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Brihmat N, Bayram MB, Ravi M, Bheemreddy A, Anjaria M, Momeni K, Saleh S, Forrest GF. Differential Corticospinal Excitability and Cortical Functional Connectivity Modulation by Spinal Cord Transcutaneous Stimulation-based Motor Training versus Motor Training alone in Able-bodied and SCI participants: A Multiple Case Study. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38083293 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Spinal cord transcutaneous stimulation (scTS) has shown its potential for boosting motor, sensory, and autonomic function recovery after a spinal cord injury. Despite the demonstrated benefits, little is known about the exact neuromodulatory mechanisms triggered by scTS and the cortex involvement in the beneficial effects observed. Here, we examine the effects of scTS-based motor training and motor training alone on sensorimotor cortical functional connectivity and corticospinal excitability in able-bodied and SCI participants.Clinical Relevance- The results show preliminary evidence of differential cortical involvement and modulation by scTS-based motor training in uninjured and spinal-cord injured individuals. A better understanding of scTS mechanisms of action could help optimize the intervention design and potentiate its benefits.
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Swanson K, Ravi A, Saleh S, Weia B, Pleasants E, Arvisais-Anhalt S. Effect of Recent Abortion Legislation on Twitter User Engagement, Sentiment, and Expressions of Trust in Clinicians and Privacy of Health Information: Content Analysis. J Med Internet Res 2023; 25:e46655. [PMID: 37171873 DOI: 10.2196/46655] [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: 02/20/2023] [Revised: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/13/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs) overrules precedents established by Roe v Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey and allows states to individually regulate access to abortion care services. While many states have passed laws to protect access to abortion services since the ruling, the ruling has also triggered the enforcement of existing laws and the creation of new ones that ban or restrict abortion. In addition to denying patients the full spectrum of reproductive health care, one major concern in the medical community is how the ruling will undermine trust in the patient-clinician relationship by influencing perceptions of the privacy of patient health information. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to study the effect of recent abortion legislation on Twitter user engagement, sentiment, expressions of trust in clinicians, and privacy of health information. METHODS We scraped tweets containing keywords of interest between January 1, 2020, and October 17, 2022, to capture tweets posted before and after the leak of the Supreme Court decision. We then trained a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to select tweets pertinent to the topic of interest and performed a sentiment analysis using Robustly Optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Pre-training Approach model and a causal impact time series analysis to examine engagement and sentiment. In addition, we used a Word2Vec model to study the terms of interest against a latent trust dimension to capture how expressions of trust for our terms of interest changed over time and used term frequency, inverse-document frequency to measure the volume of tweets before and after the decision with respect to the negative and positive sentiments that map to our terms of interest. RESULTS Our study revealed (1) a transient increase in the number of daily users by 576.86% (95% CI 545.34%-607.92%; P<.001), tweeting about abortion, health care, and privacy of health information postdecision leak; (2) a sustained and statistically significant decrease in the average daily sentiment on these topics by 19.81% (95% CI -22.98% to -16.59%; P=.001) postdecision leak; (3) a decrease in the association of the latent dimension of trust across most clinician-related and health information-related terms of interest; (4) an increased frequency of tweets with these clinician-related and health information-related terms and concomitant negative sentiment in the postdecision leak period. CONCLUSIONS The study suggests that the Dobbs ruling has consequences for health systems and reproductive health care that extend beyond denying patients access to the full spectrum of reproductive health services. The finding of a decrease in the expression of trust in clinicians and health information-related terms provides evidence to support advocacy and initiatives that proactively address concerns of trust in health systems and services.
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- Karl Swanson
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Franicsco, CA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Franicsco, CA, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Franicsco, CA, United States
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- School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
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Ho M, Most ZM, Perl TM, Diaz MI, Casazza JA, Saleh S, Pickering M, Radunsky AP, Hanna JJ, Thakur B, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Turer RW. Incidence and Risk Factors for Severe Outcomes in Pediatric Patients With COVID-19. Hosp Pediatr 2023; 13:450-462. [PMID: 37038904 DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2022-006833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Throughout the pandemic, children with COVID-19 have experienced hospitalization, ICU admission, invasive respiratory support, and death. Using a multisite, national dataset, we investigate risk factors associated with these outcomes in children with COVID-19. METHODS Our data source (Optum deidentified COVID-19 Electronic Health Record Dataset) included children aged 0 to 18 years testing positive for COVID-19 between January 1, 2020, and January 20, 2022. Using ordinal logistic regression, we identified factors associated with an ordinal outcome scale: nonhospitalization, hospitalization, or a severe composite outcome (ICU, intensive respiratory support, death). To contrast hospitalization for COVID-19 and incidental positivity on hospitalization, we secondarily identified patient factors associated with hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19. RESULTS In 165 437 children with COVID-19, 3087 (1.8%) were hospitalized without complication, 2954 (1.8%) experienced ICU admission and/or intensive respiratory support, and 31 (0.02%) died. We grouped patients by age: 0 to 4 years old (35 088), and 5 to 11 years old (75 574), 12 to 18 years old (54 775). Factors positively associated with worse outcomes were preexisting comorbidities and residency in the Southern United States. In 0- to 4-year-old children, there was a nonlinear association between age and worse outcomes, with worse outcomes in 0- to 2-year-old children. In 5- to 18-year-old patients, vaccination was protective. Findings were similar in our secondary analysis of hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of COVID-19, though region effects were no longer observed. CONCLUSIONS Among children with COVID-19, preexisting comorbidities and residency in the Southern United States were positively associated with worse outcomes, whereas vaccination was negatively associated. Our study population was highly insured; future studies should evaluate underinsured populations to confirm generalizability.
