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Dhayal KS, Agrawal S, Agrawal R, Kumar A, Giri AK. Green energy innovation initiatives for environmental sustainability: current state and future research directions. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024:10.1007/s11356-024-33286-x. [PMID: 38656717 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-33286-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Worldwide, all countries have been facing the crisis of climate change problem. They have been addressing this issue by focusing on implementing green energy innovation initiatives and promoting a sustainable future through environmental sustainability. In this research study, we focus on examining the role of green finance through green energy innovations, which are taking place in several sectors across different regions to promote environmental sustainability. The study has analysed 152 articles on this research domain through a systematic literature review to understand the present state of existing knowledge. The current study examines the Scopus-indexed research articles from the time period 2002 to 2023. Six emerging themes have been examined to understand their development and the potential impact of green initiatives for environmental sustainability. Various institutional theories have been explored to understand their association with the investigated research area. The paper has discussed multiple challenges that need to be addressed for the speedy implementation of green innovations. Finally, future research questions have been proposed based on the findings from the extant literature and the existing research gaps.
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- Karambir Singh Dhayal
- Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India.
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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- Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management, Bodhgaya, Bihar, India
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- Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
- Department of Management Studies, Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradu, Uttarakhand, India
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, India
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Dunn W, Li Y, Singal AK, Simonetto DA, Díaz LA, Idalsoaga F, Ayares G, Arnold J, Ayala-Valverde M, Perez D, Gomez J, Escarate R, Fuentes-López E, Ramirez-Cadiz C, Morales-Arraez D, Zhang W, Qian S, Ahn JC, Buryska S, Mehta H, Dunn N, Waleed M, Stefanescu H, Bumbu A, Horhat A, Attar B, Agrawal R, Cabezas J, Echavaría V, Cuyàs B, Poca M, Soriano G, Sarin SK, Maiwall R, Jalal PK, Higuera-de-la-Tijera F, Kulkarni AV, Rao PN, Guerra-Salazar P, Skladaný L, Kubánek N, Prado V, Clemente-Sanchez A, Rincon D, Haider T, Chacko KR, Romero GA, Pollarsky FD, Restrepo JC, Toro LG, Yaquich P, Mendizabal M, Garrido ML, Marciano S, Dirchwolf M, Vargas V, Jiménez C, Hudson D, García-Tsao G, Ortiz G, Abraldes JG, Kamath PS, Arrese M, Shah VH, Bataller R, Arab JP. An artificial intelligence-generated model predicts 90-day survival in alcohol-associated hepatitis: A global cohort study. Hepatology 2024:01515467-990000000-00843. [PMID: 38607809 DOI: 10.1097/hep.0000000000000883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/14/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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BACKGROUND AIMS Alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) poses significant short-term mortality. Existing prognostic models lack precision for 90-day mortality. Utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) in a global cohort, we sought to derive and validate an enhanced prognostic model. APPROACH AND RESULTS The Global AlcHep initiative, a retrospective study across 23 centers in 12 countries, enrolled AH patients per NIAAA criteria. Centers were partitioned into derivation (11 centers, 860 patients) and validation cohorts (12 centers, 859 patients). Focusing on 30 and 90-day post-admission mortality, three AI algorithms (Random Forest, Gradient Boosting Machines, and eXtreme Gradient Boosting) informed an ensemble model, subsequently refined via Bayesian updating, integrating the derivation cohort's average 90-day mortality with each center's approximate mortality rate to produce post-test probabilities. The ALCoholic Hepatitis Artificial INtelligence (ALCHAIN) Ensemble score integrated age, gender, cirrhosis, and 9 laboratory values, with center-specific mortality rates. Mortality was 18.7% (30-day) and 27.9% (90-day) in the derivation cohort, versus 21.7% and 32.5% in the validation cohort. Validation cohort 30 and 90-day AUCs were 0.811 (0.779 - 0.844) and 0.799 (0.769 - 0.830), significantly surpassing legacy models like Maddrey's Discriminant Function, MELD variations, ABIC, Glasgow, and modified Glasgow Scores (p<0.001). ALCHAIN Ensemble score also showcased superior calibration against MELD and its variants. Steroid use improved 30-day survival for those with an ALCHAIN Ensemble score>0.20 in both derivation and validation cohorts. CONCLUSIONS Harnessing AI within a global consortium, we pioneered a scoring system excelling over traditional models for 30 and 90-day AH mortality predictions. Beneficial for clinical trials, steroid therapy, and transplant indications, it's accessible at: https://aihepatology.shinyapps.io/ALCHAIN/.
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, KS, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Health Sciences, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University & London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Center for Liver Disease and Liver Transplantation, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, KS, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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- Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Hatieganu" Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Cook County Health, and Hospital Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of West Virginia, West Virginia, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department. University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla. Santander. Spain; Clinical and Translational Research in Digestive Diseases, Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL). Santander, Spain
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department. University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla. Santander. Spain; Clinical and Translational Research in Digestive Diseases, Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL). Santander, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Servicio de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Hospital General de México "Dr. Eduardo Liceaga"; Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
- Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
- CIBERehd Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas, Madrid, Spain
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- Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hepatología del Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Grupo de Gastrohepatología de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospitales de San Vicente Fundación de Medellín y Rionegro, Colombia
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Santiago, Chile
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hígado, Hospital Privado de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University & London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine/VA-CT Healthcare System, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine/VA-CT Healthcare System, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Liver Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain; Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University & London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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Sarraf P, Agrawal R, Alrashdan H, Agarwal M, Boulay B, Mutlu ER, Tussing-Humphreys L, Conwell D, Kim S, Layden BT, Yazici C. Racial and Ethnic Minorities With Acute Pancreatitis Live in Neighborhoods With Higher Social Vulnerability Scores. Pancreas 2024; 53:e317-e322. [PMID: 38416846 PMCID: PMC10959690 DOI: 10.1097/mpa.0000000000002308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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OBJECTIVES The primary objective was to determine differences in Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) scores among minorities (African-Americans and Hispanics) with acute pancreatitis (AP) compared with non-Hispanic whites (NHWs) with AP. The secondary objectives were to determine differences in diet, sulfidogenic bacteria gene copy numbers (gcn) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels between the 2 groups. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with AP were enrolled during hospitalization (n = 54). Patient residential addresses were geocoded, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's SVI scores were appended. Dietary intake and serum H2S levels were determined. Microbial DNAs were isolated from stool, and gcn of sulfidogenic bacteria were determined. RESULTS Minorities had higher SVI scores compared with NHWs ( P = 0.006). They also had lower consumption of beneficial nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids [stearidonic ( P = 0.019), and eicosapentaenoic acid ( P = 0.042)], vitamin D ( P = 0.025), and protein from seafood ( P = 0.031). Lastly, minorities had higher pan-dissimilatory sulfite reductase A ( pan-dsrA ) gcn ( P = 0.033) but no significant differences in H2S levels ( P = 0.226). CONCLUSION Minorities with AP have higher SVI compared with NHWs with AP. Higher SVI scores, lower consumption of beneficial nutrients, and increased gcn of pan-dsrA in minorities with AP suggest that neighborhood vulnerability could be contributing to AP inequities.
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- Paya Sarraf
- Division of Internal Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Department of Digestive Health, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
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- Department of Health Policy and Administration, University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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Fong C, Kueh WL, Lew SJW, Ho BCH, Wong YL, Lau YH, Chia YW, Tan HL, Seet YHC, Siow WT, MacLaren G, Agrawal R, Lim TJ, Lim SL, Lim TW, Ho VK, Soh CR, Sewa DW, Loo CM, Khan FA, Tan CK, Gokhale RS, Siau C, Lim NLSH, Yim CF, Venkatachalam J, Venkatesan K, Chia NCH, Liew MF, Li G, Li L, Myat SM, Zena Z, Zhuo S, Yueh LL, Tan CSF, Ma J, Yeo SL, Chan YH, Phua J. Predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in intensive care units in Singapore: a multicentre observational study. J Intensive Care 2024; 12:13. [PMID: 38528556 DOI: 10.1186/s40560-024-00725-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines on limitation of life-sustaining treatments (LST) in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the form of withholding or withdrawal of LST, state that there is no ethical difference between the two. Such statements are not uniformly accepted worldwide, and there are few studies on LST limitation in Asia. This study aimed to evaluate the predictors and outcomes of withholding and withdrawal of LST in Singapore, focusing on the similarities and differences between the two approaches. METHODS This was a multicentre observational study of patients admitted to 21 adult ICUs across 9 public hospitals in Singapore over an average of three months per year from 2014 to 2019. The primary outcome measures were withholding and withdrawal of LST (cardiopulmonary resuscitation, invasive mechanical ventilation, and vasopressors/inotropes). The secondary outcome measure was hospital mortality. Multivariable generalised mixed model analysis was used to identify independent predictors for withdrawal and withholding of LST and if LST limitation predicts hospital mortality. RESULTS There were 8907 patients and 9723 admissions. Of the former, 80.8% had no limitation of LST, 13.0% had LST withheld, and 6.2% had LST withdrawn. Common independent predictors for withholding and withdrawal were increasing age, absence of chronic kidney dialysis, greater dependence in activities of daily living, cardiopulmonary resuscitation before ICU admission, higher Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score, and higher level of care in the first 24 h of ICU admission. Additional predictors for withholding included being of Chinese race, the religions of Hinduism and Islam, malignancy, and chronic liver failure. The additional predictor for withdrawal was lower hospital paying class (with greater government subsidy for hospital bills). Hospital mortality in patients without LST limitation, with LST withholding, and with LST withdrawal was 10.6%, 82.1%, and 91.8%, respectively (p < 0.001). Withholding (odds ratio 13.822, 95% confidence interval 9.987-19.132) and withdrawal (odds ratio 38.319, 95% confidence interval 24.351-60.298) were both found to be independent predictors of hospital mortality on multivariable analysis. CONCLUSIONS Differences in the independent predictors of withholding and withdrawal of LST exist. Even after accounting for baseline characteristics, both withholding and withdrawal of LST independently predict hospital mortality. Later mortality in patients who had LST withdrawn compared to withholding suggests that the decision to withdraw may be at the point when medical futility is recognised.
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- Clare Fong
- FAST and Chronic Programmes, Alexandra Hospital, 378 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 159964, Singapore.
- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore.
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- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Department of Cardiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Neurology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- FAST and Chronic Programmes, Alexandra Hospital, 378 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 159964, Singapore
- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Cardiothoracic ICU, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, National University Heart Centre, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesia, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119074, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
- Department of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
- Pre-Hospital and Emergency Research Center, Duke-NUS Medical School, 8 College Rd, Singapore, 16985, Singapore
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- Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital, 110 Sengkang East Way, Singapore, 544886, Singapore
- Department of Surgical Intensive Care, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesiology, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, 1 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore, 609606, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, 1 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore, 609606, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore, 529889, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore, 529889, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore, 529889, Singapore
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- Department of Women's Anaesthesia, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 229899, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, Singapore, 768828, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, Singapore, 768828, Singapore
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- Department of Anaesthesia, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, 90 Yishun Central, Singapore, 768828, Singapore
- Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, 10 Medical Dr, Singapore, 117597, Singapore
- Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, 11 Mandalay Rd, Singapore, 308232, Singapore
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- FAST and Chronic Programmes, Alexandra Hospital, 378 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 159964, Singapore
- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Unit Operations, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Unit Operations, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore, 308433, Singapore
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- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Outram Road, Singapore, 169608, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, 1 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore, 609606, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, 1 Jurong East Street 21, Singapore, 609606, Singapore
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- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital, 110 Sengkang East Way, Singapore, 544886, Singapore
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- Division of Nursing, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 229899, Singapore
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- Division of Nursing, KK Women's and Children's Hospital, 100 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore, 229899, Singapore
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- Biostatistics Unit, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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- FAST and Chronic Programmes, Alexandra Hospital, 378 Alexandra Road, Singapore, 159964, Singapore
- Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapore
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Sharma A, Wu L, Bloom S, Stanga P, Agrawal R, Downes RA, Rachitskaya AV, Ghalibafan S, Cai LZ, Yannuzzi NA, Shanmugam PM, Wakabayashi T, Avci R, Rezaei KA. RWC Update: Unstapling the Retina From a Firecracker Injury; Macula-On Retinal Detachment: When To Operate?; Choroidal Coloboma. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina 2024; 55:125-128. [PMID: 38466966 DOI: 10.3928/23258160-20240212-01] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/13/2024]
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Dhayal KS, Giri AK, Kumar A, Samadhiya A, Agrawal S, Agrawal R. Can green finance facilitate Industry 5.0 transition to achieve sustainability? A systematic review with future research directions. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:102158-102180. [PMID: 37695480 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29539-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/12/2023]
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Most of the world's rising carbon emission results from industrial activities. Previous industrial revolutions did not put much thought into safeguarding the natural world. Governments worldwide have been continuously implementing regulations and policies for the mitigation of climate change to promote sustainable development. To achieve decarbonization, the climate change discussion is merged with Industry 5.0 (I5.0) where green finance (GF) plays a crucial role. This technological metamorphosis of transition from Industry 4.0 (I4.0) to I5.0 will affect humans and their society. I5.0 forms a symbiotic relationship with different aspects of Society 5.0 (S5.0) such as social (human‒machine centricity), ecological (zero emissions), and technological (green innovations). Thus, the I5.0 transition prioritizes greening the economy in pursuit of achieving S5.0. Through a systematic review of 196 articles, this research study concisely summarizes the rapidly expanding body of information. The research domain gave six major themes: Green Innovations (GI), Green Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Circular Economy (CE), Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM), Emerging Economies, and Net Zero Economy (NZE). Finally, a framework has been provided that illustrates the supporting role of GF for the I5.0 transition eventually followed by S5.0. This study provides an overview of these themes with their propositions and future research directions. The present study addresses the knowledge gap by providing valuable contributions to the burgeoning research domain of I5.0 and GF. Moreover, it aims to garner the attention of different stakeholders to integrate these two concepts of research to attain the goal of sustainable development.
