Advances in TB testing [0.03%]
结核病检测进展
Jayson V Pagaduan,Ghaith Altawallbeh
Jayson V Pagaduan
Globally, tuberculosis (TB) was the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent until the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In 2020, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB and a total of 1.5 million people died from the di...
Delta checks [0.03%]
德尔塔检查项目
Tze Ping Loh,Rui Zhen Tan,Sunil Kumar Sethi et al.
Tze Ping Loh et al.
Delta check is an electronic error detection tool. It compares the difference in sequential results within a patient against a predefined limit, and when exceeded, the delta check rule is considered triggered. The patient results should be ...
John Koussiouris,Vinod Chandran
John Koussiouris
Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease affecting over 8 million people in the US and Canada. Approximately, a quarter of psoriasis patients have an inflammatory arthritis termed psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Psoriatic disease encompassing b...
Ziteng Wang,Eric Yu Quan Leow,Hooi Yan Moy et al.
Ziteng Wang et al.
New psychoactive substances (NPS) are chemical compounds designed to mimic the action of existing illicit recreational drugs. Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) are a subclass of NPS which bind to the cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2, and mimic...
Drinking and laboratory biomarkers, and nutritional status characterize the clinical presentation of early-stage alcohol-associated liver disease [0.03%]
饮酒与实验室生物标志物以及营养状况特征的早期酒精性肝病临床表现
Vatsalya Vatsalya,Amor J Royer,Suman Kumar Jha et al.
Vatsalya Vatsalya et al.
Chronic and heavy alcohol consumption is commonly observed in alcohol use disorder (AUD). AUD often leads to alcohol-associated organ injury, including alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD). Approximately 10-20% of patients with AUD progre...
Andrew S Davison,Brendan P Norman
Andrew S Davison
Alkaptonuria (AKU) is an ultra-rare inherited inborn error of metabolism that afflicts the tyrosine metabolic pathway, resulting in the accumulation of homogentisic acid (HGA) in the circulation, and significant excretion in urine. Clinical...
Xu Chen,Lu Zhou,Can Cui et al.
Xu Chen et al.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but fatal neurodegenerative disease with the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons. Although electromyography, imaging and multi-omics technologies have suggested num...
L Wauthier,J Favresse,M Hardy et al.
L Wauthier et al.
D-dimer containing species are soluble fibrin degradation products derived from plasmin-mediated degradation of cross-linked fibrin, i.e., 'D-dimer'. D-dimer can hence be considered a biomarker of in vivo activation of both coagulation and ...
Xiao-Dong Ren,Ning Su,Xian-Ge Sun et al.
Xiao-Dong Ren et al.
Lung cancer is the second most-frequently occurring cancer and the leading cause of cancer-associated deaths worldwide. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the most common type of lung cancer is often diagnosed in middle or advanced stages ...
Charlotte Delrue,Reinhart Speeckaert,Joris R Delanghe et al.
Charlotte Delrue et al.
Growth differentiation factor-15 (GDF-15) is a GDF subfamily member with potential kidney protective functions. Its nephroprotective activity is associated with both inflammation downregulation and upregulation of nephroprotective factors w...