Publications by authors named "A J Ullmann"

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  • A survey of 55 healthcare professionals in the UK explored current management practices for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (OC), focusing on testing for homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) and BRCA mutations prior to maintenance treatment.
  • All respondents emphasized the importance of considering cytoreductive surgery at first recurrence, with 65% advocating the use of DESKTOP III criteria to assist in decision-making.
  • Healthcare professionals noted that most primary OC patients in the UK have established HRD and mutation status, underscoring the growing recognition of secondary cytoreduction's role in treatment.
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Objective: To analyse the potential impact of patients' sex, race, and region/country on the risk of hypersensitivity reactions after intra-venous or intra-arterial administration of iopromide.

Methods: Two analyses were performed. (1) The "Phase-IV-Analysis" evaluated an integrated pooled database of 4 non-interventional studies.

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Communities in the Pamir Mountains of Central Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate change due to their geographic location and subsistence-based livelihoods. Historically, ecological calendars supported their agropastoral lifestyles which provided anticipatory capacity to seasonal changes. Due to decades of Soviet colonization and socioecological transformations, knowledge of these ecological calendars fell into disuse.

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Background: Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is a life-threatening opportunistic infectious disease of immunocompromised patients. Its incidence has decreased worldwide in the past, but data concerning its recent epidemiology are lacking.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed all German inpatient cases from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2019, to describe the recent epidemiology, incidence, clinical course, mortality and underlying diseases of PCP.

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