Predictive Value of Age, Creatinine, and Ejection Fraction I and II Scores for Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation in Isolated On-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery: A Multicenter Retrospective Study by Sameh Alagha, Serkan Mola, Mehmet Çeber, Alp Yıldırım

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Predictive value of the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) for all-cause and cardiovascular mortality with non-hyperhomocysteinemia: evidence from NHANES 1999 to 2006 by Liang Deng, Haicheng Zhong, Sheng Zhou, Ziming Wang, Jingjing Sun, Chang Liu, Xinghui Li, Quankai Cheng, Jie Deng

“…Lastly, the NHHR's predictive value for mortality as well as its potential mediating effects were evaluated.ResultsA total of 13,847 participants were included in our study. …”
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Comparison of robotic-assisted and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy based on the PADUA score and the predictive value of the PADUA score and the Mayo Adhesive Probability score for postoperative complications: a single-center retrospective study by Shuo Liu, Bowen Zhang, Bowen Weng, Xiangqiang Liu, Sichuan Hou

“…Abstract Purpose This study compared perioperative outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) and laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) through the PADUA score as well as assessed the predictive value of the PADUA score and the Mayo Adhesive Probability (MAP) score for postoperative complications. …”
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Clinical Significance of Breast Cancer Molecular Subtypes and Ki67 Expression as a Predictive Value for Pathological Complete Response following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Experience from a Tertiary Care Center in Lebanon by Ali Atoui, Maroun Bou Zerdan, Ahmad El Mahmoud, Nathalie Chamseddine, Lina Hamad, Hazem I. Assi

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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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Relationship between intact parathyroid hormone，fetal globulin A，serum creatinine/hemoglobin ratio and disorder of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in maintenance hemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease and their predictive values for carotid artery calcification by Wang Xiao-hui, Cai Chun-tian, He Juan, Zhao Xiao-fan, He Liang-ping, Li Ming-hu, Li Xue-ying

“…ObjectiveTo explore the relationship between intact parathyroid hormone （iPTH），fetal globulin A （FA），serum creatinine/hemoglobin ratio （Scr/Hb） and calcium and phosphorus metabolism disorder in chronic renal failure patients with chronic kidney disease （CKD） on maintenance hemodialysis （MHD） and examine the predictive value of each parameter for carotid atherosclerosis.MethodsFrom July 2014 to July 2020，113 CKD patients on MHD were recruited and divided into two groups of sclerosis （<italic>n</italic>=30） and non-sclerosis （<italic>n</italic>=83）.The baseline levels of iPTH，FA and Scr/Hb of two groups were recorded.The related influencing factors of carotid atherosclerosis，parameters of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and their correlations were examined.ResultsBaseline phosphorus，iPTH and Scr/Hb in sclerosis group were higher than those in non-sclerosis group ［（1.89±0.42）mmol/L、305.26（152.63，608.19）μg/L、7.16±2.19 <italic>vs </italic>（1.30±0.36）mmol/L、238.47（118.05，506.11）μg/L、4.38±1.38，<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.001］，FA was lower than that of non-sclerosis group ［（74.62±20.61）mg/L <italic>vs </italic>（95.33±25.80）mg/L，<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05］； mean values of iPTH，FA and Scr/Hb were selected as boundary，&lt;mean value was low level，≥ mean value high level.High levels of iPTH and Scr/Hb were higher than those with low levels ［（1.60±0.39）mmol/L <italic>vs </italic>（1.18±0.33）mmol/L，（1.71±0.55）mmol/L <italic>vs </italic>（0.97±0.31）mmol/L］ and those with high levels of FA lower than those with low levels ［（1.25±0.34）mmol/L <italic>vs </italic>（1.72±0.40）mmol/L，<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05］； iPTH，Scr/Hb and phosphorus were positively correlated while FA was negatively correlated with phosphorus （<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05）；iPTH，FA，Scr/Hb were still associated with IMT （<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05）； the area under the curve （AUC） of iPTH，FA and Scr/Hb for predicting carotid atherosclerosis were 0.742，0.776 and 0.790 respectively.It was the largest at 0.918 for combined predicting.The optimal predictive sensitivity and specificity were 93.33% and 85.54% respectively.ConclusioniPTH，FA and Scr/Hb are closely correlated with disorder of calcium and phosphorus metabolism in chronic renal failure patients with CKD on MHD.These parameters offer high application values in predicting carotid atherosclerosis.…”
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Machine learning based metabolomic and genetic profiles for predicting multiple brain phenotypes by Xueli Zhang, Yu Huang, Shunming Liu, Shuo Ma, Min Li, Zhuoting Zhu, Wei Wang, Xiayin Zhang, Jiahao Liu, Shulin Tang, Yijun Hu, Zongyuan Ge, Honghua Yu, Mingguang He, Xianwen Shang

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

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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

“…AGR registered a sensitivity of 95% (95% CI 91–197%), a specificity of 63% (95% CI 56–69%), a positive predictive value of 75% (95% CI 69–81%), and a negative predictive value of 91% (95% CI 86–94%). …”
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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

“…VIA positivity was found in 8.4% (n = 31). The positive predictive value was 31.8% for cervical cytology and 48.4% for VIA (P = 0.001). …”
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