malnutrition, dehydration, weight loss, and airway obstruction. The goals of dysphagia treatment are to maintain adequate nutritional intake for the patient and to maximize airway protection.
Weight loss Fever Hypertension Hypercalcemia Night sweats Malaise A varicocele, usually left sided, due to obstruction of the testicular vein See Presentation for more detail. Diagnosis Lab studies used for evaluation of suspected renal cell carcinoma include the following: Urinalysis (UA) ...
CT scanning and/or MRI: Can be used when ultrasonographic findings are inconclusive Bleeding scan or angiography: Used when bleeding is obscure and the source is unclear Procedures Liver biopsy and histologic examination Hemodynamic measurement of the hepatic venous pressure gradient (HVPG): A criteri...
Deep learning (DL)-based predictive models from electronic health records (EHRs) deliver impressive performance in many clinical tasks. Large training cohorts, however, are often required by these models to achieve high accuracy, hindering the adoption o
This study provides the first results on patients implanted with the new mXACT Total Prosthesis Center, mXACT Total Prosthesis Offcenter, and the length-adjustable mXACT PRO Total Prosthesis (MED-EL, Innsbruck, Austria) as treatment for conductive (CHL) and mixed hearing loss (MHL). ...
Dermoscopy-assisted prevalence of hair loss after COVID-19 vaccination among an Egyptian population: a cross-sectional study. August 15, 2023 [MEDLINE Abstract] The impact of sleeve gastrectomy on polycystic ovarian syndrome: a single-center 1-year cohort study. ...
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into biomedical signal analysis represents a significant breakthrough in enhanced precision and efficiency of dise
OTSC Proctology clip as appropriate treatment for complicated anorectal fistula. August 30, 2023 [MEDLINE Abstract] Temporal trends in surgery for Crohn's disease: a ten-year single-center retrospective study. August 26, 2023 [MEDLINE Abstract] ...
68, and apply it to the medical domain. Finally, we push towards creating shared best practices for AI, as inspired by efforts such as MLflow69, Kubeflow for AI operations70, MONAI50, Substra71, Fed-BioMed72, the Joint Imaging Platform from the German Cancer Research Center73, and the ...
Computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Biopsy is the sine qua non in the diagnostic evaluation of neuroblastoma. See Workup for more detail. Treatment Treatment of neuroblastoma is risk based. [2] Low-risk neuroblastoma: Observation, with or without biopsy Surgical resec...