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mRNA-based vaccine technology for HIV. 基于mrna的HIV疫苗技术。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 eCollection Date: 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.9
Andra Fortner, Octavian Bucur
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引用次数: 4
Increased cannabis use in pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19大流行期间孕妇大麻使用增加。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.7
Arjola Agolli, Olsi Agolli, Selia Chowdhury, Vallabh Shet, Johanna S Canenguez Benitez, Niharika Bheemisetty, Madeeha Subhan Waleed
{"title":"Increased cannabis use in pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Arjola Agolli,&nbsp;Olsi Agolli,&nbsp;Selia Chowdhury,&nbsp;Vallabh Shet,&nbsp;Johanna S Canenguez Benitez,&nbsp;Niharika Bheemisetty,&nbsp;Madeeha Subhan Waleed","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Almost one in every 20 pregnant women self-reports marijuana use during pregnancy. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this number has risen to 1 in 6 pregnant women. Some of the main factors associated with cannabis use during pregnancy and lactation are management of chronic conditions, sensation-seeking, dealing with stress, and other conditions related to pregnancy. The action of cannabis on endocannabinoid receptors might cause poor blastocyst implantation, inhibition of decidualization, compromised placentation, miscarriage and poor embryo development.The children born to mothers who used cannabis during pregnancy manifested higher aggression, anxiety, hyperactivity, and higher levels of the hormone cortisol, compared to children of non-cannabis users. In this review we summarize the effects of cannabis use on fetal development during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the existing published peer-reviewed scientific literature. The COVID-19 pandemic has served as an additional stimulus that has increased cannabis use among pregnant women. Prenatal cannabis use is associated with health risks for the mother and child. Cannabis use in pregnant mothers is associated with low infant birth weight and potential negative neurodevelopmental effects in the offspring. It remains unclear how long these changes will persist in the affected children. It is essential that clinicians educate pregnant women about the harm of prenatal cannabis use, improve strategies to support women at risk, and create new intervention strategies to help them stop using cannabis.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 2","pages":"e148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9748245/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10398046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On the Origin of Hemoglobin Cooperativity under Non-equilibrium Conditions. 非平衡条件下血红蛋白协同性的起源。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.5
Rosella Scrima, Sabino Fugetto, Nazzareno Capitanio, Domenico L Gatti
{"title":"On the Origin of Hemoglobin Cooperativity under Non-equilibrium Conditions.","authors":"Rosella Scrima,&nbsp;Sabino Fugetto,&nbsp;Nazzareno Capitanio,&nbsp;Domenico L Gatti","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abnormal hemoglobins can have major consequences for tissue delivery of oxygen. Correct diagnosis of hemoglobinopathies with altered oxygen affinity requires a determination of hemoglobin oxygen dissociation curve, which relates the hemoglobin oxygen saturation to the partial pressure of oxygen in the blood. Determination of the oxygen dissociation curve of human hemoglobin is typically carried out under conditions in which hemoglobin is in equilibrium with O2 at each partial pressure. However, in the human body due to the fast transit of red blood cells through tissues hemoglobin oxygen exchanges occur under non-equilibrium conditions. We describe the determination of non-equilibrium oxygen dissociation curve and show that under these conditions the true nature of hemoglobin cooperativity is revealed as emerging solely from the consecutive binding of oxygen to each one of the four subunits of hemoglobin until the entire tetramer is saturated. We call this form of cooperativity the sequential cooperativity of hemoglobin and define the simplest model that includes it as the minimalist model of hemoglobin. A single instantiation of this model accounts for ~70% of hemoglobin cooperativity under non-equilibrium conditions. The total cooperativity of hemoglobin can be viewed more correctly as the summation of two instantiations of the minimalist model (each one corresponding to a tetramer of low and high affinity for O2, respectively) in equilibrium with each other, as in the Monod-Wyman-Changeux model of hemoglobin. In addition to offering new insights on the nature of hemoglobin reaction with oxygen, the methodology described here for the determination of hemoglobin non-equilibrium oxygen dissociation curve provides a simple, fast, low-cost alternative to complex spectrophotometric methods, which is expected to be particularly valuable in regions where hemoglobinopathies are a significant public health problem, but where highly specialized laboratories capable of determining a traditional oxygen dissociation curve are not easily accessible.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 2","pages":"e146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10431948/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10047031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Anaplastic testicular seminoma presenting as a hydrocele, in a 36-year-old patient with a family history of anaplastic seminoma. 36岁有间变性精原细胞瘤家族史的患者,表现为鞘膜积液。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.8
