Publications by authors named "L A Daniels"
Association between Proenkephalin A and cardiovascular outcomes in ambulatory Veterans.
Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- Proenkephalin (PENK) is a potential biomarker indicating kidney function and cardiovascular risk, particularly in patients with cardiovascular disease.
- An observational study of 199 ambulatory Veterans found that higher levels of PENK were linked to an increased risk of major adverse cardiac events (MACE), although this association was less significant after adjusting for other factors.
- PENK did not show a clear relationship with all-cause mortality, heart failure, or left ventricular measurements, but it did reveal an interesting non-linear connection with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Further research is needed to confirm these findings.
BACKGROUND: Critical care neuroscience nursing is a specialized field requiring a complex knowledge base and unique clinical orientation. A comprehensive orientation for nurses new to this specialty can improve retention, performance, and satisfaction. Critical care neuroscience orientations are often hospital based and regionally specific, and lack a systematic approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Giant coronary artery aneurysms and myocardial fibrosis after Kawasaki disease may lead to devastating cardiovascular outcomes. We characterised the vascular and myocardial outcomes in five selected Kawasaki disease patients with a history of giant coronary artery aneurysms that completely regressed.
Methods: Five patients were selected who had giant coronary artery aneurysm in early childhood that regressed when studied 12-33 years after Kawasaki disease onset.
Clinical implementation of RTT-only CBCT-guided online adaptive focal radiotherapy for bladder cancer.
Clin Transl Radiat Oncol
January 2025
Purpose: The study assesses the clinical implementation of radiation therapist (RTT)-only Conebeam CT (CBCT)-guided online adaptive focal radiotherapy (oART) for bladder cancer, by describing the training program, analyzing the workflow and monitoring patient experience.
Materials And Methods: Bladder cancer patients underwent treatment (20 sessions) on a ring-based linac (Ethos, Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company, USA). Commencing April 2021, 14 patients were treated by RTTs supervised by the Radiation Oncologist (RO) and Medical Physics Expert (MPE) in a multidisciplinary workflow.
Control beliefs are adaptive for athletes coping with significant obstacles to sport. Our study tested whether the effects of setback-related primary (PC) and secondary control (SC) on adaptive sport-related outcomes were mediated via setback rumination in collegiate athletes. We recruited 200 collegiate athletes using Prolific, from both Canada and the United States of America (Mage = 22.
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