Publications by authors named "Kay J"

Background: While risk factors for recurrent instability (RI) after arthroscopic Bankart repair (ABR) for anterior glenohumeral instability (aGHI) have been well established in adult populations, there is much less evidence in pediatric and adolescent patients, despite being the most affected epidemiologic subpopulation.

Purpose: To identify the clinical, demographic, radiologic, and operative risk factors for RI after ABR for aGHI in pediatric and adolescent patients.

Study Design: Systematic review; Level of evidence, 4.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Patients with systemic right ventricle (SRV), either d-transposition of the great arteries following an atrial switch procedure or congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, develop severe right ventricular dysfunction, prompting appropriate medical therapy. However, the efficacy of beta-blockers and angiotensin receptor blockers or angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) in SRV patients is unproven.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the effects of ACEI/ARB and beta-blockers on outcomes in SRV patients after accounting for likely cofounders affecting their use.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • The study examines the long-term outcomes of patients with univentricular heart and total cavopulmonary connection Fontan, focusing on those with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) compared to other types.
  • The research found that patients with HLHS experienced a significantly higher incidence of adverse cardiovascular events, including death and transplantation, with a hazard ratio indicating over six times the risk.
  • The findings suggest that HLHS is a critical factor in determining poorer outcomes in patients with this heart condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Anthropogenic aerosols (AER) and greenhouse gases (GHG)-the leading drivers of the forced historical change-produce different large-scale climate response patterns, with correlations trending from negative to positive over the past century. To understand what caused the time-evolving comparison between GHG and AER response patterns, we apply a low-frequency component analysis to historical surface ocean changes from CESM1 single-forcing large-ensemble simulations. While GHG response is characterized by its first leading mode, AER response consists of two distinct modes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Serum PSA and digital rectal examination remain the key diagnostic tools for detecting prostate cancer. However, due to the limited specificity of serum PSA, the applicability of this marker continues to be controversial. Recent use of image-guided biopsy along with pathological assessment and the use of biomarkers has dramatically improved the diagnosis of clinically significant cancer.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

ObjectiveTo evaluate the feasibility of twice daily rehabilitation in older patients admitted to an acute care of the elderly (ACE) hospital ward.MethodThis was a prospective single-site, cohort study of twice daily interventions provided by ACE physiotherapists, occupational therapists and/or allied health assistants in an ACE hospital ward. The feasibility of twice daily therapy was evaluated using a range of outcomes including satisfaction, fidelity and limited efficacy.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Canonical models of intestinal regeneration emphasize the critical role of the crypt stem cell niche to generate enterocytes that migrate to villus ends. Burmese pythons possess extreme intestinal regenerative capacity yet lack crypts, thus providing opportunities to identify noncanonical but potentially conserved mechanisms that expand our understanding of regenerative capacity in vertebrates, including humans. Here, we leverage single-nucleus RNA sequencing of fasted and postprandial python small intestine to identify the signaling pathways and cell-cell interactions underlying the python's regenerative response.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Objective: Despite interest in optimizing the electronic health record (EHR) to facilitate chronic disease care for conditions like rheumatoid arthritis (RA), progress in this area has been slow. EHR sidecar applications offer one solution, but little guidance exists to facilitate their successful development, deployment, and maintenance in the healthcare setting. We aimed to provide a roadmap for how to develop and deploy an EHR sidecar application based on our experience building a new EHR-integrated, patient-facing visualization tool that displayed disease outcomes to RA patients during a clinical visit (the "RA PRO dashboard") in a large academic health center.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • - The article highlights the growing popularity of integrative therapies in clinical psychology but notes limited discussion in psychiatric literature, prompting the authors to introduce a problem-oriented integrative therapy (PIT) approach.
  • - PIT aims to address complex psychiatric issues by combining common therapeutic factors, synthesizing theories, and employing various techniques tailored to individual patient needs.
  • - Practitioners of PIT must be well-versed in multiple therapy models and adapt their methods based on patient progress and emerging research, with effectiveness measured against traditional therapy outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Augmentation of an arthroscopic Bankart repair with the remplissage (ABR) procedure has shown to confer a decrease in recurrence rates, yet, at the expense of potentially compromising shoulder motion.

