Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of Group B Colonization in a Sample Population of Pregnant Women from Romania.

Group B (GBS) represents one of the leading causes of life-threatening invasive disease in pregnant women and neonates. Rates of GBS colonization vary by region, but studies on maternal GBS status are limited in Romania. This study aims to identify the prevalence of colonization with GBS and whether the obstetrical characteristics are statistically associated with the study group's antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of tested GBS strains.

Integrating Domain Knowledge into Deep Learning for Skin Lesion Risk Prioritization to Assist Teledermatology Referral.

Teledermatology has developed rapidly in recent years and is nowadays an essential tool for early diagnosis. In this work, we aim to improve existing Teledermatology processes for skin lesion diagnosis by developing a deep learning approach for risk prioritization with a dataset of retrospective data from referral requests of the Portuguese National Health System. Given the high complexity of this task, we propose a new prioritization pipeline guided and inspired by domain knowledge.

Evaluation of the Unit Rod surgical instrumentation in Duchenne scoliosis. A retrospective study.

The article represents a retrospective clinical and radiological study. Evaluating the safety and efficiency of the surgical treatment by using the Unit Rod for scoliosis in adolescents and children presenting Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Surgical management of myopathic scoliosis still causes controversies regarding the timing of surgery (patient's age), the pelvic inclusion in the arthrodesis or the advantages of surgery over the conservatory treatment.

Surgical treatment using The Unit Rod in children with neuromuscular scoliosis.

The article represents a retrospective clinical and radiological study. To assess the safety and the stability in time of the Unit Rod instrumentation in the treatment of severe neuromuscular scoliosis in children and adolescents. The treatment of patients with neuromuscular scoliosis always represents a challenge.

Livin and Bcl-2 expression in high-grade osteosarcoma.

Aims: The evaluation of prognosis in patients with osteosarcoma is limited to clinical parameters. Although numerous molecular markers have been studied, none are currently in routine clinical use. The aim of this study was to determine if Livin and Bcl-2, acting as antiapoptotic proteins through different mechanisms, are expressed in osteosarcoma, and whether they can be used as prognostic markers in human osteosarcoma.

Metastatic bone disease: a 36-year single centre trend-analysis of patients admitted to a tertiary orthopaedic surgical department.

Background And Objectives: The treatment and outcome of primary malignant bone tumours has changed with the advances in diagnostic and treatment modalities. A trend-analysis on a large cohort of patients with metastatic bone disease was performed.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of all cases with metastatic bone disease admitted to a single tertiary orthopaedic referral centre, registered with the Vienna Bone and Soft Tissue Tumour Registry between 1968 and 2003 was conducted.