Publications by authors named "E P LEHMAN"
Objective: To characterize the impact of subsequent fellowship on the case log experience of trainees throughout their residency and specifically their chief resident year.
Materials And Methods: Urology resident case logs from 2010 to 2022 were obtained from 13 institutions for total residency and chief years. Five categorized index procedures were included for analysis: General Urology; Endourology; Reconstructive Urology; Urologic Oncology; and Pediatric Urology.
Surfactant protein levels and genetic variants as biomarkers for COVID-19 severity in children.
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol
January 2025
Since its outbreak, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has significantly impacted the pediatric population. Pulmonary surfactant dysfunction has been linked to other respiratory diseases in children and COVID-19 in adults, but its role in COVID-19 severity remains unclear. We hypothesized that elevated surfactant protein (SP) levels and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of SP genes are associated with severe COVID-19 in children.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Immunoparalysis is a state of immune dysfunction characterized by a marked reduction in the immune system's responsiveness, often observed following severe infections, trauma, or critical illness. This study aimed to perform a longitudinal assessment of immune function over the initial two weeks following the onset of sepsis and critical illness.
Methods: We compared ex vivo-stimulated cytokine release from whole blood of critically ill patients to traditional markers of immunoparalysis, including monocyte Human Leukocyte Antigen (mHLA)-DR expression and absolute lymphocyte count (ALC).
Article Synopsis
- During the COVID-19 pandemic, Melbourne, Australia, faced extended lockdowns, prompting a study on children's health in 2022 compared to pre-pandemic data from 2019.
- The study found that primary school children in 2022 had higher rates of overweight and obesity, lower physical activity levels, and poorer diet quality compared to 2019.
- Results indicate a decline in health-related quality of life among children post-lockdown, highlighting the need for ongoing monitoring and interventions to address rising childhood obesity.
From Sparse to Dense: GPT-4 Summarization with Chain of Density Prompting.
Proc Conf Empir Methods Nat Lang Process
December 2023
Article Synopsis
- Creating a summary that balances detail and clarity is challenging, and a new method called "Chain of Density" (CoD) helps achieve this by generating increasingly dense summaries while maintaining length.
- CoD-produced summaries are more abstract, integrate information better, and are preferred by humans over traditional summary methods, showing a closer density to human-written summaries.
- A study with 100 CNN DailyMail articles indicates that people favor more informative summaries that may sacrifice some readability, with 500 annotated CoD summaries and 5,000 unannotated ones available online.