Orestis Ioannidis, Anastasia Malliora, Panagiotis Christidis, Lydia Loutzidou, Elissavet Anestiadou, Savvas Symeonidis, Nikolaos Ouzounidis, Vassilis Foutsitzis, Ioannis Mantzoros, Stamatios Angelopoulos
{"title":"Anaplastic testicular seminoma presenting as a hydrocele, in a 36-year-old patient with a family history of anaplastic seminoma.","authors":"Orestis Ioannidis,&nbsp;Anastasia Malliora,&nbsp;Panagiotis Christidis,&nbsp;Lydia Loutzidou,&nbsp;Elissavet Anestiadou,&nbsp;Savvas Symeonidis,&nbsp;Nikolaos Ouzounidis,&nbsp;Vassilis Foutsitzis,&nbsp;Ioannis Mantzoros,&nbsp;Stamatios Angelopoulos","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Testicular cancer is the solid tumor with the greatest incidence in men between 15 and 44 years old. Its main histological type is germ cell tumor, that is divided into seminomatous and non-seminomatous tumors. Seminoma, consisting 55% of testicular cancer, manifests in the fourth decade of men's life and a rare type of it is the anaplastic seminoma (5% to 15% of testicular seminoma). Diagnosis is based on clinical examination, testicular ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, tumor markers measurement and pathological examination, while treatment of choice is radical orchiectomy, with or without retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, potentially followed by radiotherapy or chemotherapy. We present the case of a 36-year-old male patient, whose father suffered from anaplastic seminoma and visited the hospital due to a painless hydrocele. The testicle was swollen and hard on palpation, while cytological examination of the drained fluid detected neoplasm, potentially seminoma. Tumor markers measurement, as well as abdominal and pelvic computerized tomography scans, were evaluated and the patient was staged as IIA, according to the American Joint Commission on Cancer. Radical orchiectomy with high ligation of the seminal vesicle was performed and the pathological examination showed anaplastic testicular seminoma. Postoperatively, four cycles of chemotherapy with bleomycin, etoposide and platinum (BEP) were performed and no signs of recurrence were present after 1 year. In conclusion, anaplastic seminoma has a good prognosis and is suggested to be treated with radical orchiectomy, with or without retroperitoneal lymphadenectomy, potentially followed by radiotherapy or chemotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 2","pages":"e149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9747564/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10398047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
New model predicts in-hospital complications in myocardial infarction. 新模型预测住院心肌梗死并发症。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 eCollection Date: 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.1
Geovedy Martinez-Garcia, Miguel Rodriguez-Ramos, Maikel Santos-Medina, Annia Maria Carrero-Vazquez, Yanitsy Chipi-Rodriguez
{"title":"New model predicts in-hospital complications in myocardial infarction.","authors":"Geovedy Martinez-Garcia,&nbsp;Miguel Rodriguez-Ramos,&nbsp;Maikel Santos-Medina,&nbsp;Annia Maria Carrero-Vazquez,&nbsp;Yanitsy Chipi-Rodriguez","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objectives: </strong>Ischemic cardiopathy constitutes the leading cause of death worldwide. Our aim was to evaluate the prognostic capacity of the leukoglycemic index as well as to create a predictive model of in-hospital complications in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>This was a multicentral and cohort study, which included patients inserted in the Cuban Registry of acute myocardial infarction. The study investigated 900 patients with a validation population represented by 233 external subjects. In order to define the performance of the leukoglycemic index were evaluated the discrimination with the statistical C and the calibration by Hosmer - Lemeshow test. A model of logistic binary regression was employed in order to define the predictive factors.  RESULTS: Optimal cut point of the leukoglycemic index to predict in-hospital complications was 1188 (sensibility 60%; specificity 61.6%; area under the curve 0.623; p < 0.001). In-hospital complications were significantly higher in the group with the leukoglycemic index ≥ 1188; a higher value was significantly associated with a higher risk to develop an in-hospital complication [RR (IC 95%) = 2.4 (1.804-3.080); p<0.001]. The predictive model proposed is composed by the following factors: age ≥ 66 years, leukoglycemic index ≥ 1188, Killip-Kimball classification ≥ II and medical history of hypertension. This scale had a good discrimination in both, the training and the validation population.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The leukoglycemic index possesses a low performance when used to assess the risks for in hospital complications in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction. The new predictive model has a good performance, which can be applied to estimate risk of in-hospital complications. This model would be able to contribute to the health systems of developing countries without additional cost; it enables prediction of the patients having a higher risk of complications and a negative outcome during the hospitable admission.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":" ","pages":"e142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482690/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33475586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Novel Antidiabetic Medications in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. 新型抗糖尿病药物治疗多囊卵巢综合征。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.4
