Performance and clinical implications of non-invasive prenatal testing for rare chromosomal abnormalities: a retrospective study of 94,125 cases by Haimei Qi, Haijun Chen, Zhuling Zhang, Jinhui Gan, Huifeng Liu, Xianping Yuan, Fuyu Luo, Junkun Chen, Shichun Shen

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The relationship of glycosylated hemoglobin A1c and Apolipoprotein A‑1 ratio on short-term prognosis in STEMI patients following PCI: a retrospective study by Danni Li, Yuyu Sun, Jie Han, Chen Guo, Linying Xia, Jiahao Dou, Wei Jiang, Jie Deng, Jin Wei

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Optimization of the prognosis of postoperative complications in patients with breast cancer by L. A. Trusova

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Gunshot liver injuries grade I-III and related liver enzyme values by Radunović Miodrag, Vuković Marko, Radojević Nemanja, Lazović Ranko, Radunović Miroslav

“…Presented data clearly shows that ALT is better gunshot liver injury predictor than AST, with strong predictive value regarding injury severity, in first days after liver trauma. …”
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A new method of assessing airways and selecting the method of tracheal intubation in patients with burns of face and neck during planned surgery by A. V. Korneev, S. A. Orudzheva, A. N. Kudryavtsev, A. A. Ponomarev

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value made 100%, 37%, 45,2%, and 100% accordingly. …”
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Histopathological correlation of breast lump with the mammographic and cytological findings by Rashmita Bhandari, Pratigya Subedi, Jwala Kandel

“…The present study aims to compare mammography and cytology against the histopathological diagnosis to determine the sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, positive predictive value, and diagnostic accuracy of both techniques. …”
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Clinical Utility of Next-Generation Sequencing-Based Molecular Panel in Thyroid Nodules by Hetashvi Gondaliya, Suruchi Aggarwal, Kranti Khadilkar, Shivaprasad S. Kumbenahalli, Basavaraj Sooragonda, Anirudh J. Shetty, Vijay Pillai, Vidhya Bhushan, Vivek Shetty, Yogesh Dokhe, Akhila Lakshmikantha, Subramanian Kannan

“…Post-surgical outcomes showed an overall sensitivity of 86% and a specificity of 74%, with a negative predictive value of 94%. Among the mutation-negative group, only one patient had a malignancy, and the rest were benign showing a high negative predictive value of the NGS-based testing. …”
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Portable lactate analyzer for measuring lactate in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma ? method-comparison evaluations by Sérgio Monteiro de Almeida, Jennifer Marquie-Beck, Archana Bhatt, Scott Letendre, Allen McCutchan, Ron Ellis

“…For CSF the specificity was 0.95; the sensitivity 0.33; the negative predictive value was 95% and the positive predictive value 33%. …”
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Evaluation of Salivary Antibodies to Detect Infection with Helicobacter pylori by Mark B Loeb, Robert H Riddell, Cindy James, Richard Hunt, Fiona M Smaill

“…When the analysis was redone, excluding those treated with eradication therapy, the results were similar (sensitivity 86%, specificity 58%). The positive predictive value of the assay was 45% and the negative predictive value was 90%. …”
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Utility of reporting urine cytology samples as per the Paris system by Ramesh Dhakhwa, Ozone Shrestha, Ram Thapa, Sailesh Pradhan

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value were calculated for the high-grade and low-grade urothelial lesion. …”
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Clinical utility of SPECT neuroimaging in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury: a systematic review. by Cyrus A Raji, Robert Tarzwell, Dan Pavel, Howard Schneider, Michael Uszler, John Thornton, Muriel van Lierop, Phil Cohen, Daniel G Amen, Theodore Henderson

“…Three longitudinal studies examined diagnostic predictive value. The first showed positive predictive value increases from initial SPECT scan shortly after trauma to one year follow up scans, from 59% to 95%. …”
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Diagnostic value of preoperative advanced doppler imaging with cervical maneuvers in the detection of central cervical lymph node metastasis in papillary thyroid carcinoma by Hosein Chegeni, Vahid Khani, Jalal Kargar, Abbas Alibakhshi, Khosro Shamsi, Hojat Ebrahiminik, Reza Gerami

“…The preoperative sensitivity without advanced Doppler imaging and maneuvers was 35.3%, specificity – 96.5%, positive predictive value – 88.2%, and negative predictive value – 66.9%. …”
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CURRENT APPROACHES TO EVALUATION OF THE MULTIVESSEL CORONARY ATHEROSCLEROSIS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE by D. N. Perutsky, I. B. Kovalenko, S. L. Konstantinov, T. I. Makeeva, M. V. Filatov

“…Method of stress echocardiography as compared with FFR shown sensitivity — 58%, specificity — 95%, positive predictive value — 87%, positive predictive value of a negative result — 17%. …”
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The value of transesophageal echocardiography in the assessment of complications associated with hemodialysis tunneled cuffed catheters in the superior vena cava by Yun-Ruo Wang, You Wu, Du-Juan Xu, Ru Liu, Su Niu, Hao Wu

“…With DSA as a gold standard, sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of TEE results were analyzed. …”
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Diagnostic work-up in periprosthetic joint infections of the knee: can the albumin-to-globulin ratio be a screening tool? by Domenico De Mauro, Tiziana Ascione, Enrico Festa, Lucrezia Marasco, Filippo Leggieri, Sara Rosito, Matteo Innocenti, Edoardo Di Pace, Giovanni Balato

“…Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of AGR were calculated to define the test’s diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Comparison of cervical cancer screening by visual inspection with acetic acid versus cervical-cytology in pregnancy by Saritha Shamsunder, Deepika Pannu, Geetika Khanna, Ananya Banerjee, Vijay Zutshi, Sunita Malik

“…Statistical Analysis Used: The sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values for both screening methods were compared with colposcopy as the reference standard. …”
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The Role of TB-LAMP Method in Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Sputum of Patients Suspected of Having Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Mardiastuti H Wahid, Agus Sjahrurachman, Ardath H Sitorus, Erlina Burhan

“…Conclusion: TB-LAMP has both high sensitivity and negative predictive value. …”
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External Validation of 3 Prediction Models for Mortality in Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survivors: A Retrospective Multicenter Study by Chun‐Hsiang Huang, Edward Pei‐Chuan Huang, Cheng‐Yi Fan, Yi‐Chien Kuo, Chien‐Tai Huang, Ching‐Yu Chen, Chi‐Hsin Chen, Yi‐Ju Ho, Chun‐Ju Lien, Yun‐Chang Chen, Sih‐Shiang Huang, Tzu‐Hsueh Wang, Wen‐Chu Chiang, Wei‐Tien Chang, Chien‐Hua Huang, Chih‐Wei Sung

“…The positive predictive value threshold was set at 0.85 to minimize false‐positive predictions. …”
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Clinical usefulness of anti-α3Gal immunoglobulin E assays for cetuximab-mediated anaphylaxis in head and neck cancer by Y. Pointreau, C. Freneaux, T. Bejan-Angoulvant, D. Ternant, G. Calais, H. Watier

“…This resulted in a sensitivity and negative predictive value of 100% for both assays, with a specificity of 91.9% and 94.6%, respectively, and a positive predictive value of 57.1% and 66.6% for the 70BP and bTG assays, respectively. …”
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Defective verbs in Portuguese: a morphomic approach by O’Neill Paul

“…Morphomes are extremely informative since they exhibit systematic patterns of form that have a high predictive value within the morphological system. Within such a broader conception of meaning, morphomes have essentially the same predictive value as ‘meaning-driven’ patterns. …”
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