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TCT-148 An international analyses of 122,610 NSTEMI patients with 5 year outcomes: assessing the influence of age and comorbidities on invasively vs medically managed patients between 2004 and 2014. (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Protty, M., Al-zuhairi, K., Kinnaird, T., Mamas, M., Torp-Pedersen, C., Smith, D., & Freeman, P. (2018, September). TCT-148 An international analyses of 122,610 NSTEMI patients with 5 year outcomes: assessing the influence of age and comorbidities on invasively vs medically managed patients between 2004 and 2014. Poster presented at Thirtieth Annual Symposium Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), San Diego, CA, USA

NSTEMI patients are at risk of death, reinfarction and ischaemia, a risk that increases as cardiovascular risk (GRACE) increases. However, data from UK national registries identifies at least 60,000 NSTEMI patients per year not receiving an invasive... Read More about TCT-148 An international analyses of 122,610 NSTEMI patients with 5 year outcomes: assessing the influence of age and comorbidities on invasively vs medically managed patients between 2004 and 2014..

CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF PLACENTA-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM GDM WOMEN INTO INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS FOR PERSONALISED MEDICINE (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Chen, L., Merkhan, M., Forsyth, N. R., & Wu, P. (2018, September). CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF PLACENTA-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM GDM WOMEN INTO INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS FOR PERSONALISED MEDICINE. Poster presented at International Federation of Placenta Associations Meeting, Tokyo, Japan

Objectives: Chorionic and amniotic MSCs (CMSCs/AMSCs) are derived from different sides of placental membrane. Women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus have a high risk of developing subsequent diabetes. As cell therapy is a promising... Read More about CHARACTERIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF PLACENTA-DERIVED MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS FROM GDM WOMEN INTO INSULIN PRODUCING CELLS FOR PERSONALISED MEDICINE.

Radial artery access and outcomes for left main stem PCI: an analysis of 19,482 cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society national database (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Kinnaird, T., Anderson, R., Sirker, A., Ludman, P., de Belder, M., Oldroyd, K., …Mamas, M. (2018, September). Radial artery access and outcomes for left main stem PCI: an analysis of 19,482 cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society national database. Presented at 13th Annual Symposium Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT)

Background Although the predictors and outcomes of radial versus femoral access are well defined for unselected PCI procedures and certain sub-groups, there are few data for patients undergoing left main stem percutaneous coronary intervention (LMS-... Read More about Radial artery access and outcomes for left main stem PCI: an analysis of 19,482 cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society national database.

Seasonal aggravation of acne in summers and the effect of temperature and humidity in a study in a tropical setting (2018)
Journal Article
Narang, I., Sardana, K., Bajpai, R., & Garg, V. K. (2019). Seasonal aggravation of acne in summers and the effect of temperature and humidity in a study in a tropical setting. Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology, 18(4), 1098-1104. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocd.12777

Summary Background Effect of seasonality on acne and acne flare has varied interpretations depending on the geographical area of study. In tropical areas, factors like high temperature and humidity may cause acne flares. Aims To assess the seasonal v... Read More about Seasonal aggravation of acne in summers and the effect of temperature and humidity in a study in a tropical setting.

Screening of the cervical spine in sub-acromial shoulder pain: a systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Screening of the cervical spine in sub-acromial shoulder pain: a systematic review. Shoulder and Elbow,

Background Sub-acromial shoulder pain (SASP) is a common clinical presentation with much diagnostic uncertainty. Some of this uncertainty relates to the involvement of the cervical spine as a source or contribution to SASP. Currently, there is no ac... Read More about Screening of the cervical spine in sub-acromial shoulder pain: a systematic review.

Factors associated with physiotherapists' preference for MRI in primary care patients with low back and leg pain (2018)
Journal Article
Ely, S., Stynes, S., Ogollah, R., Foster, N. E., & Konstantinou, K. (2018). Factors associated with physiotherapists' preference for MRI in primary care patients with low back and leg pain. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 38, 46-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msksp.2018.09.003

Background Criticisms about overuse of MRI in low back pain are well documented. Yet, with the exception of suspicion of serious pathology, little is known about factors that influence clinicians' preference for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at f... Read More about Factors associated with physiotherapists' preference for MRI in primary care patients with low back and leg pain.

