Vol 8, No 9 (May 14, 2020): Annals of Translational Medicine

Editorial

Transabdominal cerclage (TAC) as a new tool for the treatment of cervical incompetence (CI)
Shinichi Ishioka, Tasuku Mariya, Masayuki Someya, Tsuyoshi Saito
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:571
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Treatment response in triple-negative breast cancer: a role for eEF2 kinase-mediated autophagy?
Cally J. Ho, Sharon M. Gorski
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:572
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Acute kidney injury in acute respiratory distress syndrome: why ventilator settings matter
Rishik Vashisht, Abhijit Duggal
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:573
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Transperineal ultrasound to predict vaginal deliveries
Paulo Martin Nowak, Edward Araujo Júnior
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:574
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Prognostic value of tumor mutation burden (TMB) and INDEL burden (IDB) in cancer: current view and clinical applications
Anwaar Saeed, Mohamed E. Salem
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:575
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Original Article

Clinical features of severe patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Daozheng Huang, Xingji Lian, Feier Song, Huan Ma, Zhiwen Lian, Yuanfeng Liang, Tiehe Qin, Wei Chen, Shouhong Wang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:576
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Glucose metabolism pattern of peripheral blood immune cells in myasthenia gravis patients
Zhibin Li, Yuyao Peng, Yi Li, Ran Zhou, Di Chen, Wanlin Jin, Qiu Xu, Liqun Xu, Zhaohui Luo, Huan Yang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:577
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Circulating CX3CR1+CD163+ M2 monocytes markedly elevated and correlated with cardiac markers in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Xia Shao, Boting Wu, Pu Chen, Fanli Hua, Luya Cheng, Feng Li, Yanxia Zhan, Chanjuan Liu, Lili Ji, Zhihui Min, Lihua Sun, Yunfeng Cheng, Hao Chen
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:578
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Comparative proteomics analysis of plasma protein in patients with neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus
Chen Chen, Linyu Geng, Xue Xu, Wei Kong, Yayi Hou, Genhong Yao, Xuebing Feng, Huayong Zhang, Jun Liang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:579
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Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation after pericardiectomy: multi- center experience in China
Ronghui Yu, Hui Xi, Peize Wang, Dongling Xu, Jun Lu, Fengqiang Xu, Lei An, Xin Zhao, Rong Bai
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:580
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A deep learning, image based approach for automated diagnosis for inflammatory skin diseases
Haijing Wu, Heng Yin, Haipeng Chen, Moyuan Sun, Xiaoqing Liu, Yizhou Yu, Yang Tang, Hai Long, Bo Zhang, Jing Zhang, Ying Zhou, Yaping Li, Guiyuing Zhang, Peng Zhang, Yi Zhan, Jieyue Liao, Shuaihantian Luo, Rong Xiao, Yuwen Su, Juanjuan Zhao, Fei Wang, Jing Zhang, Wei Zhang, Jin Zhang, Qianjin Lu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:581
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Upregulation of long noncoding RNA RAB11B-AS1 promotes tumor metastasis and predicts poor prognosis in lung cancer
Tiegang Li, Di Wu, Qun Liu, Dedong Wang, Jinbin Chen, Hongjun Zhao, Lan Zhang, Chenli Xie, Wei Zhu, Zhixu Chen, Yifeng Zhou, Soham Datta, Fuman Qiu, Lei Yang, Jiachun Lu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:582
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Comparison of radiofrequency ablation combined with sorafenib or sorafenib alone in patients with ECOG performance score 1: identifying optimal candidates
Lei Liu, Qian Zhang, Jie Geng, Songlun Li, Shoujie Zhao, Xiangnan Zhang, Jie Hu, Dayun Feng
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:583
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Pre-clinical assessment of chimeric antigen receptor t cell therapy targeting CD19+ B cell malignancy
Sheng-I Hu, Ming-Chin Ko, Yi-Han Dai, Hsin-An Lin, Lih-Chyang Chen, Kuo-Yang Huang, Te-Ling Pang, Cheng-Yi Kuo, Hsin-Chung Lin
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:584
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Analysis of the clinical efficacy of liver resection combined with adjuvant microwave coagulation for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Ting Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, Xiangnan Zhang, Jie Hu, Weijia Dou, Qingling Fan, Dayun Feng, Lei Liu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:585
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Identifying optimal candidates for liver resection or transarterial chemoembolisation in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
Shoujie Zhao, Xiangnan Zhang, Mengmeng Wang, Kai Tan, Weijia Dou, Qingling Fan, Huichen Li, Xilin Du, Lei Liu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:586
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Identifying optimal candidates of transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) vs. sorafenib in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma
Shoujie Zhao, Weijia Dou, Qingling Fan, Jie Hu, Huichen Li, Xiangnan Zhang, Qian Zhang, Lei Liu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:587
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Pulmonary light chain deposition disease: a case series and literature review
Ping Wei, Rujia Tao, Yihan Liu, Huikang Xie, Sen Jiang, Dong Yu, Haiwen Lu, Weijun Cao
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:588
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Expression of a novel immune checkpoint B7-H6 ligand in human small cell lung cancer
Xiuqin Zhang, Weiguo Xie, Zhiqiang Wang, Shu Song, Yan Qin, Fang Zhang, Fangfang Chen, Liming Cai
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:589
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The anti-tumor effect of taxifolin on lung cancer via suppressing stemness and epithelial-mesenchymal transition in vitro and oncogenesis in nude mice
Ronghua Wang, Xianjun Zhu, Qing Wang, Xiaoqing Li, Enling Wang, Qianqian Zhao, Qianqian Wang, Hongmei Cao
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:590
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Nitidine chloride inhibits the appearance of cancer stem-like properties and regulates potential the mitochondrial membrane alterations of colon cancer cells
Hongyan Gong, Li Wang, Jing Zhao, Lixin Wang, Qiangzong Yu, Yong Wan
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:591
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FOXP3 promotes colorectal carcinoma liver metastases by evaluating MMP9 expression via regulating S-adenosylmethionine metabolism
Zhe Wang, Jingdong Zhang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:592
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Preliminary study to identify severe from moderate cases of COVID-19 using combined hematology parameters
Changzheng Wang, Rongrong Deng, Liyao Gou, Zhongxiao Fu, Xiaomei Zhang, Feng Shao, Guanzhen Wang, Weiyang Fu, Jianping Xiao, Xiao Ding, Tao Li, Xiulin Xiao, Chengbin Li
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:593
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Quantitative analysis of chest CT imaging findings with the risk of ARDS in COVID-19 patients: a preliminary study
Yi Wang, Yuntian Chen, Yi Wei, Man Li, Yuwei Zhang, Na Zhang, Shuang Zhao, Hanjiang Zeng, Wen Deng, Zixing Huang, Zheng Ye, Shang Wan, Bin Song
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:594
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Technical Note

