Integrative speckle-tracking echocardiography for the early detection and prediction of cancer therapy–related cardiac dysfunction by Shuo Qiu, Yuxin Zhang, Ying Hou, Songhao Chen, Huihui Yu, Han Li, Lianbi Zhao, Xiaofang Zhang, Xi Zhang, Jiahan Liu, Changyang Xing, Yunyou Duan, Lijun Yuan

“…The relative changes of GLS, LASr, GWI at T1 were identified as predictors of CTRCD, with improved predictive value when combined together. Conclusion Not only the GLS, but also the LASr and myocardial work indices were significantly impaired just after one cycle therapy of anthracycline. …”
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Clinical and dynamic circulating cytokines profile features of long-term progression-free survival benefit to immune checkpoint inhibitors in advanced non–small cell lung cancer by Jia-Yi Deng, Ming Gao, Xue Fan, Hong-Hong Yan, Wei-Chi Luo, Ming-Yi Yang, Xiao-Rong Yang, Zhi-Hong Chen, Chong-Rui Xu, Qing Zhou

“…Methods Advanced NSCLC patients receiving first-line ICIs monotherapy at Guangdong Lung Cancer Institute between December 2017 and August 2022 were identified. Predictive value of different characteristics was evaluated in LTPFS (PFS ≥ 24 months) compared with short-term PFS (STPFS, PFS ≤ 3 months). …”
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Membrane transporter genes predict chemoradiotherapy response in patients with cervical cancer by Natália Gregório Custódio, Fábio Ribeiro Queiroz, Angelo Borges de Melo Neto, Brenda Martins Cavalcante, Laurence Rodrigues do Amaral, Telma Maria Rossi de Figueiredo Franco, Matheus de Souza Gomes, Vasco Ariston de Carvalho Azevedo, Letícia da Conceição Braga, Paulo Guilherme de Oliveira Salles, Wander de Jesus Jeremias

“…Conclusion: Our results strongly suggest the presence of a candidate gene signature comprising ATP1B3 and SLCO1B3 that holds predictive value for chemoradiotherapy response in cervical cancer.…”
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Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting lung cancer based on acoustic–clinical features by Zhou Lu, Zhou Lu, Jiaojiao Sha, Xunxia Zhu, Xiaoyong Shen, Xiaoyu Chen, Xin Tan, Rouyan Pan, Shuyi Zhang, Shi Liu, Tao Jiang, Jiatuo Xu

“…The clinical utility was estimated by decision curve analysis (DCA) to confirm the predictive value of the nomogram. Furthermore, the nomogram model was compared with predictive models that were developed using six additional machine-learning (ML) methods.ResultsOur acoustic–clinical nomogram model demonstrated a strong discriminative ability, with AUCs of 0.774 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.716–0.832) and 0.714 (95% CI: 0.616–0.811) in the training and test sets, respectively. …”
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Donor-Derived Cell-Free DNA Versus Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain and Strain-Derived Myocardial Work Indices for Identification of Heart Transplant Injury by Timea Teszak, Timea Barcziova, Csaba Bödör, Lajos Hegyi, Luca Levay, Beata Nagy, Attila Fintha, Adam Szijarto, Attila Kovacs, Bela Merkely, Balazs Sax

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> Donor-derived cell-free DNA (dd-cfDNA) is a marker of graft injury that increases in acute rejection and has excellent negative predictive value. Left ventricular global longitudinal strain (LVGLS) and strain-derived myocardial work indices are novel echocardiographic parameters with growing applications. …”
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Association of Inflammatory and Metabolic Markers with Mortality in Patients with Postoperative Femur Fractures in the Intensive Care Unit by Metin Kilinc, Enes Çelik, Ibrahim Demir, Semih Aydemir, Hakan Akelma

“…Linear regression, logistic regression, and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses were performed to determine the predictive value of these markers for ICU mortality. <i>Results</i>: The mean age of the patients was 76.3 ± 9.6 years, and 52.1% were female. …”
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Relationship between serum level of miR-338-3p and miR-105-3p and bone metabolic markers in patients with diabetes nephropathy by Jinlan Liu, Yi Zhang, Lixing Dai

“…ROC curve analysis showed that the AUC of serum miR-338-3p and miR-150-5p was 0.896 with the specificity and sensitivity of 96.66% and 73.47%, which had certain predictive value for the occurrence of renal failure in DN.Conclusions The expression levels of serum miR-383-3p and miR-105-3p were significantly correlated with bone metabolism markers. …”
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Psychological characteristics in patients with non-cardiac chest pain by Nikolić Gordana M., Mandić-Gajić Gordana, Tasić Ivan, Žikić Olivera, Tošić-Golubović Suzana

“…The aim of this reserch was to determine psychological characteristics of the patients with non-coronary chest pain (NCCP), difference compared to the coronary patients and the predictive value of those parameters for NCCP. Methods. …”
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Analysis of risk factors for postoperative gastrointestinal dysfunction in colorectal cancer patients and construction of a predictive model by Sun Qian, Liu Bei, Zhu Huayuan

“…The ROC curve was used to analyze the predictive value of the model in both the modeling and validation groups, and the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was used to assess the fit of the nomogram model. …”
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Noninvasive prediction of fetal growth restriction using maternal plasma cell-free RNA: a case-control study by Yihong Huang, Ruizhi Wang, Lixia Shen, Lingyi Kong, Peisong Chen, Zilian Wang, Zhuyu Li