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- Karambir Singh Dhayal
- Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India
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- Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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- Operations and Supply Chain Management, Jindal Global Business School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India
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- Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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- Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bodhgaya, Bihar, India
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Díaz LA, Fuentes-López E, Ayares G, Idalsoaga F, Arnold J, Valverde MA, Perez D, Gómez J, Escarate R, Villalón A, Ramírez CA, Hernandez-Tejero M, Zhang W, Qian S, Simonetto DA, Ahn JC, Buryska S, Dunn W, Mehta H, Agrawal R, Cabezas J, García-Carrera I, Cuyàs B, Poca M, Soriano G, Sarin SK, Maiwall R, Jalal PK, Abdulsada S, Higuera-de-la-Tijera F, Kulkarni AV, Rao PN, Salazar PG, Skladaný L, Bystrianska N, Clemente-Sanchez A, Villaseca-Gómez C, Haider T, Chacko KR, Romero GA, Pollarsky FD, Restrepo JC, Castro-Sanchez S, Toro LG, Yaquich P, Mendizabal M, Garrido ML, Marciano S, Dirchwolf M, Vargas V, Jiménez C, Louvet A, García-Tsao G, Roblero JP, Abraldes JG, Shah VH, Kamath PS, Arrese M, Singal AK, Bataller R, Arab JP. MELD 3.0 adequately predicts mortality and renal replacement therapy requirements in patients with alcohol-associated hepatitis. JHEP Rep 2023; 5:100727. [PMID: 37456675 PMCID: PMC10339256 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2022] [Revised: 02/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023] Open
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Background & Aims Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score better predicts mortality in alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH) but could underestimate severity in women and malnourished patients. Using a global cohort, we assessed the ability of the MELD 3.0 score to predict short-term mortality in AH. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study of patients admitted to hospital with AH from 2009 to 2019. The main outcome was all-cause 30-day mortality. We compared the AUC using DeLong's method and also performed a time-dependent AUC with competing risks analysis. Results A total of 2,124 patients were included from 28 centres from 10 countries on three continents (median age 47.2 ± 11.2 years, 29.9% women, 71.3% with underlying cirrhosis). The median MELD 3.0 score at admission was 25 (20-33), with an estimated survival of 73.7% at 30 days. The MELD 3.0 score had a better performance in predicting 30-day mortality (AUC:0.761, 95%CI:0.732-0.791) compared with MELD sodium (MELD-Na; AUC: 0.744, 95% CI: 0.713-0.775; p = 0.042) and Maddrey's discriminant function (mDF) (AUC: 0.724, 95% CI: 0.691-0.757; p = 0.013). However, MELD 3.0 did not perform better than traditional MELD (AUC: 0.753, 95% CI: 0.723-0.783; p = 0.300) and Age-Bilirubin-International Normalised Ratio-Creatinine (ABIC) (AUC:0.757, 95% CI: 0.727-0.788; p = 0.765). These results were consistent in competing-risk analysis, where MELD 3.0 (AUC: 0.757, 95% CI: 0.724-0.790) predicted better 30-day mortality compared with MELD-Na (AUC: 0.739, 95% CI: 0.708-0.770; p = 0.028) and mDF (AUC:0.717, 95% CI: 0.687-0.748; p = 0.042). The MELD 3.0 score was significantly better in predicting renal replacement therapy requirements during admission compared with the other scores (AUC: 0.844, 95% CI: 0.805-0.883). Conclusions MELD 3.0 demonstrated better performance compared with MELD-Na and mDF in predicting 30-day and 90-day mortality, and was the best predictor of renal replacement therapy requirements during admission for AH. However, further prospective studies are needed to validate its extensive use in AH. Impact and implications Severe AH has high short-term mortality. The establishment of treatments and liver transplantation depends on mortality prediction. We evaluated the performance of the new MELD 3.0 score to predict short-term mortality in AH in a large global cohort. MELD 3.0 performed better in predicting 30- and 90-day mortality compared with MELD-Na and mDF, but was similar to MELD and ABIC scores. MELD 3.0 was the best predictor of renal replacement therapy requirements. Thus, further prospective studies are needed to support the wide use of MELD 3.0 in AH.
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- Luis Antonio Díaz
- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Ciencias de la Salud, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Departamento de Ciencias Médicas, Facultad de Medicina y Odontología, Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile
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- Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Medicine, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
- Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Gastroenterology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- University of Kansas Medical Center, KS, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department. University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
- Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department. University Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain
- Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Institut de Recerca Hospital de Sant Pau-IIB Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital General de México ‘Dr. Eduardo Liceaga’, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, Mexico
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- CIBERehd Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- CIBERehd Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hepatología del Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Grupo de Gastrohepatología de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Unidad de Hepatología del Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Grupo de Gastrohepatología de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospitales de San Vicente Fundación de Medellín y Rionegro, Medellín, Colombia
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Santiago, Chile
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hígado, Hospital Privado de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, CIBEREHD, Barcelona, Spain
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, CIBEREHD, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hôpital Claude Huriez, Services des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif, CHRU Lille, and Unité INSERM 995, Lille, France
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- Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine/VA-CT Healthcare System, New Haven/West Haven, CT, USA
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- Sección Gastroenterología, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Liver Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine and Transplant Hepatology, Avera Transplant Institute, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University & London Health Sciences Centre, London, ONT, Canada
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, ONT, Canada
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Agrawal R, Yang J, Ali S, Ghoulam E, Mutneja H, Bhurwal A, Boulay B, Villa EC. Safety and Efficacy of Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in the Management of Gastric Tube Cancers After Esophagectomy: A Systematic Review. Cureus 2023; 15:e40526. [PMID: 37461759 PMCID: PMC10350321 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.40526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/16/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023] Open
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Esophagectomy is the proposed standard of care for resectable primary esophageal cancers and recurrent lesions in the reconstructed gastric tube (GT); however, it carries significant morbidity and mortality. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has established its role in the management of primary esophageal cancers with growing evidence of its safety in resecting recurrent primary lesions in GT. Our study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ESD in the management of recurrent, localized primary esophageal cancers in GT. We searched PubMed, CENTRAL, EMBASE, Scopus, and clinical trial registries from inception to March 2023 for articles evaluating the safety and efficacy of ESD in the management of recurrent cancerous lesions in GT. Our primary outcome was the en bloc resection rate. Secondary outcomes were curative resection rate, complete resection rate, intra-procedural complication rate, post-procedure complication rate, and five-year survival rate. Seven studies with a total of 165 patients undergoing 192 ESDs were included in the review. The pooled en bloc resection rate was 92.5% (95% CI: 87.7-95.6), which was reported in all seven studies. Pooled complete resection rate was 78.9% (95% CI: 64.5-88.5) per three studies, pooled curative resection rate was 73.9% (95% CI: 63.5-82.2) per four studies, and pooled intra-procedural complication rate was 10.2% (95% CI: 1.5-46.3), which was reported in four studies. Only three studies reported a five-year survival rate that was 65.5% (95% CI: 56.0-73.9). ESD is safe and efficacious in the management of GT cancer after esophagectomy.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Internal Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Internal Medicine, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, USA
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- Gastroenterology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, USA
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Yadav S, Luthra S, Kumar A, Agrawal R, Frederico GF. Exploring the relationship between digitalization, resilient agri-food supply chain management practices and firm performance. JEIM 2023. [DOI: 10.1108/jeim-03-2022-0095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/30/2023]
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PurposeThis study aims to explore the mediating role of digital technologies-based supply chain integrating (SCI) strategies on the agri-supply chain performance (SCP) and firm performance (FP). This research has introduced recently emerged digital technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT). Further, based on theoretical support and an extensive literature review, this research has proposed some hypotheses, which have been quantitatively validated for their significance.Design/methodology/approachA conceptual model was formulated based on an extensive literature review. Data for this research were gathered from a survey completed by 119 respondents from different departments of agri-firms. Further, partial least square (PLS)-based structured equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the proposed hypothetical model.FindingsThe results confirm that IoT-based digital technologies and supply chain processes (organization integration [OI], information sharing and customer integration [CI]) have a significant positive correlation. Furthermore, supply chain practices are positively associated with SCP. Finally, it has been found that FP is positively impacted by SCP.Research limitations/implicationsThis research is used to analyse the mediating impacts of digital supply chain processes as a linking strategy for SCP and FP. For practical purposes, this research provides investment decisions for implementing digital technologies in SC strategies. The findings have proposed implications for managers and practitioners in agri-firms based on existing theories: contingency theory (CT) and relational view theory. Also, this study suggests the deployment of smarter electronically based tags and readers, which improve the data analytics capabilities based on auto-captured data. Thus, the availability of quality information improves the data-driven decisional capabilities of managers at company level.Originality/valueThis is a unique and original study exploring the relationship between digitalization, resilient agri-food supply chain (AFSC) management practices and firm performance. This research may be extended to other industries in view of the results from SCP and impact of digitalization.
