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Phosphodiesterase-5 Inhibitors and Outcomes During Left Ventricular Assist Device Support: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Kittipibul, Veraprapas; Blumer, Vanessa; Angsubhakorn, Natthapon; Hernandez, Gabriel A; Chaparro, Sandra; Tedford, Ryan J; Agarwal, Richa (Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2020-12)

Assessment of an Online Tool to Simulate the Effect of Pooled Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Populations.

Polage, Christopher R; Lee, Mark J; Hubbard, Christopher; Rehder, Catherine; Cardona, Diana; Denny, Thomas; Datto, Michael B (JAMA network open, 2020-12)

Editorial Comment.

Campbell, Scott P; Inman, Brant A (The Journal of urology, 2020-11-30)

Intravesical nadofaragene firadenovec gene therapy for BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a single-arm, open-label, repeat-dose clinical trial.

Boorjian, Stephen A; Alemozaffar, Mehrdad; Konety, Badrinath R; Shore, Neal D; Gomella, Leonard G; Kamat, Ashish M; Bivalacqua, Trinity J; ... (43 authors) (The Lancet. Oncology, 2020-11-27)

<h4>Background</h4>BCG is the most effective therapy for high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Nadofaragene firadenovec (also known as rAd-IFNa/Syn3) is a replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus that delivers ...

Convolutional neural network to identify symptomatic Alzheimer's disease using multimodal retinal imaging.

Wisely, C Ellis; Wang, Dong; Henao, Ricardo; Grewal, Dilraj S; Thompson, Atalie C; Robbins, Cason B; Yoon, Stephen P; ... (13 authors) (The British journal of ophthalmology, 2020-11-26)

BACKGROUND/AIMS:To develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) to detect symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) using a combination of multimodal retinal images and patient data. METHODS:Colour maps of ganglion cell-inner ...

Text recycling in STEM: A text-analytic study of recently published research articles.

Anson, Ian G; Moskovitz, Cary (Accountability in research, 2020-11-24)

Text recycling, sometimes called "self-plagiarism," is the reuse of material from one's own existing documents in a newly created work. Over the past decade, text recycling has become an increasingly debated practice in ...

Reporting and utilization of Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System® (PROMIS®) measures in orthopedic research and practice: a systematic review.

Horn, Maggie E; Reinke, Emily K; Couce, Logan J; Reeve, Bryce B; Ledbetter, Leila; George, Steven Z (Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research, 2020-11-23)

BACKGROUND:The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information SystemⓇ (PROMISⓇ) is a dynamic system of psychometrically sound patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. There has been a recent increase in the use of PROMIS ...

COVID-19-Associated Guillain-Barre Syndrome: Atypical Para-infectious Profile, Symptom Overlap, and Increased Risk of Severe Neurological Complications.

Kajumba, Mayanja M; Kolls, Brad J; Koltai, Deborah C; Kaddumukasa, Mark; Kaddumukasa, Martin; Laskowitz, Daniel T (SN comprehensive clinical medicine, 2020-11-21)

The concurrence of COVID-19 with Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) can increase the likelihood of neuromuscular respiratory failure, autonomic dysfunction, and other life-threatening symptoms. Currently, very little is known ...

Implementation of a Pooled Surveillance Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a College Campus - Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, August 2-October 11, 2020.

Denny, Thomas N; Andrews, Laura; Bonsignori, Mattia; Cavanaugh, Kyle; Datto, Michael B; Deckard, Anastasia; DeMarco, C Todd; ... (23 authors) (MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2020-11-20)

On university campuses and in similar congregate environments, surveillance testing of asymptomatic persons is a critical strategy (1,2) for preventing transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease ...

Reciprocity in Quarantine: Observations from Wuhan's COVID-19 Digital Landscapes.

Ni, Yanping; Fabbri, Morris; Zhang, Chi; Stewart, Kearsley A (Asian bioethics review, 2020-11-20)

The 2003 SARS pandemic heralded the return of quarantine as a vital part of twenty-first century public health practice. Over the last two decades, MERS, Ebola, and other emerging infectious diseases each posed unique challenges ...

Recapitulation of HIV-1 Env-antibody coevolution in macaques leading to neutralization breadth.

Roark, Ryan S; Li, Hui; Williams, Wilton B; Chug, Hema; Mason, Rosemarie D; Gorman, Jason; Wang, Shuyi; ... (57 authors) (Science (New York, N.Y.), 2020-11-19)

Neutralizing antibodies elicited by HIV-1 coevolve with viral envelope proteins (Env) in distinctive patterns, in some cases acquiring substantial breadth. We report that primary HIV-1 envelope proteins-when expressed by ...

Associations between genetic variants of KIF5B, FMN1, and MGAT3 in the cadherin pathway and pancreatic cancer risk.

Zhao, Lingling; Liu, Hongliang; Luo, Sheng; Moorman, Patricia G; Walsh, Kyle M; Li, Wei; Wei, Qingyi (Cancer medicine, 2020-11-16)

Because the cadherin-mediated signaling pathway promotes cancer progression, we assessed associations between genetic variants in 109 cadherin-related genes and risk of pancreatic cancer (PanC) by using genotyping data from ...

A comprehensive guide to genetic variants and post-translational modifications of cardiac troponin C.

Reinoso, Tyler R; Landim-Vieira, Maicon; Shi, Yun; Johnston, Jamie R; Chase, P Bryant; Parvatiyar, Michelle S; Landstrom, Andrew P; ... (9 authors) (Journal of muscle research and cell motility, 2020-11-11)

Familial cardiomyopathy is an inherited disease that affects the structure and function of heart muscle and has an extreme range of phenotypes. Among the millions of affected individuals, patients with hypertrophic (HCM), ...

Nonlocal stochastic-partial-differential-equation limits of spatially correlated noise-driven spin systems derived to sample a canonical distribution

Gao, Y; Marzuola, JL; Mattingly, JC; Newhall, KA (Physical Review E, 2020-11-09)

© 2020 American Physical Society. For a noisy spin system, we derive a nonlocal stochastic version of the overdamped Landau-Lipshitz equation designed to respect the underlying Hamiltonian structure and sample the canonical ...

SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study.

Hurst, Jillian H; Heston, Sarah M; Chambers, Hailey N; Cunningham, Hannah M; Price, Meghan J; Suarez, Lilianna; Crew, Carter G; ... (31 authors) (Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020-11-03)

BACKGROUND:Children with SARS-CoV-2 infection typically have mild symptoms that do not require medical attention, leaving a gap in our understanding of the spectrum of illnesses that the virus causes in children. METHODS:We ...