Successful Percutaneous Coronary Stenting in End-Stage Liver Disease Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation.

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is associated with poor outcomes after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). We report on six high-risk end-stage liver disease (ESLD) patients who underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with bare metal stents during the preoperative evaluation process. There was no mortality or major adverse cardiac event (MACE) within 90 days of OLT.

Migration of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Into the Right Atrium.

A 40-year-old man with a medical history of hepatitis B presented with abdominal distention and leg swelling. A computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed cirrhosis and a large mass extending from the liver into the inferior vena cava and extending into the right atrium. A transthoracic echocardiogram revealed a large right atrial mass extending from the inferior vena cava with possible attachment to the interatrial septum.

Patient Experiences of Receiving Stroke Discharge Information in Accordance With Preferences.

Aims: To examine survivors' experiences of discharge information including risk communication after hospitalisation for a stroke and the characteristics associated with receiving information in accordance with their preferences.

Background: With advances in acute stroke care and an ageing population, the number of survivors of stroke is increasing. It is important that healthcare providers ensure patients have adequate information after a stroke-related hospitalisation.

Understanding Trends in Pediatric Drowning Injuries in North Carolina.

Objective: Drowning is a leading cause of injury-related death in the pediatric and adolescent population. This epidemiologic study describes the trends in emergency department (ED) visits for pediatric drowning injury in North Carolina and the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on incidence rate.

Methods: Data were obtained using the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool, a public health surveillance system, to identify ED visits for drowning injury from 2016 to 2022.

Using EMS data to explore community-level factors associated with firearm violence in North Carolina.

Background: Firearm violence is a significant public health issue. However, it is unclear if there is an association between the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and the intent of both fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries, and if these associations are modified by community race and ethnic composition. This study examines the association between community-level social vulnerability and firearm injury incidence in North Carolina (NC) using 2021-2022 emergency medical services (EMS) data.

A tutorial: self-created film as a semiotic resource in AAC.

Sharing personal stories with others is essential to human interaction and language development. To communicate, individuals use a variety of semiotic resources, including images, symbols, and written and spoken language. These modes are deployed in the co-construction of a daily face-to-face conversation.

Advance personal planning knowledge, attitudes, and participation amongst community-dwelling older people living in regional New South Wales, Australia: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Advance personal planning (APP) involves planning for future periods of incapacity, including making legal decisions and documents. APP ensures that a person's values and preferences are known and respected. This study aimed to examine knowledge of APP, attitudes and confidence towards APP, and participation in APP activities among older people residing in regional and rural areas.

Unmet supportive care needs among survivors of stroke in Australia: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose/objective: To examine, among survivors of stroke: (a) the prevalence of and most frequently reported unmet needs; and (b) the sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with higher counts of unmet needs.

Research Method/design: A cross-sectional study was undertaken with survivors of stroke recently discharged from eight hospitals in Australia, with institutional board approval. Survivors were mailed one survey for completion after their discharge from hospital.

TIN-X version 3: update with expanded dataset and modernized architecture for enhanced illumination of understudied targets.

TIN-X (Target Importance and Novelty eXplorer) is an interactive visualization tool for illuminating associations between diseases and potential drug targets and is publicly available at newdrugtargets.org. TIN-X uses natural language processing to identify disease and protein mentions within PubMed content using previously published tools for named entity recognition (NER) of gene/protein and disease names.

Discharge intervention to improve outcomes and web-based portal engagement after stroke and transient ischaemic attack: A randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: Web-based interventions may assist in post-discharge stroke care. However, strategies for maximising uptake and engagement are needed.

Aims: To determine the: (1) effectiveness of a discharge support intervention (EnableMe web-based portal and strategies to encourage use) in improving quality of life and reducing depression (primary outcome); anxiety and unmet needs of survivors of stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA); and (2) EnableMe use and acceptability.

Sex and Age Differences in Atypical Chief Complaints for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure in Emergency Department Visits.

Objectives: Around one million United States emergency department (ED) visits annually are due to acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) symptoms. Characterizing ED symptom presentation of ADHF patients may improve clinical care, yet sex and age differences in ED chief complaints have not been thoroughly investigated. This paper aims to describe differences in chief complaints and comorbid conditions for ED patients with a ADHF diagnosis, stratified by sex and age.

Coexisting Pulmonary Artery Sling and Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava.

Congenital vascular anomalies such as pulmonary artery sling and persistent left superior vena cava are rare vascular disorders. We describe a case of a patient who presented with pneumonia and was found to have a pulmonary artery sling as a potential cause of the pneumonia.

Untangling the stranglehold through mathematical modelling of Streptococcus equi subspecies equi transmission.

Strangles, a disease caused by infection with Streptococccus equi subspecies equi (S. equi), is endemic worldwide and one of the most frequently diagnosed infectious diseases of horses. Recent work has improved our knowledge of key parameters of transmission dynamics, but important knowledge gaps remain.

EMS injury cause codes more accurate than emergency department visit ICD-10-CM codes for firearm injury intent in North Carolina.

Background: The timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of data for firearm injury surveillance is crucial for public health surveillance efforts and informing injury prevention measures. While emergency department (ED) visit data can provide near real-time information on firearms injuries, there are concerns surrounding the accuracy of intent coding in these data. We examined whether emergency medical service (EMS) data provide more accurate firearm injury intent coding in comparison to ED data.

Early dynamic changes to monocytes following major surgery are associated with subsequent infections.

Background: Post-operative infections are a common cause of morbidity following major surgery. Little is understood about how major surgery perturbs immune function leading to heightened risk of subsequent infection. Through analysis of paired blood samples obtained immediately before and 24 h following surgery, we evaluated changes in circulating immune cell phenotype and function across the first 24 h, to identify early immune changes associated with subsequent infection.

Streptococcus zooepidemicus in dogs: Exploring a canine pathogen through multilocus sequence typing.

Streptococcus equi. subsp. zooepidemicus (S.

Best practices for managing and disseminating resources and outreach and evaluating the impact of the IDG Consortium.

The Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) consortium generated reagents, biological model systems, data, informatic databases, and computational tools. The Resource Dissemination and Outreach Center (RDOC) played a central administrative role, organized internal meetings, fostered collaboration, and coordinated consortium-wide efforts. The RDOC developed and deployed a Resource Management System (RMS) to enable efficient workflows for collecting, accessing, validating, registering, and publishing resource metadata.