anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
CoVID-19 is a viral disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus that may affect many organ systems. Patients with severe disease almost invariably have profound pulmonary inflammation and may require mechanical ventilation and prolonged ICU admission. Mortality in ICU patients may be up to 50%. In the majority of patients with CoVID-19 in the ICU, profound activation of coagulation is present as reflected by d-dimer levels up to 20.000 mg/L or higher. Patients with proven pulmonary thrombosis are commonly treated with unfractionated heparin (UFH). Typically, it seemed that very high dosages of UFH were necessary to achieve therapeutic values of aPTT and anti-Xa levels in COVID-19 patients. Though, the question remains whether dosages given in COVID-19 patients were indeed extravagant compared to non-COVID-19 patients and what potential causes of these high dosages might be. Earlier research already implied that APTT, which is a primarily used parameter to dose UFH, is not accurate and rather anti-Xa levels should be used. Other potential reasons for the high doses are that COVID-19 patients show signs of heparin resistance, possible due to high inflammation parameters. As overdosing of heparin can lead to serious bleeding complications, more understanding on heparin dosage, e.g. parameters to rely on and potential influencing factors, in COVID-19 patients is needed. The primary objective of this study is to determine whether heparin dosages are higher in COVID-19 patients compared to non COVID-19 patients. The secondary objective is to determine the correlation between aPTT and anti-Xa values and to explore possible causes for non-correlating aPTT and anti-Xa, including CRP and AT plasma levels.
Participants assigned to usual care will also be provided with a GlowCap prior to discharge and will be instructed to take their loop diuretic from this bottle and to notify the study team about prescribed dose changes. This information, however, will solely be used to measure medication adherence and will not be provided to a member of the study team nor to any of the participants' health care providers until the completion of the study period, at least 1 month later. Participants will not be provided with any advice on heart failure adherence.
A topical composition is disclosed for reducing a urushiol-induced allergic response and the dermatitis associated therewith. The composition is a preparation having an acorn derivative and a nontoxic dermatologically acceptable aqueous dispersion material. The acorn derivative is acorn ash, acorn mash, roasted acorn, or acorn extract and comprises about 0.1 to 50 percent by weight of the treating preparation. After the initial preparation, preservatives are then added. Optionally, additional ingredients such as surfactants and emulsifying agents, antihistamines, topical anesthetics, colloidal oatmeal, topical antipruritics, astringents, and emollients may be added to the aqueous acorn dispersion. With processing varied according the examples provided, the ingredients are combined so as to create sprays, creams, gels, ointments, and lotions.
Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disease affecting African-Americans. It is characterized by an abnormal hemoglobin S, which polymerizes when deoxygenated leading to red cell rigidity and microvascular flow obstruction. Recurrent episodes of ischemia and a chronic inflammatory state lead to ischemia-reperfusion injury in multiple vital organ systems. Endothelial dysfunction has been demonstrated in patients with sickle cell disease and new therapies are targeted specifically towards the endothelium. Contrast ultrasound is a non-invasive technique that has been used to assess microvascular flow in coronary artery disease, diabetes, and other disease states. We propose to use this technique in sickle cell patients to compare their myocardial and skeletal muscle flow with that of normal controls, to detect changes during pain crisis, and to compare flow abnormalities with cardiac functional abnormalities.