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Agrawal R, Priyadarshinee P, Kumar A, Luthra S, Garza-Reyes JA, Kadyan S. Are emerging technologies unlocking the potential of sustainable practices in the context of a net-zero economy? An analysis of driving forces. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023:1-19. [PMID: 36934193 PMCID: PMC10024615 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26434-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 03/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Increasing globalization and climate change have significantly affected business activities. Government and other stakeholders are creating pressure to have a sustainable business model for efficient resource utilization and minimizing negative environmental impact. Many organizations have started focusing on sustainable and cleaner production through the adoption of net-zero economy (NZE) practices. Certain technological advancements are required to put these concepts into practice. Firms have begun to adopt digital technologies (such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and internet of things), and have been widely used in practice to achieve NZE. Is digitalization unlocking the potential of sustainable practices in the context of a net-zero economy? This question is still unanswered; therefore, this study aims to identify and analyze the drivers of digitalization that ensure sustainable practices to achieve net-zero economy. Through an extensive literature review and experts' opinions, a list of drivers was identified. An empirical investigation was conducted to validate the identified drivers and further understand the influencing relationship among the drivers, Pythagorean fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (PF-DEMATEL) was employed. The findings of the study show that "high degree of automation," "enhancing the flexibility in the manufacturing process," and "real-time sensing capability" are the main influencer drivers among all cause group forces. The present study can be a source for industrial practitioners and academia that can provide significant guidance on how the adoption of digitalization can unlock the potential to achieve CE, which can lead us toward net-zero.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management, Bodhgaya, 824234 Bihar India
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- Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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- Ch. Ranbir Singh State Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jhajjar, Haryana India
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- Jindal Global Business School, O P Jindal Global University, Sonepat, India
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Agrawal R, Mukhopadhyay A. Inclusion of W in electroless Ni–B coating developed from a stabilizer free bath and investigation of its tribological behaviour. J INDIAN CHEM SOC 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jics.2023.100966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2023]
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Agrawal R, Hassan AM, Villa E. EUS-guided gallbladder drainage in a patient with Billroth II reconstruction. VideoGIE 2023; 8:155-157. [PMID: 37095844 PMCID: PMC10122118 DOI: 10.1016/j.vgie.2022.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/17/2023] Open
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Video 1EUS-guided gallbladder drainage in a patient with Billroth II gastrojejunostomy.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois
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Majumdar A, Agrawal R, Raut RD, Narkhede BE. Two years of COVID-19 pandemic: Understanding the role of knowledge-based supply chains towards resilience through bibliometric and network analyses. Oper Manag Res 2022. [PMCID: PMC9750840 DOI: 10.1007/s12063-022-00328-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) catastrophically disrupted most of the global supply chains (SC). Knowledge-based SC can cope with the pandemic disruptions by the efficient use of data, information, knowledge, human intelligence and emerging technologies. This article aims to critically analyse the SC research during the two years of COVID-19 pandemic to understand the role of knowledge-based supply chain towards SC resilience. A review of the 281 shortlisted articles is presented, along with bibliometric and network analyses in order to create an intellectual map of the domain and to identify the emerging knowledge themes. Bibliometric analysis reveals that the knowledge focus during this short span has migrated from COVID-19 pandemic to SC risk management and finally to risk mitigation strategies. The network analysis identifies five emerging knowledge themes, namely impact of COVID-19 on SC; SC risk mitigation and resilience; supply chain viability; sustainable SC strategies; and food SC. This review also elucidates the strategies to mitigate COVID-19 disruptions for incorporating resilience in SC. Future research directions for a knowledge-based sustainable-leagile-resilient (S-leagilient) supply chain have also been propounded.
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- Abhijit Majumdar
- Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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- Operations Management and Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya, India
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- Operations and Supply Chain Management, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Maharashtra India
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- Operations and Supply Chain Management, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, Maharashtra India
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Agrawal R, Ahuja K, Steinbach MC, Wick T. SABMIS: sparse approximation based blind multi-image steganography scheme. PeerJ Comput Sci 2022; 8:e1080. [PMID: 36532802 PMCID: PMC9748825 DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.1080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2021] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We hide grayscale secret images into a grayscale cover image, which is considered to be a challenging steganography problem. Our goal is to develop a steganography scheme with enhanced embedding capacity while preserving the visual quality of the stego-image as well as the extracted secret image, and ensuring that the stego-image is resistant to steganographic attacks. The novel embedding rule of our scheme helps to hide secret image sparse coefficients into the oversampled cover image sparse coefficients in a staggered manner. The stego-image is constructed by using the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) to solve the Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) formulation of the underlying minimization problem. Finally, the secret images are extracted from the constructed stego-image using the reverse of our embedding rule. Using these components together, to achieve the above mentioned competing goals, forms our most novel contribution. We term our scheme SABMIS (Sparse Approximation Blind Multi-Image Steganography). We perform extensive experiments on several standard images. By choosing the size of the length and the width of the secret images to be half of the length and the width of cover image, respectively, we obtain embedding capacities of 2 bpp (bits per pixel), 4 bpp, 6 bpp, and 8 bpp while embedding one, two, three, and four secret images, respectively. Our focus is on hiding multiple secret images. For the case of hiding two and three secret images, our embedding capacities are higher than all the embedding capacities obtained in the literature until now (3 times and 6 times than the existing best, respectively). For the case of hiding four secret images, although our capacity is slightly lower than one work (about 2/3rd), we do better on the other two goals (quality of stego-image & extracted secret image as well as resistance to steganographic attacks). For our experiments, there is very little deterioration in the quality of the stego-images as compared to their corresponding cover images. Like all other competing works, this is supported visually as well as over 30 dB of Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) values. The good quality of the stego-images is further validated by multiple numerical measures. None of the existing works perform this exhaustive validation. When using SABMIS, the quality of the extracted secret images is almost same as that of the corresponding original secret images. This aspect is also not demonstrated in all competing literature. SABMIS further improves the security of the inherently steganographic attack resistant transform based schemes. Thus, it is one of the most secure schemes among the existing ones. Additionally, we demonstrate that SABMIS executes in few minutes, and show its application on the real-life problems of securely transmitting medical images over the internet.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
- School of Computer Science Engineering and Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India
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- Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, India
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- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Hannover, Germany
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- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Hannover, Germany
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Venkatesh R, Sharief S, Jayadev C, Reddy NG, Mangla R, Agrawal R, Yadav NK, Chhablani J. Tamoxifen retinopathy and macular telangiectasia: A comparative case series. Eur J Ophthalmol 2022; 33:11206721221142637. [PMID: 36437624 DOI: 10.1177/11206721221142637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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PURPOSE To report a case series of tamoxifen retinopathy (TR) with and without type 2 macular telangiectasia (MacTel) and compare their clinical and imaging findings. METHODS Retrospective comparative study. Female patients with tamoxifen use or with clinical diagnosis of type 2 MacTel were divided into 4 groups: Group A-tamoxifen use without retinopathy; Group B-tamoxifen use with retinopathy; Group C-type 2 MacTel with tamoxifen use and Group D-type 2 MacTel without tamoxifen use. Clinical and image analysis was conducted. RESULTS There were 6 patients (11 eyes) in group A, 8 (13 eyes) patients in Group B, 2 patients (4 eyes) in Group C and 8 patients (14 eyes) in Group D respectively. TR patients were young, showed retinal crystals, perifoveal greying and no retinal pigment clumps (RPC) on examination. Foveal contour irregularity (n = 13, 100%) and outer retinal layer damage (n = 11, 85%) were common OCT findings seen in TR. In group C, all eyes showed 360° middle retinal layer (MRL) hyperreflectivity (100% vs 86%) and presence of outer retinal hyporeflective cavitation (100% vs 43%) on OCT compared to patients in group D. Abnormal autofluoroscence, detection and leakage from the telangiectatic vessels on fluorescein and OCT angiography was seen in type 2 MacTel disease. CONCLUSION Patients with TR showed retinal crystals and outer retinal hyporeflective foveal cavitation on OCT. Patients with type 2 MacTel having with tamoxifen intake showed hyporeflective outer retinal foveal cavitation and 360° perifoveal MRL hyperreflectivity on OCT. RPC was observed exclusively in the type 2 MacTel group.
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- Ramesh Venkatesh
- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, KA, India
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Retina and Vitreoretinal Surgery, Pittsburg, PA, USA
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Agrawal R, Dey A, Datta S, Supariwala A, Grubb W, Traughber B, Biswas T, Ove R, Podder T. Pattern of Radiotherapy Treatment for Prostate Cancer (PCa) Patients: Analysis of a Hospital Based Registry. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.1143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Agrawal R, Guzman G, Karimi S, Giulianotti PC, Lora AJM, Jain S, Khan M, Boulay BR, Chen Y. Immunoglobulin G4 associated autoimmune cholangitis and pancreatitis following the administration of nivolumab: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2022; 10:7124-7129. [PMID: 36051149 PMCID: PMC9297397 DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i20.7124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2022] [Revised: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/22/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Immune checkpoint inhibitors have significantly improved survivals for an increasing range of malignancies but at the cost of several immune-related adverse events, the management of which can be challenging due to its mimicry of other autoimmune related disorders such as immunoglobulin G4 (IgG4) related disease when the pancreaticobiliary system is affected. Nivolumab, an IgG4 monoclonal antibody, has been associated with cholangitis and pancreatitis, however its association with IgG4 related disease has not been reported to date.
CASE SUMMARY We present a case of immune-related pancreatitis and cholangiopathy in a patient who completed treatment with nivolumab for anal squamous cell carcinoma. Patients IgG4 levels was normal on presentation. She responded to steroids but due to concerns for malignant biliary stricture, she opted for surgery, the pathology of which suggested IgG4 related disease.
CONCLUSION We hypothesize this case of IgG4 related cholangitis and pancreatitis was likely triggered by nivolumab.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Department of Infectious Disease, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL 60612, United States
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- Department of Hematology and Oncology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL 60607, United States
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Venkatesh R, Reddy NG, Jayadev C, Bhatt A, Agrawal R, Yadav NK. Utility of multimodal ocular imaging in tuberous sclerosis complex-Review of literature along with a case illustration. Indian J Ophthalmol 2022; 70:2720-2724. [PMID: 35791221 PMCID: PMC9426122 DOI: 10.4103/ijo.ijo_2920_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Ramesh Venkatesh
- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Agrawal R, Rompf C, Pranada AB, Vollmar P, De Lorenzo A, Hoyer A, Gousias K. Microbiological profile and infection potential of different cryopreserved skull flaps after decompressive hemicraniectomy. Is cryopreservation at - 80 ℃ better? BMC Res Notes 2022; 15:167. [PMID: 35562808 PMCID: PMC9103457 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-022-06042-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2022] [Accepted: 04/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Patterns of cryopreservation of explanted skull bone flaps have long been a matter of debate, in particular the appropriate temperature of storage. To the best of our knowledge no study to date has compared the microbiological profile and the infection potential of skull bone flaps cryostored at the same institution at disparate degrees for neurosurgical purposes. In the context of our clinical trial DRKS00023283, we performed a bacterial culture of explanted skull bone flaps, which were cryopreserved lege artis at a temperature of either - 23 °C or - 80 °C after a decompressive hemicraniectomy. In a further step, we contaminated the bone fragments in a s uspension with specific pathogens (S. aureus, S. epidermidis and C. acnes, Colony forming unit CFU 103/ml) over 24 h and conducted a second culture. RESULTS A total of 17 cryopreserved skull flaps (8: - 23 °C; 9: - 80 °C) explanted during decompressive hemicraniectomies performed between 2019 and 2020 as well as 2 computer-aided-designed skulls (1 vancomycin-soaked) were analyzed. Median duration of cryopreservation was 10.5 months (2-17 months). No microorganisms were detected at the normal bacterial culture. After active contamination of our skull flaps, all samples showed similar bacterial growth of above-mentioned pathogens; thus, our study did not reveal an influence of the storage temperature upon infectious dynamic of the skulls.
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- R. Agrawal
- Department of Neurosurgery, St Marien Academic Hospital Luenen, University of Muenster, KLW St. Paulus Corporation, Altstadtstrasse 23, 44532 Luenen, Germany
- Medical School, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, MVZ Dr. Eberhard & Partner Dortmund, Balkenstrasse 17-19, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, MVZ Dr. Eberhard & Partner Dortmund, Balkenstrasse 17-19, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Medical Microbiology, MVZ Dr. Eberhard & Partner Dortmund, Balkenstrasse 17-19, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, LVR, University of Essen-Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany
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- Biostatistics and Medical Biometry, Medical School OWL, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstrasse 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- Department of Neurosurgery, St Marien Academic Hospital Luenen, University of Muenster, KLW St. Paulus Corporation, Altstadtstrasse 23, 44532 Luenen, Germany
- Medical School, Westfaelische Wilhelms University of Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, 48149 Muenster, Germany
- Medical School, University of Nicosia, 2408 Nicosia, Cyprus
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Samadhiya A, Kumar A, Agrawal R, Kazancoglu Y, Agrawal R. Reinventing reverse logistics through blockchain technology: a comprehensive review and future research propositions. Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/16258312.2022.2067485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Ashutosh Samadhiya
- Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
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- Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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- Operations Management & Quantitative Techniques, Indian Institute of Management, Bodh Gaya, India
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- Department of Logistics Management, Yasar University İzmir, Turkey
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- Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
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Venkatesh R, Agrawal R, Thomas S, Reddy NG, Gupta A, Yadav NK, Chhablani J. Sequential retinal pigment epithelium tears following intravitreal Ranibizumab injections for age-related macular degeneration. Eur J Ophthalmol 2022; 33:NP100-NP104. [PMID: 35388732 DOI: 10.1177/11206721221093025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PURPOSE To report a case of sequential retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) tears following intravitreal Ranibizumab injections for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS Retrospective, observational case. CASE DESCRIPTION A 75-year-old hypertensive male was diagnosed with active neovascular AMD and pre-existing RPE tear in the left eye. His presenting best-corrected visual acuity was counting finger @ 1 metre, <N36 in the right eye and 6/9, N8 in the left eye respectively. The right eye fundus had a scarred choroidal neovascular membrane (CNV) with extensive hard exudates. The left eye fundus showed active CNV, subretinal fluid and haemorrhage and a large RPE tear inferior to the fovea with rolled up margins. Following treatment with intravitreal Ranibizumab injection (Accentrix®, Alcon, 0.5 mg/0.05 ml) at monthly intervals, patient developed two extra RPE tears following each injection adjacent to the existing RPE tear. At the final follow-up visit, his CNV had regressed and visual acuity was maintained at 6/6, N6. No additional RPE tears were noted. CONCLUSION Pathogenesis of sequential RPE tears remains unclear. There is a need to look out for new RPE tears which can affect vision in a patient with neovascular AMD following CNV treatment.
