anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
Patients suitable to receive Medacta GMK® Sphere system for primary TKA will be invited to take part to the study during the preoperative visit. Follow-ups are performed after 2, 6 and 12 months. Data collection includes clinical and radiological data for preoperative and postoperative assessments, as well as intraoperative details.
Chronic thrombo embolic pulmonary hypertension(CTEPH)is a progressive pulmonary vascular disease characterized by chronic obstruction of major pulmonary arteries with flow-limiting organized thrombi. In the clinical classification of the 6thWorld Symposium on Pulmonary Hypertension, CTEPH/chronic thromboembolic pulmonary disease(CTED)are in group4, labeled as PH due to pulmonary artery obstruction. CTEPH should be considered in PE patients if:(1)they report symptoms that could be related to CTEPH or with frank right heart failure,(2)the CTPA used to diagnose acute PE shows signs indicative of CTEPH,(3)they have risk factors or predisposing conditions for CTEPH. Recurrent venous thromboembolism(VTE),post-thrombotic syndrome, bleeding ,and functional limitations as important outcome measures of acute PE treatment , Dyspnea ,anxiety, chest pain ,post-thrombotic panic syndrome, and depression that lead to persistent functional limitations and/or decreased quality of life have been labeled as post-PE syndrome(PPS),includes CTEPH. Early diagnosis of CTEPH is important ,as it is the only form of PH that is potentially curable , but also challenging because signs of right heart failure only become evident in advanced disease stages and earlier disease stages are characterized by non specific or even absence of symptoms. The diagnostic work up of suspected CTEPH ,starts with trans thoracic Doppler echocardiography, In addition to the peak tricuspid regurgitation velocity , the right ventricle/left ventricle basal diameter ratio, flattening of the interventricular septum, right ventricular acceleration time and/or mid systolic notching, inferior vena cava diameter with decreased inspiratory collapse and right atrial area are used echocardiographic signs to assess the probability of PH.
The invention relates to a bagged yeast wine for soaking health-care wine, which is composed of 5-25 parts of Cordyceps militaris or Cordyceps, 5-25 parts of hartshorn, 5-20 parts of adder, 5-25 parts of American ginseng, 10-30 parts of rhizoma polygonati, 10-30 parts of wolfberry fruit, 10-20 parts of tuckahoe, 10-25 parts of wild or spiny jujuba seed, 10-30 parts of Rhodiola rosea and 10-30 parts of hawthorn. Every 50-1000g of all the components are packaged in a packaging bag prepared from a nontoxic fiber fabric base or paper base by a packaging machine to obtain the finished product bagged yeast wine. When the bagged yeast wine is used for soaking the health-care wine, the wine is directly soaked in the yeast wine without opening the bag. The method is very simple, and is especially suitable for people at home. The processed bagged granular drug components can be sufficiently precipitated and dissolved, and the dissolution rate can reach 90% above. The bagged yeast wine is suitable for high/low-alcoholic-strength white wine, yellow wine, rice wine and fruit wine, is convenient, flexible, economical and practical, and has obvious effects on improving subhealth constitution and severe edema, mass proteinuria, hyperlipemia and hypoproteinemia of people.
BACKGROUND: Low vision (LV) has a significant negative impact on the activities of daily life as well as on the psychological health of patients.
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study is to investigate psychological, clinical, and demographic factors that may impact the daily functionality of patients with LV.
METHODS: A convenience sample of 53 patients, meeting the WHO criteria for LV, was recruited. Questionnaires on daily functionality, depression, and life orientation (in terms of optimism/pessimism) were administered along with a semistructured personal interview. Key Findings. The main results revealed a significant negative correlation between daily functionality and depression (r = -0.423, p < 0.001). Conversely, there is a positive correlation between daily functionality and visual acuity (r = 0.415, p < 0.001), while years since diagnosis were negatively correlated with depression (r = -0.345, p < 0.001). Depression seems to be a moderate predictor of a person's daily functionality (β = -0.389, p < 0.002), followed by visual acuity (β = -0.344, p = 0.006), explaining the 31.1% of the total variance.
