Primary mitral regurgitation (MR) is a prevalent valvular heart disease. Therapy stratification for MR depends on accurate assessment of MR severity and left ventricular (LV) dimensions. While trans-thoracic echocardiography (TTE) has been the standard/preferred assessment method, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has gained recognition for its superior assessment of LV dimensions and MR severity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To quantitatively analyse exercise-induced cardiac remodeling (EICR) data in female athletes.
Methods: This scoping review included from the databases Medline, Embase, and Google Scholar, peer-reviewed original English-language articles on female athlete-populations aged ≥18 years containing data on electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography or cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and excluded athletes with cardiovascular conditions. From the extracted ECG data, we calculated prevalence percentages, and from the imaging data we compared the results with the upper reference limits of the general female population (URL).
Background: Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) need to receive adequate information to manage their disease. However, little is known about how information provision affects patients.
Objective: To conduct a scoping review of the literature on the relationship between content, timing, manner of delivery, and source of PD-specific information on the one hand, and patient outcomes on the other.
The prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) patients is a debatable topic. Several studies have indicated that BAV patients have a lower prevalence of CAD compared with patients with a tricuspid aortic valve (TAV), but the effects of age and gender have not always been considered. This systematic review provides an overview of articles which report on CAD in BAV and TAV patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInitial evaluation of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis is done by measuring serum free thyroxine (fT4) and thyrotropin concentrations. For correct interpretation of these measurements, reliable age-specific reference intervals (RIs) are fundamental. Since neonatal fT4 RIs conforming to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines are not available for all assays, we set out to create literature-based uniform age-specific neonatal fT4 RIs that may be used for every assay.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is efficacious for treating motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Objectives: The aim is to evaluate the evidence regarding DBS effectiveness after postoperative cognitive deterioration, the impact of preoperative cognition on DBS effectiveness, and the impact of DBS on cognition.
Methods: Literature searches were performed on MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CENTRAL (Cochrane library).
Objectives: To determine whether the timing of acetabular fracture fixation through an anterior approach influences estimated and calculated perioperative blood loss.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Level 1 trauma center from 2013 to 2021.
Evaluation of effective and low-cost materials as catalysts to combat the threat of pollution is a significant and growing trend. With this aim, we have synthesized calcium ferrite brownmillerite by wet preparation approach as a catalyst for pollution. The structural analysis is established by the X-ray diffraction of Ca Fe O , whereas the tetrahedral and octahedral sites band stretching for ferrite specimen has been deduced using FTIR.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims/hypothesis: Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) agonists and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors are novel drugs which have recently seen rapid uptake in the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity. The paucity of data regarding their safety during pregnancy and lactation causes a dilemma for the physician. The aim of the present study was to systematically review all available data on the offspring effects of GLP-1 agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors during pregnancy and lactation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Blood glucose regulation in women with diabetes may change during and after menopause, which could be attributed, in part, to decreased estrogen levels.
Purpose: To determine the effect of postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) on HbA1c, fasting glucose, postprandial glucose, and use of glucose-lowering drugs in women with type 1 and women with type 2 diabetes.
Data Sources: We conducted a systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, Scopus, the Cochrane Library, and the ClinicalTrials.
Background: Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading medical cause of death in athletes. To prevent SCD, screening for high-risk cardiovascular conditions (HRCC) is recommended. Screening strategies are based on a limited number of studies and expert consensus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recently, the prevalence of cesarean section (CS) has been on the rise and the proper uterine tone is an important issue. We investigated the effects of intravenous (IV) ketamine on intraoperative bleeding and the need for oxytocin in CS under spinal anesthesia (SA).
Methods: This study, took place at Alzahra hospital during 2020.
Supporting unemployed or work-disabled cancer survivors in their work participation can have extensive individual and societal benefits. We aimed to identify and summarise interventions for work participation of unemployed or work-disabled cancer survivors. Five databases (Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and Cochrane Library) were systematically searched for quantitative studies on interventions aimed at enhancing work participation of unemployed or work-disabled cancer survivors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn many applications, comparing the q-quantiles of several normal populations are more advantageous than comparing their means. In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing simultaneous confidence intervals (SCIs) for quantile differences of several heterogeneous normal distributions. To the best of our knowledge, this problem remains unsolved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing intersectionality as our critical analytical framework, we examined 22 articles on sexual and gender diversity (SGD) published in peer-reviewed psychology journals between January and June 2022 to: (1) identify their engagement with intersectionality's core themes; and (2) highlight key findings and directions for future intersectional SGD research. Our review includes 12 theoretical and empirical articles that addressed a breadth of topics such as intersectional stigma/discrimination, gendered racism, minority stress, and intersectional ableism. This review highlights opportunities within intersectional SGD research in psychology to provide a needed corrective to the discipline's tradition of individualistic, single-axis research focused on predominantly White, cisgender and heterosexual people, and attend to intersectionality's focus on intersecting power relations and commitments to social justice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Similar to other young people with a chronic health condition, perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV) adolescents may have an impacted sexual development.
Objectives: This paper aims to compare sexual milestones of PHIV to HIV uninfected peers, through a systematic review (SR) and explorative study.
Methods: We performed a systematic search in 4 electronic databases (Medline, Embase, Web of Science, and Scopus), according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines.
Purpose Of Review: We review the recent theoretical and empirical literature on structural racism, social determinants of health frameworks within the context of HIV prevention and treatment, and criticism of the national responses to the US epidemic.
Recent Findings: In line with growing mainstream attention to the role of structural racism and health inequities, recent editorials and studies cite ending structural racism as an essential step to ending the US HIV epidemic. Recent studies demonstrate that barriers rooted in structural racism such as incarceration, housing instability, police discrimination, neighborhood disadvantage, health service utilization and community violence, and poor or no access to social services, transportation, and childcare, are barriers to HIV prevention.
The number of inherited heart disease (IHD) studies using artificial intelligence (AI) has increased rapidly over the last years. In this scoping review, we aimed to present an overview of the current literature available on the applicability of AI within the field of IHD. The literature search resulted in eighteen articles in which an AI model was trained and tested, mostly for diagnostic and predictive purposes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The surgical implantation of polypropylene (PP) meshes has been linked to the occurrence of systemic autoimmune disorders. We performed a systematic review to determine whether PP implants for inguinal, ventral hernia or pelvic floor surgery are associated with the development of systemic autoimmune syndromes.
Methods: We searched Embase, Medline, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane library, clinicaltrialsregister.
Epilepsy is a brain disorder disease that affects people's quality of life. Electroencephalography (EEG) signals are used to diagnose epileptic seizures. This paper provides a computer-aided diagnosis system (CADS) for the automatic diagnosis of epileptic seizures in EEG signals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open Sport Exerc Med
October 2021
Objectives: Quantification of pericardial/myocardial involvement and risks of sudden cardiac arrest/sudden cardiac death (SCA/SCD) after SARS-CoV-2 infection in athletes who return to sports.
Design: Systematic review on post-SARS-CoV-2 infection pericardial/myocardial manifestations in athletes.
Data Sources: Combinations of key terms in Medline, Embase and Scopus (through 2 June 2021).