“…This study aimed to assess the predictive value of cell-free RNA profiling from maternal plasma collected during early to mid-pregnancy for FGR. …”
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Predicting Bleeding Events in Anticoagulated Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparison Between the HAS‐BLED and GARFIELD‐AF Bleeding Scores by Marco Proietti, José Miguel Rivera‐Caravaca, María Asunción Esteve‐Pastor, Giulio Francesco Romiti, Francísco Marin, Gregory Y. H. Lip

“…Both HAS‐BLED and GARFIELD‐AF C‐indexes showed modest predictive value (C‐index [95% confidence interval] for major bleeding, 0.58 [0.56–0.60] and 0.56 [0.54–0.57], respectively); however, GARFIELD‐AF was not predictive of any bleeding. …”
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Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: associations between CSF biomarkers, clinical symptoms, and outcome after shunt surgery by Majd Saadaldeen, Anna Jeppsson, Per Hellström, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Carsten Wikkelsø, Mats Tullberg

“…Low ratio Aβ42/Aβ40 lacked predictive value. A higher preoperative P-tau was weakly correlated with less pronounced overall clinical improvement (rp = -0.238, p = 0.036). …”
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Circulating MicroRNA-1 for the early prediction of unstable angina and the value of second coronary angiography in type 2 diabetes patients with chest pain and no ST-T changes on e... by Xiaopu Zhang, Qiang Wang, Can Hou, Jin Zhu, Ling Yang, Tong Su

“…Abstract Background To investigate the early diagnostic value of circulating microRNA-1 for unstable angina (UA) in type 2 diabetes patients presenting with chest pain as the main symptom and without ST-T changes on electrocardiograms and to assess the predictive value of microRNA-1 for the need for a second coronary angiography (CAG) in these UA patients. …”
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Construction of a predictive model for cerebral small vessel disease MRI burden based on β2-microglobulin and lipoprotein(a) by Xiaoyan LI, Hongge JI, Tingting WANG, Yingying LI, Xijing ZHA, Bin LI, Dan JIANG

“…Objective To construct a predictive model for cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) MRI burden based on β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) and lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)], analyze its predictive value, and validate the model. MethodsA total of 138 CSVD patients admitted to Anhui No.2 Provincial People’s Hospital from February 2023 to August 2024 were enrolled. …”
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Comparing the Diagnostic Efficacy of Different Calcitonin Stimulation Tests for Sporadic Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma: Calcium Gluconate vs. Calcium Chloride by Jovan Ilic, Katarina Tausanovic, Goran Zoric, Milan Jovanovic, Matija Buzejic, Sara Ivanis, Milan Parezanovic, Milan Marinkovic, Nemanja Karamarkovic, Ana Petakov, Vladan Zivaljevic

“…Lower thresholds (388.4 pg/mL for CG and 431.5 pg/mL for CC) improved sensitivity (≥76.9%) and negative predictive value (>91%). <b>Conclusions:</b> Calcium stimulation testing improves MTC detection in patients with moderate bCt elevation. …”
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Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy of Digital Mammography, Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Contrast Enhanced Mammography in the Preoperative Assessment of BI-RADS III and above Les... by Jini Joseph, KG Ramakrishnan, Rekha Narayanan

“…Among three modalities, CEM proved best for maximum Cancer Detection Rate (CDR), accounting for 100% sensitivity, an 81% Positive Predictive Value (PPV), and 81% diagnostic accuracy for detecting malignancy. …”
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Preoperative imaging and intraoperative navigation of the parathyroid glands neoplasms in primary hyperparathyroidism by K. Yu. Slashchuk, M. V. Degtyarev, P. O. Rumyantsev, A. K. Eremkina, N. V. Tarbaeva, D. G. Beltsevich, I. V. Kim, G. A. Melnicthhenko, N. G. Mokrysheva

“…As a result of the analysis of the diagnostic accuracy, for a combination of ultrasound and SPECT/CT with augmented contrast enhanced CT, the overall accuracy in visualizing of parathyroid glands was 99 % (95 % confidence interval (CI): 97–100), diagnostic specificity 77 % (95 % CI: 54–100), sensitivity 100 % (95 % CI: 98–100), the predictive value of positive and negative results was 98 % (95 % CI: 97–100) and 100 % (95 % CI: 98–100) respectively.Conclusion. …”
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SHRs, biomarkers for dysregulated stress response, predict prognosis in sepsis patients: a retrospective cohort study from MIMIC-IV database by Hui Lian, Guangjian Wang, Hongmin Zhang, Xiaoting Wang, Wei He

“…Among the SHR metrics, SHRmax demonstrated the highest predictive value for both 28-day and 1-year mortality. …”
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Weight restoration in patients with anorexia nervosa after stereotactic surgery and brain morphometric insights by Fengting Wang, Wei Liu, Halimureti Paerhati, Zhengyu Lin, Kuanghao Ye, Lulin Dai, Tao Wang, Zhaohui Lan, Dianyou Li, Yijie Lai, Bomin Sun, Shikun Zhan

“…Further studies with a larger number of patients are warranted to better evaluate the outcome of the surgeries and the predictive value of the imaging characteristics.…”
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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IMMUNE MICROENVIRONMENT OF THE NORMAL MUCOUS MEMBRANE OF THE PERITUMORAL AREA IS AN ADDITIONAL INDEPENDENT PROGNOSTIC FACTOR IN GASTRIC CANCER by N. V. Danilova, V. M. Kkomyakov, A. V. Chayka, I. A. Mikhailov, N. A. Oleynikova, P. G. Malkov

“…The aim of the study was to study and evaluate the predictive value of the immune microenvironment of gastric cancer and morphologically normal mucous membrane of the peritumoral area using an automatic morphometric analysis system on the example of CD 8+ cells.Material and Methods. …”
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