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Dev Biol
December 2024
Department of Dermatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA; Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA. Electronic address:
The large absorptive surface area of the small intestine is imparted by finger-like projections called villi. Villi formation is instructed by stromal-derived clusters of cells which have been proposed to induce epithelial bending through actomyosin contraction. Their functions in the elongation of villi have not been studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Decisions about stroke prevention strategies in atrial fibrillation (AF) typically balance thromboembolism reduction against increased bleeding from oral anticoagulation therapy (OAC). When determining eligibility for OAC, guidelines recommend calculation of thromboembolic event rates using a validated score such as CHA2DS2-VASc. In contrast, routine calculation of bleeding scores is not recommended, in part because many patient factors associated with an increased risk of bleeding are associated with an even larger increased risk of ischemic stroke.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg
December 2024
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Genet Med
December 2024
Genetics Department, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; Neuromyogene Institute, Pathology and Genetics of neuron and muscle, CNRS UMR 5261 INSERM U1315, University of Lyon - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France. Electronic address:
Purpose: RORA encodes the RAR-related orphan receptor-α (RORα), playing a pivotal role in cerebellar maturation and function. Here, we report the largest series of individuals with RORA-related-neurodevelopmental disorder (RORA-NDD).
Methods: Forty individuals (30 unrelated; 10 siblings from 4 families) carrying RORA pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants were collected through an international collaboration.
Int J Cancer
December 2024
Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Fibroblasts are important components in the tumor microenvironment and can affect tumor progression and metastasis. However, the roles of genetic variants of the fibroblast-related genes (FRGs) in the prognosis of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients have not been reported. Therefore, we investigated the associations between 26,544 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in 291 FRGs and survival of NSCLC patients from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Med
December 2024
Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA.
Spine J
December 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; Rocky Mountain Scoliosis and Spine, Denver, CO, USA.
Background Context: While the treatment of adult spinal deformity (ASD) has increasingly favored surgical correction, the incidence of revision surgery remains high. Yet, little has been explored on the association between the etiology of reoperation and patient outcomes.
Purpose: To assess the impact of the etiology of revision surgery on postoperative outcomes.
PLoS One
December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina United States of America.
Background: Few studies have assessed the impact of first-trimester malaria infection during pregnancy. We estimated this impact on adverse maternal and pregnancy outcomes.
Methods: In a convenience sample of women from the ASPIRIN (Aspirin Supplementation for Pregnancy Indicated risk Reduction In Nulliparas) trial in Kenya, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we tested for first-trimester Plasmodium falciparum infection using quantitative polymerase chain reaction.
J Bronchology Interv Pulmonol
January 2025
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
The goal of the American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology Essential Knowledge in Interventional Pulmonology Series is to provide clinicians with concise, up-to-date reviews of important topics in the field of interventional pulmonology. This 3-year alternating rotation of primary topics will start with a focus on selected topics in malignant pleural disease. In this article, we update the reader on malignant pleural effusion in 3 parts: part 1-diagnosis, focusing on imaging and fluid biomarkers; part 2-management, with review of multimodal approaches, cost considerations, and evolving targeted therapies; and part 3-pleural mesothelioma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Ind Med
December 2024
Zenith American Solutions, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
Background: Hearing loss has been associated with increased mortality, and there is evidence that regular use of hearing aids reduces the mortality risk. However, these associations have not been sufficiently studied in worker populations at high risk for noise-induced hearing loss.
Methods: Medical examination data for 19,379 workers employed in US Department of Energy (DOE) facilities were used.
Front Cell Dev Biol
December 2024
Department of Anatomy and Physiology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Clin Infect Dis
December 2024
Department of Medicine, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Background: Simplified approaches to HCV treatment delivery are needed to meet elimination goals. However, the impact of low-touch strategies on individuals at higher risk due to treatment failure or reinfection is unknown. We estimated HCV reinfection rates, and the impact of resistance associated substitutions (RASs) on response in the ACTG A5360 (MINMON) trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur Radiol
December 2024
Department of Radiology, Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Objectives: To develop and externally validate an MRI-based diagnostic model for microvascular invasion (MVI) or Edmondson-Steiner G3/4 (i.e., high-risk histopathology) in solitary BCLC 0/A hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ≤ 5 cm and to assess its performance in predicting adjuvant therapy benefits.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Trauma Acute Care Surg
December 2024
From the Division of Trauma, Burn, and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery (M.C.-A., C.B.S., J.C.E., C.W., S.N., R.A., Z.C., A.S., J.M.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery (M.C.-A., C.K.Z., M.J., Z.C., A.S., J.M.H.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (M.C.-A., C.K.Z., M.J., Z.C., A.S., J.M.H.), Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Surgery (C.K.Z.), Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
Background: Quality benchmarking has recently evolved from a historical focus on short-term morbidity and mortality as the key metrics to assessing long-term outcomes. Long-term quality metrics have been shown to provide a more complete assessment of geriatric trauma care. Among these metrics, patients' average number of healthy days at home (HDAH) proports to be a useful administrative claims-based marker of patient functional status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOphthalmic Plast Reconstr Surg
December 2024
Department of Ophthalmology.
