Biochemical profiles of patients with COVID-19 during the first and second waves in Ethiopia.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a highly infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Nasopharyngeal swabs (NP swabs) were used for patients with COVID-19 who demonstrated serious clinical symptoms and disturbances in biochemical parameters. The biochemical profiles of these patients remain ambiguous and differ from wave to wave of COVID-19 infections.

Evaluation of the Clinical Impact of a Smartphone Application for Cataract Detection.

Background Approximately 10 million people in India suffer from bilateral blindness, with cataracts accounting for roughly 70% of these cases. However, there is a severe scarcity of ophthalmologists in India (12,000 across the country), which makes routine cataract screening very difficult, particularly in rural areas. To tackle this problem, we investigated the use of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based application for cataract screening at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bibinagar, that can be used by nursing officers and other healthcare professionals as a primary screening tool.

The Frequency of Hypoglycemia and Its Symptoms in Preterm Neonates in the First 24 Hours.

Introduction Hypoglycemia is a critical concern in neonatal care, particularly among preterm infants. This study aims to investigate the frequency of hypoglycemia within the first 24 hours of life in preterm neonates, considering factors such as gestational age (GA), birth weight, and gender. Materials and methods A cross-sectional study was conducted from February to August 2021.

Disease-specific health-related quality of life trajectories up to 15 years after curative treatment for esophageal cancer-a prospective cohort study.

Background: The presence of distinct long-term disease-specific HRQL trajectories after curative treatment for esophageal cancer and factors associated with such trajectories are unclear.

Materials And Methods: This population-based and longitudinal cohort study included 425 esophageal cancer patients who underwent curative treatment, including esophagectomy, in Sweden in 2001-2005 and were followed up until 2020, that is, 15-year follow-up. The outcomes were 10 disease-specific HRQL symptoms, measured by the well-validated EORTC QLQ-OES18 questionnaire at 6 months (n = 402 patients), and 3 (n = 178), 5 (n = 141), 10 (n = 92), and 15 years (n = 52) after treatment.

Severe reflux, malnutrition and health-related quality of life after oesophageal cancer surgery: A prospective nationwide cohort study.

Introduction: While most survivors of oesophageal cancer suffer from multiple symptoms, studies on combined symptom burden are scarce, particularly when looking at long-term outcomes. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between gastro-oesophageal reflux and health-related quality of life in malnourished survivors during the first years after oesophagectomy for cancer.

Materials And Methods: This nationwide prospective cohort study included all Swedish patients who underwent curatively intended oesophagectomy for oesophageal cancer between 2013 and 2020 with 3-year follow-up.

Trajectories of patient-reported outcomes after oesophageal cancer surgery - A population-based study.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the trajectories of patient-reported outcomes for individuals who have undergone surgery for oesophageal cancer over a five-year post-surgical period, and to identify modifiable factors that contribute to a decline in quality of life.

Methods: Patients who underwent resection in Sweden between 2013 and 2020 were included. Data were collected at one-year post-surgery and at regular pre-determined intervals during the five-year post-surgical period.

Assessment of the hematological profiles among COVID-19 patients during the first and second waves in Ethiopia: A multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 is highly infectious and patients with coronavirus diseases demonstrated a series of clinical symptoms caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. Without a break of the wave's hematological profile of the patients is still ambiguous and differs from wave to wave.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the hematological profile among coronavirus disease 2019 patients during the first and the second waves in Ethiopia.

Recurrence and Survival After Minimally Invasive and Open Esophagectomy for Esophageal Cancer: A Post Hoc Analysis of the Ensure Study.

Objective: To determine the impact of operative approach [open (OE), hybrid minimally invasive (HMIE), and total minimally invasive (TMIE) esophagectomy] on operative and oncologic outcomes for patients treated with curative intent for esophageal and junctional cancer.

Background: The optimum oncologic surgical approach to esophageal and junctional cancer is unclear.