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- Ramesh Venkatesh
- Dept. of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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- Dept. of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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- Dept. of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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- Dept. of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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- Dept. of Retina and Vitreous, 80219Narayana Nethralaya, Bangalore, India
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- University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Medical Retina and Vitreoretinal Surgery, Pittsburg, PA, United States
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Venkatesh R, Agrawal R, Reddy NG, Gupta A, Yadav NK, Chhablani J. Intercalary membrane break and detachment causes intrachoroidal cavitation in macular coloboma. Int Ophthalmol 2022; 42:2581-2589. [PMID: 35357639 DOI: 10.1007/s10792-022-02306-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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PURPOSE To describe the clinical and imaging features in a series of patients diagnosed with macular coloboma (MC) and intrachoroidal cavitation (ICC). METHODS Patients diagnosed with MC based on clinical examination between June 2017 and July 2021 were retrieved from the electronic medical record system and were included in the study. Colour fundus photographs, optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Multicolour® imaging scans of these patients were analysed. RESULTS We identified 16 eyes of 11 patients with MC on fundus examination. Based on OCT imaging features, conforming variant of MC was seen in 9 (56%) eyes and non-conforming variant in 7 (44%) eyes. No eyes with MC in the study showed features of both conforming and non-conforming varieties simultaneously. In the non-conforming variety of MC with presence of intercalary membrane break, ICC was identified in 5 (71%) of these eyes. ICC in MC appeared as flat, dark greenish areas with or without an orange-coloured boundary abutting the margin of the coloboma on Multicolour® imaging. CONCLUSION In 31% eyes, ICC was seen in non-conforming type of MC and was well-identified on Multicolour® imaging. It appears that presence of intercalary membrane break and detachment are prerequisites for developing ICC.
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- Ramesh Venkatesh
- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, Chord Road, 1st R Block Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore, 560010, India.
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, Chord Road, 1st R Block Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore, 560010, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, Chord Road, 1st R Block Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore, 560010, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, Chord Road, 1st R Block Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore, 560010, India
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- Department of Retina and Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, #121/C, Chord Road, 1st R Block Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore, 560010, India
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- Medical Retina and Vitreoretinal Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 203 Lothrop Street, Suite 800, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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Goyal RK, Agrawal R, Bhargava AK. Poly(ether-ketone) (PEK)/ceramic nanocomposites as alternate materials for printed circuit board application. POLYM-PLAST TECH MAT 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/25740881.2021.1995415] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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- R. K. Goyal
- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India
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- Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, India
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Agrawal R, Majeed M, Attar BM, Flores E, Haque Z, Ba Aqeel S, Wang Y, Omar YA, Parajuli P, Demetria M, Gandhi S. Predictors of poor bowel preparations and colonoscopy cancellations in inpatient colonoscopies, a single center retrospective study. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol 2022; 7:4. [PMID: 35243113 PMCID: PMC8826213 DOI: 10.21037/tgh.2020.02.13] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 02/10/2020] [Indexed: 08/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND An adequate bowel preparation prior to colonoscopy is a major quality-limiting factor that determines both the diagnostic and therapeutic yield of a colonoscopy. Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for colon cancer screening and it is the primary approach to the workup of hematochezia, diarrhea and iron deficiency anemia (IDA). Several modifiable factors of bowel prep adequacy have been identified, that account for around 25% of inadequate bowel preparations in outpatient colonoscopies. However, the literature is sparse when examining the factors associated with inadequate preparations and procedure cancellations in an inpatient hospital setting. We aim to identify factors that affect bowel preparation adequacy and procedure cancellations among diagnostic colonoscopies performed during hospitalization. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of 1,500 consecutive patients who had a diagnostic colonoscopy as an inpatient at a tertiary level hospital over a 2-year period. All patients were administered a clear liquid diet the day prior to the colonoscopy. Patients were then instructed to drink 4 L of polyethylene glycol (PEG, Golytely) between 5 am to 9 am on the day of the procedure. The clinical course of each case was followed to identify quality of preparations, cancelled procedures and the reasons for cancellations. We applied univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis to identify variables to predict cancellation and poor preparation. RESULTS A total of 1,029 patients were included in the study. 194 (18.8%) patients had colonoscopy cancellations and 268 (26.0%) had poor bowel preparations. Multivariate analysis revealed these factors to be associated with colonoscopy cancellations: education at the graduate school level [odds ratio (OR) =1.93, P=0.04], Hispanic ethnicity (OR =0.47, P<0.01), hemoglobin level <10 g/dL (OR =1.41, P=0.05) and if the colonoscopy was done for other indications (OR =0.53, P=0.04). Factors associated with poor bowel preparation on multivariate analysis, were dementia (OR =2.44, P=0.02), gastroparesis (OR =3.97, P=0.01) and inpatient opioids use (OR =1.69, P=0.04). CONCLUSIONS The rate of colonoscopy cancellations and poor bowel preparations in inpatient colonoscopies were high, and we were able to identify predictors of inadequate colon preparation and procedure cancellations. Exploring more individualized colon preparation regimens based on personal risk factors could reduce the number of inadequate and cancelled colonoscopies in an inpatient setting.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, County, Chicago, IL, USA
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Jirvankar PS, Khobragade D, Chandewar S, Pimpale A, Gawali R, Lokade A, Maske A, Agrawal R. Phytochemical, UV-Visible and FTIR Assessment along with in vitro Antioxidant Activity of Methanolic Extract of Tephrosia purpurea Linn Root. JPRI 2022. [DOI: 10.9734/jpri/2022/v34i3b35389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Aims: The original phytochemical, UV-Visible, and FTIR Spectral estimation of Tephrosia purpuria root was the subject of this study. Natural phytoconstituents were all found in methanolic extracts from the root of Tephrosia purpuria.
Study Design: Experimental research work.
Methodology: Furthermore, using UV Visible spectrophotometer equipment, the extract was scanned in the range of 380 to 900 nm, and the characteristic peaks were identified.
Results: The UV-VIS data indicated peaks at 382.70, 413.68, 536.18, 610.37, and 664.61 nm, with absorption values of 2.7930, 2.5932, 0.3114, 0.4185, and 1.5966 respectively. The presence of Natural phytoconstituents is confirmed by FTIR spectra. The findings confirm that this plant has key bioactive elements that are beneficial to our health, indicating that more research is needed.
Conclusion: Natural phytoconstituents were all found in methanolic extracts from the root of Tephrosia purpuria.
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Bhardwaj M, Agrawal R, Doley B, Manas A, Syed Ismail P, Patil P, Singh K. Expression of IL-6, TNF-α, and hs-CRP in the serum of patients undergoing single-sitting and multiple-sitting root canal treatment: A comparative study. J Family Med Prim Care 2022; 11:1918-1922. [PMID: 35800500 PMCID: PMC9254806 DOI: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_846_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Background: In recent times, single-sitting root canal therapy has gained momentum over multiple-sitting root canal therapy due to its superior clinical outcome and less time required for treating the patient. Aim: Thus, the aim of current study was to compare the expression of interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in the serum of patients undergoing single-sitting and multiple-sitting root canal treatment. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional experimental study was conducted on 300 subjects who were indicated for root canal treatment. Subjects were categorized into Group I (single visit) and Group II (multiple visits).Clinical data was obtained and serum samples were collected both before and after 1 week of treatment completion. Inclusion criteria were those patients (a) over 18 years of age, (b) without any disease of inflammatory etiology, and (c) who had not previously received endodontic treatment or any related therapeutic treatment. Exclusion criteria were those (a) without a complete clinical history, (b) with greater than one indicated tooth, (c) who did not complete their treatment, and (d) with any periodontal disease. Chi-square and Student’s t-test were applied. Results: It was found that in single-sitting root canal treatment, there was a statistically significant reduction in these inflammatory biomarkers, although no difference in clinical efficacy was observed. Conclusion: Single-visit root canal treatment is a better option for treatment of pulpitis compared to multiple-sitting treatment.
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Khan S, Agrawal R, Memon S. Comparison of Effect of Yoga versus Aerobic Exercise on Waist Circumference, Waist-Hip Ratio and Body Mass Index in Overweight and Obese Adult Individuals. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ) 2022; 20:38-42. [PMID: 36273288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Background Obesity is becoming serious global public health issue due to sedentary lifestyle and bad eating habits. Dietary and lifestyle practices are directly related to obesity, which can cause serious health problems like cardiac ailments, diabetes, and hypertension etc. Vast varieties of options are available for weight reduction including physical exercises, various diet plans and also the pharmacological agents. Physical activity improves the fitness of the individual and helps in reducing the ill effects of the obesity. Objective To compare the effects of Yoga and Aerobic Exercise on weight circumference, waisthip ratio (WHR) and body mass index (BMI) in overweight and obese individuals. Method An experimental study was started with purposive sampling. Sixty overweight and obese individuals from the community were divided equally into two groups, one group was given supervised yoga asana and the other group was given supervised aerobic exercise for 6 weeks. Waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index were taken pre and post intervention. Result Statistically significant difference was seen in pre and post intervention value of waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index in both the groups with the p value < 0.05. However there was no statistical significant difference noted in waist hip ratio in individuals performing aerobic exercises as p value was > 0.05. Conclusion Both the interventions showed significant reduction in waist circumference, waist hip ratio and body mass index, while better results were noted in the individuals performing yoga asanas.