CONCLUSIONS: The study supports a correlation between daily functionality and both depression and visual acuity. Optimism as a personality characteristic did not factor into the prediction model for daily functionality, but it showed a strong correlation with lower levels of depressive symptoms. This highlights the potential for developing coping strategies for chronic disease management. Recommendations. The study could serve as a useful guide and may urge clinicians to pay attention to the psychological evaluation of these patients, supporting their unique emotional needs. Mental health professionals can use patients' positive resources to provide appropriate counseling and embrace the coping skills that encourage their engagement in activities of daily life.
In medial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE), the benefits of surgery must be balanced against the risk of post-operative memory decline. Prediction of postoperative outcomes based on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) tasks is increasingly common but remains uncertain. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine whether hippocampal activations elicited by fMRI language tasks could enhance or refine memory fMRI in MTLE patients candidates to surgery. Forty-six patients were included: 30 right and 16 left MTLE, mostly with hippocampal sclerosis. Preoperative assessment included neuropsychological tests and fMRI with language (syntactic verbal fluency) and memory tasks (encoding, delayed, and immediate recognition of images of objects). Thirty patients underwent surgery and had neuropsychological evaluations one year after surgery. Worsening was defined as a degradation of more than 10 % in postoperative forgetting scores compared to preoperative scores in verbal, non-verbal and global memory. Memory fMRI had the best sensitivity with hippocampal activations obtained in 95 % of patients, versus 65 % with language fMRI. Considering the patients who elicited an hippocampal activation, language fMRI led to 80 %, 65 % and 85 % of correct predictions for respectively global, verbal and non verbal memory (versus 71 %, 64 % and 68 % with memory fMRI). Memory and language fMRI predictions outperformed those made by neuropsychological tests. In summary, language fMRI was less sensitive than memory fMRI to elicit hippocampal activations but when it did, the proportion of correct memory predictions was better. Moreover, it proved to be an independent predictive factor regardless of the side of the epileptic focus. Given the ease of setting up a language task in fMRI, we recommend the systematic combination of memory and language tasks to predict the post-operative memory outcome of MTLE patients undergoing epilepsy surgery.
A 3-phase randomised cross-over trial will be applied consisting of 3 intervention periods of 2 weeks, with a test day performed at the last day of each intervention period. During each intervention period, participants will consume a fixed amount of test bread, replacing their regular bread, and they will keep food and stool diaries preceding each Test-day. Faecal samples will be collected before each Test-day. On the Test-day, participants will perform a gastric emptying breath test. Furthermore, blood samples and appetite ratings will be collected at regular time points after consumption of the test bread for measurement of glucose, insulin, gut peptides, short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) and blood lipids. Food intake will be assessed by offering the subjects a standard lunch to be consumed ad-libitum.
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) are at risk for obesity and cardiometabolic diseases. To gain insight into body composition changes among children with ALL, we assessed quantitative computed tomography (QCT) data for specific body compartments (subcutaneous adipose tissue [SAT], visceral adipose tissue [VAT], total adipose tissue [TAT], lean tissue [LT], LT/TAT and VAT/SAT at lumbar vertebrae L1 and L2) at diagnosis and at off-therapy for 189 children with ALL and evaluated associations between body mass index (BMI) Z-score and clinical characteristics. BMI Z-score correlated positively with SAT, VAT and TAT and negatively with LT/TAT and VAT/SAT. At off-therapy, BMI Z-score, SAT, VAT and TAT values were higher than at diagnosis, but LT, LT/TAT and VAT/SAT were lower. Patients aged ≥10 years at diagnosis had higher SAT, VAT and TAT and lower LT and LT/TAT than patients aged 2.0-9.9 years. Female patients had lower LT and LT/TAT than male patients. Black patients had less VAT than White patients. QCT analysis showed increases in adipose tissue and decreases in LT during ALL therapy when BMI Z-scores increased. Early dietary and physical therapy interventions should be considered, particularly for patients at risk for obesity.
