Publications by authors named "D Scott McLeod"
Purpose: To quantitate regional changes in the outer choroidal vessels in patients with geographic atrophy (GA) in AMD and to correlate with a histopathological donor sample.
Methods: We analyzed 35 participants with GA for in vivo analysis and 1 participant with subject for histopathological analysis. Participants underwent three structural optical coherence tomography scans spaced 6 months apart over 1 year.
Enfortumab vedotin is a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) approved to treat urothelial carcinoma. One rarely reported adverse effect has been life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) driven by profound insulin resistance. We report a case of a 62-year-old nondiabetic woman with metastatic urothelial carcinoma who experienced DKA following her third dose of enfortumab vedotin, with extreme insulin requirements of > 1000 units daily, and full resolution of insulin requirement by day 7 of admission.
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- The study aimed to determine if socioeconomic and demographic factors are predictors of follow-up attendance in pediatric patients after kidney stone surgery.
- Researchers analyzed data from 195 pediatric patients who underwent various surgical interventions for kidney stones between 2016 and 2020, focusing on follow-up visit attendance, imaging completion, and urine studies.
- Key findings indicated that lower socioeconomic status, such as public insurance and single-parent households, was linked to decreased follow-up compliance, while prior urology clinic visits increased the likelihood of attending post-op appointments.
To examine the effects of numerical evidence and message framing in communicating vaccine efficacy information about infectious diseases, an online experiment presented to U.S. adults different versions of a vaccination promotional message that vary by numerical vaccine efficacy evidence: (low efficacy rate: 60% vs.
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