The effect of using the hip exoskeleton assistive (HEXA) robot compared to conventional physiotherapy on clinical functional outcomes in stroke patients with hemiplegia: a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Trial Design: This study is a pilot randomized clinical trial aimed to investigate the effect of using Hip Exoskeleton Assistive (HEXA) robot compared to conventional physiotherapy on the quality of walking, disability, and quality of life of stroke patients with hemiplegia.

Methods: In this study, 24 patients were randomly assigned to the intervention group (robotic physiotherapy with HEXA robot), or control group (conventional physiotherapy). In each session, both groups received 30 min of conventional physiotherapy including electrotherapy and conventional exercises, and then the intervention group did gait training for 30 min with the HEXA robot and the control group for 30 min without the HEXA robot.

Utility of Atypical Lymphocytes and Large Immature Cells in Prediction of Dengue Severity.

: There is a clinical imperative to devise metrics to prognosticate dengue severity. Our objective was to determine the association between longitudinal trends in atypical lymphocytes and large immature cell count with platelet count and dengue severity. : Retrospective analysis of longitudinally measured clinical and hematological data from ( = 79) hospitalized dengue patients was done.

On variable selection in a semiparametric AFT mixture cure model.

In clinical studies, one often encounters time-to-event data that are subject to right censoring and for which a fraction of the patients under study never experience the event of interest. Such data can be modeled using cure models in survival analysis. In the presence of cure fraction, the mixture cure model is popular, since it allows to model probability to be cured (called the incidence) and the survival function of the uncured individuals (called the latency).