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- Milan Ho
- UT Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Texas
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- Department of Internal Medicine
- Clinical Informatics Center
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- Department of Population and Data Science
- Department of Emergency Medicine, and
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- Department of Pediatrics
- Clinical Informatics Center
- Department of Population and Data Science
- Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics, Utah Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- Clinical Informatics Center
- Department of Emergency Medicine, and
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Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte AJ, Cardilo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK, Crusco S, Dadabhoy F, Dash D, DeBolt C, Elkin PL, Fayanju OA, Fochtmann LJ, Graham JV, Hanna JJ, Hersh W, Hofford MR, Hron JD, Huang SS, Jackson BR, Kaplan B, Kelly W, Ko K, Koppel R, Kurapati N, Labbad G, Lee JJ, Lehmann CU, Leitner S, Liao ZC, Medford RJ, Melnick ER, Muniyappa AN, Murray SG, Neinstein AB, Nichols-Johnson V, Novak LL, Ogan WS, Ozeran L, Pageler NM, Pandita D, Perumbeti A, Petersen C, Pierce L, Puttagunta R, Ramaswamy P, Rogers KM, Rosenbloom ST, Ryan A, Saleh S, Sarabu C, Schreiber R, Shaw KA, Sim I, Sirintrapun SJ, Solomonides A, Spector JD, Starren JB, Stoffel M, Subbian V, Swanson K, Tomes A, Trang K, Unertl KM, Weon JL, Whooley MA, Wiley K, Williamson DFK, Winkelstein P, Wong J, Xie J, Yarahuan JKW, Yung N, Zera C, Ratanawongsa N, Sadasivaiah S. Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health Organization. Appl Clin Inform 2023; 14:164-171. [PMID: 36535703 PMCID: PMC9977563 DOI: 10.1055/a-2000-7590] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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- Simone Arvisais-Anhalt
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- College of Nursing and Health Science, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ventura County Healthcare Agency, Ventura, California, United States
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- Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, NYU Langone Health, New York, New York, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
- Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Division of Clinical Research Informatics, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States
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- The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Mass General Brigham, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Department of Pulmonary Critical Care, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
- Department of Clinical Informatics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States
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- Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri, United States
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Department of Pathology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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- Bioethics Center, Information Society Project, Solomon Center for Health Care Policy, Yale University Center for Medical Informatics, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
- Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States
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- Department of Medical informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Department of Medical informatics, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Department of Family Medicine Soin Medical Center, Kettering Health, Dayton, Ohio
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- Enterprise Information Systems, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, California, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Clinical Informatics Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Clinical Informatics Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine and Biostatistics (Health Informatics), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of OB/Gyn (Emerita), Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, California, United States
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- Clinical Informatics, Inc., Yuba City, California, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, Hennepin HealthCare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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- Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Geisinger Health, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics/Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Information Services, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Information Services, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
- Department of Medicine, Penn State Health, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
- University of California San Francisco University of California Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, University of California San Francisco and University of California Berkeley, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, United States
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- Research Institute, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States
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- Information Services Department, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Department of Preventative Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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- College of Engineering, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
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- Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management, Medical University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, United States
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- Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Institute for Healthcare Informatics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States
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- Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States
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- Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, California, United States
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- Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco, California, United States
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
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Ho M, Most ZM, Diaz M, Casazza JA, Thakur B, Saleh S, Pickering M, Perl TM, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Turer RW. 2298. Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of COVID-19 in Pediatric Patients in the United States. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.136] [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: 12/16/2022] Open
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Background
The percentage of children infected with COVID-19 has outpaced that of adults. As children >5 years are now eligible to receive vaccines, it is necessary to understand the effect of vaccination in the context of demographic characteristics, clinical factors, and variants on pediatric COVID-19 illness severity.
Methods
We conducted a descriptive study of patients ≤18 years from the Optum® COVID-19 electronic health record dataset. Patients were included if positive for COVID-19 by polymerase chain reaction or antigen testing for the first time from 3/12/2020 to 1/20/2022. We compare race and ethnicity, age, gender, US region of residence, vaccination status, body mass index (BMI), pediatric comorbidity index (PCI) (Sun, Am. J. Epidemiol. 2021), and predominant variant (by time and region) with 2-tailed t-test, multi-category chi-square test, and odds ratios (R version 4.1.2; α = 0.05). PCI is a validated comorbidity index predicting hospitalization in pediatric patients.
Results
Of all pediatric patients in our dataset, 165,468 (13.2%) tested positive for COVID-19. 3,087 (1.9%) were hospitalized, 1,417 (0.9%) were admitted to the ICU, 1545 (0.9%) received respiratory support, and 31 (0.02%) died, comparable to AAP-reported hospitalization and mortality rates in US children. Patients with severe outcomes were more likely to be younger, non-Caucasian, from the US South, unvaccinated, and have a higher PCI (Figure 1). Excluding non-severe outcomes, rates of death and ICU admission were higher in 0–4-year-olds compared to 5–11 or 12–18-year-olds (Figure 2). All patients receiving at least one dose of the vaccine survived. The odds ratio of a severe outcome is 0.11 (95% CI 0.07–0.16) in fully vaccinated patients compared to unvaccinated patients. The odds ratio of a severe outcome is 0.55 (95% CI 0.49–0.63) in partially vaccinated patients compared to unvaccinated patients.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of pediatric patients with COVID-19
Relative proportion of clinically severe outcomes within age groups, excluding non-severe outcomes
Conclusion
In this large population, incidence rate of severe outcomes from COVID-19 in pediatric patients was higher among non-Caucasian patients, living in the South, with underlying comorbid illness, and those not yet eligible for vaccination. These findings reinforce the need for a vaccine for younger patients and targeted vaccine outreach to racial and ethnic minorities and children with chronic conditions.
Disclosures
Christoph U. Lehmann, MD, Celanese: Stocks/Bonds|Markel: Stocks/Bonds|Springer: Honoraria|UTSW: Employee.
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- Milan Ho
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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- University of Texas at Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, Texas
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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- Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center , Dallas, TX
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Ababneh O, Ahmed Y, Syaj S, Hatamleh Z, Saleh S, Zaitoun A, Akhdar M, Alsaid Ahmad M, Al-shadiafat R, Hamouri S. EP08.02-121 The Landscape of Anti-neoplastic Drugs for Malignant Pleural Effusion in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review of Clinical Trials. J Thorac Oncol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2022.07.804] [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: 11/27/2022]
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Gannot G, Saleh S, Fuchs L, Oron A. Neglected congenital trigger thumb. Hand Surg Rehabil 2022; 41:415-417. [PMID: 35272068 DOI: 10.1016/j.hansur.2022.02.005] [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: 10/20/2021] [Revised: 12/28/2021] [Accepted: 02/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We present a case of neglected trigger thumb in a forty-year-old male. The patient presented to our clinic due to bilateral triggering of his fourth digit. He attested to having pain and limitation of joint movement of his left thumb since his childhood in the former Soviet Union, with occasional triggering. This eventually subsided and the thumb became stuck in relative flexion and could not be fully extended. We performed X-rays of both thumbs wherein the left affected thumb interphalangeal joint showed an aberrant configuration and sclerosis of both joint surfaces. The joint surface curvature was altered on the left side and contact area reduced. This presentation of altered thumb interphalangeal joint biomechanics following an untreated congenital trigger thumb further emphasizes the need for surgical intervention when indicated.
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- G Gannot
- Orthopedics Department, Hand Surgery Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, 1 Pasternak Rd, Rehovot, Israel.
