Publications by authors named "Enessa Kalontar"
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- Many internal medicine admission services request chest X-rays (CXRs) for patients already in the emergency department, which often do not provide any real clinical benefit and can lead to negative outcomes like unnecessary radiation exposure and increased costs.
- In 2016, guidelines were implemented by the ED and internal medicine teams to reduce these unnecessary CXRs, guiding healthcare providers on when they are truly needed.
- The study aimed to analyze changes in the rate of CXRs before and after these guidelines were introduced and to identify patient characteristics that might predict the likelihood of receiving a CXR.
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is caused by mutations in PKD1 or PKD2 gene, encoding the polycystic kidney disease protein polycystin-1 and the transient receptor potential channel polycystin-2 (also known as TRPP2), respectively. Polycystin-1 and polycystin-2 form a receptor-ion channel complex located in primary cilia. The function of this complex, especially the role of polycystin-1, is largely unknown due to the lack of a reliable functional assay.
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