Publications by authors named "K S Rutkowski"
The emergence of new technologies focusing on "computer vision" has contributed significantly to the assessment of fruit quality. In this study, an innovative approach based on image analysis was used to assess the external quality of fresh and frozen 'Mejhoul' and 'Boufeggous' date palm cultivars stored for 6 months at -10 °C and -18 °C. Their quality was evaluated, in a non-destructive manner, based on texture features extracted from images acquired using a digital camera and flatbed scanner.
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- CRUSE® is an app designed for people with chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) to track their symptoms using visual analogue scales (VASs), aiming to assess the app's effectiveness in measuring disease activity.
- A study analyzed three VASs related to CSU impact on daily life, including one specifically for the severity of urticaria, one for productivity, and a general health measure (EQ-5D), using data from nearly 6,000 patients over many days.
- The results showed that the CRUSE® app's VASs demonstrate strong validity and reliability, with the "VAS urticaria" being most effective in capturing symptom changes, while the minimal important difference (MID) values indicated meaningful changes
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- The paper aims to increase awareness of microscopic colitis (MC), a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, focusing on its recognition, risk factors, diagnosis, management, and complications.
- MC is characterized by nonspecific symptoms like watery diarrhea, which makes diagnosis challenging, and the average onset age is around 62-65 years, with women being more affected.
- Risk factors for MC include lifestyle factors like smoking and alcohol consumption, various medications, and other health conditions; treatment typically involves budesonide or other therapies tailored to individual cases.
Background: Seafood allergy (SA), including allergy to shellfish (crustacean and mollusks) and fish, is among the 4 most common food allergies causing anaphylaxis, but there are limited data showing SA clinical management in different countries.
Objective: We sought to characterize a large cohort of patients with fish and shellfish allergy and to facilitate standardization of future care for this increasingly common allergic disease.
Methods: We performed a retrospective, observational, noninterventional study from 945 patients from 2015 to 2019 in 7 hospitals in the United States and the United Kingdom to evaluate SA.
Novel Cardiac Myosin Inhibitor Therapy for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Adults: A Contemporary Review.
Am J Cardiovasc Drugs
September 2024
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) affects as many as 1 in 200 people in the adult population globally. Patients may present with exertional dyspnea, presyncope or syncope, atrial and ventricular arrhythmias, heart failure, and even sudden cardiac death. Current guideline-based therapy involves medical therapy for treatment of symptoms in milder forms of the disease and surgical or catheter-based septal reduction therapies in obstructive HCM.
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