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J Infect Public Health
December 2024
Department of Epidemiology, Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China. Electronic address:
The rapid global spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has resulted in millions of infections and deaths, particularly impacting older adults. This study systematically analyzes risk factors reported in different geographical regions such as Asia and Europe that are associated with adverse outcomes in older adults with COVID-19. Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, we searched five databases up to December 2023 and conducted meta-analyses of odds ratios for 27 risk factors reported in at least two studies using R software (version 4.
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January 2025
Department of Oncology, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.
Objective: This study aims to elucidate the therapeutic efficacy and safety of a taxane-based chemotherapy in combination with immune checkpoint inhibitors regimen in patients diagnosed with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).
Methods: We retrospectively collected clinical data from 154 patients who received at least two cycles of PD-1 inhibitors in combination with a taxane-based chemotherapy as first-line treatment in seven hospitals in Hunan Province, between December 2018 and December 2023. These patients were subjected to long-term follow-up.
Shock
December 2024
Department of Anesthesiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, China.
Background Sepsis is a life-threatening condition characterized by multiple organ dysfunction. Blood cells abnormalities play a significant role in the onset and progression of sepsis; however, the potential causal relationship between platelets and sepsis remains unclear, as does whether immune cells mediate the interaction between platelets and sepsis. This study aims to explore the potential causal relationship between platelets and sepsis and analyze the mediating effect of immune cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCancer
January 2025
Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center/Sarah Cannon Research Institute, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Background: Yttrium-90 FF-21101 (Y-FF-21101) is a radiopharmaceutical that targets P-cadherin as a therapy against solid tumors. A previously reported, first-in-human study determined that a dose of 25 mCi/m was safe, and a patient with clear cell carcinoma of the ovary achieved a complete response. In this article, the authors report the results of Y-FF-21101 treatment in an ovarian carcinoma expansion cohort and in patients with selected solid tumors who had known high P-cadherin expression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Dose-dense methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (ddMVAC) therapy is indicated as first-line or neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (UC). However, no studies reported ddMVAC therapy with pegfilgrastim (3.6 mg) in Japanese patients.
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