PURPOSE: A composition for preventing or treating depression is provided to suppress nuclear translocation of a glucocorticoid receptor, thereby suppressing signal transduction induced by stress and showing anti-stress effect. CONSTITUTION: A composition for preventing or treating depression contains an ethanol extract of Mori Cortex Radicis as an active ingredient. The extract is prepared by an ultrasonicator. The composition is prepared by adding sodium carbonate to the extract and dissolving an insoluble material. The composition suppresses the activity of a glucocorticoid receptor. The composition suppresses nuclear translocation of the glucocorticoid receptor.
Each of the subjects will receive a single intravenous dose of 0.4 mg scopolamine hydrobromide and will wear the Transderm Scop® patch (1.5 mg) for 3 days in a crossover design with adequate washout in between. Subjects will be randomized to Group 1 (Transderm Scop® first followed by intravenous scopolamine hydrobromide) and remaining subjects will be randomized to Group 2 (intravenous scopolamine hydrobromide first followed by Transderm Scop®).
Subjects will have surgery as their initial breast therapy. If subjects have a normal level of Vitamin D(25-hydroxyVit D 30-100ng/mL), they will be assigned to this group.
1. Technical Result Increase in efficiency of treatment and widening of assortment for restoring the functions of musculoskeletal system. 2. Essence As a means for restoring the functions of musculoskeletal system is used a combination of medicinal means comprising pine-wood cones (Pinus), camomile flowers (Pyrethrum), branches of fresh fennel (Anethum graveolens L.) and ointment comprising butter, medicinal glycerin, sea-buckthorn oil, brandy, camomile flowers powder (Pyrethrum) and membranes of walnut (Juglans regia L.). 3. Field of Application Medicine, therapy.
The material in capsule form was placed in the mixer (Ultramat 2, SDI, Australia) and mixed for 12 seconds, and applied to the cavity in a single step. In addition to the 90-second working time, an additional 4 and a half minutes were allowed for the material to cure.
The present invention relates to a lyophiled injectable powder with hypericum japonicum thunb for injection, and a preparation method thereof. The lyophiled injectable powder with hypericum japonicum thunb for injection comprises the following components measured by weight: 5 to 80% of an extractive of hypericum japonicum thunb and 20 to 95% of supplementary materials. The preparation method has the processing steps of the preparation of an extractive of hypericum japonicum thunb. An extractive of hypericum japonicum thunb is added with supplementary materials for injection, and the mixture is stirred and evenly mixed. Water for injection is added to the mixture, and the mixture is stirred to make the extractive of hypericum japonicum thunb and the supplementary materials for injection dissolved. Medicinal alkali is used to trgulate the pH of the liquid medicine to 4.0 to 8.0. a heat source is removed. Water for injection is supplemented until the solution reaches a prescribed volume, and the solution is processed through aseptic filtration, subpackage and lyopilization. The present invention solves the problems that preparation products of hypericum japonicum thunb have poor clarity, is easy to generate precipitation when stored for a long time, is difficult put in large-scale industrial production. The water injection has stable quality, good formability, rapid dissolution, good clarity, easy storage, easy transportation, easy use and low water content of the medicine. More than 95 to 99% of moisture content is removed through lyophilisation, so the medicine can not deteriorate when preserved for a long time. The lyophiled injectable powder has easy transportation and easy use.
OBJECTIVE: Most previous studies have examined emotion recognition in autism spectrum condition (ASC) without intellectual disability (ID). However, ASC and ID co-occur to a high degree. The main aims of the study were to examine emotion recognition in individuals with ASC and co-occurring intellectual disability (ASC-ID) as compared to individuals with ID alone, and to investigate the relationship between emotion recognition and social functioning.
METHODS: The sample consisted of 30 adult participants with ASC-ID and a comparison group of 29 participants with ID. Emotion recognition was assessed by the facial emotions test, while. social functioning was assessed by the social responsiveness scale-second edition (SRS-2).
RESULTS: The accuracy of emotion recognition was significantly lower in individuals with ASC-ID compared to the control group with ID, especially when it came to identifying angry and fearful emotions. Participants with ASC-ID exhibited more pronounced difficulties in social functioning compared to those with ID, and there was a significant negative correlation between emotion recognition and social functioning. However, emotion recognition accounted for only 8% of the variability observed in social functioning.
CONCLUSION: Our data indicate severe difficulties in the social-perceptual domain and in everyday social functioning in individuals with ASC-ID.
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Clinical data on the association between leptin levels and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)-related liver fibrosis are conflicting. This meta-analysis aimed to compare circulating leptin between NAFLD patients with versus without liver fibrosis or non-NAFLD controls.
METHODS: A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, Scopus, and the Cochrane Library. Fifteen studies were included, reporting data from 964 individuals (422 NAFLD patients with fibrosis, 297 NAFLD patients without fibrosis, 245 no-NAFLD controls).
RESULTS: Leptin standardized mean difference (SMD) was higher in NAFLD patients with fibrosis (F1-F4) than in controls (SMD: 2.27; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.81-3.73); however, this association did not remain robust after the exclusion of studies with morbidly obese individuals. No difference was observed in leptin SMD between NAFLD patients with fibrosis and those without fibrosis (F0), and NAFLD patients without fibrosis versus controls. Heterogeneity was high (I2: 66-98%) among studies. Meta-regression analysis revealed a positive association of leptin SMD with homeostasis model assessment-insulin resistance, when comparing NAFLD patients with fibrosis versus NAFLD patients without fibrosis (beta: 0.53; 95% CI: 0.04-1.03), and a negative association of leptin SMD with age, when comparing NAFLD patients with fibrosis versus controls (beta: -0.29; 95% CI: -0.53 to -0.05).
CONCLUSION: Circulating leptin was higher in NAFLD patients with liver fibrosis than non-NAFLD controls, an association, however, attenuated after the exclusion of a study with morbidly obese individuals. Circulating leptin was not different between NAFLD patients with and without fibrosis, or NAFLD patients without fibrosis and controls.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally, killing one American approximately every 40 seconds. Among known risk factors, hypertension, or high blood pressure (BP), is the most important risk factor for the development of CVD. While sleeping, a healthy adult will experience a blood pressure dip of about 10% compared to resting values while awake. However, advancing age is associated with reduced blood pressure dipping, which is linked with an increased risk for CVD. Moreover, attenuated blood pressure dipping results in elevated nighttime blood pressure, which is in general a better predictor of cardiovascular outcomes than daytime blood pressure.

The autonomic nervous system plays a key role in blood pressure regulation and autonomic dysregulation is implicated in the pathophysiology of hypertension. Advancing age is associated with structural and function changes in the autonomic nervous system, which likely contribute, at least in part, to the marked elevation in the prevalence of hypertension and CVD that is observed in older adults. Heart rate variability (HRV) is an inexpensive and accessible index of autonomic function that is shown to decline rapidly form the second to fifth decades of life. Thus, strategies to improve nocturnal HRV may help to restore a more healthy nighttime blood pressure phenotype. However, this remains to be proven. Moreover, the link between aging, nocturnal HRV, and nighttime blood pressure is unclear.

Hypertension costs the United States between $131 and $198 billion dollars each year. Therefore, there exists a critical need to find ways to mitigate these negative health effects and costs to both the American public, and populations across the globe. Interestingly, there is a small but emerging body of evidence suggesting that ketone bodies may positively impact endothelial function and vascular health. In rodents, ketone supplementation prevents high-salt induced increase in blood pressure, blood vessel dysfunction, and kidney injury. However, there is a lack of data regarding whether ketone supplementation may provide similar cardiovascular health benefits in humans. Thus, in this first-of-kind placebo-controlled, randomized crossover design acute ketone supplementation study the investigations will evaluate the hypothesis that acute ketone supplementation will improve nocturnal blood pressure and HRV in middle-aged and older adults.
The invention relates to materials and methods for suppressing and/or treating neurofibroma and related tumors. Germline mutations in the NFl tumor suppressor gene cause Von Recklinghausen's neurofibromatosis type 1 (NFl), a common genetic disorder of the nervous system characterized by plexiform neurofibroma development. Using adoptive transfer of hematopoietic cells, we establish that NFl heterozygosity of bone marrow derived cells in the tumor microenvironment is sufficient to allow neurofibroma progression in the context of Schwann cell nullizygosity. Further, genetic or pharmacologic attenuation of the c-kit signaling pathway in hematopoietic cells greatly diminishes neurofibroma initiation and progression. These studies identify haploinsufficient hematopoietic cells and the c-kit receptor as therapeutic targets for preventing plexiform neurofibromas and implicate mast cells as critical mediators of tumor initiation. Administering therapeutically effective doses of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor such as the compound imatinib mesylate to a patient in need thereof to treat tumors in a human patient afflicted with plexiform neurofibroma.
OBJECTIVES: This study evaluates whether social interaction level modifies the association between frailty and cognitive decline in older adults.
METHODS: A total of 2701 adults aged ≥65 years enrolled in the Progetto Veneto Anziani (Pro.V.A.), participated in the study. At baseline, participants were classified as having low, moderate, or high social interactions based on: cohabiting status, frequency of contacts with relatives/friends or involvement in childcare activities, and frequency of participation in social or community activities. Baseline frailty was defined as the presence of ≥3 criteria among: weight loss, weakness, slowness, low physical activity, and exhaustion. Cognitive function was assessed through the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) at baseline and after 4.4 and 7 years. The association between frailty and MMSE changes over time was evaluated through linear mixed models. Interaction and subgroup analyses explored the modifying effect of social interaction level on the above association.
RESULTS: The mean age of participants was 76.1 years, and 59.1% were women. Frail individuals had a steeper annual MMSE decline than their non-frail counterparts (ß=-0.40, 95%CI: -0.59, -0.20). When stratifying participants by social interaction level, we found that the association between frailty and MMSE changes over time was stronger in those with low social interactions (ß=-0.74, 95%CI: -1.33, -0.15) while attenuated in those with moderate (ß=-0.42, 95%CI: -0.74, -0.11) or high social interaction level (ß=-0.29, 95%CI: -0.58, 0.01).
CONCLUSION: Maintaining frequent social interactions might mitigate the negative impact of frailty on older people's cognitive functions.
Background: Normal saline solution (NSS) and Ringer's acetate solution (RAS) are commonly given to critically ill patients as a fundamental fluid therapy. However, the effect of RAS and NSS on sepsis patient outcomes remains unknown. Methods: We conducted a single-center prospective open-label parallel controlled trial to enroll adult patients (>18 years old) diagnosed with sepsis. Participants received either RAS or NSS for intravenous infusion for 5 days. The primary outcome was the incidence of major adverse kidney events within 28 days (MAKE28). Secondary outcomes included 30-/90-day mortality, acute kidney injury, and hyperchloremia. The patients were then reclassified as NSS-only, RAS-only, and RAS + NSS groups according to the type of fluid they had received before enrollment. Thereafter, a secondary post hoc analysis was performed. Results: Two hundred fifty-five septic patients were screened, and 143 patients (51.0% in RAS group and 49.0% in NSS group) were enrolled in the study. Each group received a median of 2 L of fluid administration during five interventional days. Of the patients, 39.3% had received 500 mL (500-1,000 mL) of balanced salt solutions (BSSs) before intensive care unit (ICU) admission. There was no statistical difference among the RAS and NSS group on the primary outcome MAKE28 in the initial analysis (23.3% vs. 20.0%; OR, 1.2 [0.6 to 2.2]; P = 0.69). MAKE28 was observed in 23.3% of RAS-only versus 27.3% of NSS-only group patients (0.82 [0.35-1.94], P = 0.65) in the secondary post hoc analysis. The patients in the NSS-only group had a longer invasive mechanical ventilation days and a trend toward the accumulation of serum chloride. Conclusion: This study observed no statistically significant difference on MAKE28 and secondary outcomes among sepsis patients receiving RAS and NSS. However, it is unclear whether the large amount of fluid resuscitation before ICU admission and carrier NSS narrowed the difference between BSSs and NSSs.