Doxorubicin (DOX) is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic agents. However, the nonselective effect leads to serious cardiotoxicity risk in clinical use. Curcumin is a well-known dietary polyphenol that showed a protective effect against the cardiotoxic effect of DOX. This study aimed to assess the role of curcumin in protection against DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. Potential compound and disease targets were obtained from relevant databases, and common targets were screened. Protein-protein interaction (PPI) was used to predict the core targets. Gene ontology (GO) bioprocess analysis and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genome enrichment analysis enriched the possible biological processes (BP), cellular components, molecular function, and signaling pathways involved. Finally, the binding of curcumin to target proteins was evaluated through molecular docking. The docking score verified the reliability of the prediction results. In total, 205 curcumin and 700 disease targets were identified. A topological analysis of the PPI network revealed 10 core targets including TP53, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF), AKT1, vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA), prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2 (PTGS2), signal transducer and activator of the transcription 3 (STAT3), HIF1A, MYC, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), and CASP3 (Caspase-3). Furthermore, the enrichment analyses indicated that the effects of curcumin were mediated by genes related to oxidation, inflammation, toxification, cell proliferation, migration, apoptosis, wounding, metabolism, proteolysis, and the signaling pathway of calcium (Ca2+). Molecular docking showed that curcumin could bind with the target proteins with strong molecular force, exhibiting good docking activity. Curcumin has a multi-cardioprotective effect by modulating the core targets' expression in DOX-induced cardiotoxicity. This study elucidated the key target proteins and provided a theoretical basis for further exploring curcumin in the prevention and treatment of DOX-induced cardiotoxicity.
INTRODUCTION: Pain sensitivity is the main finding of central sensitization (CS) and can occur in patients with chronic shoulder pain. However, there is limited evidence concerning the distribution of pain sensitivity in shoulders, forearms, and legs in patients with CS associated with chronic shoulder pain. The present study aimed to determine the distribution of pain sensitivity in patients with CS associated with chronic subacromial pain syndrome (SPS).
METHOD: This cross-sectional study included 58 patients with chronic SPS and CS (patient group) and 58 healthy participants (control group). The presence of CS was determined using the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI). To determine the distribution of pain sensitivity, pressure pain threshold (PPT) measurements were performed from the shoulders, forearms, and legs.
RESULTS: There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of sociodemographic data (p > 0.05). The patient group had a significantly higher CSI score (p < 0.001) and lower PPTs in all regions (p < 0.05) than the control group. Unlike the control group, the patient group had lower PPTs on the affected side for the shoulder [mean difference (MD) 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.2 (-1.7 to -0.6)], forearm [MD 95% CI: 1.1 (-1.7 to -0.6)], and leg [MD 95% CI: 0.9 (-1.4 to -0.3)] compared with the contralateral side (p < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: Pain sensitivity is more pronounced in the affected shoulder and the forearm and leg located on this side than in those on the contralateral side in patients with CS associated with chronic SPS.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is often associated with disturbances in acid/base status that can be triggered by the underlying pathology or the ECMO circuit itself. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is known to cause hypocapnia, but the impact of reduced partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO 2 ) on biomarkers of tissue perfusion during veno-arterial (VA)-ECMO has not been evaluated. To study the impact of low pCO 2 on perfusion indices in VA-ECMO, we placed Sprague-Dawley rats on an established VA-ECMO circuit using either an oxygen/carbon dioxide mixture (O 2 95%, CO 2 5%) or 100% O 2 delivered through the oxygenator (n = 5 per cohort). Animals receiving 100% O 2 developed a significant VA CO 2 difference (pCO 2 gap) and rising blood lactate levels that were inversely proportional to the decrease in pCO 2 values. In contrast, pCO 2 gap and lactate levels remained similar to pre-ECMO baseline levels in animals receiving the O 2 /CO 2 mixture. More importantly, there was no significant difference in venous oxygen saturation (SvO 2 ) between the two groups, suggesting that elevated blood lactate levels observed in the rats receiving 100% O 2 were a response to oxygenator induced hypocapnia and alkaline pH rather than reduced perfusion or underlying tissue hypoxia. These findings have implications in clinical and experimental extracorporeal support contexts.
BACKGROUND: Perioperative stroke is a severe complication following surgery. To identify patients at risk for perioperative stroke, several prediction models based on the preoperative factors were suggested. Prediction models often focus on preoperative patient characteristics to assess stroke risk. However, most existing models primarily base their predictions on the patient's baseline characteristics before surgery. We aimed to develop a machine-learning model incorporating both pre- and intraoperative variables to predict perioperative stroke.
