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Adv Lab Med
December 2024
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Hospital Universitari Son Espases, Palma, Spain.
Objectives: The presence of macro-B12 is a cause of factual hypervitaminemia B12. Precipitation with polyethylene glycol (PEG) is a simple method of removing high-molecular-weight biomolecules. However, "free" molecule may co-precipitate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Thorac Oncol
December 2024
Department of Medical Oncology, Centre Léon Bérard, Lyon, France.
Purpose: Genomic profiling is a major component for first-line treatment decisions in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the timeliness of biomarker testing is essential to improve time to treatment initiation (TTI) or avoid inappropriate treatment.
Patients And Methods: The phase III LIBELULE trial (NCT03721120) included patients with radiological suspicion of advanced lung cancer. They were randomized (1:1), the control arm receiving diagnostic procedures according to each center's practice and the liquid biopsy arm with additional testing performed at the first visit using the InVisionFirst®-Lung assay.
Brain Behav Immun
December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Niemann-Pick Disease Type C (NPC) is an ultra-rare disorder characterized by progressive psychiatric and neurologic manifestations, with late infantile, juvenile, and adolescent/adult presentations. We examined morphological properties of the choroid plexus, a protective blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier, in NPC, and their relationship with neurodegeneration, clinical status, and circulatory markers. This study also determined whether choroid plexus morphology differentiates between NPC and more prevalent illnesses, schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), which have overlapping psychiatric symptoms with adolescent and adult-onset NPC and are associated with misdiagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCochrane Database Syst Rev
December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia.
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (diagnostic). The objectives are as follows: To estimate the diagnostic accuracy of des-gamma-carboxy prothrombin, GALAD (Gender, Age, Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive AFP, AFP and DCP), and alpha-foetoprotein for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma of any size, and at any stage, in adults with chronic liver disease, in either a surveillance programme or a clinical setting. We acknowledge the possibility that theoretically, the accuracy of the tests in a surveillance programme may differ from that in a clinical setting due to variation in inclusion criteria and the prevalence of the target condition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Med
November 2024
University Department of Emergency Medicine, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Transthyretin amyloid (ATTR) cardiomyopathy mimics left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and has been identified as a specific cause of heart failure (HF). The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of ATTR among patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) with acute HF (AHF) and LVH and explore their clinical characteristics and outcomes. Of 127 AHF patients with LVH, 95 completed the diagnostic protocol, which included monoclonal paraprotein testing and technetium-99 m pyrophosphate scintigraphy.
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