Cancer patients with haematological malignancies are at risk for chronic hepatitis E virus infection following chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. Strong clinical suspicion is essential for the early diagnosis and prompt treatment of this difficult-to-treat type of viral hepatitis. Commentary on: Schwarz et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) and glucagon-Like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) are recommended in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D) for glycaemic control and for people with high cardiovascular risk. However, current guidelines do not specifically address the role of initial early combination therapy with SGLT2i and GLP-1 RA or dual gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP)/GLP-1 RA, but rather sequential initiation with either in T2D. This review synthesizes the available evidence on the use of SGLT2i and GLP-1-based therapies for T2D and provides a rationale for their combination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (DM1) affects a small percentage of the population. Nevertheless, its prevalence is currently growing with alarming data on uncontrolled cases. The importance of body composition and Phase Angle (PA), assessed by Bioelectrical Impedance (BIA), in long- term DM1 patients lies in the fact that alterations in cellular integrity and body compartments may affect risk profiles and metabolic control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAbdominal ostomy surgery has a severe impact on individuals' daily lives. These procedures are typically indicated for conditions such as cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, or traumatic injuries. They involve creating an artificial opening, denominated the stoma, in the abdominal area to divert feces or urine, establishing a connection between the affected organs and the body's exterior.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA search for the exclusive hadronic decays W^{±}→π^{±}γ, W^{±}→K^{±}γ, and W^{±}→ρ^{±}γ is performed using up to 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions recorded with the ATLAS detector at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=13 TeV. If observed, these rare processes would provide a unique test bench for the quantum chromodynamics factorization formalism used to calculate cross sections at colliders. Additionally, at future colliders, these decays could offer a new way to measure the W boson mass through fully reconstructed decay products.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAppendicular skeletal growth and bone mass acquisition are controlled by a variety of growth factors, hormones, and mechanical forces in a dynamic process called endochondral ossification. In long bones, chondrocytes in the growth plate proliferate and undergo hypertrophy to drive bone lengthening and mineralization. Pleckstrin homology (PH) domain and leucine rich repeat phosphatase 1 and 2 (Phlpp1 and Phlpp2) are serine/threonine protein phosphatases that regulate cell proliferation, survival, and maturation via Akt, PKC, Raf1, S6k, and other intracellular signaling cascades.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Letter presents results from a combination of searches for Higgs boson pair production using 126-140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector. At 95% confidence level (CL), the upper limit on the production rate is 2.9 times the standard model (SM) prediction, with an expected limit of 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis Letter presents the first study of the energy dependence of diboson polarization fractions in WZ→ℓνℓ^{'}ℓ^{'}(ℓ,ℓ^{'}=e,μ) production. The dataset used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector. Two fiducial regions with an enhanced presence of events featuring two longitudinally polarized bosons are defined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOsteoporosis and other metabolic bone diseases are prevalent in the aging population. While bone has the capacity to regenerate throughout life, bone formation rates decline with age and contribute to reduced bone density and strength. Identifying mechanisms and pathways that increase bone accrual in adults could prevent fractures and accelerate healing.
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Objective - Medical image segmentation is essential for several clinical tasks, including diagnosis, surgical and treatment planning, and image-guided interventions. Deep Learning (DL) methods have become the state-of-the-art for several image segmentation scenarios. However, a large and well-annotated dataset is required to effectively train a DL model, which is usually difficult to obtain in clinical practice, especially for 3D images.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStatistical combinations of searches for charginos and neutralinos using various decay channels are performed using 139 fb^{-1} of pp collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. Searches targeting pure-wino chargino pair production, pure-wino chargino-neutralino production, or Higgsino production decaying via standard model W, Z, or h bosons are combined to extend the mass reach to the produced supersymmetric particles by 30-100 GeV. The depth of the sensitivity of the original searches is also improved by the combinations, lowering the 95% C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA combination of searches for a new resonance decaying into a Higgs boson pair is presented, using up to 139 fb^{-1} of pp collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The combination includes searches performed in three decay channels: bb[over ¯]bb[over ¯], bb[over ¯]τ^{+}τ^{-}, and bb[over ¯]γγ. No excess above the expected Standard Model background is observed and upper limits are set at the 95% confidence level on the production cross section of Higgs boson pairs originating from the decay of a narrow scalar resonance with mass in the range 251 GeV-5 TeV.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne significant complication of hepatitis B virus includes reactivation (HBVr) in the context of the use of immunosuppressive agents, such as corticosteroids and rituximab, among others. Limited data exist on the topic of HBVr risk in the context of tyrosine kinase inhibitors for which there is no strong guidance recommendation. We describe the clinical characteristics, diagnostic challenges, and the clinical course of a single patient with recurrent mantle cell lymphoma who developed HBVr after treatment with acalabrutinib, a Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHiggsinos with masses near the electroweak scale can solve the hierarchy problem and provide a dark matter candidate, while detecting them at the LHC remains challenging if their mass splitting is O(1 GeV). This Letter presents a novel search for nearly mass-degenerate Higgsinos in events with an energetic jet, missing transverse momentum, and a low-momentum track with a significant transverse impact parameter using 140 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV collected by the ATLAS experiment. For the first time since LEP, a range of mass splittings between the lightest charged and neutral Higgsinos from 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong Arab-American women in Michigan, rates of cervical cancer screening are lower than those in non-Hispanic White and Black women in the state. A deep understanding of the Arab community's perspective on cervical cancer screening is needed to address the disparity in rates across populations in Michigan. Arab and Chaldean women across Michigan were invited to participate in Zoom-based focus groups to understand the attitudes, acceptability, and barriers of cervical cancer screening among this population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: to describe the process of developing a terminological subset for the International Classification of Nursing Practice in Diabetes Mellitus, based on Horta's Basic Human Needs Theory and Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory.
Method: a methodological study based on the identification in the literature of 313 statements of nursing diagnoses pertinent to diabetes care, selected and validated by a consensus of nurses from different states of Brazil, specialists in diabetes, using the nominal group technique.
Results: 156 nursing diagnosis/result statements were selected, of which 111 (71.
Angular correlations between heavy quarks provide a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Results are presented of a measurement of the azimuthal angle correlations between muons originating from semileptonic decays of heavy quarks produced in 5.02 TeV Pb+Pb and pp collisions at the LHC.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The prevalence of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the United States is ≤1%. Universal HCV screening is recommended nationwide. Here we describe our experience implementing universal HCV screening at a cancer center.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patients with cancer with hepatitis B virus (HBV) or hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are excluded from many cancer clinical trials of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). Therefore, data are limited regarding the management of HBV and HCV infections in patients with cancer treated with ICIs. To address this gap, we reviewed the literature on management of HBV and HCV infections in patients with cancer receiving ICIs.
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