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- Orthopedics Department, Hand Surgery Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, 1 Pasternak Rd, Rehovot, Israel
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- Orthopedics Department, Hand Surgery Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, 1 Pasternak Rd, Rehovot, Israel
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- Orthopedics Department, Hand Surgery Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, 1 Pasternak Rd, Rehovot, Israel
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Pickering MA, Venkatesan S, Lehmann CU, Saleh S, Medford RJ. NetworkSIR and EnvironmentalSIR: Effective, Open-Source Epidemic Modeling in the Absence of Data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2022; 2021:1009-1018. [PMID: 35308930 PMCID: PMC8861737] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The rapidly changing situation characterized by the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted a need for new epidemic modeling strategies. Due to an absence of computationally efficient models robust to paucity of reliable data, we developed NetworkSIR, a model capable of making predictions when only the approximate population density is known. We then extend NetworkSIR to capture the effect of indirect disease spread on the progression of an epidemic (EnvironmentalSIR).
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- Madison A Pickering
- The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
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Morton B, Vercueil A, Masekela R, Heinz E, Reimer L, Saleh S, Kalinga C, Seekles M, Biccard B, Chakaya J, Abimbola S, Obasi A, Oriyo N. Consensus statement on measures to promote equitable authorship in the publication of research from international partnerships. Anaesthesia 2021; 77:264-276. [PMID: 34647323 PMCID: PMC9293237 DOI: 10.1111/anae.15597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Despite the acknowledged injustice and widespread existence of parachute research studies conducted in low‐ or middle‐income countries by researchers from institutions in high‐income countries, there is currently no pragmatic guidance for how academic journals should evaluate manuscript submissions and challenge this practice. We assembled a multidisciplinary group of editors and researchers with expertise in international health research to develop this consensus statement. We reviewed relevant existing literature and held three workshops to present research data and holistically discuss the concept of equitable authorship and the role of academic journals in the context of international health research partnerships. We subsequently developed statements to guide prospective authors and journal editors as to how they should address this issue. We recommend that for manuscripts that report research conducted in low‐ or middle‐income countries by collaborations including partners from one or more high‐income countries, authors should submit accompanying structured reflexivity statements. We provide specific questions that these statements should address and suggest that journals should transparently publish reflexivity statements with accepted manuscripts. We also provide guidance to journal editors about how they should assess the structured statements when making decisions on whether to accept or reject submitted manuscripts. We urge journals across disciplines to adopt these recommendations to accelerate the changes needed to halt the practice of parachute research.
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- B Morton
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa
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- Departments of Clinical Sciences and of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Wellcome Trust Clinical, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Global Respiratory Health, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.,Department of Medicine, Dermatology and Therapeutics, School of Medicine, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
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- School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK.,AXESS Clinic, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK
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- National Institute of Medical Research, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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G. Pedroza R, Saleh S, Russo V, Dickman C, Getsios S, Wadsworth S, Piret J. Engineering the design of cell encapsulated alginate fibres for the treatment of diabetes. Cytotherapy 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/s1465324921005089] [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: 11/26/2022]
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Saleh S, Shepherd W, Jewell C, Lam NL, Balmes J, Bates MN, Lai PS, Ochieng CA, Chinouya M, Mortimer K. Air pollution interventions and respiratory health: a systematic review. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2021; 24:150-164. [PMID: 32127098 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.19.0417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND: Indoor and ambient air pollution exposure is a major risk to respiratory health worldwide, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Interventional trials have mainly focused on alternatives to cooking stoves, with mixed results. Beyond cooking, additional sources of particulate matter also contribute to the burden of air pollution exposure. This review explores evidence from current randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the clinical effectiveness of interventions to reduce particulate matter in LMICs.METHODS: Twelve databases and the grey literature (e.g., Government reports and policy papers) were searched. Eligible studies were RCTs conducted in LMICs aiming to reduce particulate exposure from any source and reporting on at least one clinical respiratory outcome (respiratory symptoms, lung function or clinical diagnoses). Data from relevant studies were systematically extracted, the risk of bias assessed and narrative synthesis provided.RESULTS: Of the 14 included studies, 12 tested 'improved' cookstoves, most using biomass, but solar and bioethanol cookers were also included. One trial used solar lamps and another was an integrated intervention incorporating behavioural and environmental components for the treatment and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Of the six studies reporting child pneumonia outcomes, none demonstrated significant benefit in intention-to-treat analysis. Ten studies reported respiratory symptom outcomes with some improvements seen, but self-reporting made these outcomes highly vulnerable to bias. Substantial inter-study clinical and methodological heterogeneity precluded calculation of pooled effect estimates.CONCLUSION: Evidence from the RCTs performed to date suggests that individual household-level interventions for air pollution exposure reduction have limited benefits for respiratory health. More comprehensive approaches to air pollution exposure reduction must be developed so their potential health benefits can be assessed.
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- S Saleh
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK, Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome Trust Programme, Lilongwe, Malawi
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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- Schatz Energy Research Center, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
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- University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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- University of California, Berkeley, CA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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Seif El-Din SH, Salem MB, El-Lakkany NM, Hammam OA, Nasr SM, Okasha H, Ahmed LA, Saleh S, Botros SS. Early intervention with probiotics and metformin alleviates liver injury in NAFLD rats via targeting gut microbiota dysbiosis and p-AKT/mTOR/LC-3II pathways. Hum Exp Toxicol 2021; 40:1496-1509. [PMID: 33678036 DOI: 10.1177/0960327121999445] [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] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) constitutes a major health problem worldwide and intimately links with obesity and diabetes. This study aimed to explore the therapeutic impact of early treatment with metformin (MTF) alone or in combination with Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 (L. reuteri) + metronidazole (MTZ) in male Sprague Dawley rats with high-fat diet (HFD)-induced NAFLD. Hepatic steatosis was induced by feeding rats HFD for 6 weeks. MTF (150 mg/kg/day) or L. reuteri (2 × 109 colony forming unit/day) were given orally for 4 weeks; meanwhile, MTZ (15 mg/kg/day, p.o.) was administered for 1 week. Administration of L. reuteri + MTZ in combination with MTF produced a superior effect concerning insulin resistance (IR), lipid profile, liver function, oxidative stress, inflammatory and autophagic markers than using each treatment alone. Besides, this combination resulted in disappearance of steatosis, inflammation and vacuolation within hepatic architecture. Moreover, it normalized short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) as well as Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes faecal contents. In conclusion, early treatment with L. reuteri + MTZ in combination with MTF could prevent NAFLD progression and liver injury through targeting gut dysbiosis, inflammation and autophagic pathways.
