The anatomical basis of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm illustrated on a post mortem dissection (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). The anatomical basis of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm illustrated on a post mortem dissection. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/hy6h-tt88

Introduction: It is common to encounter anatomical variations and some pathological processes during wet anatomy dissection lab, however, a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a rare encounter - the first in the senior author's experience. Th... Read More about The anatomical basis of endovascular treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm illustrated on a post mortem dissection.

A Bilateral Variation in the Origin of the Superior Laryngeal Artery: A Case Report (2023)
Journal Article
(2023). A Bilateral Variation in the Origin of the Superior Laryngeal Artery: A Case Report. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/74a1-1641

Abstract:
Introduction: Arterial supply to the neck is subject to a great spectrum of variations of which some are very rare.
Purpose: To describe a rare bilateral variation in the origin of the superior laryngeal artery and highlights its clinical... Read More about A Bilateral Variation in the Origin of the Superior Laryngeal Artery: A Case Report.

Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy? (2023)
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(2023). Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy?. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/yjjy-sd29

Background
Sound anatomical knowledge is essential for medical education and practice. Students and teachers alike believe that visual and spatial reasoning skills are key to learning anatomy. Many innovative teaching strategies promote deep underst... Read More about Can the Haptico-Visual Observation and Drawing Method Enhance the Learning of Anatomy?.

Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment (2023)
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(2023). Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/th55-8h44

During the past 3 years online teaching became a need and a priority in medical education at various levels. World-wide anatomy educators have faced a similar situation. Many course directors needed to design and run anatomy practicals in an online e... Read More about Design and transition of human anatomy practicals into a “remote-ready” environment.

Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool (2023)
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(2023). Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/r6gh-zm58

Through the centuries, from Claudius Galen, Andreas Vesalius, Leonardo Da Vinci to Gray’s Anatomy illustrations of Henry Vandyke Carter, drawing, as a form of art, has been a tool for learning and teaching anatomical sciences. We have conducted an ob... Read More about Teaching Histology to Dental Students Using Drawing as a Learning Tool.

Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era (2023)
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(2023). Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era. The Journal of Academic Development and Education, https://doi.org/10.21252/v135-3g34

On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. To protect and maintain the health and safety of its community, medical education institutions were required to restrict personal contact between medical educators and learners while c... Read More about Demonstrating the Value of Medical Education in the Covid-19 Era.

Proteomic Analyses of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation Plasma Highlight Cartilage Acidic Protein 1 as a Candidate for Preclinical Screening. (2023)
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Hulme, C., & Wright, K. (2023). Proteomic Analyses of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation Plasma Highlight Cartilage Acidic Protein 1 as a Candidate for Preclinical Screening. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 51(6), 1422-1433. https://doi.org/10.1177/03635465231156616

BACKGROUND: Stratification is required to ensure that only patients likely to benefit receive autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI). It would be advantageous to identify biomarkers to predict ACI outcome that are measurable in blood, avoiding the... Read More about Proteomic Analyses of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation Plasma Highlight Cartilage Acidic Protein 1 as a Candidate for Preclinical Screening..

Systematic review finds "spin"practices and poor reporting standards in studies on machine learning-based prediction models (2023)
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Navarro, C. L. A., Damen, J. A. A., Takada, T., Nijman, S. W. J., Dhiman, P., Ma, J., …Hooft, L. (2023). Systematic review finds "spin"practices and poor reporting standards in studies on machine learning-based prediction models. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 158, 99-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.03.024

OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the presence and frequency of spin practices and poor reporting standards in studies that developed and/or validated clinical prediction models using supervised machine learning techniques.

STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We sys... Read More about Systematic review finds "spin"practices and poor reporting standards in studies on machine learning-based prediction models.

Psychosocial factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK: a prospective cohort study (CoVAccS – wave 3) (2023)
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Smith, L., Sim, J., Cutts, M., Dasch, H., Amlôt, R., Sevdalis, N., …Sherman, S. (2023). Psychosocial factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK: a prospective cohort study (CoVAccS – wave 3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2023.100276

Background
We investigated factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine uptake, future vaccination intentions, and changes in beliefs and attitudes over time.

Methods
Prospective cohort study. 1500 participants completed an online survey in January... Read More about Psychosocial factors affecting COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the UK: a prospective cohort study (CoVAccS – wave 3).

Impact of different practice patterns on solute transport in peritoneal dialysis (2023)
Thesis
Brenna, I. (2023). Impact of different practice patterns on solute transport in peritoneal dialysis. (Thesis). Keele University

Long term peritoneal dialysis (PD) is associated with increased peritoneal solute transport rate (PSTR) and loss of ultrafiltration capacity [1,2], both reflecting acquired structural alterations of the peritoneal membrane. Peritoneal functional chan... Read More about Impact of different practice patterns on solute transport in peritoneal dialysis.

The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study (2023)
Thesis
Higgs, J. J. R. (2023). The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study. (Thesis). Keele University

Gout is associated with an increased risk of both physical-health co-morbidities and a reduction in physical health-related quality of life. However, the association between gout and psychological comorbidity (depression and anxiety) has received lit... Read More about The association between gout and psychological co-morbidity: results from a prospective cohort study.

Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study (2023)
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Jordan, K. P., Rathod-Mistry, T., van der Windt, D. A., Bailey, J., Chen, Y., Clarson, L., …Mamas, M. A. (2023). Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 30(11), 1151-1161. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwad055

BACKGROUND: Most adults presenting in primary care with chest pain symptoms will not receive a diagnosis ("unattributed" chest pain) but are at increased risk of cardiovascular events. AIM: To assess within patients with unattributed chest pain, risk... Read More about Determining cardiovascular risk in patients with unattributed chest pain in UK primary care: an electronic health record study.

Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of MINOCA (2023)
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Mamas. (2023). Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of MINOCA. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2017 - 2017. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12052017

<jats:p>Myocardial infarction with Non Obstructive Coronary Arteries (MINOCA) is defined by patients presenting with signs and symptoms similar to acute myocardial infarction, but are found to have non-obstructive coronary arteries angiography. What... Read More about Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Evaluation of MINOCA.

Design and evaluation of a new consolidation exercise for students studying cardiac physiology: a digital escape room. (2023)
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Horn. (2023). Design and evaluation of a new consolidation exercise for students studying cardiac physiology: a digital escape room. Advances in physiology education, 47(1), 82 - 92. https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00176.2022

The current student body will, by and large, seek online resources to supplement their learning. However, resources that are freely available online vary in accuracy and quality, and the vast majority rely on passive learning. Therefore, there is a n... Read More about Design and evaluation of a new consolidation exercise for students studying cardiac physiology: a digital escape room..

Traditional processing techniques impacted the bioactivities of selected local consumed foods (2023)
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Li. (2023). Traditional processing techniques impacted the bioactivities of selected local consumed foods. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2023.e01558

Epidemiological and clinical studies have evidenced the crucial role of vegetables and mushrooms for our health. Vegetables and mushrooms are usually cooked before consumption which induces many physicochemical changes in foods. A change in the phyto... Read More about Traditional processing techniques impacted the bioactivities of selected local consumed foods.

Domes and semi-capsules as model systems for infrared microspectroscopy of biological cells. (2023)
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Solheim, J., Brandsrud, M., Kong, B., Banyasz, A., Borondics, F., Micouin, G., …Kohler, A. (2023). Domes and semi-capsules as model systems for infrared microspectroscopy of biological cells. Scientific reports, 13(1), Article 3165. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30130-z

It is well known that infrared microscopy of micrometer sized samples suffers from strong scattering distortions, attributed to Mie scattering. The state-of-the-art preprocessing technique for modelling and removing Mie scattering features from infra... Read More about Domes and semi-capsules as model systems for infrared microspectroscopy of biological cells..

The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during COVID-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries. (2023)
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Stark, S., Willems, S., Schaubroeck, E., Mallen, C., Murauskiene, L., Šantrić Milićević, M., …Collins, C. (2023). The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during COVID-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043165

The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations' access to health care. By proactively reaching out to them, general practices attempted to prevent the underutilization of their services. This paper examined the association b... Read More about The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during COVID-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries..

Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature. (2023)
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Taylor, L., Wade, P. K., Johnson, J. E., Aldighieri, M., Morlando, S., Di Leva, G., …Coyle, B. (2023). Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature. Cancers, 15(4), Article 1086. https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15041086

Therapy resistance represents an unmet challenge in the treatment of medulloblastoma. Accordingly, the identification of targets that mark drug-resistant cell populations, or drive the proliferation of resistant cells, may improve treatment strategie... Read More about Drug Resistance in Medulloblastoma Is Driven by YB-1, ABCB1 and a Seven-Gene Drug Signature..

Comparison of care and outcomes for myocardial infarction by heart failure status between United Kingdom and Japan. (2023)
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Rashid, Mamas, & Dafaalla. (2023). Comparison of care and outcomes for myocardial infarction by heart failure status between United Kingdom and Japan. ESC Heart Failure, https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14290

AIMS: Prognosis for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is worse when heart failure is present on admission. Understanding clinical practice in different health systems can identify areas for quality improvement initiatives to improve... Read More about Comparison of care and outcomes for myocardial infarction by heart failure status between United Kingdom and Japan..

World Federation for Interventional Stroke Treatment (WIST) multispecialty training guidelines for endovascular stroke intervention (2023)
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Roffe. (2023). World Federation for Interventional Stroke Treatment (WIST) multispecialty training guidelines for endovascular stroke intervention. Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej, 19(1), 6-13. https://doi.org/10.5114/aic.2023.124742

Introduction: Today, endovascular treatment (EVT) is the therapy of choice for strokes due to acute large vessel occlusion, irrespective of prior thrombolysis. This necessitates fast, coordinated multi-specialty collaboration. Currently, in most cou... Read More about World Federation for Interventional Stroke Treatment (WIST) multispecialty training guidelines for endovascular stroke intervention.