Medicine
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Assessing the effectiveness and safety of Chinese medicine for the mastitis in COVID-19 patients is the main purpose of this systematic review protocol. ⋯ CRD42020189924.
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Hypertension is a clinically common cardiovascular disease, resulting in many complications. Omega-3 might be beneficial in lowering blood pressure. This protocol will be performed to evaluate the effects of omega-3 on blood pressure in hypertensive patients. ⋯ INPLASY202070103 (DOI number: 10.37766/inplasy2020.7.0103).
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Imaging parameters including metabolic or textural parameters during F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are being used for evaluation of malignancy. However, their utility for prognosis prediction has not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we evaluated the prognosis prediction ability of imaging parameters from preoperative FDGPET/CT in operable pancreatic cancer patients. ⋯ However, in multivariate analysis only GI-SUVmax (P = .026) and combined operation (P = .001) were significant independent predictors of overall survival. The current research result indicates that metabolic parameter (GI-SUVmax) from FDGPET/CT, and combined operation could predict the overall survival of surgically resected pancreatic cancer patients. Other metabolic or textural imaging parameters were not significant predictors for overall survival of localized pancreatic cancer.
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Case Reports
Coronavirus disease 2019-associated rapidly progressive organizing pneumonia with fibrotic feature: Two case reports.
Pneumonia is one of the most important characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and imaging findings of COVID-19 pneumonia are diverse and change over disease course. However, the detailed clinical course of organizing pneumonia (OP) caused by COVID-19 has not been clarified. ⋯ Physicians should carefully monitor patients with COVID-19, as they can develop rapidly progressive and fibrotic OP, which respond to corticosteroids.
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Observational Study
Allopurinol use and type 2 diabetes incidence among patients with gout: A VA retrospective cohort study.
To assess the impact of allopurinol on diabetes in a retrospective cohort of Veterans' Affairs patients with gout. The New York Harbor VA computerized patient record system was searched to identify patients with an ICD-9 code for gout meeting at least 4 modified 1977 American Rheumatology Association gout diagnostic criteria. Patients were divided into subgroups based on >30 continuous days of allopurinol, versus no allopurinol. ⋯ A lower diabetes incidence in the longest versus shortest quartiles of allopurinol use (6.3 per 1000 person-years vs 19.4 per 1000 person-years, P<.0001) was attributable to longer duration of medical follow-up. In this study, allopurinol use was not associated with decreased diabetes incidence. Prospective studies may further elucidate the relationship between hyperuricemia, gout, xanthine oxidase activity, and diabetes, and the potential impact of gout treatments on diabetes incidence.