Utilizing proficiency testing survey data to create advanced educational content: the virtual crossmatch challenge model by Reut Hod-Dvorai, Mary Carmelle Philogene, Olga Timofeeva, Idoia Gimferrer, Heather Dunckley, Anna Greenshields, Peter Jindra

“…However, advancements in our ability to identify and characterize HLA antibodies using solid phase assays, in combination with changing deceased donor allocation schemes and improved HLA typing, have shifted the paradigm from performing physical crossmatches to the use of the virtual crossmatch (VXM). …”
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Pharmacotherapy of Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury of Transplanted Kidneys in Children: Comparative Study by Victor A. Goryainov, Michael M. Kaabak, Nadezhda N. Babenko, Margarita M. Morozova, Aleksandr G. Aganesov, Elena N. Platova, Olga V. Dymova, Vasiliy V. Panin, Aleksey K. Gramotnev

“…The retrospective study includes children with terminal phase of chronic renal failure who have received kidney transplants from either a living relative or deceased donor. The age of patients is from 1 year to 18 years. …”
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Health data research on sudden cardiac arrest: perspectives of survivors and their next-of-kin by Marieke A. R. Bak, Rens Veeken, Marieke T. Blom, Hanno L. Tan, Dick L. Willems

“…Views were divided about the need to obtain proxy consent for research with deceased patients’ data. However, there was general support for the disclosure of potentially relevant post-mortem genetic findings to relatives. …”
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Mortality Risk Factors of Early Neonatal Sepsis During COVID-19 Pandemic by Kolesnichenko SI, Kadyrova IA, Lavrinenko AV, Zhumadilova ZA, Avdienko OV, Vinogradskaya YV, Fominykh YA, Panibratec LG, Akhmaltdinova LL

“…CRP is generally higher in deceased children (p=0.002). Necrotizing enterocolitis (p< 0.001), pneumonia (p=0.009) and anemia (p=0.016) were significantly associated with negative outcome. …”
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The functional maturity of grafted human pluripotent stem cell derived-islets (hSC-Islets) evaluated by the glycemic set point during blood glucose normalizing process in diabetic... by Shigeharu G. Yabe, Satsuki Fukuda, Junko Nishida, Fujie Takeda, Hitoshi Okochi

“…Human pluripotent stem cell (hPSCs) derived-pancreatic islets (hSC-islets) are good candidates for cell replacement therapy for patients with diabetes as substitutes for deceased donor-derived islets, because they are pluripotent and have infinite proliferation potential. …”
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Exploring the Potential Use of Wearable Devices as a Prognostic Tool among Patients in Hospice Care by Yaoru Huang, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Umashankar Upadhyay, Eshita Dhar, Mohy Uddin, Shabbir Syed-Abdul

“…<i>Objectives:</i> The primary objective of our study was to investigate the potential use of wearable devices as a prognosis tool among patients in hospice care and palliative care, and the secondary objective was to examine the association between wearable devices and clinical data in the context of patient outcomes, such as discharge and deceased at various time intervals. <i>Methods:</i> We employed a prospective observational research approach to continuously monitor the hand movements of the selected 68 patients between December 2019 and June 2022 via an actigraphy device at hospice or palliative care ward of Taipei Medical University Hospital (TMUH) in Taiwan. …”
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Genetic diversity in a unique population of dugong (Dugong dugon) along the sea coasts of Thailand by Anocha Poommouang, Wannapimol Kriangwanich, Kittisak Buddhachat, Janine L. Brown, Promporn Piboon, Siriwadee Chomdej, Jatupol Kampuansai, Supamit Mekchay, Patcharaporn Kaewmong, Kongkiat Kittiwattanawong, Korakot Nganvongpanit

“…In this study, measures of inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers and mtDNA D-loop typing were used to evaluate the genetic diversity of 118 dugongs from skin samples of deceased dugongs collected in Thai waters over a 29-year period. …”
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Geographic footprints of life expectancy inequalities in the state of Geneva, Switzerland by Anaïs Ladoy, Juan R. Vallarta-Robledo, David De Ridder, José Luis Sandoval, Silvia Stringhini, Henrique Da Costa, Idris Guessous, Stéphane Joost

“…To ensure the robustness of the patterns discovered, we ran the analyses for ten random subsets of 10,000 individuals taken from the 22,751 deceased. We also repeated the spatial analysis for YPLLG before and after controlling for individual-level and neighborhood-level covariates. …”
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Comparing machine learning algorithms to predict 5-year survival in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia by Mostafa Shanbehzadeh, Mohammad Reza Afrash, Nader Mirani, Hadi Kazemi-Arpanahi

“…The outcome variable was 5-year survival with potential values of alive or deceased. The dataset for the full features and important features selected by minimal redundancy maximal relevance (mRMR) feature selection were fed into eight ML techniques, including eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), multilayer perceptron (MLP), pattern recognition network, k-nearest neighborhood (KNN), probabilistic neural network, support vector machine (SVM) (kernel = linear), SVM (kernel = RBF), and J-48. …”
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Liver transplantation: a 10-year single center experience in Pernambuco- northeastern Brazil by Luiz Eduardo C. Miranda, Paulo Sérgio Vieira de Melo, Diego Laurentino Lima, Bernardo Sabat, Américo Gusmão Amorim, Olival Cirilo Lucena Neto, Helry Cândido Lopes, Roberto Lemos, Laécio Leitão, Cláudio Moura Lacerda

“…We analyzed just the outcomes and survival curve of 195 adult liver transplantation recipients from deceased donor. Results: Data concern liver donor, surgery technical aspects and liver transplantation recipients’ postoperative evolution are presented and discussed. …”
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Decoding the Factors behind Rising Fatal Roadway Crashes in Iran: an In-Depth Analysis and Predictive Modelling Study by Seyedeh Zeinab Almasi, Seyed Ahmadreza Almasi, Ahmad Goli Khorasgani, Chamroeun Se, Krzysztof Goniewicz, Saeid Bitaraf, Vatanavongs Ratanavaraha, Hossein Bahmani, Maxim A. Dulebenets

“…The logistic regression results highlighted significant correlations between seasonality, the deceased's role in the crash, type of vehicle, and city location with crash-related mortality. …”
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Organ donation decision-making in ICU patients: from the perspectives of organ coordinators and physicians in China – a qualitative study by Xi Yang, Xiaojian Zhang, Wan Zhang, Xuedong Jia, Shuzhang Du, Zhao Yin, ChaoQun Chen, Kun Geng, FangYing Si, XiaoJing Lu, Wenzhi Guo

“…The relevant data were analysed using thematic analysis.Results Four themes that influenced organ donation were identified including the influence of the deceased person’s attributes, immediate family members, surrounding people and the environment, and the social-level factors. …”
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Prevalence of <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> in Amphibians in Northwestern Italy’s Protected Areas by Arianna Meletiadis, Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, Stefano Bovero, Marco Favelli, Marzia Pezzolato, Stefania Grella, Giusi Rezza, Pier Luigi Acutis

“…Histological and molecular analyses confirmed Bd infection in a deceased <i>Pelophylax</i> sp. specimen, prompting further investigation. …”
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Etiological and Epidemiological Characteristics of Lethality from Acute Viral Hepatitis, Kyrgyzstan, 2009−2018 by К. A. Nogoibaeva, S. T. Tobokalova

“…Acute hepatitis C (AHC) was the cause of death in 4 patients (3%), and hepatitis D virus (HDV) infection in 1 patient. Among the deceased, there were no cases of hepatitis E. Lethality from AHB was recorded in 5 children, and from hepatitis C in one child. …”
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Early experiments with hypothermic oxygenated machine perfusion of kidney grafts from extended criteria donors by A. V. Shabunin, M. G. Minina, P. V. Drozdov, I. V. Nesterenko, D. A. Makeev, O. S. Zhuravel, L. R. Karapetyan, S. A. Astapovich

“…From June 2018 to June 2021, 200 surgeries involving kidney transplants from deceased donors were performed at Botkin City Clinical Hospital. …”
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The effect of cognitive function and central nervous system depressant use on mortality-A prospective observational study of previously hospitalised older patients. by Tahreem Ghazal Siddiqui, Maria Torheim Bjelkarøy, Socheat Cheng, Espen Saxhaug Kristoffersen, Ramune Grambaite, Christofer Lundqvist

“…<h4>Results</h4>Two years after discharge, out of 246 baseline patients, 43 were deceased at follow-up, among these 27 (63%) were CNSD users, and 16 (36%) were non-users at baseline, (p = 0.002). …”
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A social autopsy of neonatal mortality suggests needed improvements in maternal and neonatal interventions in Balaka and Salima districts of Malawi by Alain K. Koffi, Tiope Mleme, Humphreys Nsona, Benjamin Banda, Agbessi Amouzou, Henry D. Kalter

“…While one antenatal care (ANC) visit was high at 94%, the recommended four ANC visits was much lower at 41% and just 17% of the mothers had their urines tested during the pregnancy. 173 (54%) mothers of the deceased newborns had at least one labor/delivery complication that began at home. …”
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Experimental study of newly described avian malaria parasite Plasmodium (Novyella) collidatum n. sp., genetic lineage pFANTAIL01 obtained from South Asian migrant bird by Elena Platonova, Justė Aželytė, Tatjana Iezhova, Mikas Ilgūnas, Andrey Mukhin, Vaidas Palinauskas

“…Exoerythrocytic stages of pFANTAIL01 were found in the lungs, liver, spleen and kidney of the deceased birds. Sporogonic development did not occur in Cx. pipiens form molestus and Cx. quinquefasciatus mosquitoes. …”
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The Prevalence and Associated Death of Ventricular Arrhythmia and Sudden Cardiac Death in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ziqi Tan, Shan Huang, Kaibo Mei, Menglu Liu, Jianyong Ma, Yuan Jiang, Wengen Zhu, Peng Yu, Xiao Liu

“…The pooled prevalence of ventricular arrhythmia was 5% (95% CI: 4–6%), with a relatively high-SCD prevalence (1.8% in hospitalized COVID-19 and 10% in deceased cases of COVID-19). Subgroup analysis showed that ventricular arrhythmia was more common in patients with elevated cardiac troponin T [ES (effect size): 10%, 95% CI: −0.2 to 22%] and in European (ES: 20%, 95% CI: 11–29%) populations. …”
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Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor for the prediction of ventilator-associated pneumonia by Pouline M. van Oort, Lieuwe D. Bos, Pedro Póvoa, Paula Ramirez, Antoni Torres, Antonio Artigas, Marcus J. Schultz, Ignacio Martin-Loeches

“…Plasma suPAR was significantly higher in deceased patients (AUC 0.79, 95% CI 0.57–1.00; p<0.001). …”
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