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- Sayed H Seif El-Din
- Pharmacology Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Pharmacology Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Pharmacology Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Pathology Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Biochemistry Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Biochemistry Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, 110154Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, 110154Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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- Pharmacology Department, 230796Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, Warak El-Hadar, Imbaba, Giza, Egypt
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Abouelkheir HY, Badawi AE, Abdelkader AM, El-Kanishy A, Saleh S, Abou Samra WA, Kasem MA, Mokbel T. Does the scleral encircling band provide a protective effect against the progression of diabetic retinopathy? Int J Ophthalmol 2019; 12:1408-1414. [PMID: 31544035 DOI: 10.18240/ijo.2019.09.06] [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: 11/24/2018] [Accepted: 01/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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AIM To evaluate the effect of scleral encircling bands on the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in diabetic patients. METHODS The medical records of diabetic patients who underwent unilateral retinal detachment (RD) surgery using scleral buckle and encircling band were reviewed retrospectively. Both eyes of patients were included in the study: one eye in each patient had a scleral buckle with encircling band (the operated eye) and the other one is the non-operated eye. The demographic characters, duration of diabetes and period between surgery and the last recall visit were retrieved from each patient. All the cases underwent fundus photo and fluorescein angiography (when indicated) to confirm the DR staging. RESULTS Totally 25 patients fulfilled the inclusion and the exclusion criteria were become eligible for the study. A total of 50 eyes of 25 patients were enrolled in this analysis. The mean period of time passed from surgery with encircling band and the last reassessment visit was 12.5±2y. Even though DR could develop in the operated eyes, it was at a less degree of severity compared to the non-operated eyes of same patients (P=0.027). CONCLUSION Scleral encircling bands have protective effects against the development and progression of DR.
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthalmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Mokbel T, Saleh S, Abdelkader M, El-Khouly SE, Abou Samra W, Mamdouh M. Functional and anatomical evaluation of the effect of nepafenac in prevention of macular edema after phacoemulsification in diabetic patients. Int J Ophthalmol 2019; 12:387-392. [PMID: 30918805 DOI: 10.18240/ijo.2019.03.06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 04/30/2018] [Accepted: 11/09/2018] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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AIM To evaluate the effect of prophylactic administration of nepafenac in prevention of macular edema occurring in diabetic patients after phacoemulsification and to investigate the correlation between optical coherence tomography (OCT) foveal thickness and multifocal electroretinogram (MF-ERG) parameters. METHODS The study included two groups. Group 1 included 50 diabetic patients with senile cataract (50 eyes, 30 females, 20 males, aged 55±7y) received nepafenac 0.1% eye drop. Group 2 included another 50 diabetic patients with senile cataract (50 eyes, 22 female, 28 males, aged 53.8±8y) did not receive nepafenac. All patients were followed up for 3mo postoperatively. OCT and MF-ERG were done preoperative and at 1wk, 1, 2 and 3mo. RESULTS The mean foveal thickness was statistically significantly lower in Group 1. Five eyes in Group 2 developed clinical cystoid macular oedema (CMO) (10%), and no patients in Group 1 developed central macular thickening more than 50 µm. There were insignificant differences in MF-ERG amplitudes and latencies between the two groups except in the five eyes that developed CMO, there statistically significant reduction of MF-ERG amplitude with increase in foveal thickness. CONCLUSION Perioperative nepafenac reduces the incidence of CMO following uncomplicated phacoemulsification significantly. Nepafenac has no side effects.
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- Tharwat Mokbel
- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Mansoura Ophthlmic Center, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Saleh S, Gawad S, Awad E, Ellayeh A. Twenty-three-gauge pars plana approach versus limbal approach for removal of congenital cataracts. J Egypt Ophthalmol Soc 2019. [DOI: 10.4103/ejos.ejos_27_19] [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: 11/04/2022] Open
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Abou Samra W, Mokbel T, Elwan M, Saleh S, Elwehidy A, Iqbal M, Ellayeh A. Two-stage procedure in the management of selected cases of keratoconus: clear lens extraction with aspherical IOL implantation followed by WFG-PRK. Int J Ophthalmol 2018; 11:1761-1767. [PMID: 30450305 DOI: 10.18240/ijo.2018.11.05] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [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: 05/21/2018] [Accepted: 07/18/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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AIM To assess the objective and subjective results of a two-stage procedure for management of keratoconus: clear lensectomy with aspherical intraocular lens (IOL) implantation followed by wave front-guided photorefractive keratotomy (WFG-PRK). METHODS This prospective interventional non-randomized study included patients aged 35 years old or more with grade I and II stable keratoconus, a clear visual axis, minimal corneal thickness (MCT) 420 µm or more and average keratometric reading (K) less than 54 diopter (D). Refraction of all selected eyes should be -8.00 D sphere or more with less than -6.00 D cylinder and could be corrected two lines or more with spectacles or contact lenses. All studied eyes underwent a two-stage approach treatment: first refractive lens exchange and aspherical IOL implantation followed, after at least 3mo, by WFG-PRK. Pre and postoperative complete ophthalmological examination were performed. Topographical, visual and aberrometric results were recorded and evaluated during 6mo follow up period. Moreover, patient satisfaction and other subjective outcomes were also analyzed. RESULTS The 13 eyes of 11 patients diagnosed with stable keratoconus and aged from 39 to 49y (42.4±6.2y) were enrolled in the study. At baseline, 8 eyes had grade I and 5 eyes had grade II keratoconus. The manifest sphere was -10.3±4.2 D (ranged from -8.0 to -14.0 D) and the manifest cylinder was -4.2±1.2 D (ranged from -1.75 to -5.50 D). After the two-stage procedure, sphere and cylinder reduced significantly to -0.43±0.22 D and -1.3±0.72 D respectively (P<0.001). There was also a highly significant improvement in the mean uncorrected distance visual acuity (UDVA) from logMAR 1.41±0.49 preoperatively to 0.51±0.16 postoperatively (P<0.001) and the mean corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) from 0.76±0.24 preoperatively to 0.49±0.13 after the operation (P<0.001). All aberrometric and mesopic vision parameters and most of the topographical indices demonstrated highly significant improvement that remains stable until the end of follow up. All recorded subjective data revealed a high degree of patient satisfaction. CONCLUSION Two-stage approach (clear lens exchange with monofocal IOL followed by WFG-PRK) in selected cases of keratoconus is a safe, effective and highly predictable procedure with satisfactory visual and refractive results.
