Publications by authors named "Hess B"

Background And Objectives: Health care leaders use interprofessional collaborative practice as a strategy to improve health outcomes, and they have stressed its importance in the education of primary care medical providers to apply public health concepts like the social determinants of health and community collaborations. Interprofessional education (IPE) prepares students from different professions for collaborative practice as they enter the health workforce by developing core competencies. Understanding the importance of IPE is vital toward improving person and client-centered care and population health outcomes.

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Background: There are no clinical or laboratory markers that can diagnose acute mesenteric ischemia (AMI) accurately. This study aimed to find differences in clinical and laboratory markers between arterial occlusive AMI and other acute abdominal diseases where AMI was initially suspected.

Methods: This was a post hoc study of an international prospective multicenter study where data on patients with suspected AMI were collected.

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Owing to their rapid cooling rate and hence loss-limited propagation distance, cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CRe) at very high energies probe local cosmic-ray accelerators and provide constraints on exotic production mechanisms such as annihilation of dark matter particles. We present a high-statistics measurement of the spectrum of CRe candidate events from 0.3 to 40 TeV with the High Energy Stereoscopic System, covering 2 orders of magnitude in energy and reaching a proton rejection power of better than 10^{4}.

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Background: Acute mesenteric venous thrombosis (MVT) is rarely suspected as primary diagnosis in emergency departments and still carries an in-hospital mortality rate of above 20%.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to find differences in clinical and laboratory markers between patients with acute MVT and a control group of suspected but confirmed as not having any type of acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI).

Design: Data was retrieved from the AMESI (Acute MESenteric Ischaemia) study.

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What Is This Summary About?: This article provides a plain-language summary of the results of a clinical trial called the LOTIS-2 study.The LOTIS-2 study included 145 participants with an aggressive type (one that forms, grows, or spreads quickly) of non-Hodgkin lymphoma called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (a type of blood cancer), or DLBCL for short, whose disease came back or did not respond after 2 or more previous treatments. The LOTIS-2 study was conducted from August 2018 to September 2022.

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Spreading Depolarizations (SDs) are massive events in the brain that often go undetected due to their slow propagation through gray matter. Because SD detection can be elusive, it is optimally confirmed using multiple methods. This protocol describes methods for combining imaging and electrophysiology to detect SDs in a manner that most laboratories can reliably and easily adopt.

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  • Brentuximab vedotin has been shown to improve outcomes in treating advanced classic Hodgkin's lymphoma, but it also causes more toxic side effects in adults, while many pediatric patients still need radiation therapy and face challenges with relapse.
  • A phase 3 trial involving patients aged 12 and older tested two treatment combinations: brentuximab vedotin with standard chemotherapy (BV+AVD) versus nivolumab with standard chemotherapy (N+AVD), aiming to assess progression-free survival.
  • Results indicated that N+AVD significantly enhances progression-free survival compared to BV+AVD, with a 2-year survival rate of 92% for N+AVD versus 83% for BV
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  • The study aimed to establish clear cutoff points for low, intermediate, and high doses of norepinephrine (noradrenaline), a key vasopressor in intensive care, to better assess patient mortality linked to cardiovascular support.
  • Researchers analyzed data from over 8,000 ICU patients in Finland and validated the findings with a larger dataset from the U.S., focusing on the highest norepinephrine doses administered within the first 24 hours.
  • The identified dose ranges were low (<0.2 μg/kg/min), intermediate (0.2-0.4 μg/kg/min), and high (>0.4 μg/kg/min), with increasing mortality rates correlating with higher doses, demonstrating a significant relationship between norepine
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Teclistamab is a B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed bispecific T-cell engager approved for relapsed-refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) and Immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) are well-documented treatment -related adverse events of teclistamab. The prescribing information recommends step-up dosing on days 1, 4, and 7 with 48-72 h of inpatient observation after each dose to monitor for CRS.

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Background: Recent research has shown beneficial results for music-based interventions (MBIs) for persons living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD), but reports often lack sufficient detail about the MBI methodology, which reduces replicability. A detailed checklist for best practices in how to report MBIs was created in 2011 by Robb and colleagues to remedy the lack of detail in MBI descriptions. The implementation of the checklist specifically in AD/ADRD research has not been established.