METHODS AND RESULTS: This study included patients who underwent noncardiac surgery at 2 hospitals with the data of 15 752 patients from Seoul National University Hospital used for development and temporal internal validation, and the data of 449 patients from Boramae Medical Center used for external validation. Perioperative stroke was defined as a newly developed ischemic lesion on diffusion-weighted imaging within 30 days of surgery. We developed a prediction model composed of pre- and intraoperative factors (integrated model) and compared it with a model consisting of preoperative features alone (preoperative model). Perioperative stroke developed in 109 (0.69%) patients in the Seoul National University Hospital group and 11 patients (2.45%) in the Boramae Medical Center group. The integrated model demonstrated superior predictive performance with area under the curve values of 0.824 (95% CI, 0.762-0.880) versus 0.584 (95% CI, 0.499-0.667; P<0.001) in the internal validation; and 0.716 (95% CI, 0.560-0.859) versus 0.505 (95% CI, 0.343-0.654; P=0.018) in the external validation, compared to the preoperative model.
CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that incorporating intraoperative factors into perioperative stroke prediction models can improve their accuracy.
The present invention discloses a medicine for treating gout and a preparation method thereof. The medicine is mainly prepared by compounding orientvine stem, saute atractylodes rhizome, phellodendron bark, motherwort, giant knotweed rhizome, dioscoreae septemlobae, etc., according to a certain weight proportion, extracting the mixture by alcohol and extracting the extract by water. The medicine can be prepared into any general dosage form for oral administration. The medicine of the present invention does not contain animal medicines, insect medicines or vegetable medicines with strong toxicity, and belongs to a pure Chinese medicine preparation for treating gout. The medicine of the present invention has the advantages of fast speed for alleviating pain, conspicuous curative effect and no toxic or side effect, and belongs to a first-use medicine for treating gout, preventing the deformity of the joints, gouty complication, calculus urate and tartaric disease. The medicine is suitable for being taken for a long term.
Metastasis is the primary stumbling block to the treatment of bladder cancer (BC). In order to spread, tumor cells must acquire increased migratory and invasive capacity, which is tightly linked with pseudopodia formation. Here, we unravel the effects of sulforaphane (SFN), an isothiocyanate in cruciferous vegetables, on the assembly of pseudopodia and BC metastasis, and its molecular mechanism in the process. Our database analysis revealed that in bladder tumor, pseudopodia-associated genes, CTTN, WASL and ACTR2/ARP2 are upregulated. SFN caused lamellipodia to collapse in BC cells by blocking the CTTN-ARP2 axis. SFN inhibited invadopodia formation and cell invasion by reducing WASL in different invasive BC cell lines. The production of ATP, essential for the assembly of pseudopodia, was significantly increased in bladder tumors and strongly inhibited by SFN. Overexpressing AKT1 reversed the downregulation of ATP in SFN-treated bladder cancer cells and restored filopodia and lamellipodia morphology and function. Bioluminescent imaging showed that SFN suppressed BC metastases to the lung of nude mice while downregulating Cttn and Arp2 expression. Our study thus reveals mechanisms of SFN action in inhibiting pseudopodia formation and highlights potential targeting options for the therapy of metastatic bladder cancer.
Patient "no-shows" are especially common in VA gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy units, where both open-access endoscopy scheduling and patient dislike of procedures contribute to high absenteeism. In this proposal, investigators use endoscopy as a case example to evaluate a predictive overbooking model derived using patient-level predictors of absenteeism. The no-show overbooking intervention employs a logistic regression model that uses patient data to predict the odds of no-showing with 80% accuracy. These projected no-show appointments will be overbooked by clerks for patients who agree to join a "fast track" short-call line. However, patients scheduled for upper endoscopies in the "fast track" assume a small risk of service denial on the day of their overbooking in case of inaccurate predictions. If this occurs, the patient is guaranteed service in the next available position and is assured of having a shorter wait time. Patients scheduled for colonoscopies will never be turned down but may experience delays in the waiting room the day of their "fast track" appointment. By rapidly processing endoscopy patients and moving them out of traditional slots, investigators predict more scheduling slots would become available for patients awaiting colonoscopy. Investigators propose to conduct a prospective, 24-month, interrupted time series (ITS) trial in the WLAVA (West Los Angeles Veterans Administration) GI clinic endoscopy unit. During intervention periods, investigators will activate the no-show predictive overbooking strategy described above. Investigators will compare outcomes between scheduling strategies, including differences in percent utilization of capacity (primary outcome), number of Veterans served, mean patient lag time between scheduling and procedure, number of unexpected service denials ("bumps") from no-show predictive overbooking, and direct costs of care. Investigators will analyze differences using both traditional univariate and multivariate approaches, and using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) analyses to adjust for auto-correlations in ITS data.