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- Waleed Abou Samra
- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt
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Taylor-Cousar J, Tullis E, Derichs N, Davies J, Nazareth D, Downey D, Rosenbluth D, Fajac I, Malfroot A, Saunders C, Short C, Jensen R, Solomon G, Vermeulen F, Willmann S, Saleh S, Langer S, Kaiser A, Hoffmann A, Rowe S, Ratjen F. P028 Riociguat for the treatment of adult Phe508del homozygous cystic fibrosis: efficacy data from the Phase II Rio-CF study. J Cyst Fibros 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-1993(18)30325-4] [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: 10/14/2022]
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Awang N, Majid N, Saleh S, Said J. An analysis on compensation of claims regarding to personal Injury and loss of earning on several court cases. J Fundam and Appl Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.4314/jfas.v9i6s.28] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Gaballa KM, Metwally IH, Refky B, AbdEIKhalek M, Saleh S, Abdelaziz AM, Arafa M. Ovarian gastrointestinal stromal tumor: does this diagnosis exist? EUR J GYNAECOL ONCOL 2017; 38:147-149. [PMID: 29767886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are rare gastrointestinal (GI ) tract tumors. Those tumors rarely arise extra intestinally; within omentum, mesentery, and rarely uterus. The authors report a case of myxoid variant of GIST arising in the ovary with no evidence of a primary tumor in the GI tract. Surgeons as well as gynecologists should bear this possibility in mind when managing pelvic masses.
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Saleh S, Thompson DE, McConkey J, Murray P, Moorehead RA. Osteopontin regulates proliferation, apoptosis, and migration of murine claudin-low mammary tumor cells. BMC Cancer 2016; 16:359. [PMID: 27282619 PMCID: PMC4901464 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-016-2396-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2015] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Background Osteopontin is a secreted phosphoglycoprotein that is expressed by a number of normal cells as well as a variety of tumor cells. With respect to breast cancer, osteopontin has been implicated in regulating tumor cell proliferation and migration/metastasis and may serve as a prognostic indicator. However it remains unclear whether osteopontin has the same impact in all breast cancer subtypes and in particular, osteopontin’s effects in claudin-low breast cancer are poorly understood. Methods cDNA microarrays and qRT-PCR were used to evaluate osteopontin expression in mammary tumors from MTB-IGFIR transgenic mice and cell lines derived from these tumors. siRNA was then used to determine the impact of osteopontin knockdown on proliferation, apoptosis and migration in vitro in two murine claudin-low cell lines as well as identify the receptor mediating osteopontin’s physiologic effects. Results Osteopontin was expressed at high levels in mammary tumors derived from MTB-IGFIR transgenic mice compared to normal mammary tissue. Evaluation of cell lines derived from different mammary tumors revealed that mammary tumor cells with claudin-low characteristic expressed high levels of osteopontin whereas mammary tumor cells with mixed luminal and basal-like features expressed lower levels of osteopontin. Reduction of osteopontin levels using siRNA significantly reduced proliferation and migration while increasing apoptosis in the claudin-low cell lines. Osteopontin’s effect appear to be mediated through a receptor containing ITGAV and not through CD44. Conclusions Our data suggests that mammary tumors with a mixed luminal/basal-like phenotype express high levels of osteopontin however this osteopontin appears to be largely produced by non-tumor cells in the tumor microenvironment. In contrast tumor cells with claudin-low characteristics express high levels of osteopontin and a reduction of osteopontin in these cells impaired proliferation, survival and migration.
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- S Saleh
- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada
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- Department of Biomedical Science, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, N1G2W1, Canada.
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M. M, Abdel-Rahman A, Younis A, Yassin E, Saber R, El-Fatih M, Emam A, Abou-Setta M, Saleh S, Darbein S. Influence Of Plant Phenology (As Plant Age) And Some Weather Factors On Aphis gossypii Glover Population On Four Solanaceae Crops. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences A, Entomology 2016. [DOI: 10.21608/eajbsa.2016.12840] [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: 10/28/2022] Open
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Saleh S, Ammar W, Natafgi N, Mourad Y, Dimassi H, Harb H. Association between payer mix and costs, revenues and profitability: a cross-sectional study of Lebanese hospitals. East Mediterr Health J 2015; 21:381-8. [PMID: 26369996 DOI: 10.26719/2015.21.6.381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2014] [Accepted: 05/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This study aimed to examine the association between the payer mix and the financial performance of public and private hospitals in Lebanon. The sample comprised 24 hospitals, representing the variety of hospital characteristics in Lebanon. The distribution of the payer mix revealed that the main sources of revenue were public sources (61.1%), out-of-pocket (18.4%) and private insurance (18.2%). Increases in the percentage of revenue from public sources were associated with lower total costs and revenues, but not profit margins. An inverse association was noted between increased revenue from private insurance and profitability, attributed to increased costs. Increased percentage of out of- pocket payments was associated with lower costs and higher profitability. The study provides evidence that payer mix is associated with hospital costs, revenues and profitability. This should initiate/inform discussions between public and private payers and hospitals about the level of payment and its association with hospital sector financial viability.
