting further evaluation.

Clinical and radiological significance of posteromedial fragment in tibial plateau fractures.

Introduction: The effect of joint fragmentation, especially the posteromedial fragment, on treatment outcomes in tibial plateau fractures has been better understood in recent years. In this study, we wanted to examine whether the accompanying posteromedial fragment has an effect on clinical and radiological results.

Patients And Methods: Patients who underwent open reduction and internal fixation with plate and screw due to tibial plateau fracture were retrospectively screened.

Template-Based Statistical Modeling and Synthesis for Noise Analysis of Ballistocardiogram Signals: A Cycle-Averaged Approach.

Objective: Ballistocardiogram (BCG) can be recorded using inexpensive and non-invasive hardware to estimate physiological changes in the heart. In this paper, a methodology is developed to evaluate the impact of additive noise on the BCG signal.

Methods: A statistical model is built that incorporates subject-specific BCG morphology.

Toward Non-Invasive and Automatic Intravenous Infiltration Detection: Evaluation of Bioimpedance and Skin Strain in a Pig Model.

Intravenous (IV) therapy is prevalent in hospital settings, where fluids are typically delivered with an IV into a peripheral vein of the patient. IV infiltration is the inadvertent delivery of fluids into the extravascular space rather than into the vein (and requires urgent treatment to avoid scarring and severe tissue damage), for which medical staff currently needs to check patients periodically. In this paper, the performance of two non-invasive sensing modalities, electrical bioimpedance (EBI), and skin strain sensing, for the automatic detection of IV infiltration was investigated in an animal model.