Acute myocarditis is a severe disease with high mortality rate and various dynamic changes visible on electrocardiograms (ECGs). The aim were to investigate ECG findings in acute myocarditis, ECG findings associated with fulminant myocarditis (FM), and the characteristics of ST elevation at admission. A retrospective analysis of 1814 ECGs was conducted from 274 consecutive patients with acute myocarditis aged ≥13 years, who were hospitalized in two centres between August 2007 and November 2019. All ECG obtained during the hospital course were evaluated by 2 electrophysiologists. A chi-square test was used to evaluate and compare the abnormal ECG findings between the FM and non-FM groups, and multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to further evaluate ECG findings associated with FM. The Mann-Whitney U test was used to compare the duration of cardiac symptoms before admission for ST elevation at admission.
In a battery monitoring circuit current sensor 8  is connected in series with the positive battery terminal 2 and the load 3.  The current sensor may be a resistor with a resistance of the same order of magnitude as the internal resistance of the battery.  A potential divider with resistors 9, 10 is connected across the load so that a predetermined proportion of the load voltage is provided at input 6 of comparator 11.  This voltage is compared with a reference voltage at input 5.  When the voltage at 6 falls below the reference voltage, the comparator provides a zero output indicating that the remaining charge in the battery has fallen below a predetermined level that was used to calculate both the reference voltage and the ratio for the potential divider.  The reference voltage, which is less than the no-load battery voltage may be provided by a battery 7, or a voltage regulator circuit.
Social anxiety is a highly prevalent disorder in the population. Even though there are effective interventions that can help people who suffer from it, many of them do not seek or receive an evidence-based, face to face treatment. According to cognitive models, attention to social threat is one of the principles that maintain social anxiety. In fact, individuals with social anxiety present attention bias to threat stimuli. However, there is inconsistency in the literature with regards to attentional biases that individuals with anxiety present. A recent model is the vigilance-avoidance hypothesis, in which socially anxious initially focus on the threat and then they avoid it. Therefore, better understanding and then aiming to modify these attentional biases in a computerized manner, with minimal therapist interaction can be a novel and promising way to treat social anxiety, even among patients who avoid presenting for therapy.

Two experiments are aiming to shed some light with regards to the effect of attention bias modification treatment in individuals with social anxiety, taking into consideration the previous mixed results. The first experiment compares training attention to be directed away from threat with a placebo treatment. Approximately 60 socially anxious individuals are randomly allocated in the 2 groups. A structured interview and self-report assessment are done pre-treatment, post-treatment and 6 months follow-up.

The second experiment adds a third group of training towards threat (i.e. exposure), investigating if changing attentional avoidance can also affect anxiety levels. Moreover, the second experiment attempts to improve the typical attention modification paradigm by targeting treatment to participants' identified pre-experimental attentional biases. In addition, predictors of treatment effectiveness will be studied and particularly pre-intervention attentional biases as well as state anxiety. Participants are approximately 90 adults with social phobia who are randomly allocated in treatment and placebo groups. In experiment 2 participants will also be assessed behaviourally as well as physiologically to better demonstrate that anxiety reactions to anxiogenic situations have been reduced between pre and post treatment and that they are smaller than those of a placebo control group.