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- S Saleh
- Department of Health Management and Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Management and Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Department of Health Management and Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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- School of Pharmacy, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon
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- Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon
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Galal H, Saleh S, El Hamamsy M, Sharaf El Din M, El Batae H, El Maadawy A. Rapid On-Treatment Response as a Predictor in HCV Infected Naïve Egyptian Patients. Egyptian Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology 2015. [DOI: 10.11131/2015/101357] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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- H. Galal
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, October 6 University, Egypt
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- Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, October 6 University, Egypt
- Pharmacology and Toxicology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, Egypt
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- Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Ain Shams University, Egypt
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- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt
- Universal Supervisor of Kafr El Sheikh Liver and Cardiac Center, Kafr EL Sheikh, Egypt
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- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt
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- Consultant in Kafr El Sheikh Liver and Cardiac Center, Kafr EL Sheikh, Egypt
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Huntgeburth M, Kießling J, Weimann G, Kiepsel V, Saleh S, Hunzelmann N, Rosenkranz S. FRI0444 Riociguat for the Treatment of Raynaud's Phenomenon: A Single-Dose, Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Cross-Over Study (Digit): Table 1. Ann Rheum Dis 2015. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-eular.4458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Apitz C, Ghofrani H, Beghetti M, Ivy D, Frey R, Fritsch A, Weimann G, Saleh S, Rosenkranz S. Riociguat Treatment for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) Associated with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD): A Subgroup Analysis from the PATENT Studies. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1555984] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Saeed A, Saleh S. Modified trabeculectomy with an extended subscleral tunnel: could it be a secure way toward successful glaucoma surgery? J Egypt Ophthalmol Soc 2014. [DOI: 10.4103/2090-0686.140648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Saleh S, Olson B, Shehu A. A population-based evolutionary search approach to the multiple minima problem in de novo protein structure prediction. BMC Struct Biol 2013; 13 Suppl 1:S4. [PMID: 24565020 PMCID: PMC3953177 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-13-s1-s4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background Elucidating the native structure of a protein molecule from its sequence of amino acids, a problem known as de novo structure prediction, is a long standing challenge in computational structural biology. Difficulties in silico arise due to the high dimensionality of the protein conformational space and the ruggedness of the associated energy surface. The issue of multiple minima is a particularly troublesome hallmark of energy surfaces probed with current energy functions. In contrast to the true energy surface, these surfaces are weakly-funneled and rich in comparably deep minima populated by non-native structures. For this reason, many algorithms seek to be inclusive and obtain a broad view of the low-energy regions through an ensemble of low-energy (decoy) conformations. Conformational diversity in this ensemble is key to increasing the likelihood that the native structure has been captured. Methods We propose an evolutionary search approach to address the multiple-minima problem in decoy sampling for de novo structure prediction. Two population-based evolutionary search algorithms are presented that follow the basic approach of treating conformations as individuals in an evolving population. Coarse graining and molecular fragment replacement are used to efficiently obtain protein-like child conformations from parents. Potential energy is used both to bias parent selection and determine which subset of parents and children will be retained in the evolving population. The effect on the decoy ensemble of sampling minima directly is measured by additionally mapping a conformation to its nearest local minimum before considering it for retainment. The resulting memetic algorithm thus evolves not just a population of conformations but a population of local minima. Results and conclusions Results show that both algorithms are effective in terms of sampling conformations in proximity of the known native structure. The additional minimization is shown to be key to enhancing sampling capability and obtaining a diverse ensemble of decoy conformations, circumventing premature convergence to sub-optimal regions in the conformational space, and approaching the native structure with proximity that is comparable to state-of-the-art decoy sampling methods. The results are shown to be robust and valid when using two representative state-of-the-art coarse-grained energy functions.
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Molloy K, Saleh S, Shehu A. Probabilistic search and energy guidance for biased decoy sampling in ab initio protein structure prediction. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 2013; 10:1162-1175. [PMID: 24384705 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2013.29] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Adequate sampling of the conformational space is a central challenge in ab initio protein structure prediction. In the absence of a template structure, a conformational search procedure guided by an energy function explores the conformational space, gathering an ensemble of low-energy decoy conformations. If the sampling is inadequate, the native structure may be missed altogether. Even if reproduced, a subsequent stage that selects a subset of decoys for further structural detail and energetic refinement may discard near-native decoys if they are high energy or insufficiently represented in the ensemble. Sampling should produce a decoy ensemble that facilitates the subsequent selection of near-native decoys. In this paper, we investigate a robotics-inspired framework that allows directly measuring the role of energy in guiding sampling. Testing demonstrates that a soft energy bias steers sampling toward a diverse decoy ensemble less prone to exploiting energetic artifacts and thus more likely to facilitate retainment of near-native conformations by selection techniques. We employ two different energy functions, the associative memory Hamiltonian with water and Rosetta. Results show that enhanced sampling provides a rigorous testing of energy functions and exposes different deficiencies in them, thus promising to guide development of more accurate representations and energy functions.
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Clarke M, Cai G, Saleh S, Buller KM, Spencer SJ. Being suckled in a large litter mitigates the effects of early-life stress on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in the male rat. J Neuroendocrinol 2013; 25:792-802. [PMID: 23763285 DOI: 10.1111/jne.12056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Revised: 05/08/2013] [Accepted: 06/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The perinatal environment influences stress responses in the long-term, as does body composition. Male rats suckled in large litters, where they have reduced access to milk and attention from the dam, are less anxious and have attenuated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis responses to stress compared to rats from control litters. In the present study, we investigated whether this early-life environment can also ameliorate anxiety and HPA axis function in rats prone to be stress-sensitive. We conducted these experiments in male rats from control litters (n = 12) or large litters (n = 20). Half were given 24 h of maternal separation on postnatal day 10 to induce HPA axis hyperactivity; the remainder staying undisturbed with their dam. When the rats reached adulthood, we examined behavioural indices of anxiety (elevated plus maze) and depression (Porsolt's forced swim test) under basal conditions and after 15 min of restraint stress. We also examined neuronal activation in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) as an index of HPA axis function. Being suckled in a large litter led to a significantly attenuated PVN response to stress in adulthood. Maternal separation strongly exacerbated the stress-induced increase in PVN neuronal activation in control rats but did not affect the PVN response in large-litter rats. Immobility in the forced swim after restraint was also exacerbated in neonatally maternally separated control rats but not in those from large litters. Our findings show that being suckled in large litters mitigates the effects of early-life stress on HPA axis function and indices of depression in the rat.
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- M Clarke
- Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Majumdar A, Saleh S, Hill S. A novel device for prolapse reduction. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2013; 33:422. [DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2012.753419] [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: 11/13/2022]
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Majumdar A, Saleh S, Hill M, Hill SR. The impact of strenuous physical activity on the development of pelvic organ prolapse. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2013; 33:115-9. [DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2012.721408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Salem DAB, El-Shazly A, Nabih N, El-Bayoumy Y, Saleh S. Evaluation of the efficacy of oral ivermectin in comparison with ivermectin-metronidazole combined therapy in the treatment of ocular and skin lesions of Demodex folliculorum. Int J Infect Dis 2013; 17:e343-7. [PMID: 23294870 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Revised: 11/09/2012] [Accepted: 11/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of ivermectin and combined ivermectin-metronidazole therapy in the treatment of ocular and skin lesions of Demodex folliculorum. METHODS One hundred twenty patients with skin lesions and anterior blepharitis, whose infestation was treatment-resistant and who had a Demodex count >5 mites/cm² for skin lesions or ≥ 3 mites at the root of each eyelash, were recruited. The treatment regimens were ivermectin and ivermectin-metronidazole combined therapy. We enrolled 15 patients from each of four groups for each treatment regimen. Demodex was detected by standardized skin surface biopsy for skin lesions. Three eyelashes from each affected lower eyelid were epilated and examined. The study subjects were followed-up once a week for four visits. RESULTS There was a difference in the mite count between the subgroups taking ivermectin and combined therapy during all follow-up visits. At the last visit, in the combined therapy subgroup, 1.7% of patients showed no clinical improvement, 26.7% showed a marked clinical improvement, and 71.6% showed complete remission. In those on the ivermectin regimen, 27 patients had a mite count >5 mites/cm², 21.7% showed no clinical improvement, 33.3% showed a marked improvement, and 45% showed complete remission. CONCLUSIONS Combined therapy was superior in decreasing the D. folliculorum count in all groups and in reducing the mite count to the normal level in rosacea and in anterior blepharitis. On the other hand, the two regimens were comparable in reducing the mite count to the normal level in acne and peri-oral dermatitis lesions.
