Browsing Vanderbilt University Medical Center by Title
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(Open Forum Infectiouis Diseases, 2019-12)Background. Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the leading cause of death in children. Identification of reliable bio-markers offers the potential to develop a severity quantitative score to assist in clinical decision-making ...
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(Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019-08-03)Objective: The primary aim of this study is to assess and characterize correlates of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series completion among young adult women evaluated by gynecological (GYN) providers at a single ...
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(Intensive Care Medicine, 2020-02)Purpose The aim of the RUBY study was to evaluate novel candidate biomarkers to enable prediction of persistence of renal dysfunction as well as further understand potential mechanisms of kidney tissue damage and repair ...
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(NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 2019-07-09)Fibrosis accompanying wound healing can drive the failure of many different organs. Activated fibroblasts are the principal determinants of post-injury pathological fibrosis along with physiological repair, making them a ...
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(FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2019-07-23)Acinetobacter baumannii A118, a strain isolated from the blood of an infected patient, is naturally competent and unlike most clinical strains, is susceptible to a variety of different antibiotics including those usually ...
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(Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2019-07)Retrospective administrative claims database studies provide real-world evidence about treatment patterns, healthcare resource use, and costs for patients and are increasingly used to inform policy-making, drug formulary, ...
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(PLoS ONE, 2022-06-28)Across rural sub-Saharan Africa, people living with HIV (PLHIV) commonly seek out treatment from traditional healers. We report on the clinical outcomes of a community health worker intervention adapted for traditional ...
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(Molecular Genetrics & Genome Medicine, 2019-06)BackgroundFamily screening of a 48-year-old male with recently diagnosed IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) revealed unanticipated elevations in plasma IgG4 in his two healthy teenaged sons. MethodsWe performed gene sequencing, ...
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(MOLECULAR GENETICS & GENOMIC MEDICINE, 2019-05)Background The IGNITE network funds six genomic medicine projects. Though interventions varied, we hypothesized that synergies across projects could be leveraged to better understand the participant experiences with genomic ...
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(Breast Cancer Research, 2019-12-19)Background: Heterogeneity of immune gene expression patterns of luminal breast cancer (BC), which is clinically heterogeneous and overall considered as low immunogenic, has not been well studied especially in non-European ...
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(European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2020-09)Purpose To assess the impact of baseline liver tumour burden, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) elevation, and target lesion size on treatment outcomes with Lu-177-Dotatate. Methods In the phase 3 NETTER-1 trial, patients with ...
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(2020-01-07)Background In infants with ductal-dependent pulmonary blood flow, the impact of palliation strategy on interstage growth and feeding regimen is unknown. Methods and Results This was a retrospective multicenter ...
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(Frontiers in Public Health, 2020-01-22)Background: Few studies of hospital-based implementation assess sustainability or collect formal implementation outcomes, in part because the emphasis is often on initial adoption and rapid cycles of improvement. The purpose ...
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(Jama Network Open, 2022-12-02)CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this cohort study, the new reporting mechanism facilitated identification of the small number of individuals associated with unprofessional behaviors toward trainees and increased awareness of ...
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(Oncologist, 2019-10)Drawing on discussions at a workshop hosted by the National Cancer Policy Forum, current challenges in pathology are reviewed and practical steps to facilitate high‐quality cancer diagnosis and care through improved patient ...
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(SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2019-07-02)Imaging apoptosis could provide an early and specific means to monitor tumor responses to treatment. To date, despite numerous attempts to develop molecular imaging approaches, there is still no widely-accepted and reliable ...
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(Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2019-06)Background There is an urgent need for biomarkers to better stratify patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by risk for lung transplantation allocation who have the same clinical presentation. We aimed to investigate ...
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(Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2019-07-17)Evolving technologies and increasing understanding of human physiology over the past century have afforded our ability to intervene on human diseases using implantable biomaterials. These bio-electronic devices present a ...
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(HEPATOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS, 2019-07)The accumulation of excess fat in the liver (hepatic steatosis) in the absence of heavy alcohol consumption causes nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), which has become a global epidemic. Identifying metabolic risk ...
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(Leukemia, 2020-09)Selinexor is an oral, small molecule inhibitor of the nuclear export protein exportin 1 with demonstrated activity in hematologic and solid malignancies. Side effects associated with selinexor include nausea, vomiting, ...