Publications by authors named "G D Riddle"
Cognitive control as a potential neural mechanism of protective role of spirituality in anxiety disorders among American Indian people: An ERP study.
Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging
October 2023
Research suggests that traditional cultural factors are protective against mental health conditions in American Indian (AI) populations. This study aims to determine if cognitive control is a neurocognitive mechanism of the protective role of spirituality in AI people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Participants self-identified as AI (n = 52) and included individuals with GAD (n = 16) and without GAD (n = 36).
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- There is a critical need to accurately assess the risk of post-liver transplant mortality to improve patient selection and avoid futile procedures, with the recently developed Liver Immune Frailty Index (LIFI) showing promising results.
- LIFI outperforms traditional risk scores like MELD in predicting mortality, demonstrating a substantial difference in 1-year post-transplant mortality rates (1.4% for LIFI-low vs. 58.3% for LIFI-high).
- The study highlights the importance of pre-transplant immune assessments, suggesting that LIFI could be essential for identifying liver transplant candidates with the least risk of poor outcomes.
Case History: A group of 39, 19-22-month-old Friesian bulls were administered an ivermectin/closantel anthelmintic via intended S/C injection in the ischiorectal fossa on 15 June 2017 (Day 0). Over the next 50 days, 22 affected bulls presented various degrees of anorexia, abdominal pain and urine dribbling. Seventeen bulls were examined by transrectal ultrasonography which revealed urinary bladder distension in all 17, and peritoneal fluid accumulation in some.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. Elucidation of a pathogen's antimicrobial susceptibility requires subculture after the organism is first isolated. This takes several days, requiring patients to be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccuracy of an accelerated, culture-based assay for detection of group B streptococcus.
Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol
June 2013
Objective: To determine the validity of a novel Group B Streptococcus (GBS) diagnostic assay for the detection of GBS in antepartum patients.
Study Design: Women were screened for GBS colonization at 35 to 37 weeks of gestation. Three vaginal-rectal swabs were collected per patient; two were processed by traditional culture (commercial laboratory versus in-house culture), and the third was processed by an immunoblot-based test, in which a sample is placed over an antibody-coated nitrocellulose membrane, and after a six-hour culture, bound GBS is detected with a secondary antibody.