Manoj Reddy Somagutta, Molly Jain, Utkarsha Uday, Siva K Pendyala, Ashwini Mahadevaiah, Greta Mahmutaj, Nagendrababu Jarapala, Mohamed A Gad, Pathan Mayur Srinivas, Nayana Sasidharan, Nafisa Mustafa
{"title":"Novel Antidiabetic Medications in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.","authors":"Manoj Reddy Somagutta,&nbsp;Molly Jain,&nbsp;Utkarsha Uday,&nbsp;Siva K Pendyala,&nbsp;Ashwini Mahadevaiah,&nbsp;Greta Mahmutaj,&nbsp;Nagendrababu Jarapala,&nbsp;Mohamed A Gad,&nbsp;Pathan Mayur Srinivas,&nbsp;Nayana Sasidharan,&nbsp;Nafisa Mustafa","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Polycystic ovary syndrome is a very common endocrine disorder prevalent in premenopausal women. Patients with polycystic ovary syndrome present with abnormal menstruation, ovulation disorders, and hyperandrogenemia. They are often accompanied by insulin resistance, metabolic disorders, and other cardiovascular abnormalities. Also, they have comorbidities, such as dyslipidemia, obesity, diabetes type 2, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which all influence the treatment plan. Metformin has been defined as a treatment option in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. However, the clinical responses to metformin are limited. Thus, the need for novel treatments with a broad range of coverage for the complications is warranted. Sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors, glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, incretin analogs are novel drugs approved for treating type-2 diabetes. Because of their recorded benefit with weight loss, improved insulin resistance, and cardiovascular benefits in recent studies, they may help polycystic ovary syndrome women address the polycystic ovary syndrome-related risk of metabolic, reproductive, and psychological consequences. Limited literature is available on the safety and efficacy of these novel antidiabetic drugs in patients with polycystic ovary syndrome. Thus, this review is investigating the role and effectiveness of novel antidiabetic medication as an early therapeutic option in polycystic ovary syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 1","pages":"e145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9745014/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10423601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
Histopathological spectrum of duodenal polyps in a retrospective ten-year study. 十二指肠息肉十年回顾性研究的组织病理学谱。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.2
Varnika Rai, Anurag Saha, Ritu Verma, Vipul Jain, Bhanita Baro
{"title":"Histopathological spectrum of duodenal polyps in a retrospective ten-year study.","authors":"Varnika Rai,&nbsp;Anurag Saha,&nbsp;Ritu Verma,&nbsp;Vipul Jain,&nbsp;Bhanita Baro","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and aims: </strong> Duodenal polyps are rare in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. The present study is an experience of the histopathological spectrum of the duodenal polyps and its correlation with the clinical and endoscopic findings in a tertiary care centre.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>The present study is a 10-year retrospective study from the year 2011 to 2020. All the relevant clinical, endoscopic and radiologic findings were retrieved from the hospital medical records. Old histopathology slides were restained, and wherever required, special stains and immunohistochemistry (IHC) were performed. All the cases were reviewed. The present study mainly included descriptive statistics with categorical and continuous variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Total 81 cases of duodenal polyps were studied in the period of 10 years. The median age was 48 years. Male: female ratio was 2.2:1. The most common presenting system was abdominal pain. We experienced both solitary and multiple polyps. The majority of the duodenal polyps were non-neoplastic, with unremarkable mucosa or inflammatory type. Unlike previous studies the most common site for the hyperplastic polyp in the present study was the first part of the duodenum. Among the neoplastic polyps, adenomatous polyp was the most common type. Contrary to the previous studies, our study showed the first part of the duodenum as the most common site for the sporadic nonampullary adenomatous duodenal polyps. Of the rare entities, we encountered a single case each of lipomatous polyp and gangliocytic paraganglioma. Among the syndromes we encountered two cases of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome and one case of familial adenomatous polyp in our study population.CONCLUSION Duodenal polyps are a rare finding on endoscopic examinations, though most of them are non-neoplastic in nature, vigilant examination under the microcope is required to rule out any neoplastic pathology and identify the risk of malignancy.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 1","pages":"e143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9742767/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10423604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Understanding Brain-Skeletal Muscle Crosstalk Impacting Metabolism and Movement. 理解脑-骨骼肌相声对新陈代谢和运动的影响。
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.15190/d.2022.3
Bhanu P Jena, Lars Larsson, Domenico L Gatti, Ionita Ghiran, Won Jin Cho
