Fewer Than 2% of Uterine Transplant Applicants Ultimately Qualified at a Major Referral Center
A three-year review at a major US referral center found that 96% of completed uterine transplant applications were excluded on ...
Tag: retrospective cohort study
Chronic Steroid Use Before Pancreatic Surgery Linked to Higher Mortality Risk
A nationwide Japanese analysis of over 40,000 pancreaticoduodenectomies found that preoperative chronic steroid use remained associated with pancreatic fistula, severe ...
Longer collapse-to-first-medical-contact interval is independently associated with ROSC in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a paradoxical finding that may reflect case-mix differences
A retrospective Chinese EMS cohort study found that patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who achieved prehospital return of spontaneous circulation ...
Fingertip test of artery health fails to predict stent narrowing after heart procedure
A retrospective Korean cohort study found that pre-procedural fingertip-measured endothelial function was not independently associated with in-stent late lumen loss ...
Timing and Dose of Acupuncture Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Stroke, Retrospective Study Finds
A retrospective cohort of 226 post-stroke patients found that earlier acupuncture initiation, higher session frequency, longer treatment duration, younger age, ...
Simple Blood Ratio Predicts Short-Term Death Risk After Heart Attack, Large Study Finds
A retrospective cohort study of more than 9,600 heart attack patients across three cohorts found that a higher platelet-to-white blood ...
Ceftazidime–avibactam tied to better early ICU survival in resistant Klebsiella, but benefit fades after adjustment
A retrospective ICU cohort study of 249 patients found lower unadjusted mortality with ceftazidime–avibactam for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, but the ...
Invasive fungal infections linked to sharply higher risks of death and graft failure after kidney transplantation
A single-center cohort study of 752 kidney transplant recipients found that invasive fungal infections, most often Pneumocystis pneumonia, were associated ...
Diabetes Drugs Linked to Sharply Lower Lymphedema Risk After Breast Cancer Surgery
A large real-world cohort study finds that breast cancer patients exposed to GLP-1 receptor agonists had a much lower incidence ...
Kidney Injury After Hip Fracture Surgery Linked to Higher Hospital Death Risk in Over-80s
Patients aged 80 and older who develop acute kidney injury around the time of hip fracture surgery face a markedly ...
Low-Dose Clindamycin Achieves 82% Two-Year Success Against Prosthetic Joint Infections
A retrospective cohort study found that low-dose clindamycin, alone or with rifampicin, achieved two-year treatment success in about 82 percent ...
Home-based care for mild diphtheria matched hospital outcomes in Nigeria’s record epidemic, study finds
A retrospective matched cohort study in Kano State, Nigeria found that home-based care for mild diphtheria was not clearly linked ...
Frailty Found in Over Half of Older Colorectal Cancer Patients Heading to the ICU After Surgery
A retrospective Chinese cohort study of 308 older colorectal cancer patients found that 55.52% carried preoperative frailty risk, which independently ...
Inflammation–Metabolism Score Flags Kidney Injury Risk After Abdominal Surgery
A retrospective cohort study of 4,658 patients found that a preoperative composite score combining C-reactive protein with the triglyceride glucose ...
Blood Thinner Showdown: Enoxaparin Matches Heparin on Sepsis Survival
A retrospective cohort study of 2,341 sepsis patients without severe renal impairment found no statistically significant difference in 30-day ICU ...
MRI Sign Spots Which Broken Hips Will Collapse After Femoral Neck Fractures
A coronal MRI sign, the medial repair band, independently predicted femoral head collapse in 148 patients with traumatic osteonecrosis after ...
Albuvirtide-Based Regimens Show Early Viral Control in Advanced HIV Disease
A multicenter retrospective cohort study in China reports that albuvirtide-based regimens were associated with early viral declines and CD4+ T-cell ...
One-Month Blood Inflammation Markers Flag Retinopathy Risk in Very Preterm Infants
A retrospective single-center cohort study of 139 preterm infants in Türkiye found that complete blood count-derived inflammatory indices measured at ...
Random forest model predicts oxygenation impairment during one-lung ventilation in thoracic surgery
A retrospective study of 519 thoracic surgery patients found that a random forest model predicted intraoperative oxygenation impairment during one-lung ...
Pregnancy Complications in Northern China Show Distinct Risk Profiles Across Seven Years of Hospital Data
A seven-year multicenter cohort study of over 264,000 deliveries in Hebei Province, China, recorded distinct maternal and neonatal outcome profiles ...