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- Department of Physiotherapy, M. A. Rangoonwala College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India
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- Department of Physiotherapy, M. A. Rangoonwala College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India
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- Department of Physiotherapy, M. A. Rangoonwala College of Physiotherapy, Pune, India
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Learning through Internet is becoming necessary for easy understanding of complex problems and knowledge sharing process. A new pedagogy is being demanded in the teaching process which includes digital platforms for better understanding. Moreover, software and hardware have been developed for ease of access to the materials and smooth learning. The COVID-19 pandemic brought various challenges in livelihood of human life. One of these challenges is teaching and learning process. Although teaching and learning include usage of digital media, there exist a need to digitalize the education system. In this regard, this study aimed to analyse the drivers of digital learning in COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 scenario. Sixteen drivers pertaining to digital learning have been considered for analysis. Interpretive structural modelling (ISM) approach has been used to analyse drivers of digital learning and to develop a structural model. The developed structural model was further validated using MICMAC analysis. Results reveal that low Internet cost and government supports are the two prominent drivers of digital learning. The implementation of developed ISM model would create smooth learning environment in COVID-19 and motivates for innovation in post-COVID-19 scenario.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat India
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- Department of Computer Applications, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu India
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Arab JP, Díaz LA, Baeza N, Idalsoaga F, Fuentes-López E, Arnold J, Ramírez CA, Morales-Arraez D, Ventura-Cots M, Alvarado-Tapias E, Zhang W, Clark V, Simonetto D, Ahn JC, Buryska S, Mehta TI, Stefanescu H, Horhat A, Bumbu A, Dunn W, Attar B, Agrawal R, Haque ZS, Majeed M, Cabezas J, García-Carrera I, Parker R, Cuyàs B, Poca M, Soriano G, Sarin SK, Maiwall R, Jalal PK, Abdulsada S, Higuera-de la Tijera MF, Kulkarni AV, Rao PN, Guerra Salazar P, Skladaný L, Bystrianska N, Prado V, Clemente-Sanchez A, Rincón D, Haider T, Chacko KR, Cairo F, de Sousa Coelho M, Romero GA, Pollarsky FD, Restrepo JC, Castro-Sanchez S, Toro LG, Yaquich P, Mendizabal M, Garrido ML, Narvaez A, Bessone F, Marcelo JS, Piombino D, Dirchwolf M, Arancibia JP, Altamirano J, Kim W, Araujo RC, Duarte-Rojo A, Vargas V, Rautou PE, Issoufaly T, Zamarripa F, Torre A, Lucey MR, Mathurin P, Louvet A, García-Tsao G, González JA, Verna E, Brown RS, Roblero JP, Abraldes JG, Arrese M, Shah VH, Kamath PS, Singal AK, Bataller R. Identification of optimal therapeutic window for steroid use in severe alcohol-associated hepatitis: A worldwide study. J Hepatol 2021; 75:1026-1033. [PMID: 34166722 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2021.06.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2021] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 06/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Corticosteroids are the only effective therapy for severe alcohol-associated hepatitis (AH), defined by a model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score >20. However, there are patients who may be too sick to benefit from therapy. Herein, we aimed to identify the range of MELD scores within which steroids are effective for AH. METHODS We performed a retrospective, international multicenter cohort study across 4 continents, including 3,380 adults with a clinical and/or histological diagnosis of AH. The main outcome was mortality at 30 days. We used a discrete-time survival analysis model, and MELD cut-offs were established using the transform-the-endpoints method. RESULTS In our cohort, median age was 49 (40-56) years, 76.5% were male, and 79% had underlying cirrhosis. Median MELD at admission was 24 (19-29). Survival was 88% (87-89) at 30 days, 77% (76-78) at 90 days, and 72% (72-74) at 180 days. A total of 1,225 patients received corticosteroids. In an adjusted-survival-model, corticosteroid use decreased 30-day mortality by 41% (hazard ratio [HR] 0.59; 0.47-0.74; p <0.001). Steroids only improved survival in patients with MELD scores between 21 (HR 0.61; 0.39-0.95; p = 0.027) and 51 (HR 0.72; 0.52-0.99; p = 0.041). The maximum effect of corticosteroid treatment (21-30% survival benefit) was observed with MELD scores between 25 (HR 0.58; 0.42-0.77; p <0.001) and 39 (HR 0.57; 0.41-0.79; p <0.001). No corticosteroid benefit was seen in patients with MELD >51. The type of corticosteroids used (prednisone, prednisolone, or methylprednisolone) was not associated with survival benefit (p = 0.247). CONCLUSION Corticosteroids improve 30-day survival only among patients with severe AH, especially with MELD scores between 25 and 39. LAY SUMMARY Alcohol-associated hepatitis is a condition where the liver is severely inflamed as a result of excess alcohol use. It is associated with high mortality and it is not clear whether the most commonly used treatments (corticosteroids) are effective, particularly in patients with very severe liver disease. In this worldwide study, the use of corticosteroids was associated with increased 30-day, but not 90- or 180-day, survival. The maximal benefit was observed in patients with an MELD score (a marker of severity of liver disease; higher scores signify worse disease) between 25-39. However, this benefit was lost in patients with the most severe liver disease (MELD score higher than 51).
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- Juan Pablo Arab
- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Health Sciences, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Servicio Medicina Interna, Hospital El Pino, Santiago, Chile
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA; The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Interventional Radiology, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital Systems, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, University Hospital Marques de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain; Research Institute Valdecilla (IDIVAL), Santander, Spain
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- Leeds Liver Unit, St James's University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain
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- Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Hepatology, Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, Hyderabad, India
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, Slovak Republic; F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Division of Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation, Department of Internal Medicine II, Slovak Medical University, Slovak Republic; F. D. Roosevelt University Hospital, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA; Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Madrid, Spain; CIBERehd Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas Madrid, Spain
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- Liver Unit, Department of Digestive Diseases Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón Madrid, Spain; CIBERehd Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas Madrid, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital El Cruce, Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Sección Hepatología, Hospital de Gastroenterología Dr. Carlos Bonorino Udaondo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hepatología del Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Grupo de Gastrohepatología de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Unidad de Hepatología del Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Grupo de Gastrohepatología de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospitales de San Vicente Fundación de Medellín y Rionegro, Colombia
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Santiago, Chile
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- Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Hospital Provincial del Centenario, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Servicio de Medicina Interna del Hospital de Emergencias Dr Clemente Alvarez de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Unidad de Hígado, Hospital Privado de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
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- Departamento de Gastroenterología y Hepatología, Clínica Santa María, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Quironsalud, Barcelona, Spain
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
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- Gastroenterology Division, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, 14048-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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- Liver Unit, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, CIBEREHD, Barcelona, Spain
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- Université de Paris, Centre de recherche sur l'inflammation, Inserm, U1149, CNRS, ERL8252, F-75018 Paris, France; Service d'Hépatologie, DHU Unity, DMU Digest, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France; Centre de Référence des Maladies Vasculaires du Foie, French Network for Rare Liver Diseases (FILFOIE), European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER), Belgium
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- Université de Paris, Centre de recherche sur l'inflammation, Inserm, U1149, CNRS, ERL8252, F-75018 Paris, France; Service d'Hépatologie, DHU Unity, DMU Digest, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France; Centre de Référence des Maladies Vasculaires du Foie, French Network for Rare Liver Diseases (FILFOIE), European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER), Belgium
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- Gastroenterology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubiràn", Mexico City, Mexico
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
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- Hôpital Claude Huriez, Services des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif, CHRU Lille, and Unité INSERM 995, Lille, France
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- Hôpital Claude Huriez, Services des Maladies de l'Appareil Digestif, CHRU Lille, and Unité INSERM 995, Lille, France
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- Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine/VA-CT Healthcare System, New Haven/West Haven, USA
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- Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Universitario "Dr José E González" Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
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- Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine and Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
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- Sección Gastroenterología, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Escuela de Medicina Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Liver Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
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- Department of Gastroenterology, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, SD, USA
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- Center for Liver Diseases, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA
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Frederico GF, Kumar V, Garza-Reyes JA, Kumar A, Agrawal R. Impact of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability on performance: future pathways for supply chain resilience post-COVID-19. IJLM 2021. [DOI: 10.1108/ijlm-03-2021-0181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Purpose
This study aims to investigate the impact of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability on supply chains (SCs) performance and how the integration of such technologies and their interoperability can create pathways for SCs resilience post-COVID-19. This is of paramount importance in the context of COVID-19 as the investigation around I4.0 technologies may provide relevant insights on how SCs may better respond to unexpected situations like the current pandemic with the use of digital technologies.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey research method was designed based on some constructs extracted from the literature regarding the main disruptive technologies, interoperability, elements of supply chains processes (SCPs) performance such as integration, collaboration, transparency, efficiency, responsiveness and profitability. The data were collected from March to July 2020 from different regions of the world when the peak of the first wave of the pandemic had occurred. The survey resulted in 115 valid responses. The study used a combination of descriptive, correlation and multiple regression methods to analyse the data.
Findings
The study indicates that disruptive technologies significantly impact SCPs performance (integration, collaboration, responsiveness and transparency) and their resilience. The findings did not support the notion that these technologies improve the efficiency of SCs, a significant contrast to the existing literature. Our findings also refute the existing understanding that interoperability moderates the impact of disruptive technologies on SCPs performance and enhancing the resilience of SCs. However, the findings show that the integration of I4.0 technologies and their interoperability has a positive impact on SCPs profitability.
Research limitations/implications
The findings strongly advocate that this integration plays an important role in improving SC performance, and a future pathway of SC resiliency post-COVID-19. Considering that the I4.0 trend will impact SCs in the coming years, this study brings a relevant contribution to researchers and practitioners.
Originality/value
This study makes a unique contribution by investigating a novel causal relationship between the main elements (I4.0 technologies, interoperability, processes performance and strategic outcomes) related to the SC in this new context.
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Naz F, Kumar A, Majumdar A, Agrawal R. Is artificial intelligence an enabler of supply chain resiliency post COVID-19? An exploratory state-of-the-art review for future research. Oper Manag Res 2021. [PMCID: PMC8417680 DOI: 10.1007/s12063-021-00208-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The challenging situations and disruptions that occurred due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic have created a severe need for supply chain resiliency (SCR). There has been a growing interest among researchers to investigate the resiliency in supply chain operations to overcome risks and disruptions and to achieve successful project management. The supply chain of every business requires innovative projects to accomplish competitive advantage in the market. This study was conducted to identify the significance of artificial intelligence (AI) for creating a sustainable and resilient supply chain, and also to provide optimum solutions for supply chain risk mitigation. A systematic literature review has been conducted to examine the potential research contribution or directions in the field of AI and SCR. In total, 162 articles were shortlisted from the SCOPUS database in the chosen field of research. Structural Topic Modeling (STM), a big data-based approach, was employed to generate several thematic topics of AI in SCR based on the shortlisted articles, and all topics were discussed. Furthermore, the bibliometric analysis was conducted using R-package to investigate the research trends in the area of AI in SCR. Based on the conducted review of literature, a research framework was proposed for AI in SCR that will facilitate researchers and practitioners to improve technological development in supply chain firms. The purpose is to combat sudden risks and disruptions so that project management will perform well Post COVID-19. The study will be also helpful for future researchers and practitioners to identify research directions based on existing literature covered in this paper in the field of SCR. Future research directions are proposed for AI-enabled resilient supply chain management. This study will also provide several implications for supply chain managers to achieve the required resilience in their supply chains post COVID-19 by focusing on the elements of the proposed research framework.
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Shekhar S, Garg H, Agrawal R, Shivani S, Sharma B. Hatred and trolling detection transliteration framework using hierarchical LSTM in code-mixed social media text. COMPLEX INTELL SYST 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s40747-021-00487-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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AbstractThe paper describes the usage of self-learning Hierarchical LSTM technique for classifying hatred and trolling contents in social media code-mixed data. The Hierarchical LSTM-based learning is a novel learning architecture inspired from the neural learning models. The proposed HLSTM model is trained to identify the hatred and trolling words available in social media contents. The proposed HLSTM systems model is equipped with self-learning and predicting mechanism for annotating hatred words in transliteration domain. The Hindi–English data are ordered into Hindi, English, and hatred labels for classification. The mechanism of word embedding and character-embedding features are used here for word representation in the sentence to detect hatred words. The method developed based on HLSTM model helps in recognizing the hatred word context by mining the intention of the user for using that word in the sentence. Wide experiments suggests that the HLSTM-based classification model gives the accuracy of 97.49% when evaluated against the standard parameters like BLSTM, CRF, LR, SVM, Random Forest and Decision Tree models especially when there are some hatred and trolling words in the social media data.
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Adegun OK, Agrawal R, Jay A. SALIVARY GLAND LESIONS WITH ONCOCYTIC CHANGE: A 20-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE EVALUATION. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2021.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Agrawal R, Jay A, Adegun O. ORAL VERRUCOUS LESIONS—A DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA: A 10-YEAR INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE AND LITERATURE REVIEW. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2021.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Jay A, Kalavrezos N, Sinha D, Adegun OK, Agrawal R. DIVERSE HISTOMORPHOLOGY OF OSTEOSARCOMA; ILLUSTRATION OF TWELVE CASES. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.oooo.2021.03.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Mutneja H, Agrawal R, Bhurwal A, Arora S, Go A, Attar B. Comparative Effectiveness of Fecal Immunochemical Tests versus Flexible Sigmoidoscopy for Colorectal Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials. J Gastrointestin Liver Dis 2021; 30:267-273. [PMID: 33951118 DOI: 10.15403/jgld-3432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) and flexible sigmoidoscopies are commonly used modalities for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the effectiveness of FIT and sigmoidoscopy in CRC screening. METHODS PRISMA statement and Cochrane guidelines were followed for this review. Digital dissertation databases were searched from inception till December 1st 2020 and randomized clinical trials comparing the detection rates of CRC for FIT and sigmoidoscopy were included. Outcomes for analysis included participation rates and detection rates of CRC, advanced adenomas and advanced colorectal neoplasia for both screening modalities. RESULTS Five randomized clinical trials with a total of 261,755 patients were included for the analysis. The participation rate for FIT was significantly higher compared to flexible sigmoidoscopy (OR 2.11, 95% CI 1.29-3.44, p=0.003). In intention-to-screen analysis, the detection rate for advanced colorectal neoplasia was significantly lower with FIT (OR 0.62, 95% CI 0.45-0.84, p=0.002) as compared to flexible sigmoidoscopy but not statistically different for CRC (OR 1.15, 95% CI 0.65-2.02, p=0.63). CONCLUSION Despite lower participation amongst patients, CRC screening with flexible sigmoidoscopy leads to higher detection of advanced colorectal neoplasia, when compared to a single round of fecal immunochemical testing.
