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This review evaluates the current landscape of diagnostic techniques for onychomycosis.Purpose This study aimed to compare the clinical characteristics, laboratory findings, and chest computed tomography (CT) findings of familial cluster (FC) and non-familial (NF) patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. Methods This retrospective study included 178 symptomatic adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19. The 178 patients were divided into FC (n = 108) and NF (n = 70) groups. Patients with at least two confirmed COVID-19 cases in their household were classified into the FC group. The clinical and laboratory features between the two groups were compared and so were the chest CT findings on-admission and end-hospitalization. Results Compared with the NF group, the FC group had a longer period of exposure (13.1 vs. 8.9 days, p less then 0.001), viral shedding (21.5 vs. N-acetylcysteine TNF-alpha inhibitor 15.9 days, p less then 0.001), and hospital stay (39.2 vs. 22.2 days, p less then 0.001). The FC group showed a higher number of involved lung lobes on admission (3.0 vs. 2.3, p = 0.017) and at end-hospitalization (3.6 vs. 1.7, p less then 0.001) as well as higher sum severity CT scores at end-hospitalization (4.6 vs. 2.7, p = 0.005) than did the NF group. Conversely, the FC group had a lower lymphocyte count level (p less then 0.001) and a significantly lower difference in the number of involved lung lobes (Δnumber) between admission and discharge (p less then 0.001). Notably, more cases of severe or critical illness were observed in the FC group than in the NF group (p = 0.036). Conclusions Patients in the FC group had a worse clinical course and outcome than those in the NF group; thus, close monitoring during treatment and follow-ups after discharge would be beneficial for patients with familial infections.Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection; no current clinical measure adequately reflects the concept of dysregulated response. Coagulation plays a pivotal role in the normal response to pathogens (immunothrombosis), thus the evolution toward sepsis-induced coagulopathy could be individuate through coagulation/fibrinolysis-related biomarkers. We focused on the role of D-dimer assessed within 24 h after admission in predicting clinical outcomes in a cohort of 270 patients hospitalized in a 79 months period for meningitis and/or bloodstream infections due to Streptococcus pneumoniae (n = 162) or Neisseria meningitidis (n = 108). Comparisons were performed with unpaired t-test, Mann-Whitney-test or chi-squared-test with continuity correction, as appropriate, and multivariable logistic regression analysis was performed with Bayesian model averaging. In-hospital mortality was 14.8% for the overall population, significantly higher in S. pneumoniae tmplications in patients with invasive infections due to N. meningitidis D-dimer less then 500 ng/mL excludes any further complications, and a cut-off of 7,000 ng/mL seems able to predict a significantly increased mortality risk from much less then 10% to over 25%.Background Numerous studies have attempted to apply artificial intelligence (AI) in the dermatological field, mainly on the classification and segmentation of various dermatoses. However, researches under real clinical settings are scarce. Objectives This study was aimed to construct a novel framework based on deep learning trained by a dataset that represented the real clinical environment in a tertiary class hospital in China, for better adaptation of the AI application in clinical practice among Asian patients. Methods Our dataset was composed of 13,603 dermatologist-labeled dermoscopic images, containing 14 categories of diseases, namely lichen planus (LP), rosacea (Rosa), viral warts (VW), acne vulgaris (AV), keloid and hypertrophic scar (KAHS), eczema and dermatitis (EAD), dermatofibroma (DF), seborrheic dermatitis (SD), seborrheic keratosis (SK), melanocytic nevus (MN), hemangioma (Hem), psoriasis (Pso), port wine stain (PWS), and basal cell carcinoma (BCC). In this study, we applied Google's Efficient85. We further compared this model with 280 board-certificated dermatologists, and results showed a comparable performance level in an 8-class diagnostic task. Conclusions The proposed framework retrained by the dataset that represented the real clinical environment in our department could accurately classify most common dermatoses that we encountered during outpatient practice including infectious and inflammatory dermatoses, benign and malignant cutaneous tumors.Introduction Acute kidney injury has been identified as a common complication of cardiac surgery. To date, the effect of the time interval from coronary angiography to cardiac surgery on postoperative acute kidney injury is still controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the timing of coronary angiography and cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury. Methods Eight hundred thirteen patients who underwent coronary angiography and cardiac surgery successively from January 2017 to December 2018 were included in this retrospective cohort study. We applied multivariate logistic regression, propensity score analysis, and subgroup analysis to evaluate the association between the time interval and postoperative acute kidney injury incidence and prognosis. Meta-analysis was conducted to verify the results. Results The overall incidence of the cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury was 28.8%. Age (OR = 1.046, 95%CI 1.017-1.075), cardiopulmonary bypass (OR = 3.439, 95%CI 1.316-8.986) and diabetes (OR = 2.522, 95%CI 1.439-4.417) were found to be independent risk factors of postoperative acute kidney injury in multivariate logistic regression and propensity score analysis. Undergoing cardiac surgery within 7 days after coronary angiography was not associated with increased incidence of postoperative acute kidney injury or worse prognosis. Meta-analysis obtained consistent results. Conclusions The time interval shorter than 7 days had no influence on cardiac surgery associated acute kidney injury incidence and prognosis. The decision of delaying the surgery should be made after comprehensive evaluation of the patient.
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