Vol 6, No 7 (April 13, 2018) - Annals of Translational Medicine

Original Article

Frailty in elderly ICU patients in Greece: a prospective, observational study

Dimitris Papageorgiou, Eleni Gika, Konstantina Kosenai, Konstantinos Tsironas, Lamprini Avramopoulou, Ervina Sela, Christina Mandila

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.03

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Trends in total ankle arthroplasty and revisions in the Medicare database

Tsun Yee Law, Karim G. Sabeh, Samuel Rosas, Zachary Hubbard, Sarah Altajar, Martin W. Roche

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.06

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Total knee replacement modifies the preoperative tibial torsion angle—similar results between computer-assisted and standard technique

Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero, Alfonso Noriega-Fernandez, Sergio Roncero-Gonzalez, Andres A. Sierra-Pereira, Manuel A. Sandoval-Garcia

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.15

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Impact factors of orthopaedic journals between 2010 and 2016: trends and comparisons with other surgical specialties

Nequesha S. Mohamed, Chukwuweike U. Gwam, Jennifer I. Etcheson, Nicole E. George, Nicolas S. Piuzzi, Samuel Rosas, Nipun Sohdi, Assem A. Sultan, Anton Khlopas, Ronald E. Delanois

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.03.02

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No association between systemic complement activation and intensive care unit-acquired weakness

Esther Witteveen, Luuk Wieske, Friso M. de Beer, Nicole P. Juffermans, Camiel Verhamme, Marcus J. Schultz, Ivo N. van Schaik, Janneke Horn, on behalf of the BASIC study group

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.30

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Review Article

Atherosclerosis as autoimmune disease

Petr Sima, Luca Vannucci, Vaclav Vetvicka

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.02

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Esophagectomy with gastric conduit reconstruction for benign disease: extreme but important

Wei Guo, Su Yang, Hecheng Li

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2017.09.14

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Case Report

Teeth infection may “shunt” through Fontan in high-altitude conditions

Juan D. Cano Sierra, Camilo F. Mestra, Juan C. Gelvez Nieto, Miguel Ronderos Dumit, Alberto García-Torres

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.05

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Big-data Clinical Trial Column¹

Exploring heterogeneity in clinical trials with latent class analysis

Zhongheng Zhang, Abdallah Abarda, Ateka A. Contractor, Juan Wang, C. Mitchell Dayton

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.24

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Estimate risk difference and number needed to treat in survival analysis

Zhongheng Zhang, Federico Ambrogi, Alex F. Bokov, Hongqiu Gu, Edwin de Beurs, Khaled Eskaf

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.36

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Time-varying covariates and coefficients in Cox regression models

Zhongheng Zhang, Jaakko Reinikainen, Kazeem Adedayo Adeleke, Marcel E. Pieterse, Catharina G. M. Groothuis-Oudshoorn

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.12

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Subgroup identification in clinical trials: an overview of available methods and their implementations with R

Zhongheng Zhang, Heidi Seibold, Mario V. Vettore, Woo-Jung Song, Vieille François

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.03.07

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Editorial of Column in Hypertension²

Antihypertensive drug therapy

Wilbert S. Aronow

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.26

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Editorial

Can pancreatitis be treated by inhibiting Ca²⁺ signaling?

John A. Williams, David I. Yule

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2017.06.07

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To repair or to replace: four decades in the making

Patpilai Kasinpila, Y. Joseph Woo

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2017.05.22

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Increasing diagnostic yield by RNA-Sequencing in rare disease— bypass hurdles of interpreting intronic or splice-altering variants

Dong Li, Lifeng Tian, Hakon Hakonarson

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.14

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Inconclusive evidence to support the use of minimally-invasive radiofrequency denervation against chronic low back pain

Andreas A. Argyriou, Garifallia G. Anastopoulou, Jordi Bruna

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.23

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Improving CT screening for lung cancer with a highly predictive risk model

Cristiano Rampinelli, Marta Minotti

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.34

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SUSTAINable management of type 2 diabetes: feasibility of use and safety of semaglutide

Jun Shirakawa, Yasuo Terauchi

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.01.35

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Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibition with evolocumab: powerful low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering and improved cardiovascular outcomes without an increase in the risk of diabetes mellitus

Constantine E. Kosmas, Andreas Sourlas, Kyriaki V. Bouza, Eddy DeJesus, Delia Silverio, Peter D. Montan, Eliscer Guzman

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.20

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Incretin-based therapy and pancreatitis: accumulating evidence and unresolved questions

Yoshifumi Saisho

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.24

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Perspective

Puzzle over active surveillance for micropapillary thyroid carcinoma

Hui Sun, Paolo Carcoforo, Gianlorenzo Dionigi

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.01

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Commentary

A critical electrocardiographic pattern in the age of cardiac biomarkers

Eduardo Matos Vilela, Francisco Sampaio, Tiago Dias, Ana Raquel Barbosa, João Primo, Daniel Caeiro, Marlene Fonseca, Vasco Gama Ribeiro

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.13

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Letter to the Editor

Histological examination of post-mortem brains of children with nodding syndrome

An Hotterbeekx, Sylvester Onzivua, Sonia Menon, Robert Colebunders

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| https://dx.doi.org/10.21037/atm.2018.02.04

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Primary melanoma of the testis: myth

Francesco Fortarezza, Senia Maria Rosaria Trabucco, Annunziata De Luisi, Nicoletta Resta, Antonia Cimmino, Andrea Marzullo, Marco Moschetta, Teresa Lettini, Gabriella Serio

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