Background: Conduction system pacing (CSP), often accomplished with lumenless pacing leads, is increasingly employed to achieve physiologic ventricular activation. Extraction of CSP leads has raised concerns about damage to the conduction system,...
Caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, Chagas disease is one of the most neglected tropical diseases in the world and poses a significant burden to the estimated eight million people living with disease. As primary infection is largely...
Background: The utility of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in older patients remains controversial. Advancements in HER2-directed therapy have revolutionized disease response rates and prognosis, supporting efforts to reevaluate the utility of...
Introduction: Efforts to expand the lung transplant (LTx) donor pool have led to increased use of lungs from donors after circulatory death (DCD), with evidence demonstrating outcomes comparable to those from donors after brain death (DBD)....
Background: Malnutrition is a significant driver of mortality in cancer patients – with estimates that between 10-20% of cancer patients die due to the consequences of malnutrition rather than due to the tumor itself. Patients with head and neck...
INTRODUCTION: In the context of value-based care, the influence of racial and socioeconomic factors on hip fracture outcomes remains underexplored. This study investigates the impact of the area deprivation index (ADI) on readmission rates and...
Funding Acknowledgement: This study was supported by a grant from the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Background: The glenohumeral joint is the most frequently dislocated joint in the human body, and recurrent instability is common...
Background: Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of p-tau181 have been associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The retina and vitreous have shown measurable quantities of phosphorylated tau 181 (p-tau181). The aqueous humor, which can be...
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The state hospital at Goldsboro opened in 1880 as North Carolina’s first institution to serve the Black mentally ill, and was the second such institution to open in the American South. And while there is a growing historiography on...
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One of the most challenging groups of patients seen by neurologists today are those experiencing convulsive, seizure-like episodes – but in whom no abnormal neurologic activity is found. Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures sit at the...