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Risk factors associated with the survival of endodontically treated teeth: A retrospective chart review
CONCLUSIONS: This investigation revealed that the tooth retention rate of endodontically treated teeth was 96.2% after initial root canal treatment, 92.4% for nonsurgical re-treatment, and 97.8% for surgical re-treatment.PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The tooth retention of the endodontic treatment was associated with healthy periodontium, tooth structure, tooth position, tooth restoration, and the patient's overall health.PMID:38054916 | DOI:10.1016/j.adaj.2023.09.022 (Source: Journal of the American Dental Association)
Source: Journal of the American Dental Association - December 6, 2023 Category: Dentistry Authors: Yucheng Chang Minyoung Choi Yu-Bo Wang Su-Min Lee Min Yang Brian H Wu Joseph Fiorellini Source Type: research

Validation of Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) for University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT)
CONCLUSION: Investigators in the future should use 4 as MCID for UPSIT and report the percentage of study subjects who achieve a clinically meaningful difference.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III.PMID:38055971 | DOI:10.1177/19458924231218037 (Source: American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy)
Source: American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy - December 6, 2023 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Ashna Mahadev Dorina Kallogjeri Jay F Piccirillo Source Type: research

Identifying clusters of patient comorbidities associated with obstructive sleep apnea using electronic health records
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Ahead of Print. (Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM)
Source: Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine : JCSM - December 6, 2023 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Tue T. Te Brendan T. Keenan Olivia J. Veatch Mary Regina Boland Rebecca A. Hubbard Allan I. Pack 1Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 2Department of Psychiatry and Be Source Type: research

ChatGPT and AI: How Does Health Care Handle 1.0?
Health care, including hospital medicine, isn’t exactly known as the professional land of early adopters—and for good reason. The regulations that govern the care of hospitalized patients can’t allow just every new application, website, or technology to get its hands on patient information. And hospitalists can’t just rely on Google searches to come up with the right approach to a particularly difficult diagnosis. But can it help? Can hospital medicine embrace the latest technology in real time? Well, ChatGPT is a test case. The large-language model-based chatbot has taken the world by storm over the past year and ...
Source: The Hospitalist - December 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Career Practice Management Technology Source Type: research

Caloric function as a predictor of cochlear implant performance
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Source: Cochlear Implants International - November 30, 2023 Category: Audiology Authors: Alexandra E. QuimbyChristopher Z. WenMichael J. RuckensteinJason A. BrantDouglas C. Bigelow1 Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA2 Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Maryla Source Type: research

Explainer: What ’s behind FDA’s concern that a cancer-fighting cell therapy can also cause the disease?
Cancer treatments that harness the immune system to fight the disease have revolutionized its care in recent years. One strategy, chimeric antigen receptor T cell, or CAR-T, therapy, is a personalized treatment that engineers a cancer patient’s own immune cells to target and destroy their malignant cells. Several such lifesaving treatments are on the market for blood cancers and others are in clinical trials for many cancer types, including solid tumors. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) surprised the CAR-T community by announcing that it’s investigating blood cancer cases apparently caused b...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - November 29, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension Is Associated with Recurrent CSF Leak and Reoperation for Spontaneous Temporal Encephalocele
Conclusion Based on our institutional experience, elevated BMI and the presence of IIH are significant predictors of reoperation for STE. In our experience, acetazolamide is a common adjunct management strategy in addition to reoperation for patients with recurrent cerebrospinal fluid leak in the setting of STE. [...] Georg Thieme Verlag KG Rüdigerstraße 14, 70469 Stuttgart, GermanyArticle in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents | Abstract | Full text (Source: Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base)
Source: Journal of Neurological Surgery Part B: Skull Base - November 28, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Heman-Ackah, Sabrina M. Chauhan, Daksh Quimby, Alexandra E. Blue, Rachel Ruckenstein, Michael J. Bigelow, Douglas C. Grady, M. Sean Tags: Original Article Source Type: research