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- Doaa Abdel-Badie Salem
- Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Gomhoria Street, Mansoura City, Egypt.
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Ghafar A, Saleh S. Temporarily attached conjunctival flap for primary pterygium surgery. J Egypt Ophthalmol Soc 2013. [DOI: 10.4103/2090-0686.127409] [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: 11/04/2022] Open
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Abdulrab A, Salem A, Algobati F, Saleh S, Shibani K, Albuthigi R. Effect of school based treatment on the prevalence of schistosomiasis in endemic area in yemen. Iran J Parasitol 2013; 8:219-26. [PMID: 23914234 PMCID: PMC3724146] [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] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2012] [Accepted: 02/12/2013] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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BACKGROUND Schistosomiasis and soil transmitted infection is a major health problem of children from rural areas of developing countries including Yemen. In an attempt to reduce this burden, the Ministry of Public Health and Population in Yemen established in 2002 a programme for Schistosomal, soil transmitted infection control that aimed to reduce morbidity and prevalence rates of Schistosomiasis, and Soil transmitted helminthes to less than 5% by 2015. The study was conducted to assess the current prevalence and intensity of schistosomal infection among schoolchildren in rural areas of the Taiz governorate after 6 years of running National Control Programme. METHODS Grade 3 schoolchildren from Shara'b Al-Raona district of Taiz Governorate were examined for infections with Schistosoma mansoni using Modified Kato-Katz method and S. haematobium applying filtration method in 1998/1999, comparing the prevalence and intensity of infection with base line study, which was done 6 years ago. RESULTS The S. mansoni prevalence in the study population was 31%, while the prevalence of S. haematobium was 18.6%. This result considerably is similar to the prevalence of base line study. The intensity of mild, moderate and severe infection for S. mansoni reached to 15.9%, 60.6% & 23.5% respectively. The severity of S. haematobium infection was 68.4%. It was exceptionally found that the prevalence of S. haematobium is increased. CONCLUSION The high prevalence of schistosomiasis and low effectiveness of control programme against schistosomal infection in the study area demands consideration of alternative treatment approaches.
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- A Abdulrab
- Dept. of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine &Health Sciences’ Sana'a University, Republic of Yemen,Corresponding author:
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- Dept. of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine &Health Sciences’ Sana'a University, Republic of Yemen
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- Dept. of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine &Health Sciences’ Sana'a University, Republic of Yemen
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- Laboratory of Ministry of Health, Taiz Republic of Yemen
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- Laboratory of Ministry of Health, Taiz Republic of Yemen
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- Microbiology and Parasitology Taiz Laboratory, Republic of Yemen
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Saleh S. 3D crustal structure and its tectonic implication for nile delta and greater cairo regions, egypt, from geophysical data. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012. [DOI: 10.1556/ageod.47.2012.4.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Ghani Y, Isah N, Saleh S, Soid NFM. Evaluation of enforcement programme to increase seatbelt use: a case study in precinct 8, Putrajaya. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590w.20] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Ghani Y, Soid NFM, Isah N, Saleh S. The effectiveness of enforcement programme in promoting proper helmet wearing among motorcyclists in precinct 8, Putrajaya. Inj Prev 2012. [DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590w.40] [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: 11/04/2022]
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Saleh S, Bagce H, Qiu Q, Fluet G, Merians A, Adamovich S, Tunik E. Mechanisms of neural reorganization in chronic stroke subjects after virtual reality training. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2012; 2011:8118-21. [PMID: 22256226 DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2011.6092002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This study investigates patterns of brain reorganization in chronic stroke subjects after two weeks of robot-assisted arm and hand training in virtual reality (VR). Four subjects were studied with event-related fMRI while doing simple paretic hand finger movements before (double baseline) and after training. Bilateral hand movements were recorded and used to provide real-time feedback to subjects during scanning to eliminate performance confounds on fMRI results. The kinematic parameters of each movement were also used in the general linear model with the BOLD signal to investigate training-induced changes in neuromotor coupling. Univariate analysis showed an increase in BOLD signal in the ipsilesional hemisphere in two subjects and a decrease in activity in the other two subjects. Seed voxel based functional connectivity analysis revealed an increase in connectivity between ipsilesional motor cortex and bilateral sensorimotor cortex during finger movements in all four subjects. Hemispheric laterality index values showed a tendency to decrease reflecting a reduction in the over-dominance of the contralesional hemisphere. The study is novel in terms of 1) tracking finger movement during a motor task in the scanner, 2) monitoring motor performance during the experiment and 3) giving online visual feedback of subjects' movement. This pilot study introduces a novel approach to study neural plasticity by combining measures of regional intensity, interregional interactions (using functional connectivity analysis and hemispheric laterality index), and modulation in the strength of neuromotor coupling.
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- S Saleh
- New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ 07102, USA. shs25@ njit.edu
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Saleh S, Ahmad G, Majumdar A. Group A streptococcus necrotising fasciitis from a levonorgestrel-containing intrauterine system ('Mirena' coil). J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2011; 31:192-4. [PMID: 21281048 DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2010.529962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- S Saleh
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, UK.
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Obesity is a growing epidemic in the western world. We carried out a comparative analysis of the incidence of obstetric morbidity in three BMI categories in the ranges 30-40 to identify which BMI category was associated with greatest risk. This identification could help target limited maternity care resources to the group of women who would benefit most. There exists a scale continuum of risk of obstetric morbidity with maternal obesity: the greater the BMI, the greater the risk. However, pregnant women with mild or moderate obesity are still at significant risk of having pre-existing co-morbidities of developing antenatal complications and of being delivered by caesarean section than women with BMIs within the normal range. These women, at the time of antenatal booking, are currently not perceived by healthcare providers as having at-risk pregnancies and are therefore potentially denied access to best care.
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- A Majumdar
- Women's Unit, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK.