TCT-766 Coronary perforation complicating percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with an acute coronary syndrome: an analysis of 1,013 perforation cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database (2018)
Journal Article
Kinnaird, T., Calvert, P., Anderson, R., Sirker, A., de Belder, M., Ludman, P., …Mamas, M. (2018). TCT-766 Coronary perforation complicating percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with an acute coronary syndrome: an analysis of 1,013 perforation cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 72(13), Article B306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.08.1994

Background The evidence base for coronary perforation (CP) occurring during percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS-PCI) is limited with the specific role of acute pharmacology in its clinical p... Read More about TCT-766 Coronary perforation complicating percutaneous coronary intervention in patients presenting with an acute coronary syndrome: an analysis of 1,013 perforation cases from the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database.

Managing overlap in overviews of reviews: a cross-sectional survey of the published literature between 2015-2017 (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Bajpai, R., Posadzki, P., Soljak, M., & Car, J. (2018). Managing overlap in overviews of reviews: a cross-sectional survey of the published literature between 2015-2017. . https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd201801

Background: Overviews of reviews (or simply 'overviews') have become an increasingly established approach to synthesising research. Overviews are becoming prevalent because they have potential advantages over systematic reviews. However, they impose... Read More about Managing overlap in overviews of reviews: a cross-sectional survey of the published literature between 2015-2017.

Changes in Peri-procedural Bleeding Complications Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in The United Kingdom Between 2006-2013 (From the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society) (2018)
Journal Article
Mamas, M., Nolan, J., & Rashid, M. (2018). Changes in Peri-procedural Bleeding Complications Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in The United Kingdom Between 2006-2013 (From the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society). American Journal of Cardiology, 952-960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.06.016

Major bleeding is a common complication following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), although little is known about how bleeding rates have changed over time and what has driven this. We analyzed all patients undergoing PCI in England and Wale... Read More about Changes in Peri-procedural Bleeding Complications Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in The United Kingdom Between 2006-2013 (From the British Cardiovascular Interventional Society).

Identifying Asthmatic Children using Tidal Breathing Parameters Measured by Structured Light Plethysmography (SLP) (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Gilchrist. (2018, September). Identifying Asthmatic Children using Tidal Breathing Parameters Measured by Structured Light Plethysmography (SLP). Presented at ERS International Congress 2018, Paris, France

Introduction: We have previously shown that several tidal breathing parameters measured using SLP varied between asthmatic children and healthy (Hmeidi et al., 2017). However, we did not test the classification power of a model which incorporates the... Read More about Identifying Asthmatic Children using Tidal Breathing Parameters Measured by Structured Light Plethysmography (SLP).

Chronic kidney disease, worsening renal function and outcomes in a heart failure community setting: A UK national study (2018)
Journal Article
Mamas. (2018). Chronic kidney disease, worsening renal function and outcomes in a heart failure community setting: A UK national study. International Journal of Cardiology, 120 - 127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.04.090

Background Routine heart failure (HF) monitoring and management is in the community but the natural course of worsening renal function (WRF) and its influence on HF prognosis is unknown. We investigated the influence of routinely monitored renal decl... Read More about Chronic kidney disease, worsening renal function and outcomes in a heart failure community setting: A UK national study.

Item response theory evaluation of the biomedical scale of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale. (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Item response theory evaluation of the biomedical scale of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale. PloS one, e0202539 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202539

OBJECTIVES: The assessment of health care professionals' attitudes and beliefs towards musculoskeletal pain is essential because they are key determinants of their clinical practice behaviour. The Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale (PABS) biomedical sc... Read More about Item response theory evaluation of the biomedical scale of the Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale..

Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data (2018)
Journal Article
Yu, D., Jordan, K., & Peat, G. (2018). Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data. Clinical Epidemiology, 1195-1201. https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S160059

Purpose: Primary care electronic health records are increasingly used to estimate the occurrence of osteoarthritis (OA). We aimed to estimate the extent and trend over time of underrecording of severe OA patients in UK primary care electronic health... Read More about Underrecording of osteoarthritis in United Kingdom primary care electronic health record data.

Mortality after admission for heart failure in the UK compared with Japan. (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Mortality after admission for heart failure in the UK compared with Japan. Open Heart, e000811 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2018-000811

Objective: Mortality amongst patients hospitalised for heart failure (HHF) in Western and Asian countries may differ, but this has not been investigated using individual patient-level data (IPLD). We sought to remedy this through rigorous statistical... Read More about Mortality after admission for heart failure in the UK compared with Japan..

Coexistence of plantar calcaneal spurs and plantar fascial thickening in individuals with plantar heel pain (2018)
Journal Article
Menz, H. B., Thomas, M., Marshall, M., Rathod-Mistry, T., Hall, A., Chesterton, L. S., …Roddy, E. (2019). Coexistence of plantar calcaneal spurs and plantar fascial thickening in individuals with plantar heel pain. Rheumatology, 58(2), 237-245. https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/key266

Objectives To examine associations between plantar calcaneal spurs, plantar fascia thickening and plantar heel pain (PHP), and to determine whether tenderness on palpation of the heel differentiates between these presentations. Methods Adults... Read More about Coexistence of plantar calcaneal spurs and plantar fascial thickening in individuals with plantar heel pain.

P25 Supportive care needs of young adults with a stoma: a qualitative study (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Polidano, K., Farmer, A., Bartlam, B., & Saunders, B. (2018, September). P25 Supportive care needs of young adults with a stoma: a qualitative study. Poster presented at Society for Social Medicine 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

What exactly is meant by ‘‘Loss of Domain’’ for ventral hernia? Systematic Review of Definitions (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). What exactly is meant by ‘‘Loss of Domain’’ for ventral hernia? Systematic Review of Definitions. World Journal of Surgery, 396 - 404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-018-4783-7

Large ventral hernias are a significant surgical challenge. "Loss of domain" (LOD) expresses the relationship between hernia and abdominal volume, and is used to predict operative difficulty and success. This systematic review assessed whether differ... Read More about What exactly is meant by ‘‘Loss of Domain’’ for ventral hernia? Systematic Review of Definitions.

Cardiac rehabilitation for the transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and stroke population? Using the Medical Research Council (MRC) guidelines for developing complex health service interventions to develop home-based cardiac rehabilitation for TIA and ‘minor’ stroke patients (2018)
Journal Article
Heron, N. (2019). Cardiac rehabilitation for the transient ischaemic attack (TIA) and stroke population? Using the Medical Research Council (MRC) guidelines for developing complex health service interventions to develop home-based cardiac rehabilitation for TIA and ‘minor’ stroke patients. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 53(13), 839-840. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2018-099593

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of surgical decompression in treating patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (2018)
Journal Article
Gul, W., Fuller, H., Sen, J., & Wright, H. (2018). A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of surgical decompression in treating patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction. World Neurosurgery, 120, e902-e920. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2018.08.189

Background Malignant infarction of the middle-cerebral-artery (MCI) is life threatening. It is associated with a mortality as high as 80% and survival often at the expense of serious disability. Limited success of medical therapies has resulted in d... Read More about A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of surgical decompression in treating patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction.

Cartilage cavity-an MRI marker of cartilage lesions in knee OA with Data from CCBR, OAI, and PROOF (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Cartilage cavity-an MRI marker of cartilage lesions in knee OA with Data from CCBR, OAI, and PROOF. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 1219 -1232. https://doi.org/10.1002/mrm.27130

Purpose We introduce the quantitative, continuous marker cartilage cavity that quantifies cartilage lesions by the total lesion volume. The aim was to quantify small lesions as well as large, full-depth lesions. Methods We included 315 knees fro... Read More about Cartilage cavity-an MRI marker of cartilage lesions in knee OA with Data from CCBR, OAI, and PROOF.