J Formos Med Assoc
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Lung transplantation patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have high mortality. However, the impact of the Omicron variant in lung transplantation patients is unclear. This study focuses on lung transplant patients diagnosed with COVID-19 during the Omicron wave, and investigate the clinical presentations, outcomes and pulmonary function. ⋯ In this study, lung transplant patients infected with COVID-19 during the Omicron wave had low rate of severe disease and mortality. Immunosuppressive medications and COVID-19 vaccination were correlated with viral clearance and pulmonary function after COVID-19 infection.
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While the Emotion Dysregulation Inventory (EDI) for autistic people has been validated in many Western countries, its psychometric properties have remained unclear in East Asia. ⋯ Our findings support the Taiwan version of EDI is a reliable and potentially valid instrument for assessing emotion dysregulation in autistic children and youth in Taiwan.