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- Hemant Mutneja
- John H Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
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- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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- John H Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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Agrawal R, Majeed M, Aqeel SB, Wang Y, Haque Z, Omar YA, Upadhyay SB, Gast T, Attar BM, Gandhi S. Identifying predictors and evaluating the role of steroids in the prevention of post-embolization syndrome after transarterial chemoembolization and bland embolization. Ann Gastroenterol 2021; 34:241-246. [PMID: 33654366 PMCID: PMC7903567 DOI: 10.20524/aog.2020.0566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2020] [Accepted: 09/12/2020] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Background Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) and bland embolization (TAE), performed for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), are often complicated by post-embolization syndrome (PES). There are limited data regarding the incidence of PES after TAE and the role of steroids in PES. We report the incidence of PES post TACE and TAE, identify predictors, and evaluate the role of steroids in PES. Methods Demographic and clinical variables of patients who underwent embolization were collected and PES was identified. Risk factors for PES, TACE and TAE were derived by logistic regression. We compared patients who received dexamethasone to those who did not, regarding baseline characteristics, occurrence of PES, and hospital stay. Results A total of 171 patients, average age 60.5 years, underwent the procedure, 77.8% were male, and 87.7% had cirrhosis. Of these 171, 107 underwent TACE and 64 TAE. Dexamethasone was given to 106 (61.9%) patients, of whom 85 had TACE and 21 TAE. One hundred twenty-four patients (72.5%) developed PES. PES occurred in more patients who underwent TACE, 80 (74.7%) vs. 44 (68.7%), and resulted in a longer hospital stay (1.47 vs. 1.12 days, P=0.034). Predictive factors for PES included female sex (odds ratio [OR] 2.76, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.04-7.34; P=0.041), and alcohol-related HCC (OR 3.14, 95%CI 1.42-6.95; P=0.005). Dexamethasone did not affect the length of hospital stay (1.43 vs. 1.29 days, P=0.422) or the rate of prolonged hospitalization (18.8% vs. 15.4%, P=0.561). Conclusion There was no difference in the incidence of PES following TACE or TAE and the use of dexamethasone did not reduce the incidence of PES or the duration of hospital stay.
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- Rohit Agrawal
- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine (Bashar Attar, Seema Gandhi)
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- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Department of Medicine (Rohit Agrawal, Muhammad Majeed, Sheeba-Ba Aqeel, Zohaib Haque, Yazan Abu Omar, Shristi Banskota Upadhyay)
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- Division of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging (Thomas Gast), Cook County Health and Hospital System, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine (Bashar Attar, Seema Gandhi)
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine (Bashar Attar, Seema Gandhi)
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Memon MM, Yamani N, Asmi N, Agrawal R, Khan MS. Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibition in heart failure with mid-ranged ejection fraction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Eur J Prev Cardiol 2020; 27:2371-2373. [DOI: 10.1177/2047487319841937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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- Department of Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, John H Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL, USA
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Agrawal R, Tso S, Eltigani EA, Busam KJ, Taibjee SM, Carr RA. PRAME immunohistochemistry as an adjunct in the diagnosis of paucicellular lentigo maligna in a young man. Br J Dermatol 2020; 184:e122. [PMID: 33140433 DOI: 10.1111/bjd.19599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2020] [Revised: 09/07/2020] [Accepted: 09/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- R Agrawal
- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwickshire, UK
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- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwickshire, UK
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- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwickshire, UK
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- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Dorset County Hospital, Dermatology Department, Williams Ave, Dorchester, DT1 2JY, UK
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- South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwickshire, UK
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Wang Y, Rosen F, Agrawal R. Biliary Tract Cancer in a Patient With a Virchow's Node. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2020; 18:A30. [PMID: 31629883 DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2019.10.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 10/11/2019] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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- Yanting Wang
- John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
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- John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
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- John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois
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Vinodh S, Antony J, Agrawal R, Douglas JA. Integration of continuous improvement strategies with Industry 4.0: a systematic review and agenda for further research. TQM 2020. [DOI: 10.1108/tqm-07-2020-0157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the history, trends and needs of continuous improvement (CI) and Industry 4.0. Four strategies are reviewed, namely, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen and Sustainability.Design/methodology/approachDigitalization and CI practices contribute to a major transformation in industrial practices. There exists a need to amalgamate Industry 4.0 technologies with CI strategies to ensure significant benefits. A systematic literature review methodology has been followed to review CI strategy and Industry 4.0 papers (n = 92).FindingsVarious frameworks of Industry 4.0, their advantages and disadvantages were explored. A conceptual framework integrating CI strategies and Industry 4.0 is being presented in this paper.Practical implicationsThe benefits and practical application of the developed framework has been presented.Originality/valueThe article is an attempt to review CI strategies with Industry 4.0. A conceptual framework for the integration is also being presented.
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Foong TW, Tan JKH, Ashokka B, Agrawal R, Lieske B, Bose S, Samarasekera DD, Chen FG. How do we turn surgical residents into safe intensive care unit clinicians? An Entrustable Professional Activities guided framework. Br J Surg 2020; 107:e491-e493. [PMID: 32790188 PMCID: PMC7436388 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 07/01/2020] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Theng Wai Foong
- Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, National University Hospital, Singapore.,Department of Anesthesia, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, National University Hospital, Singapore.,Department of Anesthesia, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Surgery, University Surgical Cluster, National University Hospital, Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States
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- Centre for Medical Education, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
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- Department of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit, National University Hospital, Singapore.,Division of Graduate Medical Studies (DGMS), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
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Foong TW, Hui Ng ES, Wee Khoo CY, Ashokka B, Khoo D, Agrawal R. Rapid training of healthcare staff for protected cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the COVID-19 pandemic. Br J Anaesth 2020; 125:e257-e259. [PMID: 32416987 PMCID: PMC7200384 DOI: 10.1016/j.bja.2020.04.081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 04/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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McLean KA, Ahmed WUR, Akhbari M, Claireaux HA, English C, Frost J, Henshall DE, Khan M, Kwek I, Nicola M, Rehman S, Varghese S, Drake TM, Bell S, Nepogodiev D, McLean KA, Drake TM, Glasbey JC, Borakati A, Drake TM, Kamarajah S, McLean KA, Bath MF, Claireaux HA, Gundogan B, Mohan M, Deekonda P, Kong C, Joyce H, Mcnamee L, Woin E, Burke J, Khatri C, Fitzgerald JE, Harrison EM, Bhangu A, Nepogodiev D, Arulkumaran N, Bell S, Duthie F, Hughes J, Pinkney TD, Prowle J, Richards T, Thomas M, Dynes K, Patel M, Patel P, Wigley C, Suresh R, Shaw A, Klimach S, Jull P, Evans D, Preece R, Ibrahim I, Manikavasagar V, Smith R, Brown FS, Deekonda P, Teo R, Sim DPY, Borakati A, Logan AE, Barai I, Amin H, Suresh S, Sethi R, Bolton W, Corbridge O, Horne L, Attalla M, Morley R, Robinson C, Hoskins T, McAllister R, Lee S, Dennis Y, Nixon G, Heywood E, Wilson H, Ng L, Samaraweera S, Mills A, Doherty C, Woin E, Belchos J, Phan V, Chouari T, Gardner T, Goergen N, Hayes JDB, MacLeod CS, McCormack R, McKinley A, McKinstry S, Milligan W, Ooi L, Rafiq NM, Sammut T, Sinclair E, Smith M, Baker C, Boulton APR, Collins J, Copley HC, Fearnhead N, Fox H, Mah T, McKenna J, Naruka V, Nigam N, Nourallah B, Perera S, Qureshi A, Saggar S, Sun L, Wang X, Yang DD, Caroll P, Doyle C, Elangovan S, Falamarzi A, Perai KG, Greenan E, Jain D, Lang-Orsini M, Lim S, O'Byrne L, Ridgway P, Van der Laan S, Wong J, Arthur J, Barclay J, Bradley P, Edwin C, Finch E, Hayashi E, Hopkins M, Kelly D, Kelly M, McCartan N, Ormrod A, Pakenham A, Hayward J, Hitchen C, Kishore A, Martins T, Philomen J, Rao R, Rickards C, Burns N, Copeland M, Durand C, Dyal A, Ghaffar A, Gidwani A, Grant M, Gribbon C, Gruhn A, Leer M, Ahmad K, Beattie G, Beatty M, Campbell G, Donaldson G, Graham S, Holmes D, Kanabar S, Liu H, McCann C, Stewart R, Vara S, Ajibola-Taylor O, Andah EJE, Ani C, Cabdi NMO, Ito G, Jones M, Komoriyama A, Patel P, Titu L, Basra M, Gallogly P, Harinath G, Leong SH, Pradhan A, Siddiqui I, Zaat S, Ali A, Galea M, Looi WL, Ng JCK, Atkin G, Azizi A, Cargill Z, China Z, Elliot J, Jebakumar R, Lam J, Mudalige G, Onyerindu C, Renju M, Babu VS, Hussain M, Joji N, Lovett B, Mownah H, Ali B, Cresswell B, Dhillon AK, Dupaguntla YS, Hungwe C, Lowe-Zinola JD, Tsang JCH, Bevan K, Cardus C, Duggal A, Hossain S, McHugh M, Scott M, Chan F, Evans R, Gurung E, Haughey B, Jacob-Ramsdale B, Kerr M, Lee J, McCann E, O'Boyle K, Reid N, Hayat F, Hodgson S, Johnston R, Jones W, Khan M, Linn T, Long S, Seetharam P, Shaman S, Smart B, Anilkumar A, Davies J, Griffith J, Hughes B, Islam Y, Kidanu D, Mushaini N, Qamar I, Robinson H, Schramm M, Tan CY, Apperley H, Billyard C, Blazeby JM, Cannon SP, Carse S, Göpfert A, Loizidou A, Parkin J, Sanders E, Sharma S, Slade G, Telfer R, Huppatz IW, Worley E, Chandramoorthy L, Friend C, Harris L, Jain P, Karim MJ, Killington K, McGillicuddy J, Rafferty C, Rahunathan N, Rayne T, Varathan Y, Verma N, Zanichelli D, Arneill M, Brown F, Campbell B, Crozier L, Henry J, McCusker C, Prabakaran P, Wilson R, Asif U, Connor M, Dindyal S, Math N, Pagarkar A, Saleem H, Seth I, Sharma S, Standfield N, Swartbol T, Adamson R, Choi JE, El Tokhy O, Ho W, Javaid NR, Kelly M, Mehdi AS, Menon D, Plumptre I, Sturrock S, Turner J, Warren O, Crane E, Ferris B, Gadsby C, Smallwood J, Vipond M, Wilson