Anticoagulation in Patients With COVID-19: JACC Review Topic of the Week.

Link: https://doi.org/S0735-1097(22)00007-9 Authors: Farkouh, Michael E; Stone, Gregg W; Lala, Anuradha; Bagiella, Emilia; Moreno, Pedro R; Nadkarni, Girish N; Ben-Yehuda, Ori; Granada, Juan F; Dressler, Ovidiu; Tinuoye, Elizabeth O; Granada, Carlos; Bustamante, Jessica; Peyra, Carlos; Godoy, Lucas C; Palacios, Igor F; Fuster, Valentin Abstract: Clinical, laboratory, and autopsy findings support an association between coronavirus disease-2019…

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Neighborhood Childhood Opportunity, Race/Ethnicity, and Surgical Outcomes in Children With Congenital Heart Disease.

Link: https://doi.org/S0735-1097(23)06037-0 Authors: Duong, Son Q; Elfituri, Mahmud O; Zaniletti, Isabella; Ressler, Robert W; Noelke, Clemens; Gelb, Bruce D; Pass, Robert H; Horowitz, Carol R; Seiden, Howard S; Anderson, Brett R Abstract: Racial and ethnic disparities in outcomes for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) coexist with disparities in educational, environmental, and economic opportunity. We…

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Cost-Effective Approach to the Laparoscopic Appendectomy : Balancing Disposable Instrument Cost With Operative Time.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1177/0003134820923337 Authors: DeMare, Alexander M; Luehmann, Natalie C; Kawak, Samer; Abbott, Emily E; Long, Jordan; Akay, Begum; Brahmamdam, Pavan; Iacco, Anthony A; Novotny, Nathan M Abstract: Surgeons can help reduce health care spending by selecting affordable and efficient instruments. The laparoscopic appendectomy (LA) is commonly performed and can serve as a model for improving…

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Federated Learning in Health care Using Structured Medical Data.

Link: https://doi.org/S2949-8139(22)00008-8 Authors: Oh, Wonsuk; Nadkarni, Girish N Abstract: The success of machine learning-based studies is largely subjected to accessing a large amount of data. However, accessing such data is typically not feasible within a single health system/hospital. Although multicenter studies are the most effective way to access a vast amount of data, sharing data…

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Multi-center retrospective cohort study applying deep learning to electrocardiograms to identify left heart valvular dysfunction.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-023-00240-w Authors: Vaid, Akhil; Argulian, Edgar; Lerakis, Stamatios; Beaulieu-Jones, Brett K; Krittanawong, Chayakrit; Klang, Eyal; Lampert, Joshua; Reddy, Vivek Y; Narula, Jagat; Nadkarni, Girish N; Glicksberg, Benjamin S Abstract: Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation are common valvular conditions representing a hidden burden of disease within the population. The aim of this study was to…

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Evaluation of the portability of computable phenotypes with natural language processing in the eMERGE network.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27481-y Authors: Pacheco, Jennifer A; Rasmussen, Luke V; Wiley, Ken; Person, Thomas Nate; Cronkite, David J; Sohn, Sunghwan; Murphy, Shawn; Gundelach, Justin H; Gainer, Vivian; Castro, Victor M; Liu, Cong; Mentch, Frank; Lingren, Todd; Sundaresan, Agnes S; Eickelberg, Garrett; Willis, Valerie; Furmanchuk, Al’ona; Patel, Roshan; Carrell, David S; Deng, Yu; Walton, Nephi; Satterfield, Benjamin…

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The Kidney Failure Risk Equation: Evaluation of Novel Input Variables including eGFR Estimated Using the CKD-EPI 2021 Equation in 59 Cohorts.

Link: https://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.0000000000000050 Authors: Grams, Morgan E; Brunskill, Nigel J; Ballew, Shoshana H; Sang, Yingying; Coresh, Josef; Matsushita, Kunihiro; Surapaneni, Aditya; Bell, Samira; Carrero, Juan J; Chodick, Gabriel; Evans, Marie; Heerspink, Hiddo J L; Inker, Lesley A; Iseki, Kunitoshi; Kalra, Philip A; Kirchner, H Lester; Lee, Brian J; Levin, Adeera; Major, Rupert W; Medcalf, James; Nadkarni,…

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Normative Femoral and Tibial Lengths in a Modern Population of Twenty-First-Century U.S. Children.

Link: https://doi.org/10.2106/JBJS.22.00690 Authors: Chen, Chunho; Milbrandt, Todd A; Babadi, Elham; Duong, Stephanie Q; Larson, Dirk R; Shaughnessy, William J; Stans, Anthony A; Hull, Nathan C; Peterson, Hamlet A; Larson, A Noelle Abstract: The Green-Anderson (GA) leg-length data remain the gold standard for the age-based assessment of leg lengths in children despite their methodologic weaknesses. We…

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