Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 316: Thyrotoxic Periodic Paralysis—A Misleading Challenge in the Emergency Department Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050316 Authors: Stefana Bilha Ovidiu Mitu Laura Teodoriu Cristian Haba Cristina Preda Despite its’ life-threatening potential due to cardiac severe dysrhythmia in the context of severe hypokalemia, thyrotoxic periodic paralysis (TPP) often goes unrecognized. Although classically confined to young Asian men, it can...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 315: The Over-Expression of E2F3Might Serve as Prognostic Marker for Neuroblastoma Patients with Stage 4S Disease Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050315 Authors: Parodi Ognibene Haupt Pezzolo Stage 4S neuroblastoma is a childhood cancer occurring in infants (<12 months at diagnosis) with metastases limited to liver, skin, and bone marrow (<10%). It is associated with an excellent outcome, due to its notable ability to undergo...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 312: Biomarkers of Muscle Metabolism in Peripheral Artery Disease: A Dynamic NIRS-Assisted Study to Detect Adaptations Following Revascularization and Exercise Training Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050312 Authors: Fabio Manfredini Nicola Lamberti Valentina Ficarra Elpiniki Tsolaki Sofia Straudi Paolo Zamboni Nino Basaglia Vincenzo Gasbarro We assessed whether muscle metabolism biomarkers (MMb) identified by near-infrared spectroscopy...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 313: Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography versus Transient Elastography: A Non-Invasive Comparison for the Assessment of Liver Fibrosis in Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050313 Authors: Rosanna Villani Francesco Cavallone Antonino Davide Romano Francesco Bellanti Gaetano Serviddio In recent years, several non-invasive methods have been developed for staging liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 314: Current Data Regarding the Relationship between Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Risk Factors Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050314 Authors: Cosmin Mihai Vesa Loredana Popa Amorin Remus Popa Marius Rus Andreea Atena Zaha Simona Bungau Delia Mirela Tit Raluca Anca Corb Aron Dana Carmen Zaha Reducing cardiovascular risk (CVR) is the main focus of diabetes mellitus (DM) management nowadays. Complex pathogenic mechanisms...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 311: Urinary Extracellular Vesicles as Biomarkers of Kidney Disease: From Diagnostics to Therapeutics Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050311 Authors: In O. Sun Lilach O. Lerman Cell-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) can be isolated from various body fluids, including urine. Urinary EVs have gained important recognition as potential diagnostic biomarkers in renal disease since their cargo includes nucleic acids, proteins, and other cellular components,...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 309: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Final Stage of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050309 Authors: Stefan M. Golaszewski Bettina Wutzl Axel F. Unterrainer Cristina Florea Kerstin Schwenker Vanessa N. Frey Martin Kronbichler Frank Rattay Raffaele Nardone Larissa Hauer Johann Sellner Eugen Trinka Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is a rare fatal degenerative disease of the...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 307: Using Machine Learning to Predict Bacteremia in Febrile Children Presented to the Emergency Department Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050307 Authors: Chih-Min Tsai Chun-Hung Richard Lin Huan Zhang I-Min Chiu Chi-Yung Cheng Hong-Ren Yu Ying-Hsien Huang Blood culture is frequently used to detect bacteremia in febrile children. However, a high rate of negative or false-positive blood culture results is common at the pediatric emergency...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 308: Who Bites Me? A Tentative Discriminative Key to Diagnose Hematophagous Ectoparasites Biting Using Clinical Manifestations Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050308 Authors: Mohammad Akhoundi Denis Sereno Anthony Marteau Christiane Bruel Arezki Izri Arthropod blood feeders are vectors of several human pathogenic agents, including viruses (e.g., yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue fever), parasites (e.g., malaria, leishmaniasis, lymphatic filariasis),...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 310: Clinical Impact of Sarcopenia and Inflammatory/Nutritional Markers in Patients with Unresectable Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma Treated with Pembrolizumab Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050310 Authors: Shimizu Miyake Hori Ichikawa Omori Iemura Owari Itami Nakai Anai Tomioka Tanaka Fujimoto Sarcopenia is a muscle loss syndrome known as a risk factor of various carcinomas. The impact of sarcopenia...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 305: Characterization of Stem-like Circulating Tumor Cells in Pancreatic Cancer Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050305 Authors: Zhu Hissa Győrffy Jann Yang Reissfelder Schölch Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth most frequent cause of death from cancer. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) with stem-like characteristics lead to distant metastases and thus contribute to the dismal prognosis of PDAC. Our purpose is...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 306: Performance of Radiomics Features in the Quantification of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis from HRCT Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050306 Authors: Stefano Gioè Russo Palmucci Torrisi Bignardi Basile Comelli Benfante Sambataro Falsaperla Torcitto Attanasio Yezzi Vancheri Background: Our study assesses the diagnostic value of different features extracted from high resolution computed tomography...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 304: Can Computed Tomography Perfusion Predict Treatment Response After Prostate Artery Embolization: A Feasibility Study Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050304 Authors: Brian Malling Martin Andreas Røder Carsten Lauridsen Lars Lönn Prostate artery embolization (PAE) is an emerging therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Optimal patient selection is an important step when introducing new treatments and several characteristics associated...
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Diagnostics, Vol. 10, Pages 303: Biomarkers for Temporomandibular Disorders: Current Status and Future Directions Diagnostics doi: 10.3390/diagnostics10050303 Authors: Abdalwhab Zwiri Mohammad A. I. Al-Hatamleh Wan Muhamad Amir W. Ahmad Jawaad Ahmed Asif Suan Phaik Khoo Adam Husein Zuryati Ab-Ghani Nur Karyatee Kassim Numerous studies have been conducted in the previous years with an objective to determine the ideal biomarker or set of biomarkers in temporomandibular...
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