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The discovery in 1998 that triclosan has a site-specific action in the bacterial cell as an inhibitor of NADH- or NADPH-dependent enoyl-acyl carrier protein reductase led to a lively debate in the scientific press. The thesis of this debate was that such a mode of action may allow triclosan to induce resistance and cross-resistance in bacterial cells. The debate last saw review in 2004, and this paper aims at updating our knowledge in this area, given recent research on the topic.
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- S Saleh
- School of Pharmacy, Applied Sciences University, Amman, Jordan
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Majumdar A, Saleh S, Davis M, Hassan I, Thompson PJ. Use of balloon catheter tamponade for massive postpartum haemorrhage. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2010; 30:586-93. [DOI: 10.3109/01443615.2010.494202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Majumdar A, Saleh S, Bird A, Kumarage I. Successful conservative management of inversion of a fibroid uterus by hydrostatic balloon. J OBSTET GYNAECOL 2010; 30:202-3. [PMID: 20143989 DOI: 10.3109/01443610903440901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- A Majumdar
- Women's Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport, UK.
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Evans VA, Saleh S, Haddad EK, Cameron PU, Sekaly RP, Lewin SR. Myeloid dendritic cells induce HIV-1 latency in non-proliferating CD4+ T cells. J Int AIDS Soc 2010. [PMCID: PMC2999392 DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-s3-o7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Khalaf I, Mahmoud M, Saleh S, Mousa S. MP-07.16: Open Renal Stone Surgery in the Era of Minimally Invasive Surgery in a University Teaching Hospital. Urology 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.07.1355] [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: 11/28/2022]
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Haddadin RNS, Saleh S, Al-Adham ISI, Buultjens TEJ, Collier PJ. The effect of subminimal inhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on virulence factors expressed by Staphylococcus aureus biofilms. J Appl Microbiol 2009; 108:1281-91. [PMID: 19778348 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.2009.04529.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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AIMS The effect of subminimal inhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of cefalexin, ciprofloxacin and roxithromycin was investigated on some virulence factors [e.g. coagulase, Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 (TSST-1) and biofilm formation] expressed by Staphylococcus aureus biofilms. METHODS AND RESULTS Biofilms were grown with and without the presence of 1/16 MIC of antibiotics on Sorbarod filters. Eluate supernatants were collected, and coagulase and TSST-1 production were evaluated. Coagulase production was reduced in eluates exposed to roxithromycin when compared to control, while TSST-1 production was reduced in biofilms exposed to cefalexin and to a lesser extent, ciprofloxacin. In addition, the ability of Staph. aureus to produce biofilm in microtitre plates in the presence of sub-MIC antibiotics indicated that cefalexin induced biofilm formation at a wide range of sub-MICs. TSST-1 produced from the challenged and control biofilms was purified, and its proliferative activity was studied on single cell suspension of mouse splenocytes using MTS/PMS assay. No significant difference in the activity between the treated toxin and the control has been observed. CONCLUSIONS Antibiotics at sub-MIC levels interfere with bacterial biofilm virulence expression depending on the type and concentration of antibiotic used. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY The establishment of sub-MICs of antibiotics in clinical situations may result in altered virulence states in pathogenic bacteria.
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- R N S Haddadin
- School of Contemporary Sciences, University of Abertay Dundee, Dundee, UK
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Hajeer AH, Sawidan FA, Bohlega S, Saleh S, Sutton P, Shubaili A, Tahan AA, Al Jumah M. HLA class I and class II polymorphisms in Saudi patients with myasthenia gravis. Int J Immunogenet 2009; 36:169-72. [PMID: 19490212 DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-313x.2009.00843.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a rare autoimmune disease of the neuromuscular junction. MG has been shown to be associated with many HLA antigens in different populations. Here we have analysed the frequency of HLA-A, B, DR and DQ in a group of Saudi MG patients and compared their results to a group of healthy controls. MG in Saudi patients is found to be associated with HLA-A*23, B*08, B*18, DRB1*16 and DRB1*13. The strongest association was with HLA-B*08, which was associated with young age at onset and female gender. Our results are in line with other published results from around the world and warrant fine mapping of the area using microsatellite to map the disease gene.
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- A H Hajeer
- College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences/King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Hajeer AH, Saleh S, Sutton P, Shubaili A, Anazi H. Pronase-free B-cell flow-cytometry crossmatch. Saudi J Kidney Dis Transpl 2009; 20:662-665. [PMID: 19587513] [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: 05/28/2023] Open
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Detection of anti-class II antibodies by panel response assay (PRA) and flow cross-match techniques carries an important value in terms of graft function. Even low levels of pre-formed alloantibodies to HLA class II antigens represent a risk of rejection. We present here a method for blocking non-specific flow crossmatch reactions using pooled, heat-inactivated rabbit serum. This method shows very low background and minimal non-specific reactions. In addition, it avoids the use pronase enzyme that can non-specifically digest different cell surface proteins.
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- A H Hajeer
- College of Medicine, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, Saudi Arabia.
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Schrauder A, Saleh S, Sykora KW, Hoy H, Welte K, Boos J, Hempel G, Grigull L. Pharmacokinetic monitoring of intravenous cyclosporine A in pediatric stem-cell transplant recipients. The trough level is not enough. Pediatr Transplant 2009; 13:444-50. [PMID: 18482216 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3046.2008.00968.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [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: 11/28/2022]
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In order to monitor CsA serum levels after SCT, trough levels (C0) are widely used. The aim of this study was to estimate the population and individual PK parameters for patients receiving intravenous CsA after SCT. In 27 pediatric patients after SCT receiving CsA (3 mg/kg/day) every 12 h, a total of 289 CsA concentrations was obtained. To describe the PK parameters of CsA, a two-compartment model with first order elimination was used. Covariate analysis identified body weight, age, and the co-administration with itraconazole and tobramycine as factors influencing the Cl. The statistical comparison of AUC, trough level, and C2 indicates a correlation between AUC and C2, but no correlation between the AUC and C0, r = 0.24 (p = 0.146) vs. r = 0.526 (p = 0.000692), respectively. Our results underscore the fact that CsA trough levels do not reflect the drug exposure in patients receiving intravenous CsA after SCT. By contrast, CsA blood levels measured 2-6 h after CsA infusion showed a better correlation with the AUC. Our data provide new information to optimize the balancing act between GvHD-prophylaxis, graft vs. leukemia effect, and CsA side-effects after SCT.
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- A Schrauder
- Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital, Medical University, Kiel, Germany
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Khan A, Saleh S, Singer P. WHY DO WOMEN VISIT COLPOSCOPY CLINIC AFTER MENOPAUSE? Maturitas 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0378-5122(09)70522-5] [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: 11/25/2022]
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