Publications by authors named "S S Kalash"

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  • * Out of 187 patients surveyed, moderate or severe anxiety was reported by 14.9%, while mild to moderate depression affected 40.7%, and 6.2% expressed suicidality.
  • * Factors linked to higher rates of depression included past mental health service use, cancer-related complications, and poorer overall health status, highlighting the need for comprehensive psychiatric assessments in cancer care.
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Objective: Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer-3.5 (ChatGPT) is a publicly available and free artificial intelligence chatbot that logs billions of visits per day; parents may rely on such tools for developmental and behavioral medical consultations. The objective of this study was to determine how ChatGPT evaluates developmental and behavioral pediatrics (DBP) case studies and makes recommendations and diagnoses.

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Intravenously administered cyclic dinucleotides and other STING agonists are hampered by low cellular uptake and poor circulatory half-life. Here we report the covalent conjugation of cyclic dinucleotides to poly(β-amino ester) nanoparticles through a cathepsin-sensitive linker. This is shown to increase stability and loading, thereby expanding the therapeutic window in multiple syngeneic tumour models, enabling the study of how the long-term fate of the nanoparticles affects the immune response.

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Although initially conceived for high-risk patients who are ineligible for surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is now recommended in a wider spectrum of indications, including among young patients. However, similar to SAVR, TAVR is also associated with a risk of infectious complications, namely, prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). As the number of performed TAVR procedures increases, and despite the low incidence of PVE post-TAVR, clinicians should be familiar with its associated risk factors and clinical presentation.

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