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For the driving safety of electric vehicle (EV), intelligent diagnosis based on artificial hydrocarbon networks (AHNs) is proposed to detect mechanical faults of in-wheel motor (IWM) which is a promising force pattern of EV. AHNs, a novel mathematical model of supervised learning algorithm, can encapsulate or inherit or mix any information, then are adapted to deal with serious external interference and the variable operating conditions. Based on the basic AHNs, complex error function is proposed to optimize more information of classification targets, and distance error ratio is defined to evaluate the performance. Then, the improved AHNs is employed to build two intelligent diagnosis systems namely one-stop diagnosis and sequential diagnosis, which select the same and different symptom parameters as the object of a follow-on process, respectively. The effectiveness of the proposed methods is validated by two case studies of Case Western Reserve University dataset and mechanical faults data from IWM's test bench.Neurological autoimmunity is increasingly recognized as a complication of immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) cancer immunotherapy. ICIs act by enhancing endogenous anti-tumor immune responses and can also lead to autoimmunity affecting all organs. ICI-related neurological autoimmunity is rare, most often manifests with neuromuscular involvement and more rarely affects the central nervous system. Neurological complications often often present in the first three months of ICI treatment but can also appear after ICI discontinuation. These can occur in patients with tumors not traditionally associated with paraneoplastic neurological autoimmunity, such as melanoma and renal-cell carcinoma and should be suspected when a new neurological symptoms present while on ICI and cannot be explained by disease progression or as a consequence of metabolic dysfunction. Treatment consists of ICI discontinuation or withdrawal depending on the severity with or without immunosuppression. Generally, improvement is observed depending on the patient's baseline characteristics and neurological presentation.
Dialysis is a well-established risk factor for morbidity and mortality after cardiovascular procedures. However, little is known regarding the outcomes of proximal aortic surgery in this high-risk cohort.

Perioperative (in-hospital or 30-day mortality) and 10-year outcomes were analyzed for all the patients who underwent open proximal aortic repair with the diagnosis of nonruptured thoracic aortic aneurysm (aneurysm, n=325) or type A aortic dissection (dissection, n=461) from 1987 to 2015 using the US Renal Data System database.

In patients with aneurysm, perioperative mortality was 12.6%. The 10-year mortality was 81%±3%. Age 65years or more (hazard ratio [HR], 1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.03 to 1.78; P=.03), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (HR, 1.68; 95% CI, 1.01-2.82; P=.047), and Black race (HR, 1.46; 95% CI, 1.09-1.97; P=.01) were independently associated with worse 10-year mortality. In patients with dissection, perioperative mortality was 24.3% and 10-year mortality was 87.9%±2.2%.emergency surgery for acute type A aortic dissections.
Pharmacovigilance (PV) rules emerged in the late 60s-early 70s. Since that time, the World Health Organization Center for International Drug Monitoring carries out the corresponding tasks. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that generally starts in young adults between 20 and 40 years of age. Over the last 25 years, MS patients have benefited from the development of a plethora of disease modifying drugs (DMD). These changes in the therapeutic armamentarium have been associated with some serious adverse reactions challenging health authorities and neurologists involved in treatment and care for MS patients.

The present review aims to describe, for MS DMDs, how adverse drug reactions are reported during clinical trials and the post-marketing period and how important signal detection and benefit-risk management have been in this disease until now. Several examples are reported to illustrate the different steps of PV processes.

Improvement of the PV system procedures has led to significant progress in the detection of signals, allowing better assessment of the benefit-risk balance and the implementation of risk management plans for MS treatments. The involvement of neurologists is essential to improve knowledge on the benefit-risk balance of these drugs. In addition, adverse drug reactions reporting by persons with MS should be encouraged.
Improvement of the PV system procedures has led to significant progress in the detection of signals, allowing better assessment of the benefit-risk balance and the implementation of risk management plans for MS treatments. The involvement of neurologists is essential to improve knowledge on the benefit-risk balance of these drugs. In addition, adverse drug reactions reporting by persons with MS should be encouraged.Major therapeutic advances have been made recently in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, due to the development of targeted therapies, namely BRAF and MEK inhibitors, in patients with BRAF V600 mutation. Combinations of vemurafenib+cobimetinib, dabrafenib+trametinib, et encorafenib+binimetinib, evaluated in coBRIM, COMBI-d/COMBI-v and COLUMBUS trials respectively have been approved in this indication. Toxicities induced by combination therapies are different from those reported with monotherapies, in terms of frequency and intensity. Physicians who treat melanoma patients thus face news issues relating to prevention, detection and treatment of these adverse events. This paper summarizes tolerance data from the three pivotal trials (coBRIM, COMBI-v and COLUMBUS) and issues recommendations for the specific management of main toxicities, based on experts' opinion. We discuss dermatological, ophthalmological, cardiovascular, digestive, musculoskeletal, renal and general toxicities and propose a timetable for examinations to be performed before and during treatment.
The objective of the study is to identify the risk factors associated with mortality at six weeks, especially by analyzing the role of antivirals and munomodulators.

Prospective descriptive multicenter cohort study.

26 Intensive care units (ICU) from Andalusian region in Spain.

Consecutive critically ill patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection were included from March 8 to May 30.

None.

Variables analyzed were demographic, severity scores and clinical condition. Support therapy, drug and mortality were analyzed. An univariate followed by multivariate Cox regression with propensity score analysis was applied.

495 patients were enrolled, but 73 of them were excluded for incomplete data. Thus, 422 patients were included in the final analysis. Selleck TMP195 Median age was 63 years and 305 (72.3%) were men. ICU mortality 144/422 34%; 14 days mortality 81/422 (19.2%); 28 days mortality 121/422 (28.7%); 6-week mortality 152/422 36.5%. By multivariable Cox proportional analysis, factors independently associated with 42-day mortality were age, APACHE II score, SOFA score at ICU admission >6, Lactate dehydrogenase at ICU admission >470U/L, Use of vasopressors, extrarenal depuration, %lymphocytes 72h post-ICU admission <6.
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