Methods: This secondary analysis of the European multicenter ENSURE study includes patients undergoing curative-intent esophagectomy for cancer between 2009 and 2015 across 20 high-volume centers.

Sex-related differences in oncologic outcomes, operative complications and health-related quality of life after curative-intent oesophageal cancer treatment: multicentre retrospective analysis.

Background: Oesophageal cancer, in particular adenocarcinoma, has a strong male predominance. However, the impact of patient sex on operative and oncologic outcomes and recovery of health-related quality of life is poorly documented, and was the focus of this large multicentre cohort study.

Methods: All consecutive patients who underwent oncological oesophagectomy from 2009 to 2015 in the 20 European iNvestigation of SUrveillance after Resection for Esophageal cancer study group centres were assessed.

Validity assessment of the POLARS score tool in the prediction of post rectal cancer surgery LARS score in a population-based Swedish cohort.

Objective: Low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) is one of the most common functional impairments after rectal cancer surgery with a high impact on quality of life. The Pre-Operative LARS score (POLARS) nomogram and its online tool has been developed to predict the degree of postoperative LARS. The aim of this study was to analyse how accurately the POLARS score could predict LARS scores when compared with actual patient-reported LARS (PR-LARS) scores in a population-based Swedish cohort.

Cancer-related fatigue trajectories up to 5 years after curative treatment for oesophageal cancer.

Background: Whether cancer-related fatigue develops differently after curative-intended oesophageal cancer treatment and the related modifiable factors are unclear.

Methods: This population-based and longitudinal cohort included 409 oesophageal cancer patients who underwent curative oesophagectomy in 2013-2020 in Sweden. The main outcome was cancer-related fatigue trajectories with measurements at 1, 1.

Health-related quality of life trajectories up to 15 years after curative treatment for esophageal cancer: a prospective cohort study.

Background: The differentiation of specific, long-term health-related quality of life (HRQL) trajectories among esophageal cancer survivors remains unclear. The authors aimed to identify potentially distinctly different HRQL-trajectories and uncover the underlying factors of such trajectories in patients having undergone surgery (esophagectomy) for esophageal cancer.

Materials And Methods: This nationwide, prospective, and longitudinal cohort study included 420 patients who underwent curative treatment for esophageal cancer, including esophageal cancer surgery, in Sweden from 2001to 2005.

Rare loss-of-function variants in matrisome genes are enriched in Ebstein's anomaly.

Ebstein's anomaly, a rare congenital heart disease, is distinguished by the failure of embryological delamination of the tricuspid valve leaflets from the underlying primitive right ventricle myocardium. Gaining insight into the genetic basis of Ebstein's anomaly allows a more precise definition of its pathogenesis. In this study, two distinct cohorts from the Chinese Han population were included: a case-control cohort consisting of 82 unrelated cases and 125 controls without cardiac phenotypes and a trio cohort comprising 36 parent-offspring trios.

Deep generative models of LDLR protein structure to predict variant pathogenicity.

The complex structure and function of low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) makes classification of protein-coding missense variants challenging. Deep generative models, including Evolutionary model of Variant Effect (EVE), Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM), and AlphaFold 2 (AF2), have enabled significant progress in the prediction of protein structure and function. ESM and EVE directly estimate the likelihood of a variant sequence but are purely data-driven and challenging to interpret.

Wastewater-based epidemiology for tracking bacterial diversity and antibiotic resistance in COVID-19 isolation hospitals in Qatar.

Background: Hospitals are hotspots for antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs), and play a significant role in their emergence and spread. Large numbers of ARGs will be ejected from hospitals via wastewater systems. Wastewater-based epidemiology has been consolidated as a tool to provide real-time information, and represents a promising approach to understanding the prevalence of bacteria and ARGs at community level.

Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Versus Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Locally Advanced Esophageal Adenocarcinoma in the European Multicenter ENSURE Study.