{"title":"Understanding Brain-Skeletal Muscle Crosstalk Impacting Metabolism and Movement.","authors":"Bhanu P Jena,&nbsp;Lars Larsson,&nbsp;Domenico L Gatti,&nbsp;Ionita Ghiran,&nbsp;Won Jin Cho","doi":"10.15190/d.2022.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2022.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Metabolism and movement, among the critical determinants in the survival and success of an organism, are tightly regulated by the brain and skeletal muscle. At the cellular level, mitochondria -that powers life, and myosin - the molecular motor of the cell, have both evolved to serve this purpose. Although independently, the skeletal muscle and brain have been intensively investigated for over a century, their coordinated involvement in metabolism and movement remains poorly understood. Therefore, a fundamental understanding of the coordinated involvement of the brain and skeletal muscle in metabolism and movement holds great promise in providing a window to a wide range of life processes and in the development of tools and approaches in disease detection and therapy. Recent developments in new tools, technologies and approaches, and advances in computing power and machine learning, provides for the first time the opportunity to establish a new field of study, the 'Science and Engineering of Metabolism and Movement'. This new field of study could provide substantial new insights and breakthrough into how metabolism and movement is governed at the systems level in an organism. The design and approach to accomplish this objective is briefly discussed in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"10 1","pages":"e144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9748637/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10398536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 and the mental health implications 新冠肺炎术后后遗症及其对心理健康的影响
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.15190/d.2021.19
N. Walia, Jessica O. Lat, R. Tariq, S. Tyagi, A. Qazi, S. Salari, Amina Jafar, T. Kousar, Sherrie Bieniek
{"title":"Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 and the mental health implications","authors":"N. Walia, Jessica O. Lat, R. Tariq, S. Tyagi, A. Qazi, S. Salari, Amina Jafar, T. Kousar, Sherrie Bieniek","doi":"10.15190/d.2021.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2021.19","url":null,"abstract":"Post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) or more commonly known as Long COVID-19, is the term given to persistent symptoms 12 weeks from the initial presentation of COVID-19 infection. Several multi-organ symptoms have been reported by patients. Some common symptoms include headaches, fatigue, memory impairment and mental health complications such as anxiety and depression. People with previous psychiatric diagnosis are at greater risk of developing longer mental health implications from persistent COVID-19 symptoms. Additionally, healthcare workers are at increased risk of being long haulers leading to burnout and exhaustion. The objective of this review article is to provide comprehensive evidence from existing literature on various symptoms reported by patients experiencing Long COVID-19 and the rate of occurrence of such symptoms in different populations. A long-term disease surveillance is required to further understand the persistent symptoms or the long-term impact of this infection.","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47384362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Screening for prostate cancer: a study on the free and total prostate specific antigen 前列腺癌的筛查:游离和总前列腺特异性抗原的研究
Discoveries (Craiova, Romania) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 DOI: 10.15190/d.2021.18
R. Mediu, Ariol Rama, Naim Mediu
{"title":"Screening for prostate cancer: a study on the free and total prostate specific antigen","authors":"R. Mediu, Ariol Rama, Naim Mediu","doi":"10.15190/d.2021.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15190/d.2021.18","url":null,"abstract":"Background: A variety of biomarkers have been developed to monitor growth of cancerous diseases and to detect them at an early stage. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a valuable prostate cancer biomarker that is now widely used for population screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of patients with prostate cancer. Other factors than prostate cancer can cause elevation of PSA levels therefore, free prostate specific antigen measurements in serum have been proposed in order to improve the specificity of laboratory identification of prostate cancer. Aim: The aim of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic significance of both total PSA and Free PSA in discriminating prostate cancer from other prostate diseases. Materials and methods: Our study group consisted of 1201 males admitted at outpatient clinic aged between 35 and 84 years old (mean age 63 years). All laboratory measurements were performed on serum samples. The data were statistically analyzed by using descriptive statistics for Windows. Results: The mean total PSA concentration evaluated among 1038 patients was 16.17 ng/mL whereas only Free PSA concentration was evaluated in 163 serum samples and resulted in a mean value of 2.67 ng/ml. In order to calculate the correlation between total and free PSA, data among 69 /1038 patients were further analyzed through statistical program software package for data analysis. Conclusions: Measuring serum free PSA concentrations along with PSA concentrations may provide higher accuracy for detecting prostate cancer and might eliminate unnecessary biopsies in the men with PSA of more than 4.0 ng/mL","PeriodicalId":72829,"journal":{"name":"Discoveries (Craiova, Romania)","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66856210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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