Statin Use in Cancer Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Its Impact on Long-Term Mortality by Konrad Stepien, Karol Nowak, Natalia Kachnic, Grzegorz Horosin, Piotr Walczak, Aleksandra Karcinska, Tomasz Schwarz, Mariusz Wojtas, Magdalena Zalewska, Maksymilian Pastuszak, Bogdan Wegrzyn, Jadwiga Nessler, Jarosław Zalewski

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Rapid Response to Remdesivir in Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients: A Propensity Score Weighted Multicentre Cohort Study by Emiel Leegwater, Lisa Dol, Menno R. Benard, Eveline E. Roelofsen, Nathalie M. Delfos, Machteld van der Feltz, Femke P. N. Mollema, Liesbeth B. E. Bosma, Loes E. Visser, Thomas H. Ottens, Nathalie D. van Burgel, Sesmu M. Arbous, Lahssan H. El Bouazzaoui, Rachel Knevel, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Mark G. J. de Boer, Leo G. Visser, Frits R. Rosendaal, Erik B. Wilms, Cees van Nieuwkoop

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Beyond brain injury biomarkers: chemoattractants and circulating progenitor cells as biomarkers of endogenous rehabilitation effort in preterm neonates with encephalopathy by N. Efstathiou, V. Soubasi, G. Koliakos, K. Kantziou, G. Kyriazis, A. Slavakis, V. Dermentzoglou, I. Michalettou, V. Drosou-Agakidou

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The Spillover Effects of Quality Improvement Beyond Target Populations in Mechanical Ventilation by Andrew S. Greenwald, MD, Caroline Hauw-Berlemont, MD, Mingxu Shan, MS, Shuang Wang, PhD, Natalie Yip, MD, Paul Kurlansky, MD, Michael Argenziano, MD, Bridgette Bennett, RN, Danielle Langone, PA, Vivek Moitra, MD

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Estimation of country-specific tuberculosis resistance antibiograms using pathogen genomics and machine learning by Luca Freschi, Alena Skrahina, Maria Nakhoul, Nazir Ismail, Avika Dixit, Roger Vargas, Matthias I Gröschel, Sabira Tahseen, S M Masud Alam, S M Mostofa Kamal, Ramon P Basilio, Dodge R Lim, Maha R Farhat

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Combination therapy of inhaled steroids and long-acting beta2-agonists in asthma–COPD overlap syndrome by Lee SY, Park HY, Kim EK, Lim SY, Rhee CK, Hwang YI, Oh YM, Lee SD, Park YB

“…Suh-Young Lee,1,* Hye Yun Park,2,* Eun Kyung Kim,3 Seong Yong Lim,4 Chin Kook Rhee,5 Yong Il Hwang,6 Yeon-Mok Oh,7 Sang Do Lee,7 Yong Bum Park1 On behalf of the KOLD Study Group 1Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, 3Department of Internal Medicine, Bundang CHA Medical Center, CHA University College of Medicine, Seongnam, 4Department of Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 5Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, 6Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical School, Gyeonggido, 7Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Republic of Korea *These authors contributed equally to this work Background: The efficacy of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs)/long-acting beta2-agonist (LABA) treatment in patients with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS) compared to patients with COPD alone has rarely been examined. …”
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Clinical differences between influenza A (H1N1) virus and respiratory infection between the two waves in 2009 and 2010 by Zarogoulidis P, Glaros D, Kioumis I, Terzi E, Porpodis K, Tsiotsios A, Kallianos A, Trakada G, Machairiotis N, Stylianaki A, Sakas A, Rapti A, Courcoutsakis N, Constantinidis TC, Maltezos E, Zarogoulidis K

“…Paul Zarogoulidis,1,2 Dimitrios Glaros,1 Ioannis Kioumis,2 Eirini Terzi,1 Konstantinos Porpodis,2 Anastasios Tsiotsios,2 Anastasios Kallianos,3 Georgia Trakada,4 Nikolaos Machairiotis,1 Aikaterini Stylianakil,1 Antonis Sakas,1 Ageliki Rapti,3 Nikolaos Courcoutsakis,5 Theodoros C Constantinidis,6 Efstartios Maltezos,1 Konstantinos Zarogoulidis21Unit of Infectious Diseases, General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, 2Pulmonary Department, "G Papanikolaou" General Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 3Second Pulmonology Clinic, Hospital of Chest Diseases "Sotiria", Athens, 4Pulmonary Department, "Alexandra" General Hospital, University of Athens, Athens, 5Radiology Department, University General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, 6Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Occupational Medicine Section, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, GreeceBackground: The purpose of the present retrospective study was to examine the clinical differences between patients hospitalized with H1N1 virus and those hospitalized with nonvirus respiratory tract infection in 2009 and 2010.Methods: Adult patient data were collected from three tertiary hospital centers. …”
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Assessing medication use patterns by clinical outcomes severity among inpatients with COVID-19: A retrospective drug utilization study by Renato Ferreira-da-Silva, Priscila Maranhão, Cláudia Camila Dias, João Miguel Alves, Lígia Pires, Manuela Morato, Jorge Junqueira Polónia, Inês Ribeiro-Vaz

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Critical Aspects Concerning the Development of a Pooling Approach for SARS-CoV-2 Diagnosis Using Large-Scale PCR Testing by Daniel Cruceriu, Oana Baldasici, Loredana Balacescu, Stefana Gligor-Popa, Mirela Flonta, Milena A. Man, Simona Visan, Catalin Vlad, Adrian P. Trifa, Ovidiu Balacescu, Patriciu Achimas-Cadariu

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Sleepiness and Vitamin D Levels in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Kostas Archontogeorgis, Nicholas-Tiberio Economou, Panagiotis Bargiotas, Evangelia Nena, Athanasios Voulgaris, Konstantina Chadia, Georgia Trakada, Andrea Romigi, Paschalis Steiropoulos

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Risk factors and clinical impact of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis: Multicenter retrospective cohort study by Raeseok Lee, Sung-Yeon Cho, Dong-Gun Lee, Hyojin Ahn, Hyeah Choi, Su-Mi Choi, Jae-Ki Choi, Jung-Hyun Choi, Shin Young Kim, Youn Jeong Kim, Hyo-Jin Lee

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Epidemiological Features of Chronic Lung Infection in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis by I. A. Shaginyan, M. Yu. Chernukha, L. R. Avetisyan, E. A. Siyanova, D. G. Kulyastova, O. S. Medvedeva, T. B. Priputnevich, D. Yu. Trofimov, A. V. Gordeev, E. I. Kondratieva, E. L. Amelina, S. A. Krasovskiy

“…Over a period of 7 years (2008-2016) 300 children with cystic fibrosis living in Moscow, Moscow region and several other regions of Russian Federation have been checked-up. 260 sputum samples from 100 adult patients, who were under care at the Pulmonology Research Institute, were studied. Sputum samples from children were taken before and after antibiotic therapy with intervals of 15-45 days and over 6 months. 30 of the children were also subjected to a microbiologic monitoring of the state of chronic infection in the period between 4 and 15 months. …”
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Geranylgeranylacetone reduces cardiomyocyte stiffness and attenuates diastolic dysfunction in a rat model of cardiometabolic syndrome by Mark T. Waddingham, Vasco Sequeira, Diederik W. D. Kuster, Elisa Dal Canto, M. Louis Handoko, Frances S. deMan, Denielli daSilva Gonçalves Bós, Coen A. Ottenheijm, Shengyi Shen, Robbert J. van derPijl, Jolanda van derVelden, Walter J. Paulus, Etto C. Eringa

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Structure-Based Screening of Plasmodium berghei Glutathione S-Transferase Identifies CB-27 as a Novel Antiplasmodial Compound by Emilee E. Colón-Lorenzo, Daisy D. Colón-López, Joel Vega-Rodríguez, Alice Dupin, David A. Fidock, David A. Fidock, Abel Baerga-Ortiz, José G. Ortiz, Jürgen Bosch, Jürgen Bosch, Jürgen Bosch, Adelfa E. Serrano

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Next-Generation Sequencing in Lung Cancer Patients: A Comparative Approach in NSCLC and SCLC Mutational Landscapes by Cecilia Pop-Bica, Cristina Alexandra Ciocan, Cornelia Braicu, Antonia Haranguș, Marioara Simon, Andreea Nutu, Laura Ancuta Pop, Ondrej Slaby, Atanas G. Atanasov, Radu Pirlog, Nadim Al Hajjar, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe

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Assessment of the Impact of Distance Education on Students’ IQ by Vaidas Gaidelys, Gintautas Cibulskas, Rūta Čiutienė, Skaidrius Miliauskas, Evelina Gaideliene

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Evaluation of dyspnea of unknown etiology in HIV patients with cardiopulmonary exercise testing and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging by Andrew J. Patterson, Anuja Sarode, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Lauren Shaver, Rahul Thomas, Evelyn Watson, Mohamad Amer Alaiti, Yuchi Liu, Jessie Hamilton, Nicole Seiberlich, Imran Rashid, Robert Gilkeson, Robert Schilz, Brian Hoit, Trevor Jenkins, Melissa Zullo, Eduardo Bossone, Christopher Longenecker, Orlando Simonetti, Sanjay Rajagopalan

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Therapeutic Treatment Plan Optimization during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Physicochemical Compatibility Study of Intensive Care Units Selected Drugs by Maria Gloria Tarantini, Stéphanie Ramos, Philippe-Henri Secrétan, Laura Guichard, Lamia Hassani, Agnès Bellanger, Julien Mayaux, Patrick Tilleul, Fadwa El Kouari, Hassane Sadou Yayé

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Effect of home-based online training and activity feedback on oxygen uptake in patients after surgical cancer therapy: a randomized controlled trial by Roberto Falz, Christian Bischoff, René Thieme, Uwe Tegtbur, Peter Hillemanns, Jens-Uwe Stolzenburg, Bahriye Aktas, Ulrich Bork, Jürgen Weitz, Johannes Lässing, Christian Leps, Johannes Voß, Florian Lordick, Antina Schulze, Ines Gockel, Martin Busse

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The Association of Gross Tumor Volume and Its Radiomics Features with Brain Metastases Development in Patients with Radically Treated Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Haiyan Zeng, Fariba Tohidinezhad, Dirk K. M. De Ruysscher, Yves C. P. Willems, Juliette H. R. J. Degens, Vivian E. M. van Kampen-van den Boogaart, Cordula Pitz, Francesco Cortiula, Lloyd Brandts, Lizza E. L. Hendriks, Alberto Traverso

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