V, Amarnath T, Doshi A, Gregory C, Kandiah K, Powell B, Spoor H, Toh C, Vizor R, Common M, Dunleavy K, Harris S, Luo C, Mesbah Z, Kumar AP, Redmond A, Skulsky S, Walsh T, Daly D, Deery L, Epanomeritakis E, Harty M, Kane D, Khan K, Mackey R, McConville J, McGinnity K, Nixon G, Ang A, Kee JY, Leung E, Norman S, Palaniappan SV, Sarathy PP, Yeoh T, Frost J, Hazeldine P, Jones L, Karbowiak M, Macdonald C, Mutarambirwa A, Omotade A, Runkel M, Ryan G, Sawers N, Searle C, Suresh S, Vig S, Ahmad A, McGartland R, Sim R, Song A, Wayman J, Brown R, Chang LH, Concannon K, Crilly C, Arnold TJ, Burgin A, Cadden F, Choy CH, Coleman M, Lim D, Luk J, Mahankali-Rao P, Prudence-Taylor AJ, Ramakrishnan D, Russell J, Fawole A, Gohil J, Green B, Hussain A, McMenamin L, McMenamin L, Tang M, Azmi F, Benchetrit S, Cope T, Haque A, Harlinska A, Holdsworth R, Ivo T, Martin J, Nisar T, Patel A, Sasapu K, Trevett J, Vernet G, Aamir A, Bird C, Durham-Hall A, Gibson W, Hartley J, May N, Maynard V, Johnson S, Wood CM, O'Brien M, Orbell J, Stringfellow TD, Tenters F, Tresidder S, Cheung W, Grant A, Tod N, Bews-Hair M, Lim ZH, Lim SW, Vella-Baldacchino M, Auckburally S, Chopada A, Easdon S, Goodson R, McCurdie F, Narouz M, Radford A, Rea E, Taylor O, Yu T, Alfa-Wali M, Amani L, Auluck I, Bruce P, Emberton J, Kumar R, Lagzouli N, Mehta A, Murtaza A, Raja M, Dennahy IS, Frew K, Given A, He YY, Karim MA, MacDonald E, McDonald E, McVinnie D, Ng SK, Pettit A, Sim DPY, Berthaume-Hawkins SD, Charnley R, Fenton K, Jones D, Murphy C, Ng JQ, Reehal R, Robinson H, Seraj SS, Shang E, Tonks A, White P, Yeo A, Chong P, Gabriel R, Patel N, Richardson E, Symons L, Aubrey-Jones D, Dawood S, Dobrzynska M, Faulkner S, Griffiths H, Mahmood F, Patel P, Perry M, Power A, Simpson R, Ali A, Brobbey P, Burrows A, Elder P, Ganyani R, Horseman C, Hurst P, Mann H, Marimuthu K, McBride S, Pilsworth E, Powers N, Stanier P, Innes R, Kersey T, Kopczynska M, Langasco N, Patel N, Rajagopal R, Atkins B, Beasley W, Lim ZC, Gill A, Ang HL, Williams H, Yogeswara T, Carter R, Fam M, Fong J, Latter J, Long M, Mackinnon S, McKenzie C, Osmanska J, Raghuvir V, Shafi A, Tsang K, Walker L, Bountra K, Coldicutt O, Fletcher D, Hudson S, Iqbal S, Bernal TL, Martin JWB, Moss-Lawton F, Smallwood J, Vipond M, Cardwell A, Edgerton K, Laws J, Rai A, Robinson K, Waite K, Ward J, Youssef H, Knight C, Koo PY, Lazarou A, Stanger S, Thorn C, Triniman MC, Botha A, Boyles L, Cumming S, Deepak S, Ezzat A, Fowler AJ, Gwozdz AM, Hussain SF, Khan S, Li H, Morrell BL, Neville J, Nitiahpapand R, Pickering O, Sagoo H, Sharma E, Welsh K, Denley S, Khan S, Agarwal M, Al-Saadi N, Bhambra R, Gupta A, Jawad ZAR, Jiao LR, Khan K, Mahir G, Singagireson S, Thoms BL, Tseu B, Wei R, Yang N, Britton N, Leinhardt D, Mahfooz M, Palkhi A, Price M, Sheikh S, Barker M, Bowley D, Cant M, Datta U, Farooqi M, Lee A, Morley G, Amin MN, Parry A, Patel S, Strang S, Yoganayagam N, Adlan A, Chandramoorthy S, Choudhary Y, Das K, Feldman M, France B, Grace R, Puddy H, Soor P, Ali M, Dhillon P, Faraj A, Gerard L, Glover M, Imran H, Kim S, Patrick Y, Peto J, Prabhudesai A, Smith R, Tang A, Vadgama N, Dhaliwal R, Ecclestone T, Harris A, Ong D, Patel D, Philp C, Stewart E, Wang L, Wong E, Xu Y, Ashaye T, Fozard T, Galloway F, Kaptanis S, Mistry P, Nguyen T, Olagbaiye F, Osman M, Philip Z, Rembacken R, Tayeh S, Theodoropoulou K, Herman A, Lau J, Saha A, Trotter M, Adeleye O, Cave D, Gunwa T, Magalhães J, Makwana S, Mason R, Parish M, Regan H, Renwick P, Roberts G, Salekin D, Sivakumar C, Tariq A, Liew I, McDade A, Stewart D, Hague M, Hudson-Peacock N, Jackson CES, James F, Pitt J, Walker EY, Aftab R, Ang JJ, Anwar S, Battle J, Budd E, Chui J, Crook H, Davies P, Easby S, Hackney E, Ho B, Imam SZ, Rammell J, Andrews H, Perry C, Schinle P, Ahmed P, Aquilina T, Balai E, Church M, Cumber E, Curtis A, Davies G, Dennis Y, Dumann E, Greenhalgh S, Kim P, King S, Metcalfe KHM, Passby L, Redgrave N, Soonawalla Z, Waters S, Zornoza A, Gulzar I, Hole J, Hull K, Ishaq H, Karaj J, Kelkar A, Love E, Patel S, Thakrar D, Vine M, Waterman A, Dib NP, Francis N, Hanson M, Ingleton R, Sadanand KS, Sukirthan N, Arnell S, Ball M, Bassam N, Beghal G, Chang A, Dawe V, George A, Huq T, Hussain A, Ikram B, Kanapeckaite L, Khan M, Ramjas D, Rushd A, Sait S, Serry M, Yardimci E, Capella S, Chenciner L, Episkopos C, Karam E, McCarthy C, Moore-Kelly W, Watson N, Ahluwalia V, Barnfield J, Ben-Gal O, Bloom I, Gharatya A, Khodatars K, Merchant N, Moonan A, Moore M, Patel K, Spiers H, Sundaram K, Turner J, Bath MF, Black J, Chadwick H, Huisman L, Ingram H, Khan S, Martin L, Metcalfe M, Sangal P, Seehra J, Thatcher A, Venturini S, Whitcroft I, Afzal Z, Brown S, Gani A, Gomaa A, Hussein N, Oh SY, Pazhaniappan N, Sharkey E, Sivagnanasithiyar T, Williams C, Yeung J, Cruddas L, Gurjar S, Pau A, Prakash R, Randhawa R, Chen L, Eiben I, Naylor M, Osei-Bordom D, Trenear R, Bannard-Smith J, Griffiths N, Patel BY, Saeed F, Abdikadir H, Bennett M, Church R, Clements SE, Court J, Delvi A, Hubert J, Macdonald B, Mansour F, Patel RR, Perris R, Small S, Betts A, Brown N, Chong A, Croitoru C, Grey A, Hickland P, Ho C, Hollington D, McKie L, Nelson AR, Stewart H, Eiben P, Nedham M, Ali I, Brown T, Cumming S, Hunt C, Joyner C, McAlinden C, Roberts J, Rogers D, Thachettu A, Tyson N, Vaughan R, Verma N, Yasin T, Andrew K, Bhamra N, Leong S, Mistry R, Noble H, Rashed F, Walker NR, Watson L, Worsfold M, Yarham E, Abdikadir H, Arshad A, Barmayehvar B, Cato L, Chan-lam N, Do V, Leong A, Sheikh Z, Zheleniakova T, Coppel J, Hussain ST, Mahmood R, Nourzaie R, Prowle J, Sheik-Ali S, Thomas A, Alagappan A, Ashour R, Bains H, Diamond J, Gordon J, Ibrahim B, Khalil M, Mittapalli D, Neo YN, Patil P, Peck FS, Reza N, Swan I, Whyte M, Chaudhry S, Hernon J, Khawar H, O'Brien J, Pullinger M, Rothnie K, Ujjal S, Bhatte S, Curtis J, Green S, Mayer A, Watkinson G, Chapple K, Hawthorne T, Khaliq M, Majkowski L, Malik TAM, Mclauchlan K, En BNW, Parton S, Robinson SD, Saat MI, Shurovi BN, Varatharasasingam K, Ward AE, Behranwala K, Bertelli M, Cohen J, Duff F, Fafemi O, Gupta R, Manimaran M, Mayhew J, Peprah D, Wong MHY, Farmer N, Houghton C, Kandhari N, Khan K, Ladha D, Mayes J, McLennan F, Panahi P, Seehra H, Agrawal R, Ahmed I, Ali S, Birkinshaw F, Choudhry M, Gokani S, Harrogate S, Jamal S, Nawrozzadeh F, Swaray A, Szczap A, Warusavitarne J, Abdalla M, Asemota N, Cullum R, Hartley M, Maxwell-Armstrong C, Mulvenna C, Phillips J, Yule A, Ahmed L, Clement KD, Craig N, Elseedawy E, Gorman D, Kane L, Livie J, Livie V, Moss E, Naasan A, Ravi F, Shields P, Zhu Y, Archer M, Cobley H, Dennis R, Downes C, Guevel B, Lamptey E, Murray H, Radhakrishnan A, Saravanabavan S, Sardar M, Shaw C, 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Cummings D, Kershaw S, Ong J, Reid F, Toellner H, Alwandi A, Amer M, George D, Haynes K, Hughes K, Peakall L, Premakumar Y, Punjabi N, Ramwell A, Sawkins H, Ashwood J, Baker A, Baron C, Bhide I, Blake E, De Cates C, Esmail R, Hosamuddin H, Kapp J, Nguru N, Raja M, Thomson F, Ahmed H, Aishwarya G, Al-Huneidi R, Ali S, Aziz R, Burke D, Clarke B, Kausar A, Maskill D, Mecia L, Myers L, Smith ACD, Walker G, Wroe N, Donohoe C, Gibbons D, Jordan P, Keogh C, Kiely A, Lalor P, McCrohan M, Powell C, Foley MP, Reynolds J, Silke E, Thorpe O, Kong JTH, White C, Ali Q, Dalrymple J, Ge Y, Khan H, Luo RS, Paine H, Paraskeva B, Parker L, Pillai K, Salciccioli J, Selvadurai S, Sonagara V, Springford LR, Tan L, Appleton S, Leadholm N, Zhang Y, Ahern D, Cotter M, Cremen S, Durrigan T, Flack V, Hrvacic N, Jones H, Jong B, Keane K, O'Connell PR, O'sullivan J, Pek G, Shirazi S, Barker C, Brown A, Carr W, Chen Y, Guillotte C, Harte J, Kokayi A, Lau K, McFarlane S, Morrison S, Broad J, Kenefick N, Makanji D, Printz V, Saito R, Thomas O, Breen H, Kirk S, Kong CH, O'Kane A, Eddama M, Engledow A, Freeman SK, Frost A, Goh C, Lee G, Poonawala R, Suri A, Taribagil P, Brown H, Christie S, Dean S, Gravell R, Haywood E, Holt F, Pilsworth E, Rabiu R, Roscoe HW, Shergill S, Sriram A, Sureshkumar A, Tan LC, Tanna A, Vakharia A, Bhullar S, Brannick S, Dunne E, Frere M, Kerin M, Kumar KM, Pratumsuwan T, Quek R, Salman M, Van Den Berg N, Wong C, Ahluwalia J, Bagga R, Borg CM, Calabria C, Draper A, Farwana M, Joyce H, Khan A, Mazza M, Pankin G, Sait MS, Sandhu N, Virani N, Wong J, Woodhams K, Croghan N, Ghag S, Hogg G, Ismail O, John N, Nadeem K, Naqi M, Noe SM, Sharma A, Tan S, Begum F, Best R, Collishaw A, Glasbey J, Golding D, Gwilym B, Harrison P, Jackman T, Lewis N, Luk YL, Porter T, Potluri S, Stechman M, Tate S, Thomas D, Walford B, Auld F, Bleakley A, Johnston S, Jones C, Khaw J, Milne S, O'Neill S, Singh KKR, Smith R, Swan A, Thorley N, Yalamarthi S, Yin ZD, Ali A, Balian V, Bana R, Clark K, Livesey C, McLachlan G, Mohammad M, Pranesh N, Richards C, Ross F, Sajid M, Brooke M, Francombe J, Gresly J, Hutchinson S, Kerrigan K, Matthews E, Nur S, Parsons L, Sandhu A, Vyas M, White F, Zulkifli A, Zuzarte L, Al-Mousawi A, Arya J, Azam S, Yahaya AA, Gill K, Hallan R, Hathaway C, Leptidis I, McDonagh L, Mitrasinovic S, Mushtaq N, Pang N, Peiris GB, Rinkoff S, Chan L, Christopher E, Farhan-Alanie MMH, Gonzalez-Ciscar A, Graham CJ, Lim H, McLean KA, Paterson HM, Rogers A, Roy C, Rutherford D, Smith F, Zubikarai G, Al-Khudairi R, Bamford M, Chang M, Cheng J, Hedley C, Joseph R, Mitchell B, Perera S, Rothwell L, Siddiqui A, Smith J, Taylor K, Wright OW, Baryan HK, Boyd G, Conchie H, Cox L, Davies J, Gardner S, Hill N, Krishna K, Lakin F, Scotcher S, Alberts J, Asad M, Barraclough J, Campbell A, Marshall D, Wakeford W, Cronbach P, D'Souza F, Gammeri E, Houlton J, Hall M, Kethees A, Patel R, Perera M, Prowle J, Shaid M, Webb E, Beattie S, Chadwick M, El-Taji O, Haddad S, Mann M, Patel M, Popat K, Rimmer L, Riyat H, Smith H, Anandarajah C, Cipparrone M, Desai K, Gao C, Goh ET, Howlader M, Jeffreys N, Karmarkar A, Mathew G, Mukhtar H, Ozcan E, Renukanthan A, Sarens N, Sinha C, Woolley A, Bogle R, Komolafe O, Loo F, Waugh D, Zeng R, Crewe A, Mathias J, Mills A, Owen A, Prior A, Saunders I, Baker A, Crilly L, McKeon J, Ubhi HK, Adeogun A, Carr R, Davison C, Devalia S, Hayat A, Karsan RB, Osborne C, Scott K, Weegenaar C, Wijeyaratne M, Babatunde F, Barnor-Ahiaku E, Beattie G, Chitsabesan P, Dixon O, Hall N, Ilenkovan N, Mackrell T, Nithianandasivam N, Orr J, Palazzo F, Saad M, Sandland-Taylor L, Sherlock J, Ashdown T, Chandler S, Garsaa T, Lloyd J, Loh SY, Ng S, Perkins C, Powell-Chandler A, Smith F, Underhill R. Perioperative intravenous contrast administration and the incidence of acute kidney injury after major gastrointestinal surgery: prospective, multicentre cohort study. Br J Surg 2020; 107:1023-1032. [PMID: 32026470 DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2019] [Revised: 09/21/2019] [Accepted: 11/08/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the impact of preoperative exposure to intravenous contrast for CT and the risk of developing postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing major gastrointestinal surgery. METHODS This prospective, multicentre cohort study included adults undergoing gastrointestinal resection, stoma reversal or liver resection. Both elective and emergency procedures were included. Preoperative exposure to intravenous contrast was defined as exposure to contrast administered for the purposes of CT up to 7 days before surgery. The primary endpoint was the rate of AKI within 7 days. Propensity score-matched models were adjusted for patient, disease and operative variables. In a sensitivity analysis, a propensity score-matched model explored the association between preoperative exposure to contrast and AKI in the first 48 h after surgery. RESULTS A total of 5378 patients were included across 173 centres. Overall, 1249 patients (23·2 per cent) received intravenous contrast. The overall rate of AKI within 7 days of surgery was 13·4 per cent (718 of 5378). In the propensity score-matched model, preoperative exposure to contrast was not associated with AKI within 7 days (odds ratio (OR) 0·95, 95 per cent c.i. 0·73 to 1·21; P = 0·669). The sensitivity analysis showed no association between preoperative contrast administration and AKI within 48 h after operation (OR 1·09, 0·84 to 1·41; P = 0·498). CONCLUSION There was no association between preoperative intravenous contrast administered for CT up to 7 days before surgery and postoperative AKI. Risk of contrast-induced nephropathy should not be used as a reason to avoid contrast-enhanced CT.
