{"title":"Tennis Ball Sign.","authors":"Sheng-Fu Chen, Pei-Ti Yao, Te-Chun Shen","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf192","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf192","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Priscilla Detweiler, Patrick Wu, Perry Vacchio, Su Boon Yong
{"title":"UK Study Reveals Resident Doctors Spend Four Hours of Administrative Work for Each Hour of Seeing Patients.","authors":"Priscilla Detweiler, Patrick Wu, Perry Vacchio, Su Boon Yong","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf193","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf193","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Classic Pattern of Type 1 Brugada Syndrome on Electrocardiogram.","authors":"Samuel Chin Wei Tan, Zhao-Wei Yin, Yun-Tao Zhao","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf194","DOIUrl":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf194","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144874832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Donut-in-Donut: Cardiac Abnormalities due to Mycobacterium Tuberculosis.","authors":"Wenyu Huang, Qiao Deng, Kaiyue Diao","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wolff-Parkinson-White Pattern in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: The Hidden Truth Behind Preexcitation.","authors":"Yao-Qing Luo, Zhu-Qing Wen, Shuang-Yu Chen","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting Shock Syndrome in Kawasaki Disease: A Machine Learning Model for Enhanced Diagnosis.","authors":"Yifeng Xu, Yuting Pan, Yifan Xie, Lingzhi Qiu, Zhidan Fan, Haiguo Yu","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf180","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Kawasaki disease shock syndrome (KDSS), a severe and uncommon phenomenon, lacks effective predictive models for early identification.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to establish a new predictive model for KDSS using machine learning.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Single-center, retrospective analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data of 746 children with KD admitted between July 2021 and June 2023 were collected including demographics, laboratory test results before intravenous immunoglobulin, and echocardiography results. Data were divided into training and testing sets in a 7:3 ratio. After feature engineering, predictive models were built using random forest (RF), logistic regression (LR), and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM). Model performance was evaluated using area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC), confusion matrix, average accuracy from five-fold cross-validation, while also analyzing misclassified cases. A simple early prediction tool was created based on the optimal model. Prospective data from five KDSS patients admitted between January and June 2024 and that of 15 randomly selected non-shock KD patients were used for external validation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>CD3+ lymphocyte percentage(CD3+%) had the greatest impact on the model and was an important predictive factor for KDSS, followed by neutrophil-to-lymphocyte(NLR) ratio and Interleukin-6(IL-6). The LightGBM model performed best (AUC, 0.9388; average accuracy, 0.9675; 95% CI, 0.9612, 0.9737). Nine patients were misclassified (4.02%). RF and LR models showed slightly lower performance than the LightGBM model (prospective validation AUC, 0.9000; accuracy, 0.8500).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We constructed an early prediction model for KDSS and performed preliminary validation. This web-based prediction tool may assist clinicians in identifying high-risk pediatric patients to enhance monitoring/treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanbing Zhao, Yiwei Qian, Yifang Zhou, Ding Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhao, Wan Zhang, Chenjia Shan, Yamin Wang, Zixin Chen, Jiaxin Wang, Lulu Pei, Qiang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Yuming Xu, Mingming Ning, Ferdinando S Buonanno, Changqing Sun, Bo Song
{"title":"Response to Letter to the Editor: \"Rethinking Biological Aging in Stroke: Nonlinear Thresholds, Patient Vulnerabilities, and Model Constraints\".","authors":"Hanbing Zhao, Yiwei Qian, Yifang Zhou, Ding Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhao, Wan Zhang, Chenjia Shan, Yamin Wang, Zixin Chen, Jiaxin Wang, Lulu Pei, Qiang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Yuming Xu, Mingming Ning, Ferdinando S Buonanno, Changqing Sun, Bo Song","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Biological Aging in Stroke: Nonlinear Thresholds, Patient Vulnerabilities, and Model Constraints.","authors":"Shiuan-Chih Chen, Chung-Hsin Yeh","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extensive Eczema Herpeticum in Atopic Dermatitis: A Clinical Emergency.","authors":"Ariharasudhan Varadharajan, Vanila Muthukanna, Vijayasankar Palaniappan, Kaliaperumal Karthikeyan","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf182","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Association of HPV Vaccination and Risk of Immune-Mediated Diseases.","authors":"Qianru Zhang, Renin Chang, James Cheng-Chung Wei, Shiow-Ing Wang, Yao-Min Hung","doi":"10.1093/qjmed/hcaf154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcaf154","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Whether prior human papillomavirus vaccination (HPVV) can influence later development of immune-mediated diseases remain controversial. We aim to examine HPVV 's association with various immune-mediated diseases among females aged 9-45 years, considering age, vaccine types, and racial disparities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Based on data from the US Collaborative Network in TriNetX spanning from January 1, 2018, to December 20, 2022, we enrolled 208,638 females aged 9-45 years who had received HPVV and matched them with 208,638 individuals who had never received HPVV, using propensity scores. The primary outcome was the incidence of immune-mediated diseases. We conducted Cox proportional hazard regression analyses to estimate hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Subgroup analyses were conducted, stratified by age, race, smoking, obesity, asthma, and different types of HPV vaccines. Additionally, we executed sensitivity analyses to evaluate the robustness of our findings.</p><p><strong>Result: </strong>HPVV was associated with reduced risks of rheumatoid arthritis (HR: 0.487, 95% CI: 0.311 to 0.762), systemic lupus erythematosus (HR: 0.287, 95% CI: 0.179 to 0.460), dermatomyositis (HR: 0.299, 95% CI: 0.098 to 0.908), inflammatory bowel disease (HR: 0.876, 95% CI: 0.811 to 0.946), celiac disease (HR: 0.400, 95% CI: 0.304 to 0.526), and type 1 diabetes mellitus (HR: 0.242, 95% CI: 0.184 to 0.318). Subgroup analyses indicated a significant reduction in the incidence of immune-mediated diseases among females aged 9-26 years and those who had received the 9-valent HPV vaccines, compared to unvaccinated populations.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study indicates HPVV is associated with reduced risks of various immune-mediated diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":20806,"journal":{"name":"QJM: An International Journal of Medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144837419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}