ABO Blood Group and Risk Associated With Sepsis-Associated Thrombocytopenia: A Single-Center Retrospective Study.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between ABO blood group and sepsis-associated thrombocytopenia (SAT).

Design And Setting: The primary outcome was SAT within the first 72 hours of ICU admission.

Patients: The retrospective study included 9113 patients diagnosed with sepsis from January 2014 to December 2022.

Microelectromechanical System Resonant Devices: A Guide for Design, Modeling and Testing.

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMSs) are attracting increasing interest from the scientific community for the large variety of possible applications and for the continuous request from the market to improve performances, while keeping small dimensions and reduced costs. To be able to simulate a priori and in real time the dynamic response of resonant devices is then crucial to guide the mechanical design and to support the MEMSs industry. In this work, we propose a simplified modeling procedure able to reproduce the nonlinear dynamics of MEMS resonant devices of arbitrary geometry.

Advances in Corneal Diagnostics Using Machine Learning.

This paper provides comprehensive insights into the cornea and its diseases, with a particular focus on keratoconus. This paper explores the cornea's function in maintaining ocular health, detailing its anatomy, pathological conditions, and the latest developments in diagnostic techniques. Keratoconus is discussed extensively, covering its subtypes, etiology, clinical manifestations, and the application of the Q-value for quantification.

The impact of common and rare genetic variants on bradyarrhythmia development.

To broaden our understanding of bradyarrhythmias and conduction disease, we performed common variant genome-wide association analyses in up to 1.3 million individuals and rare variant burden testing in 460,000 individuals for sinus node dysfunction (SND), distal conduction disease (DCD) and pacemaker (PM) implantation. We identified 13, 31 and 21 common variant loci for SND, DCD and PM, respectively.