Child concussion recognition and recovery: a community delivered, evidenced-based solution
Cathriona Clarke, Vicki Anderson, Franz E. Babl, Vanessa C. Rausa, Gavin A. Davis, Peter Barnett, Ali Crichton, Michael Takagi, Stephen J. C. Hearps, Katie Davies, Audrey McKinlay, Nicholas Anderson, Vivian Kwan, Sanji Kanagalingam, Gabi Ceregra, Anita Petris, Simone Darling, Patrick Clifton, Peter Harcourt, the Take CARe and Curve Tomorrow teams
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:595
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Letter to the Editor

The positive of stool test for SARS-CoV-2: a report of 9 cases in Changsha, outside Wuhan, China
Yang Zhou, Ning Ding, Min Hu, Guifang Yang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:596
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Implication of pancreaticoenterostomy regarding postoperative pancreatic fistula
Kwang Yeol Paik
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:597
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Prone positioning in high-flow nasal cannula for COVID-19 patients with severe hypoxemia: a pilot study
Guo-Wei Tu, You-Xia Liao, Qing-Yun Li, Hui Dong, Lu-Yu Yang, Xiao-Yun Zhang, Shou-Zhi Fu, Rui-Lan Wang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:598
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Genetic landscape of prognostic value in pancreas ductal adenocarcinoma microenvironment—reply
Ning Pu, Jun Yu, Wenchuan Wu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:599
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Editorial on Advances in Laboratory Tests for Infectious Diseases1

Laboratory diagnosis of infectious diseases: a call for more rapid and accurate methods
Zhi-De Hu, Bing Gu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:600
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Original Article on Advances in Laboratory Tests for Infectious Diseases1

Net benefit of routine urine parameters for urinary tract infection screening: a decision curve analysis
Yan-Qiu Han, Lei Zhang, Jun-Rui Wang, Shang-Cheng Xu, Zhi-De Hu
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:601
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with UF-5000i urine flow cytometry to directly identify pathogens in clinical urine specimens within 1 hour
Chuang Sun, Xiao Zhang, Jingqiao Wang, Chen Cheng, Haiquan Kang, Bing Gu, Ping Ma
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:602
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Nosocomial cross-infection of hypervirulent Listeria monocytogenes sequence type 87 in China
Xin-Peng Li, Shi-Fu Wang, Pei-Bin Hou, Jing Liu, Pengcheng Du, Li Bai, Séamus Fanning, Hua-Ning Zhang, Yu-Zhen Chen, Yun-Kui Zhang, Dian-Min Kang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:603
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High clinical impact of rapid susceptibility testing on CHROMID ESBL® medium directly from swabs
Álvaro Romo-Ibáñez, Elisabeth Calatrava-Hernández, Blanca Gutiérrez-Soto, Mercedes Pérez-Ruiz, José María Navarro-Marí, José Gutiérrez-Fernández
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:604
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Disease burden and molecular epidemiology of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia infection in a tertiary hospital in China
Haiquan Kang, Wei Zheng, Ziyan Kong, Fei Jiang, Bing Gu, Ping Ma, Xiaoling Ma
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:605
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A hook-effect-free homogeneous light-initiated chemiluminescence assay: is it reliable for screening and the quantification of the hepatitis B surface antigen?
Ruifeng Yang, Liyan Cui, Yan Liu, Xu Cong, Ran Fei, Shuping Wu, Lai Wei
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:606
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Review Article on Advances in Laboratory Tests for Infectious Diseases1

The diagnostic utility of pleural markers for tuberculosis pleural effusion
Man Zhang, Dan Li, Zhi-De Hu, Yuan-Lan Huang
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:607
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Advances in laboratory assays for detecting human metapneumovirus
Seri Jeong, Min-Jeong Park, Wonkeun Song, Hyon-Suk Kim
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:608
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Diagnostic markers for community-acquired pneumonia
Akihiro Ito, Tadashi Ishida
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:609
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A 2020 review on the role of procalcitonin in different clinical settings: an update conducted with the tools of the Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine
Anna Maria Azzini, Romolo Marco Dorizzi, Piersandro Sette, Marta Vecchi, Ilaria Coledan, Elda Righi, Evelina Tacconelli
Annals of Translational Medicine  
2020;
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:610
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Disclosure:

1. The series “Advances in Laboratory Tests for Infectious Diseases” was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Translational Medicine without any sponsorship or funding. Zhi-De Hu and Bing Gu served as the unpaid Guest Editors for the series.