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  • Experts met to discuss the best ways to treat urinary stones at a conference in Spain in January 2024.
  • For 1.5 cm kidney stones, two treatments called m-PCNL and RIRS work well, but m-PCNL is cheaper and quicker, while RIRS has fewer side effects.
  • Doctors need to be careful with patients on certain medications, as some treatments might cause more bleeding, and they should also make sure to test for infections before and after surgery.
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  • This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of epcoritamab, a new bispecific antibody, for treating patients with advanced follicular lymphoma who have already undergone multiple previous therapies.
  • The research was part of the EPCORE NHL-1 trial, which took place at 88 sites across 15 countries and involved patients aged 18 and older with specific eligibility criteria, including having received at least two prior treatments.
  • Treatment involved subcutaneous injections of epcoritamab in cycles, with a tailored dosing strategy to minimize the risk of cytokine release syndrome, and the primary focus was on evaluating the overall response rate and safety measures related to cytokine release.
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The "Food as Medicine" (FAM) movement encourages public health and medical professionals to recognize the importance of dietary patterns and food access. The purpose of this work was to describe patient and physician engagement with a produce prescription (PRx) program to improve access to fresh vegetables in a healthcare setting. A Federally Qualified Health Center, regenerative farm, and academic institution partnered for the PRx program (2017-21).

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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell (CAR-T) immunotherapy is an effective therapy for relapsed/refractory B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (r/r B-NHL). However, data are limited on the impact of the convergence of race and social determinants of health on outcomes for patients treated with CAR-T therapy. We examined the impact of interactions between race and insurance type on health care use and outcomes in patients treated with CAR-T therapy for aggressive B-NHL.

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The use of natural pulmonary surfactants (PS) as a drug delivery vehicle for biologics is a more recent therapeutic modality. Herein, we tested different contents of PS regarding their physicochemical properties under stress conditions. The PS content of 12.

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Background: The aim of this multicentre prospective observational study was to identify the incidence, patient characteristics, diagnostic pathway, management and outcome of acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI).

Methods: All adult patients with clinical suspicion of AMI admitted or transferred to 32 participating hospitals from 06.06.

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Constant pH molecular dynamics (MD) is a powerful technique that allows the protonation state of residues to change dynamically, thereby enabling the study of pH dependence in a manner that has not been possible before. Recently, a constant pH implementation was incorporated into the GROMACS MD package. Although this implementation provides good accuracy and performance, manual modification and the preparation of simulation input files are required, which can be complicated, tedious, and prone to errors.

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Introduction: There remains a need to determine whether certain subgroups of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma (NDMM) derive the same benefit from high-dose chemotherapy-autologous stem cell transplant (HDT-ASCT). We describe our institutional experience highlighting the impact of age, obesity, and renal impairment on outcomes after HDT-ASCT for patients with NDMM in a real-world setting.

Methods: A total of 449 consecutive patients were included in this retrospective analysis.

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Drug studies targeting neuronal ion channels are crucial to understand neuronal function and develop therapies for neurological diseases. The traditional method to study neuronal ion-channel activities heavily relies on the whole-cell patch clamp as the industry standard. However, this technique is both technically challenging and labour-intensive, while involving the complexity of keeping cells alive with low throughput.

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Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy (CAR-T) has been successful in treating relapsed/refractory B-cell lymphomas. However, its role in the treatment of diseases involving the central nervous system (CNS) is not well studied. We performed a multicenter retrospective cohort study to evaluate the outcomes of patients with secondary CNS lymphoma (SCNSL) who received CAR-T.

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Oncology patients presenting for outpatient evaluation of a respiratory tract infection (RTI) are often tested for a variety of viruses with a respiratory pathogen panel (RPP) in addition to influenza and SARS-CoV-2. This triad of testing is expensive and uncomfortable because it requires 2 nasal swabs. Little evidence supports the use of an RPP in outpatient settings, but it is routinely ordered.

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