Publications by authors named "V W Smith"
Co-pathology is frequent in Lewy body disease, which includes clinical diagnoses of both Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. Measuring concomitant pathology can improve clinical and research diagnoses and prediction of cognitive trajectories. Tau PET imaging may serve a dual role in Lewy body disease by measuring cortical tau aggregation as well as assessing dopaminergic loss attributed to binding to neuromelanin within substantia nigra.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProblem And Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was substantial reconfiguration of maternity care services, affecting both users and healthcare providers (HCPs), in the United Kingdom (UK) and globally.
Aim: To further our understanding of the impact of maternity service reconfigurations in the UK, from the perspective of maternity HCPs.
Methods: Scopus, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO and the Cochrane COVID Study Register were searched for relevant studies reporting qualitative data from the UK, published in English between 01 June 2021 and 30 September 2023.
Purpose: Glioblastoma (GBM) that presents as leptomeningeal disease (LMD) is extremely rare and fatal. Limited data are available regarding incidence, clinical presentation, and management. Prognosis is poor and no treatment is known to improve survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a complex autoimmune connective tissue disease characterized by microvascular damage, immune system reactivity and progressive fibrosis of skin and internal organs. Interstitial lung disease is the leading cause of death for SSc patients (SSc-ILD), and the process of lung fibrosis involves also circulating monocytes and alveolar macrophages.
Methods: Current study aimed to identify monocyte/macrophage phenotypes in lung and peripheral blood of SSc-ILD patients by immunostaining and flow cytometry, respectively.
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- The study focuses on detecting multijet signatures from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, analyzing a dataset totaling 128 fb^{-1}.
- A special data scouting method is utilized to pick out events with low combined momentum in jets.
- This research is pioneering in its investigation of electroweak particle production in R-parity violating supersymmetric models, particularly examining hadronically decaying mass-degenerate higgsinos, and it broadens the limits on the existence of R-parity violating top squarks and gluinos.