Using (10 087±44)×10^{6} J/ψ events collected with the BESIII detector, the radiative hyperon decay Σ^{+}→pγ is studied at an electron-positron collider experiment for the first time. The absolute branching fraction is measured to be (0.996±0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Rank preserving structural failure time (RPSFT) is a statistical method to correct or adjust for crossover in clinical trials, by estimating the counterfactual effect on overall survival (OS) when control arm patients do not receive the interventional drug when their tumor progresses. We sought to examine the strength of correlation between differences in uncorrected and corrected OS hazard ratios and percentage of crossover, and characterize instances of fundamental and sequential efficacy.
Methods: In a cross-sectional analysis (2003-2023), we reviewed oncology randomized trials that used RPSFT analysis to adjust the OS hazard ratio for patients who crossed over to an anti-cancer drug.
Background: In oncology, quality of life (QoL) questionnaires were historically designed to be used in the advanced or metastatic setting. We sought to determine the effects of contemporary treatments on QoL in the adjuvant setting and to determine if the QoL instruments used in these studies provide a relevant assessment.
Methods: We conducted a systematic identification of all anti-cancer drugs used in the adjuvant setting and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration from January 2018 to March 2022.
Indian Dermatol Online J
April 2023
Lupus erythematosus is a spectrum that includes auto-immune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE), and chronic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CCLE). Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is the most common type of CCLE, and ocular DLE is a rather rare presentation. We report the case of a 42-year-old male patient who had been repeatedly mis-diagnosed and upon detailed dermatological workup was found to possess clinical, dermoscopic, and histopathological features of DLE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is important to describe lineages before they go extinct, as we can only protect what we know. This is especially important in the case of microendemic species likely to be relict populations, such as salamanders in southern China. Here, we unexpectedly sampled individuals in Fujian province, China, and then worked on determining their taxonomic status.
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October 2023
Objectives: We have previously identified a granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF)/C-C motif ligand 17 (CCL17) pathway in monocytes/macrophages, in which GM-CSF regulates the formation of CCL17, and it is important for an experimental osteoarthritis (OA) model. We explore here additional OA models, including in the presence of obesity, such as a requirement for this pathway.
Design: The roles of GM-CSF, CCL17, CCR4, and CCL22 in various experimental OA models, including those incorporating obesity (eight-week high-fat diet), were investigated using gene-deficient male mice.
Introduction: Physicians who treat hemophilia, and especially directors at hemophilia centers, are in a position to be unduly influenced by payments from pharmaceutical companies who make costly hemophilia drugs. It is from this perspective that we analyzed payments made to physicians at hemophilia centers in the US, focusing on center directors.
Materials And Methods: In a cross-sectional analysis we searched the CDC's Hemophilia Treatment Center Directory for physicians (2022) and then abstracted general payments for physicians on Open Payments (2018-2020) and calculated one-year average payments.
Background: Suboptimal treatment upon progression may affect overall survival (OS) results in oncology randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We aim to assess the proportion of trials reporting post-progression treatment.
Methods: This cross-sectional analysis included two concurrent analyses.
Primary neuroendocrine tumors (NET) of the kidney are rare. They present with varied symptoms, making their diagnosis difficult clinically as well as pathologically. We present to you the case of a renal NET, which presented in a young female patient.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the prevalence of attrition and the frequency of transition from a primarily clinical role to an industry-related role among oncology physicians.
Methods: We tracked yearly Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing between 2015 and 2022 to estimate attrition of oncology physicians. A subanalysis of a random sample of 300 oncologists with fewer than 30 years of experience and who had stopped billing were used to conduct a more thorough assessment of current employment.
J Cancer Res Clin Oncol
September 2023
The neoadjuvant and adjuvant use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is increasing, with pembrolizumab approved as adjuvant therapy following surgical resection and chemotherapy by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in early 2023.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of the peer-to-peer (P2P) decentralized gaming industry has shifted towards realistic gaming environment (GE) support for game players (GPs). Recent innovations in the metaverse have motivated the gaming industry to look beyond augmented reality and virtual reality engines, which improve the reality of virtual game worlds. In gaming metaverses (GMs), GPs can play, socialize, and trade virtual objects in the GE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Most amphibians use a repertoire of acoustic signals to propagate signals in social contexts. The description of these repertoires provides a key towards the understanding of the behaviour of individuals and the evolutionary functions of calls. Here, we assessed the variations in advertisement calls within and between two fossorial sympatric species, Uperodon systoma and Uperodon globulosus, that share their breeding season and breeding sites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Pediatric intestinal pseudo-obstruction (PIPO) is a heterogeneous condition characterized by impaired gastrointestinal propulsion, a broad clinical spectrum, and variable severity. Several molecular bases underlying primary PIPO have been identified, of which autosomal dominant ACTG2-related visceral myopathy is the most common in both familial or sporadic primary PIPO cases. We present a family with autosomal recessive ACTG2-related disease in which both parents have mild gastrointestinal symptoms and sons have severe PIPO and bladder dysfunction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPostcolectomy enteritis is characterized by diffuse small bowel inflammatory changes following colectomy for medically refractory ulcerative colitis. Symptoms may include abdominal pain, massive intestinal bleeding, intestinal perforation, and high stoma output. While the exact pathogenesis is unknown, immune dysregulation with increased cytokine and inflammatory cell response is suspected to lead to the inflammatory response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Cancer Res Clin Oncol
September 2023
PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer have been a breakthrough therapy of the past decade, driven by positive trial results, and supported by an original pharmacological rationale. However, with mature data, detrimental survival results led to the withdrawals, in 2022, of all approved PARP inhibitors in the most advanced settings' indication (as monotherapy in third or subsequent lines) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Two other indications, as maintenance after relapse, were also restricted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe submit a cautionary tale of a patient with critical aortic stenosis presenting with acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock, who underwent balloon aortic valvuloplasty, insertion of a transvalvular left percutaneous ventricular assist device and high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention, with a post-operative course complicated by outflow obstruction from the device itself. ().
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMost tumours of the tracheobronchial tree are malignant. Benign tumours such as hamartoma are infrequent and generally intra-parenchymal. Here we present a case of a 65-year-old male patient who presented with a purely endobronchial lobulated mass lesion in the left main bronchus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUsing 4.7 fb^{-1} of e^{+}e^{-} collision data at center-of-mass energies from 4.661 to 4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present the first measurements of the electric and magnetic form factors of the neutron in the timelike (positive q^{2}) region as function of four-momentum transfer. We explored the differential cross sections of the reaction e^{+}e^{-}→n[over ¯]n with data collected with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII accelerator, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 354.6 pb^{-1} in total at twelve center-of-mass energies between sqrt[s]=2.
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