J Intensive Care Med
February 2025
Background: Distinguishing surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients with ongoing bleeding who require hemorrhage control interventions (HCI) can be challenging. Guidelines recommend risk-stratification with clinical variables and prediction tools, however supporting evidence remains mixed.
Methods: This retrospective study evaluated adult patients admitted to the surgical ICU with concern for ongoing hemorrhage under our institution's "Hemorrhage Watch" (HW) protocol and aimed to derive a clinical prediction model identifying those needing HCI with serial vital signs (VS) and serum biomarkers.
Context: Whether circulating testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, and estradiol levels or testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) affects the risk of COVID-19 and whether COVID-19 affects response to TRT remains unknown.
Objective: The study evaluated whether baseline testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, and estradiol levels or TRT are associated with risk of developing COVID-19 and whether COVID-19 affects treatment response to TRT.
Methods: Among 5204 men, aged 45 to 80 years, with hypogonadism in the TRAVERSE trial, 379 developed COVID-19.
Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is essential in most Gram-negative bacteria, but mutants of several species have been isolated that can survive in its absence. viability in the absence of LPS is partially dependent on the anionic sphingolipid ceramide diphosphoglycerate (CPG2). Genetic analyses showed that , which encodes a nucleotidyltransferase, is required for CPG2 production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To compare the rate of diagnosing clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) in men with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) stratified by baseline IsoPSA Index, thus assessing IsoPSA's intermediate-term predictive ability for csPCa.
Material And Methods: Single-center retrospective review of consecutive patients (n = 1578) who underwent IsoPSA testing from November 2016-August 2022. Data dichotomized into patients with low (≤6) and high IsoPSA Indices (>6).
Bioenergetic profiles of psychrophiles across domains of life are unusual in that intracellular ATP levels increase with declining temperature. Whole-transcriptome sequencing of the glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus revealed a unique C-terminal extension on the ATP6 protein, which forms part of the proton pore of mitochondrial ATP synthase (Complex V). This extension, positioned near the proton exit pore, comprises alternating histidine residues thought to increase proton flux through Complex V leading to elevated ATP synthesis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: PATHFINDER was a prospective cohort study of multicancer early detection (MCED) testing in an outpatient ambulatory population. The aim of this study is to report the patient-reported outcomes (PROs) collected as secondary and exploratory measures in the PATHFINDER study.
Methods: PATHFINDER is a prospective, multicentre, cohort study that enrolled existing healthy ambulatory outpatients at seven health networks in the USA, including hospitals, academic medical centres, and integrated health systems.
Sphingoid bases, including sphingosine, are important components of the antimicrobial barrier at epithelial surfaces where they can cause growth inhibition and killing of susceptible bacteria. is a common opportunistic pathogen that is less susceptible to sphingosine than many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we determined that the deletion of the operon reduced growth in the presence of sphingosine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrauma Surg Acute Care Open
December 2024
Objectives: We sought to determine the optimal time to pre-activation for trauma team activation that resulted in maximum team efficiency, measured by the time to complete critical actions (TCCAs) during resuscitation. We hypothesized that there exists a time window for trauma team pre-activation that minimizes TCCA.
Methods: This is an exploratory retrospective analysis of video-reviewed traumas at a level 1 trauma center from January 1, 2018 to 28 February, 2022 that received the highest trauma team activation and had a pre-arrival notification.
Objective: To determine whether traffic patterns affect the accuracy of emergency medical services (EMS) prediction of transport interval to the emergency department (ED).
Methods: Using a retrospective study, we examined all trauma activations at a level one, urban trauma center in Manhasset, New York, between 5/22/2021 and 3/30/2022. Inclusion criteria included patients ≥18 years and arrival by EMS.
Sphingoid bases, including sphingosine, are important components of the antimicrobial barrier at epithelial surfaces where they can cause growth inhibition and killing of susceptible bacteria. is a common opportunistic pathogen that is less susceptible to sphingosine than many Gram-negative bacteria. Here, we determined that deletion of the operon reduced growth in the presence of sphingosine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Indolent prostate cancer (PCa) is prevalent in the intended use population (adults age 50-79 years) for blood-based multicancer early detection (MCED) tests. We examined the detectability of PCa by a clinically validated, targeted methylation-based MCED test.
Methods: Detectability by Gleason grade group (GG), clinical stage, association of detection status with tumor methylated fraction (TMeF), and overall survival (OS) were assessed in substudy 3 of Circulating Cell-Free Genome Atlas (CCGA; ClinicalTrials.
In the United States, 2.0 million new cancer cases and around 600,000 cancer deaths are estimated to occur in 2024. Early detection gives cancer patients the best chance for treatment success.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
November 2024
Background: Localized prostate tumors show significant spatial heterogeneity, with regions of high-grade disease adjacent to lower grade disease. Consequently, prostate cancer biopsies are prone to sampling bias, potentially leading to underestimation of tumor grade. To study the clinical, epidemiologic, and molecular hallmarks of this phenomenon, we conducted a prospective study of grade upgrading: differences in detected prostate cancer grade between biopsy and surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSignificance: The choroid plexus (ChP) epithelial network displays diverse dynamics, including propagating calcium waves and individuated fluctuations in single cells. These rapid events underscore the possibility that ChP dynamics may reflect behaviorally relevant and clinically important changes in information processing and signaling. Optogenetic and chemogenetic tools provide spatiotemporally precise and sustained approaches for testing such dynamics .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUS Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) guidelines recommend single-cancer screening for select cancers (e.g., breast, cervical, colorectal, lung).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSphingolipids are produced by nearly all eukaryotes where they play significant roles in cellular processes such as cell growth, division, programmed cell death, angiogenesis, and inflammation. While it was previously believed that sphingolipids were quite rare among bacteria, bioinformatic analysis of the recently identified bacterial sphingolipid synthesis genes suggests that these lipids are likely to be produced by a wide range of microbial species. The sphingolipid synthesis pathway consists of three critical enzymes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrobiol Resour Announc
April 2024
Strain SED1 was isolated from glacial samples collected on Mount Deception, Washington, USA. Genome sequencing and assembly identified a DNA G + C content of 60.4 mol% with 6,125 predicted proteins.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Many sentinel lymph node (SLN) ultrastaging protocols for endometrial cancer exist, but there is no consensus method.
Objective: This study aims to develop guidelines for size criteria in SLN evaluation for endometrial cancer, to determine whether a single cytokeratin AE1:AE3 immunohistochemical slide provides sufficient data for diagnosis, and to compare cost efficiency between current and limited ultrastaging protocols at a large tertiary care institution.
Methods: Our current SLN ultrastaging protocol consists of cutting two adjacent paraffin block sections at two levels (L1 and L2), 50 μm apart, with two slides at each level stained with hematoxylin and eosin and cytokeratin AE1:AE3 immunohistochemistry.