We report the youngest case of solitary fibrous tumor (SFT) with extensive involvement of the nasolacrimal duct system and discuss current literature regarding this tumor type. A 12-year-old female presented with a 6-month history of an enlarging right medial orbit mass. CT orbits revealed a well-circumscribed, enhancing lesion adjacent to the right nasolacrimal system.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPediatr Crit Care Med
December 2024
Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana, University Health and Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN.
Objectives: To evaluate contextual factors relevant to implementing pediatric ventilator liberation guidelines and to develop an implementation strategy for a multicenter collaborative.
Design: Cross-sectional qualitative analysis of a 2023/2024 survey.
Setting: International, multicenter Ventilation Liberation for Kids (VentLib4Kids) collaborative.
J Diabetes Investig
December 2024
Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, Division of Cardiology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Background: The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and obesity are increasing in the United States. However, population-level data for mortality trends due to T2D and obesity are limited. This study aims to assess these death trends among adults in the United States categorized by sex, race, and geographical location.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Biomed Opt
December 2024
Duke University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFCirculation
December 2024
Department of Pediatrics, The Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA (E.M.Z.).
Background: Covered stent correction for a sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVASD) was first performed in 2009. This innovative approach was initially viewed as experimental and was reserved for highly selected patients with unusual anatomic variants. In 2016, increasing numbers of procedures began to be performed, and in several centers, it is now offered as a standard of care option alongside surgical repair.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGenome Med
December 2024
Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: The occurrence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) following a traumatic event is associated with biological differences that can represent the susceptibility to PTSD, the impact of trauma, or the sequelae of PTSD itself. These effects include differences in DNA methylation (DNAm), an important form of epigenetic gene regulation, at multiple CpG loci across the genome. Moreover, these effects can be shared or specific to both central and peripheral tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhytochemistry
December 2024
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Toho University, Miyama 2-2-1, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8510, Japan. Electronic address:
The plants of the genus Daphne (Thymelaeaceae) are known to be sources of anti-HIV diterpenoids. Therefore, the present study focused on investigating the anti-HIV diterpenoids in Daphne pseudomezereum, for which the isolation of diterpenoids has not been previously reported. The results showed that three previously undescribed daphnane diterpenoids, onishibarins A-C (1-3), along with seven known compounds (4-10) were isolated from the fruits of Daphne pseudomezereum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOphthalmology
December 2024
Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Neurosciences, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, MN;. Electronic address:
Purpose: To report refractive change at age 5 years in pseudophakic eyes operated before 2 years of age.
Design: Retrospective case series at 10 Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS) sites.
Participants: Children who underwent cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens placement during the IATS enrollment years, including infants 1 to <7 months of age with bilateral cataract and all children 7-24 months of age, regardless of laterality.
Ann Thorac Surg
December 2024
Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Congenital Heart Surgery Research and Training Laboratory, Duke University, Durham, NC.
Background: Cardiac allotransplantation is the optimal treatment for end-stage heart failure. However, organ supply remains the principal issue impacting patients. Pediatric patients present unique challenges resulting in long wait-list times and increased mortality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Pharm
December 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC 27707. Electronic address:
Injectable drug delivery for uterine fibroid therapy is an ambitious, possibly fertility-preserving concept, that could meet the challenges associated with the structure of these tumors and their location in the uterus. This study was conducted to advance a thermosensitive injectable quadpolymer for effective sustained release of anti-fibrotic drug formulations and to evaluate the feasibility of its use for delivery of the anti-fibrotic drug pirfenidone as a therapy to reduce fibroid cell proliferation. A series of quadpolymers were prepared by free radical polymerization of N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) with different amounts of polylactic acid functionalized hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA-PLA), acrylic acid (AAc), and methacrylate functionalized hyperbranched polyglycerol (HPG-MA) to optimize the sol-gel phase transition temperature and mechanical stiffness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOpen Forum Infect Dis
December 2024
Centre for International Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Background: Knowledge gaps exist on risk factors for spotted fever group rickettsioses (SFGR) in sub-Saharan Africa. We sought to identify SFGR risk factors in Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania.
Methods: We recruited febrile patients presenting at 2 hospitals in Moshi from February 2012 through May 2014.