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    Lesson for the clinical nephrologist: thrombospondin type-1 domain-containing protein 7A-associated membranous nephropathy and Fanconi syndrome in a patient with a squamous cell lung cancer

    Stephanie Zappi, Luca Bernasconi, Ingeborg Fischer, Elion Hoxha in Journal of Nephrology (2023)

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    Youth experiences with and perspectives on long covid

    Research on the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection is ongoing, and the psychological and physical impacts of Long Covid on youth is poorly understood. To assess these impacts, we surveyed youth regarding ...

    Sarosh Irani, Claire Chang, Leigh Morrison, Marika Waselewski in BMC Public Health (2023)

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    Letter to the editors: comment on “Status dystonicus in adult patients with anti-N-methyl-d-asparate-acid receptor encephalitis”

    Daniel E. Lumsden, Ming Lim, Sarosh Irani in Journal of Neurology (2023)

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    The clinical relevance of serum versus CSF NMDAR autoantibodies associated exclusively with psychiatric features: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual patient data

    A variety of psychiatric syndromes are associated with NMDAR autoantibodies; however, their clinical relevance when only present in the serum is unclear. We explored whether patients with CSF NMDAR autoantibod...

    Graham Blackman, Mao Fong Lim, Thomas Pollak, Adam Al-Diwani in Journal of Neurology (2022)

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    “Can do, don’t do” are not the lazy ones: a longitudinal study on physical functioning in patients with COPD

    Reduced physical capacity (PC) and physical activity (PA) are common in COPD patients and associated with poor outcome. However, they represent different aspects of physical functioning and interventions do no...

    Noriane A. Sievi, Thomas Brack, Martin H. Brutsche, Martin Frey in Respiratory Research (2020)

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    Case report: meningitis as a presenting feature of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

    Meningitis is a very rare atypical presenting feature of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. In our case report, we describe an unusual clinical presentation of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis with a biphasic pat...

    Maria Stavrou, **g Ming Yeo, Alexander David Slater in BMC Infectious Diseases (2020)

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    Image analysis in posttreatment non-small cell lung cancer surveillance: specialists’ interpretations reviewed by the thoracic multidisciplinary tumor board

    Data show that the initial specialist’s image interpretation and final multidisciplinary tumor board (MTB) assessment can vary substantially in the pretherapeutic cancer setting. The aim of this post hoc analysis...

    Franco Gambazzi, Lukas D. Frey in Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine (2019)

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    Chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION): a manifestation of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibodies

    Key clinical features of chronic relapsing inflammatory optic neuropathy (CRION) include relapsing inflammatory optic neuritis (ON) and steroid dependency, both of which have been reported among patients with ...

    Haeng-** Lee, Boram Kim, Patrick Waters, Mark Woodhall in Journal of Neuroinflammation (2018)

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    Pulmonary tularaemia: all that looks like cancer is not necessarily cancer – case report of four consecutive cases

    Pulmonary tularaemia is a very rare disease with only a small number of cases described in the literature. So far, to our knowledge, there exists no case report of pulmonary tularaemia where PET-CT scans and f...

    Patrick Fachinger, Gabrielo Mauro Tini, Rainer Grobholz in BMC Pulmonary Medicine (2015)

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    Enhancement of CURB65 score with proadrenomedullin (CURB65-A) for outcome prediction in lower respiratory tract infections: Derivation of a clinical algorithm

    Proadrenomedullin (ProADM) confers additional prognostic information to established clinical risk scores in lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI). We aimed to derive a practical algorithm combining the CUR...

    Werner C Albrich, Frank Dusemund, Kristina Rüegger in BMC Infectious Diseases (2011)

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    Safety of lumbar puncture for adults with acute leukemia and restrictive prophylactic platelet transfusion

    No data exist on the trigger for platelet transfusions in adult thrombocytopenic patients with acute leukemia undergoing lumbar puncture (LP). We reviewed the records of 66 patients with acute leukemia (median...

    Stephan R. Vavricka, Roland B. Walter, Sarosh Irani, Joerg Halter in Annals of Hematology (2003)