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A 5-item frailty index for predicting morbidity and mortality after radical prostatectomy: An analysis of the american college of surgeons national surgical quality improvement program database

Shahait, Mohammed; Labban, Muhieddine Saadeddine; Dobbs, Ryan W.; Cheaib, Joseph G.; Lee, David I.; Tamim, Hani Mohammed; El Hajj, Albert Elias (Mary Ann Liebert Inc., 2021)

Introduction: Current preoperative evaluation methods fail to detect the difference in frailty among patients with the same chronological age. Hence, we sought to assess the ability of a simple 5-item frailty index (5-iFI) ...
Characteristics and Outcomes of Patients With History of CABG Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization Via the Radial Versus Femoral Approach

Manly, David A.; Karrowni, Wassef Y.; Rymer, Jennifer A.; Kaltenbach, Lisa A.; Swaminathan, Rajesh V.; Messenger, John C.; Abbott, Jinnette Dawn; Seto, Arnold Hoo; Panetta, Carmelo J.; Brilakis, Emmanouil S.; Nikolakopoulos, Ilias D.; Gilchrist, Ian C.; Kaul, Prashant; Dakik, Habib Abbas; Rao, Sunil V. (Elsevier Inc., 2021)

Objectives: The aims of this study were to examine rates of radial artery access in post–coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients undergoing diagnostic catherization and/or percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), ...
Differences in β-cell function and insulin secretion in Black vs. White obese adolescents: do incretin hormones play a role?

Michaliszyn, Sara Fleet; Lee, Sojung; Bacha, Fida; Tfayli, Hala M.; Farchoukh, Lama O.; Mari, Andrea; Ferrannini, Ele; Arslanian, Silva A. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2017)

Black youth are at higher risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) than their White peers. Previously we demonstrated that for the same degree of insulin sensitivity, Black youth have an upregulated β-cell function and insulin ...
Red Cell Distribution Width Is Associated with All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients with Diabetes

Al-Kindi, Sadeer G.; Refaat, Marwan M.; Jayyousi, Amin A.; Asaad, Nidal Ahmad; Al Suwaidi, Jassim Mohd; Abi Khalil, Charbel (Hindawi Limited, 2017)

Background and Methods. Red cell distribution width (RDW) has emerged as a prognostic marker in patients with cardiovascular diseases. We investigated mortality in patients with diabetes included in the National Health and ...
Temporal trends and outcome of splenectomy in adults with immune thrombocytopenia in the USA

Finianos, Antoine; Mujadzic, Hata; Peluso, Heather; Mujadzic, Tarik; Taher, Ali T.; Abougergi, Marwan S. (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021)

Splenectomy is one of the treatments of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) with a high response rate. However, it is an irreversible procedure that can be associated with morbidity in this setting. Our aim was to study the ...
Worldwide Fracture Prediction

El-Hajj Fuleihan, Ghada A.; Chakhtoura, Marlene Toufic; Cauley, Jane A.; Chamoun, Nariman (Elsevier Inc., 2017)

The substantial increase in the burden of non-communicable diseases in general and osteoporosis in particular, necessitates the establishment of efficient and targeted diagnosis and treatment strategies. This chapter reviews ...

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