Thyroid autoimmunity and adverse pregnancy outcomes: A multiple center retrospective study.

Background: The relationship between thyroid autoimmunity (TAI) and adverse pregnancy outcomes is disputable, and their dose-dependent association have not been fully clarified.

Objective: To investigate the association and dose-dependent effect of TAI with multiple maternal and fetal-neonatal complications.

Methods: This study is a multi-center retrospective cohort study based on singleton pregnancies of three medical college hospitals from July 2013 to October 2021.

Semi-Supervised Dual Stream Segmentation Network for Fundus Lesion Segmentation.

Accurate segmentation of retinal images can assist ophthalmologists to determine the degree of retinopathy and diagnose other systemic diseases. However, the structure of the retina is complex, and different anatomical structures often affect the segmentation of fundus lesions. In this paper, a new segmentation strategy called a dual stream segmentation network embedded into a conditional generative adversarial network is proposed to improve the accuracy of retinal lesion segmentation.

Effects of the intermediate care unit on the oldest-old general surgical patients: a retrospective, pre- and postintervention study.

Background: Whether the intermediate care unit (IMCU) is beneficial for the oldest-old (aged ≥ 80 years) general surgical patients still remains unknown. We aimed to investigate the impacts of IMCU on the clinical outcomes and cost in this population.

Methods: A retrospective, pre- and postintervention study was performed in this population in a university teaching hospital.

Deep Sequencing Reveals Early Reprogramming of Root Transcriptomes Upon Infection.

Bacterial wilt caused by the bacterial pathogen is one of the most devastating crop diseases worldwide. The molecular mechanisms controlling the early stage of colonization in the root remain unknown. Aiming to better understand the mechanism of the establishment of infection in root, we established four stages in the early interaction of the pathogen with roots and determined the transcriptional profiles of these stages of infection.

Subthreshold micropulse laser photocoagulation therapy in a case of bilateral retinal astrocytic hamartomas with tuberous sclerosis complex: A case report.

Rationale: Report a case of bilateral multiple retinal hamartomas (RAHs) in a patient with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and introduced a new method (subthreshold micropulse laser photocoagulation) for the treatment of RAHs.

Patient Concerns: A 20-year-old man with TSC complained of decreased vision and metamorphosia in both eyes for 2 months. At presentation, visual acuity (VA) was 20/32 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left eye.

Enhancing the Flexibility of TCP in Heterogeneous Network.

Due to a set of constant initial values, the performance of conventional TCP drops significantly encountering heterogeneous network, showing low throughput and unfairness. This paper firstly demonstrates the chaotic character of TCP congestion control in heterogeneous network, especially the sensitivity to initial value. Inspired by merit of nature-inspired algorithm, a novel structure of TCP congestion control (IPPM, Internet Prey-Predator Model) is proposed.