Purpose/hypothesis: The purpose was to examine clinical studies that described a post-operative rehabilitation protocol after an arthroscopic Bankart repair and remplissage procedure. It was hypothesized that a review of the literature would find variability among the studies and that, among comparative studies, there would be a limited distinction from protocols for isolated Bankart repairs.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • - Protocadherins are proteins found on the surface of cells that help developing neurons identify their own connections versus those from other cells.
  • - This ability to recognize self from non-self is essential for the proper formation of dendrites and overall neuron functionality.
  • - Recent studies have revealed how these protocadherins support dendrite self-avoidance, allowing neurons to properly pattern their branching.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and systemic right ventricle face serious heart-related risks, and researchers sought to determine if specific invasive hemodynamic measures can predict outcomes.
  • The study included 242 adults who underwent cardiac catheterization from 1994 to 2020, analyzing various hemodynamic parameters over an average follow-up period of 11.4 years.
  • Results indicated that a low aortic pulsatility index (<1.5) strongly predicts negative outcomes such as death or the need for heart transplantation, with the cold/wet hemodynamic profile presenting the highest associated risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Armadillo repeat-containing X-linked protein-1 (Armcx1) is a poorly characterized transmembrane protein that regulates mitochondrial transport in neurons. Its overexpression has been shown to induce neurite outgrowth in embryonic neurons and to promote retinal ganglion cell (RGC) survival and axonal regrowth in a mouse optic nerve crush model. In order to evaluate the functions of endogenous Armcx1 in vivo, we have created a conditional Armcx1 knockout mouse line in which the entire coding region of the Armcx1 gene is flanked by loxP sites.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In vertebrate retina, individual neurons of the same type are distributed regularly across the tissue in a pattern known as a mosaic. Establishment of mosaics during development requires cell-cell repulsion among homotypic neurons, but the mechanisms underlying this repulsion remain unknown. Here, we show that two mouse retinal cell types, OFF and ON starburst amacrine cells, establish mosaic spacing by using their dendritic arbors to repel neighboring homotypic somata.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: After arthroscopic Bankart repair (ABR) for anterior glenohumeral instability (GHI), adolescent athletes have higher rates of subsequent recurrent GHI than any other subpopulation. Elucidating which adolescents are at highest risk of postoperative recurrent GHI may optimize surgical decision-making.

Purpose: To identify prognostic factors associated with subsequent recurrent GHI requiring revision stabilization surgery (RSS) after ABR.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The academic-practice partnership has become increasingly important in nursing education. An academic-practice partnership between a health systems infection prevention and control (IPC) department and its academic affiliate may provide an opportunity to help advance undergraduate nursing students' IPC knowledge and skills and provide IPC staff the opportunity to develop their clinical teaching skills as they teach and mentor students. We convened an exploratory workshop between our private university-based college of nursing and its affiliated health care system IPC department to brainstorm and identify areas for mutual collaboration and gauge interest in formalizing a partnership.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • A study was conducted to assess how clinicians engage with performance dashboards from Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDR), leading to the creation of a framework called BDC (Breadth-Depth-Context).
  • The BDC framework evaluates user engagement based on breadth (dashboard sessions), depth (actions taken), and context (practice characteristics), and was tested using user log data from a rheumatology registry.
  • Findings revealed four engagement profiles among 213 practices, with factors like patient volume and specific electronic health record vendors influencing higher engagement levels, suggesting the BDC framework's potential for broader application in studying dashboard engagement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

There is much interest in the topic of partial information decomposition, both in developing new algorithms and in developing applications. An algorithm, based on standard results from information geometry, was recently proposed by Niu and Quinn (2019). They considered the case of three scalar random variables from an exponential family, including both discrete distributions and a trivariate Gaussian distribution.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells, immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the immune tumour microenvironment (TME) serves as a source of therapeutic targets, it is also considered a friend or foe to tumour-directed therapies. This is readily illustrated by the importance of T cells in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), culminating in the advent of immune checkpoint therapy in combination with cytotoxic chemotherapy as standard of care for both early and advanced-stage TNBC, as well as recent promising signs of efficacy in a subset of hormone receptor-positive disease.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: There is a paucity of data on long-term outcomes after Fontan palliation in patients with a dominant morphological univentricular right (uRV) vs left (uLV) ventricle.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to compare the incidence of atrial arrhythmias, thromboembolic events, cardiac transplantation, and death following Fontan palliation in patients with uRV vs uLV.

Methods: The Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study on patients with total cavopulmonary connection Fontan palliation across 12 centers in North America.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • * The results demonstrated that GPT-4 significantly outperformed other models, achieving high accuracy (94% for hydroxychloroquine and 95% for prednisone) with as few as 100 in-context examples.
  • * The findings suggest that LLMs, especially GPT-4, have a strong potential to automate the extraction of structured data from complex medication signatures with minimal manual intervention, benefiting clinical and research settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF