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To determine the extent and distribution of laboratory workforce shortages within the nation’s medical laboratories.The Vacancy Survey was conducted through collaboration between the American Society for Clinical Pathology...

Microvascular invasion (MVI) has previously been reported to be related to cancer prognosis; however, its significance in patients with dual-phenotype hepatocellular carcinoma (DPHCC) remains uncharacterized. We studied the role...

To research the effect of China’s many-child policy on the number of births and the prevalence of serious teratogenic and disabling defects (STDDs) in Hunan province.We performed an observational study based on the Birth...

Device-detected atrial fibrillation (AF) (also known as subclinical AF or atrial high-rate episodes) is a common finding in patients with an implanted cardiac rhythm device and is associated with an increased risk of ischemic...

Our aims were to describe respiratory sequelae up to 12 months after discharge in COVID-19 patients with severe pneumonia requiring non-invasive respiratory support therapies.This study was undertaken at University Hospital...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems for detection of COVID-19 using chest X-Ray (CXR) imaging and point-of-care blood tests were applied to data from four low resource African settings. The performance of these systems to...

Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a major global cause of neonatal meningitis, sepsis and pneumonia, with an estimated 91,000 infant deaths per year and an additional 46,000 stillbirths. GBS infection in pregnancy is also...

Machine learning derived notifications for impending episodes of hemodynamic instability (HD) and respiratory failure (RF) events are interesting because they can alert clinicians in time to intervene before these complications...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the formation of a blood clot in a deep vein. DVT can lead to a venous thromboembolism (VTE), the combined term for DVT and pulmonary embolism, a leading cause of death and disability worldwide....

Numerous prognostic factors have been proposed for cardiac amyloidosis (CA). The knowledge about other subtypes of restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is scant.To reveal the etiology, identify prognostic factors, and assess cardiac...

Sodium glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), and the non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA) finerenone all individually reduce cardiovascular,...

To identify the impact of lamotrigine (LTG) on cardiac rhythm and conduction abnormalities for Veterans, an especially vulnerable population.In October 2020 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) added a new warning to the...

Deep learning interpretation of echocardiographic images may facilitate automated assessment of cardiac structure and function.We developed a deep learning model to interpret echocardiograms and examined the association of deep...

In this study, we aimed to identify the causes, predictors and gender disparities of 30-day and 90-day cardiovascular readmissions after COVID-19-related hospitalisations using National Readmission Database (NRD) 2020.We used...

Ferroptosis is a regulatory cell death characterized by intracellular iron accumulation and lipid peroxidation that leads to oxidative stress. Many signaling pathways such as iron metabolism, lipid metabolism, and amino acid...