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Nowakowski S, Razjouyan J, Naik AD, Agrawal R, Velamuri K, Singh S, Sharafkhaneh A, Kunik ME. 1156 Polysomnographic Total Sleep Time: A Novel Biomarker For Dementia. Sleep 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.1150] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction
Neuroprotection, early diagnosis, and behavioral intervention are national priorities for dementia research. Sleep duration is emerging as an important potential remediable risk factor. In this study, we examined whether total sleep time (TST) derived from attended overnight polysomnography (PSG) studies is associated with an increased prevalence of dementia diagnosis and determined the optimal cut-point.
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We identified 69,847 PSG sleep studies using CPT code 95810 from 2000-19 in the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) national database of patient care. We used natural language processing to verify PSG reports and extract TST values from the patient free-text notes. We examined a TST of 240-420 minutes in 10-minute increments using a run chart (time series) approach to determine the optimal cut-point for determining greater odds of dementia.
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Patients had a mean age of 55.4±13.8, 91.5% were male, and 64% were Caucasian. PSG studies revealed a mean TST of 310.6±79.5 minutes. The run chart time series analysis revealing < 360 minutes being the optimal cut-point for increased odds of dementia (OR: 1.64, 95% CI: 1.36-1.99, p<.05).
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Lower TST predicted higher prevalence of dementia diagnosis. TST of 360 minutes may serve as the optimal cut-point to determine greater odds of dementia. This is an important study examining PSG sleep duration and the prevalence of dementia across 19 years in the largest integrated healthcare system in the US. TST may function as a potential biomarker for developing dementia.
Support
This material is based upon work supported in part by the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (CIN 13-413). Dr. Nowakowski is also supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant (R01NR018342).
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- S Nowakowski
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey Veteran Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX
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Nowakowski S, Razjouyan J, Naik AD, Agrawal R, Velamuri K, Singh S, Sharafkhaneh A. 1180 The Use Of Natural Language Processing To Extract Data From Psg Sleep Study Reports Using National Vha Electronic Medical Record Data. Sleep 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/sleep/zsaa056.1174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Introduction
In 2007, Congress asked the Department of Veteran Affairs to pay closer attention to the incidence of sleep disorders among veterans. We aimed to use natural language processing (NLP), a method that applies algorithms to understand the meaning and structure of sentences within Electronic Health Record (EHR) patient free-text notes, to identify the number of attended polysomnography (PSG) studies conducted in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and to evaluate the performance of NLP in extracting sleep data from the notes.
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We identified 481,115 sleep studies using CPT code 95810 from 2000-19 in the national VHA. We used rule-based regular expression method (phrases: “sleep stage” and “arousal index”) to identify attended PSG reports in the patient free-text notes in the EHR, of which 69,847 records met the rule-based criteria. We randomly selected 178 notes to compare the accuracy of the algorithm in mining sleep parameters: total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE) and sleep onset latency (SOL) compared to human manual chart review.
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The number of documented PSG studies increased each year from 963 in 2000 to 14,209 in 2018. System performance of NLP compared to manually annotated reference standard in detecting sleep parameters was 83% for TST, 87% for SE, and 81% for SOL (accuracy benchmark ≥ 80%).
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This study showed that NLP is a useful technique to mine EHR and extract data from patients’ free-text notes. Reasons that NLP is not 100% accurate included, the note authors used different phrasing (e.g., “recording duration”) which the NLP algorithm did not detect/extract or authors omitting sleep continuity variables from the notes. Nevertheless, this automated strategy to identify and extract sleep data can serve as an effective tool in large health care systems to be used for research and evaluation to improve sleep medicine patient care and outcomes.
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This material is based upon work supported in part by the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, and the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (CIN 13-413). Dr. Nowakowski is also supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant (R01NR018342).
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- S Nowakowski
- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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- Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX
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Banskota SU, Farooq MZ, Agrawal R, Vohra I, Ba Aqeel SH, Lingamaneni P, Sherazi SAA, Moturi KR, Wang Y. Does an association exist between liver fibrosis and non-HCC cancers. J Clin Oncol 2020. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2020.38.15_suppl.e16594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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e16594 Background: The association between liver fibrosis and hepatocellular cancer (HCC) is well established, however there is limitation of data on liver fibrosis and non-HCC cancers. The aim of this study was to explore the link between the degree of liver fibrosis and other cancers. Methods: We searched the electronic medical records of Stroger Hospital who underwent liver elastography from January 1st, 2014 to December 31st, 2018 and had cancer. We extracted variables: demographics, cancer histology and metastatic status and then stratified patient into categories based the fibrosis stage. Results: Our analysis identified 103 patients with non-advanced fibrosis (F0-F2) and 74 with advanced fibrosis (F3-F4). HCC was seen in 33.3% of the patients with advanced fibrosis while genitourinary (GU) was the second most common cancer. Adenocarcinoma comprised 21% of these cancers and around 46% were metastatic. Of the 104 patients with non-advanced fibrosis, HCC was seen in 3.77% while gastrointestinal (GI) and GU cancers were seen in 24.27% and 12.62% respectively. Adenocarcinoma was most common (40%) in this group as well (Table). Conclusions: Our study not only reiterates the fact that the degree of liver fibrosis is proportional to the presence of HCC, but it also reports the association of liver fibrosis with several non-HCC cancers. The meaning of these associations is unclear, but it provides an area of further research to explore if causality exists. [Table: see text]
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- John H. Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL
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- John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL
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- John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL
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Wang Y, Attar BM, Agrawal R, Vohra I, Farooq MZ, Aqeel SB, Demetria M. Non-hepatic Cancers Independently Predict Liver Decompensation Events. J Gastrointest Cancer 2020; 52:523-528. [PMID: 32405967 DOI: 10.1007/s12029-020-00409-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND Advanced liver fibrosis and cirrhosis represent independent risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There is also evidence suggesting that several etiologies of chronic liver disease elevate the risk for non-hepatic cancers, including nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), alcohol abuse, and hepatitis C infection. In the present study, we aim to characterize the cancer incidence in patients with chronic liver disease and assess the prognostic value of non-hepatic cancer on the decompensation events of this population. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of patients who underwent transient elastography (TE) of liver, at John H. Stroger Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, IL. We identified patients who had decompensation of cirrhosis. We also extracted their cancer history. The cancer profiles of the cohort were compared by the presence or absence of advanced liver fibrosis. We then performed univariate and multivariate forward stepwise Cox regression analysis to identify the significant risk factors for the decompensation events and plotted Kaplan-Meier curve to demonstrate the significance of cancer in the prediction of decompensation events. RESULTS We identified a total of 3097 patients who underwent TE. A total of 45 liver decompensation events were documented. In the univariate Cox regression model, MELD-Na score (hazard ratio (HR) 1.25, p < 0.001), liver stiffness measurement (HR 1.05, p = 0.004), and history of any cancer (HR 3.81, p = 0.001) emerged as predictors of decompensation. Non-hepatic cancer proved to be a significant predictor of decompensation (HR 3.57, p = 0.002). CONCLUSION The present study represents the first attempt to the best of our knowledge to describe the cancer incidence in this high-risk population. We found that non-HCC cancers independently predict hepatic decompensation events, which is an intriguing finding. We propose that physicians should be more vigilant to cancer history of patients with chronic liver disease as it might provide valuable prognostic information and guide individualized treatment and surveillance plans.
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cook County Health and Hospital System, Chicago, IL, USA
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Agrawal R, Karanovic S, Gee BC, Carr RA. A pruritic hyperkeratotic plaque on the foot of a 35-year-old woman. Clin Exp Dermatol 2020; 45:771-774. [PMID: 32320098 DOI: 10.1111/ced.14217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 03/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- R Agrawal
- Departments of, Department of, Dermatology, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK
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- Departments of, Department of, Dermatology, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK
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- Departments of, Department of, Dermatology, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK
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- Department of, Pathology, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK
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Seven visually impaired men in India were extensively interviewed regarding their attitudes toward mainstreaming and the problems they were facing. Their IQs and levels of anxiety were also assessed. It was found that, for successful mainstreaming, the characteristics of individuals are as important as the social environments in which they are placed.
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- R. Agrawal
- Department of Psychology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143005, India
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