It is expected that participants in the intervention groups will show reduced attentional bias and social anxiety symptoms in comparison with the placebo group in both studies. In addition, the kind of pre-intervention bias as well as state anxiety will moderate anxiety changes. This study will enrich existing research on attention bias modification treatment by shedding light into potential mechanisms of change and will examine ways to improve the efficacy of this intervention.
PURPOSE: To obtain an enteric coated preparation by coating a solid preparation with a finely powdery enteric coating agent by heating while sprinkling a powdery or pellet wax. CONSTITUTION: This enteric coated preparation is obtained by coating a granule, a fine granule or a medicine raw material with a finely powdery enteric coating agent (e.g. hydroxypropyl methyl cellulose acetate succinate) having <=10μm particle diameter by heating at >= the melting point of a powdery or pellet wax (e.g. cetyl alcohol) being a solid at a normal temperature and having a melting point of >40 deg.C and <=90 deg.C melting point while sprinkling the wax. The enteric coated preparation having acid resistance obtained by solventless coating not requiring drying is obtained in a short time. A production process can be shortened due to nonrequirement of drying of solvent and a short coating time. A medicine unstable to water and an organic solvent is applicable by solventless coating.  A surfactant, etc., generally used as a dispersant in an aqueous enteric coating are not required.
Sub-Study - Same-Day CD4 Count and ART Initiation for Patients with CD4 Count \>500 cells/mm3: Participants will receive counseling and start ART on the day of study enrollment. They will have follow-up visits with the physician on Days 3, 10, 17, and 24, and with the social worker on Days 3, 10, and 17. They will have also have physician visits at weeks 8 and 12. Participants who are clinically stable, asymptomatic, and adherent at week 12 will then qualify for expedited care at future visits, which includes dispensing of ART directly by nurses in the clinic every four weeks, to reduce waiting time for patients. Participants who are symptomatic or non-adherent will be referred to a physician for evaluation.
All subjects will receive 3 albuterol sulfate doses, 2 ipratropium bromide doses, and systemic corticosteroids. All patients will receive both the systemic corticosteroids and one dose of a mixture of albuterol and ipratropium bromide while guardians are approached for consent. Patients randomized to this placebo comparator arm will then receive 2 nebulized albuterol doses mixed with 8mL of normal saline. Finally, all patients will receive the second nebulized ipratropium dose.
Trained immunity is classically characterized by long-term functional reprogramming of innate immune cells to combat infectious diseases. Infection-induced organ injury is a common clinical severity phenotype of sepsis. However, whether the induction of trained immunity plays a role in protecting septic organ injury remains largely unknown. Here, through establishing an in vivo β-glucan training and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge model in zebrafish larvae, we observe that induction of trained immunity could inhibit pyroptosis of hepatocytes to alleviate septic liver injury, with an elevated trimethyl-histone H3 lysine 4 (H3K4me3) modification that targets mitophagy-related genes. Moreover, we identify a C-type lectin domain receptor in zebrafish, named DrDectin-1, which is revealed as the orchestrator in gating H3K4me3 rewiring-mediated mitophagy activation and alleviating pyroptosis-engaged septic liver injury in vivo. Taken together, our results uncover tissue-resident trained immunity in maintaining liver homeostasis at the whole-animal level and offer an in vivo model to efficiently integrate trained immunity for immunotherapies.
FIELD: medicine. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, also aims at treating babies suffering intestinal colics. A mother and a breast-fed child are treated simultaneously. A cephalosporin antibiotic, an antistaphylococcal immunoglobulin, a staphylococcal bacteriophage, an antifungal agent, a phagocytosis activator are prescribed in the mother for 7-10 days. A staphylococcal bacteriophage, Hylak forte are prescribed to the baby. The second stage involves prescribing a bacterial preparation, an immunomodulator and a therapeutic staphylococcal anatoxin. The baby intakes Hylak forte and the bacterial preparation. ^ EFFECT: method allows relieving intestinal colics and preventing the development of complications. ^ 1 ex