Publications by authors named "Emilia Barber"
Globally the community of people with HIV is ageing, and some of these have increasingly complex care needs, with a known excess of non-HIV related comorbidities and related issues including consequent polypharmacy. At the 2022 International AIDS Conference in Montréal, Canada, the "Silver Zone" was created in the Global Village as a safe space for older people with HIV. As part of the Silver Zone activities, a session discussing global models of care for in this group was held.
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- International guidelines advise against using intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in ischemic stroke patients who have recently taken direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC).
- A multicenter study examined the risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (sICH) in 832 patients who underwent IVT within 48 hours of DOAC use, compared to over 32,000 controls without recent DOAC intake.
- Results highlighted varied outcomes based on prior DOAC therapy, with focus on sICH incidence measured through established stroke scales, and included an analysis of DOAC levels and reversal treatments prior to IVT.
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- - The study aimed to validate the Yonsei nomogram, which predicts the risk of developing new-onset chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients undergoing partial nephrectomy for renal masses, using data from 3526 patients across 23 centers from 2000 to 2018.
- - Findings indicated that 19.4% of patients developed new-onset CKD, with a 5-year CKD-free progression rate of 77.9%; the nomogram showed increasing accuracy in predicting CKD stages over time with AUC values ranging from 0.69 to 0.78.
- - The results highlighted strong calibration of the nomogram, making it a useful tool for estimating individual CKD risk during long
Background: The 2-drug regimen dolutegravir plus lamivudine has demonstrated long-term noninferior efficacy vs 3-/4-drug regimens (3/4DRs) in phase 3 trials. This systematic literature review summarizes clinical trial and real-world evidence evaluating impact of dolutegravir plus lamivudine on inflammatory and atherogenesis biomarkers in people with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (PWH).
Methods: Using Ovid MEDLINE, Embase, PubMed, and Cochrane library databases and conference proceedings, we searched for studies published from 1 January 2013 to 14 July 2021, reporting changes in inflammatory and atherogenesis biomarkers with dolutegravir plus lamivudine in antiretroviral therapy-experienced, virologically suppressed PWH aged ≥18 years.
Background: The impact of warm ischemia time (WIT) on renal functional recovery remains controversial. We examined the length of WIT>30 min on the long-term renal function following on-clamp partial nephrectomy (PN).
Methods: Data from 23 centers for patients undergoing on-clamp PN between 2000 and 2018 were analyzed.
Background: The rapid decline in use of conventional total hip replacement with a large femoral head size and a metal-on-metal bearing surface might lead to increased popularity of ceramic-on-ceramic bearings as another hard-on-hard alternative that allows implantation of a larger head. We sought to address comparative effectiveness of ceramic-on-ceramic and metal-on-HXLPE (highly cross-linked polyethylene) implants by utilizing the distributed health data network of the ICOR (International Consortium of Orthopaedic Registries), an unprecedented collaboration of national and regional registries and the U.S.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: HXLPE (highly cross-linked polyethylene) has greater wear resistance compared with UHMWPE (ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene), which may contribute to improving the outcomes of total hip arthroplasty with a large femoral head. However, no information is available regarding the effect of femoral head size on the survivorship of HXLPE hip prostheses. The aim of the present study was to provide evidence regarding whether femoral head size has an effect on the risk of revision when an HXLPE liner is used on a metal head.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe present ERP study aimed at providing evidence for the existence of two routes in the brain for the processing of morphosyntactic features during language comprehension; a lexical route which retrieves grammatical properties stored in the lexicon without reliance on formal cues, and a form-based route that takes advantage of sub-lexical units strongly related to a specific grammatical class. In the experiment, we investigated grammatical gender agreement processing in Spanish article-noun word pairs using a grammaticality judgment task. Article-noun pairs either agreed or did not agree in gender.
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