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Prog Transplant
January 2025
Department of Surgery, Rush University Medical Center, University Transplant Program, Chicago, IL, USA.
Introduction: There is a need for a noninvasive, affordable, sensitive, and specific biomarker to diagnose early acute rejection, to negate the need for frequent biopsies. Dd-cfDNA is a powerful adjunct yet there is limited data on the ethnic differences in its values. There is anecdotal evidence that dd-cfDNA values at rejection may be higher in Black as compared to non-Black recipients.
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January 2025
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yunnan Provincial Infectious Disease Hospital, Kunming 650301, China.
Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of drug resistance mutations (DRMs) in patients with low-level viremia (LLV) in Southwestern China, as it has become a growing challenge in AIDS clinical practice.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. LLV was defined as 50-999 copies/mL of plasma viral load with antiretroviral therapy (ART) for at least 6 months.
Front Public Health
January 2025
Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Introduction: This qualitative research study aimed to better understand and help improve the Canadian context for health communication with intersex adults by centering the voices of those directly involved and impacted.
Methods: We conducted 22 semi-structured interviews with intersex individuals (14) and healthcare practitioners (HCPs, 8) from diverse areas of care. Interviews were analyzed via template thematic analysis and filtered through a conceptual lens that brought together agency-based and social-ecological models of health communication.
Onco Targets Ther
January 2025
Department of Oncology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
Lung cancer is a malignant tumor with high morbidity and mortality in China and worldwide. Once it metastasizes to the brain, its prognosis is very poor. Brain metastases are found in about 20% of newly diagnosed non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSAGE Open Med Case Rep
January 2025
Department of Reproductive Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine & Hangzhou Red Cross Hospital, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
Dias-Logan syndrome, also known as intellectual developmental disorder with persistence of fetal hemoglobin (HbF), or -related intellectual developmental disorder, is an extremely rare neurogenetic disorder characterized by intellectual disability (ID), delayed psychomotor development, variable dysmorphic features, and asymptomatic persistence of fetal hemoglobin. The prevalence and incidence of this condition are currently unknown. We report an 8-year-old Han Chinese male patient with Dias-Logan syndrome who carries a heterozygous pathogenic variant, c.
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