Publications by authors named "Rasmus B Lynggaard"

Introduction: The Danish Health Care Registers rely on the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD)-classification and stand as a widely utilized resource for health epidemiological research. Eating disorders are multifaceted syndromes where two distinctive diagnoses are defined, anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). However, the validity of the registered diagnoses remains to be verified.

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  • - This study investigates the risk of rib fractures in patients with localized non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), examining both patient-related and dosimetric factors.
  • - Out of 602 patients analyzed, 19% experienced rib fractures, with significant risk factors including female gender, bone density, and specific dosimetric parameters like V20 and V30 to the rib.
  • - The findings indicate that while 19% of patients developed rib fractures, dosimetric parameters were more influential in predicting this risk than patient-related factors, highlighting the importance of treatment planning in SBRT.
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Introduction: The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) disease and TB infection (TBI) remains a challenge, and there is a need for non-invasive and blood-based methods to differentiate TB from conditions mimicking TB (CMTB), TBI, and healthy controls (HC). We aimed to determine whether combination of cytokines and established biomarkers could discriminate between 1) TB and CMTB 2) TB and TBI 3) TBI and HC.

Methods: We used hemoglobin, total white blood cell count, neutrophils, monocytes, C-reactive protein, and ten Meso Scale Discovery analyzed cytokines (interleukin (IL)-1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12p70, IL-13, interferon (IFN)-ɣ, and tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α) in TruCulture whole blood tubes stimulated by lipopolysaccharides (LPS), zymosan (ZYM), anti-CD3/28 (CD3), and unstimulated (Null) to develop three index tests able to differentiate TB from CMTB and TBI, and TBI from HC.

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Objective: To evaluate the validity of diagnosis codes for Major Osteoporotic Fracture (MOF) in the Danish National Patient Registry (NPR) and secondly to evaluate whether the fracture was incident/acute using register-based definitions including date criteria and procedural codes.

Methods: We identified a random sample of 2400 records with a diagnosis code for a MOF in the NPR with dates in the year of 2018. Diagnoses were coded with the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10).

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Objectives: This study evaluated if medical doctors could identify more hemorrhage events during chart review in a clinical setting when assisted by an artificial intelligence (AI) model and medical doctors' perception of using the AI model.

Methods: To develop the AI model, sentences from 900 electronic health records were labeled as positive or negative for hemorrhage and categorized into one of 12 anatomical locations. The AI model was evaluated on a test cohort consisting of 566 admissions.

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