Objective: This study aimed to compare clinicopathologic, oncologic, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcomes following neoadjuvant chemoradiation (nCRT) and chemotherapy (nCT) in the ENSURE international multicenter study.

Background: nCT and nCRT are the standards of care for locally advanced esophageal cancer (LAEC) treated with curative intent. However, no published randomized controlled trial to date has demonstrated the superiority of either approach.

Antiglutamate acid decarboxylase seropositive brain stem encephalitis.

This is a case of a previously healthy female in her fourties presenting with a subacute presentation of bilateral horizontal gaze restriction, with bilateral lower motor facial palsy. The patient's daughter has type 1 diabetes. On investigation, the patient's MRI revealed a lesion in the dorsal medial pons.

Home-based physical activity after treatment for esophageal cancer-A randomized controlled trial.

Background: The treatment of most esophageal cancer patients includes chemo(radio)therapy and extensive surgery, causing physical decline with loss of muscles. This trial aimed to test the hypothesis that a tailored home-based physical activity (PA) intervention improves muscle strength and mass in patients having undergone curative treatment for esophageal cancer.

Methods: Patients operated for esophageal cancer 1 year earlier were included in a nationwide randomized controlled trial in Sweden in 2016-2020.

Minimally invasive surgical techniques for oesophageal cancer and nutritional recovery: a prospective population-based cohort study.

Objectives: To explore whether the minimally invasive oesophagectomy (MIE) or hybrid minimally invasive oesophagectomy (HMIE) are associated with better nutritional status and less weight loss 1 year after surgery, compared with open oesophagectomy (OE).

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: All patients undergoing oesophagectomy for cancer in Sweden during 2013-2018.

Associations in health-related quality of life between patients and family caregivers 1 year after oesophageal cancer surgery.

Purpose: Whether patients' health-related quality of life (HRQL) influences the HRQL of their family caregivers remains to be clarified. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the association in HRQL between patients and family caregivers one year after oesophageal cancer surgery.

Methods: The study was based on a prospective, nationwide, and population-based cohort including patients treated by surgery for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to 2021 and their family caregivers.

Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans.

The role of natural selection in shaping biological diversity is an area of intense interest in modern biology. To date, studies of positive selection have primarily relied on genomic datasets from contemporary populations, which are susceptible to confounding factors associated with complex and often unknown aspects of population history. In particular, admixture between diverged populations can distort or hide prior selection events in modern genomes, though this process is not explicitly accounted for in most selection studies despite its apparent ubiquity in humans and other species.

Health-related quality of life following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus perioperative chemotherapy and esophagectomy for esophageal cancer: a European multicenter study.

Curative treatment for locally advanced esophageal cancer consists of (neo)adjuvant treatment followed by esophagectomy. Both neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and perioperative chemotherapy improve the 5-year overall survival rate compared with surgery alone. However, it is unknown whether these treatment strategies are associated with differences in long-term health-related quality of life (HRQL).

Health-related quality of life 15 years after oesophageal cancer surgery: a prospective nationwide cohort study.

Purpose: We aimed to study oesophageal cancer survivors' health-related quality of life (HRQL) 15 years after surgery and to identify factors related to reduced HRQL.

Methods: A nationwide, prospective cohort study enrolling 616 patients who underwent open oesophageal cancer surgery in Sweden between April 2, 2001, and December 21, 2005. HRQL was evaluated by questionnaires 15 years after surgery.

Quality of life and patient reported symptoms after colorectal cancer in a Swedish population.

Aim: A proportion of patients treated for colorectal cancer have impaired quality of life (QoL) but it is uncertain if the level of QoL differs from the corresponding background population. This population-based cohort study aimed to evaluate health-related QoL in colorectal cancer patients and compare their QoL with that of a Swedish reference population.

Methods: Patients who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer Stages I-III in the Stockholm-Gotland region in 2013-2015 received the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30 and the QLQ-CR29 questionnaires and the low anterior resection syndrome score, 1 year after surgery.