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Expert Syst Appl ; 195: 116540, 2022 Jun 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35075334

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With coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases rising rapidly, deep learning has emerged as a promising diagnosis technique. However, identifying the most accurate models to characterize COVID-19 patients is challenging because comparing results obtained with different types of data and acquisition processes is non-trivial. In this paper we designed, evaluated, and compared the performance of 20 convolutional neutral networks in classifying patients as COVID-19 positive, healthy, or suffering from other pulmonary lung infections based on chest computed tomography (CT) scans, serving as the first to consider the EfficientNet family for COVID-19 diagnosis and employ intermediate activation maps for visualizing model performance. All models are trained and evaluated in Python using 4173 chest CT images from the dataset entitled "A COVID multiclass dataset of CT scans," with 2168, 758, and 1247 images of patients that are COVID-19 positive, healthy, or suffering from other pulmonary infections, respectively. EfficientNet-B5 was identified as the best model with an F1 score of 0.9769 ± 0.0046, accuracy of 0.9759 ± 0.0048, sensitivity of 0.9788 ± 0.0055, specificity of 0.9730 ± 0.0057, and precision of 0.9751 ± 0.0051. On an alternate 2-class dataset, EfficientNetB5 obtained an accuracy of 0.9845 ± 0.0109, F1 score of 0.9599 ± 0.0251, sensitivity of 0.9682 ± 0.0099, specificity of 0.9883 ± 0.0150, and precision of 0.9526 ± 0.0523. Intermediate activation maps and Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mappings offered human-interpretable evidence of the model's perception of ground-class opacities and consolidations, hinting towards a promising use-case of artificial intelligence-assisted radiology tools. With a prediction speed of under 0.1 s on GPUs and 0.5 s on CPUs, our proposed model offers a rapid, scalable, and accurate diagnostic for COVID-19.

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Ann Hematol ; 100(5): 1123-1132, 2021 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33686492

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An association of various blood types and the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been found in a number of publications. The aim of this literature review is to summarize key findings related to ABO blood types and COVID-19 infection rate, symptom presentation, and outcome. Summarized findings include associations between ABO blood type and higher infection susceptibility, intubation duration, and severe outcomes, including death. The literature suggests that blood type O may serve as a protective factor, as individuals with blood type O are found COVID-19 positive at far lower rates. This could suggest that blood type O individuals are less susceptible to infection, or that they are asymptomatic at higher rates and therefore do not seek out testing. We also discuss genetic associations and potential molecular mechanisms that drive the relationship between blood type and COVID-19. Studies have found a strong association between a locus on a specific gene cluster on chromosome three (chr3p21.31) and outcome severity, such as respiratory failure. Cellular models have suggested an explanation for blood type modulation of infection, evidencing that spike protein/Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)-dependent adhesion to ACE2-expressing cell lines was specifically inhibited by monoclonal or natural human anti-A antibodies, so individuals with non-A blood types, specifically O, or B blood types, which produce anti-A antibodies, may be less susceptible to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection due to the inhibitory effects of anti-A antibodies.


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Sistema ABO de Grupos Sanguíneos/genética , COVID-19/genética , Sistema ABO de Grupos Sanguíneos/sangue , Tipagem e Reações Cruzadas Sanguíneas , COVID-19/sangue , COVID-19/diagnóstico , COVID-19/etiologia , Suscetibilidade a Doenças , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Humanos , Incidência , Fatores de Risco , SARS-CoV-2/isolamento & purificação , Índice de Gravidade de Doença
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Eur Radiol ; 30(9): 4930-4942, 2020 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32346790

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BACKGROUND: In the vast majority of the laboratory-confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients, computed tomography (CT) examinations yield a typical pattern and the sensitivity of this modality has been reported to be 97% in a large-scale study. Structured reporting systems simplify the interpretation and reporting of imaging examinations, serve as a framework for consistent generation of recommendations, and improve the quality of patient care. PURPOSE: To compose a comprehensive lexicon for description of the imaging findings and propose a grading system and structured reporting format for CT findings in COVID-19. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We updated our published systematic review on imaging findings in COVID-19 to include 37 published studies pertaining to diagnostic features of COVID-19 in chest CT. Using the reported imaging findings of 3647 patients, we summarized the typical chest CT findings, atypical features, and temporal changes of COVID-19 in chest CT. Subsequently, we extracted a list of descriptive terms and mapped it to the terminology that is commonly used in imaging literature. RESULTS: We composed a comprehensive lexicon that can be used for documentation and reporting of typical and atypical CT imaging findings in COVID-19 patients. Using the same data, we propose a grading system with five COVID-RADS categories. Each COVID-RADS grade corresponds to a low, moderate, or high level of suspicion for pulmonary involvement of COVID-19. CONCLUSION: The proposed COVID-RADS and common lexicon would improve the communication of findings to other healthcare providers, thus facilitating the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients. KEY POINTS: • Chest CT has high sensitivity in diagnosing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). • Structured reporting systems simplify the interpretation and reporting of imaging examinations, serve as a framework for consistent generation of recommendations, and improve the quality of patient care. • The proposed COVID-RADS and common lexicon would improve the communication of findings to other healthcare providers, thus facilitating the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 patients.


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Betacoronavirus , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico por imagem , Pneumonia Viral/diagnóstico por imagem , COVID-19 , Sistemas de Dados , Humanos , Pandemias , Exame Físico , SARS-CoV-2 , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
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AJR Am J Roentgenol ; 215(1): 87-93, 2020 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32174129

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OBJECTIVE. Available information on CT features of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is scattered in different publications, and a cohesive literature review has yet to be compiled. MATERIALS AND METHODS. This article includes a systematic literature search of PubMed, Embase (Elsevier), Google Scholar, and the World Health Organization database. RESULTS. Known features of COVID-19 on initial CT include bilateral multilobar ground-glass opacification (GGO) with a peripheral or posterior distribution, mainly in the lower lobes and less frequently within the right middle lobe. Atypical initial imaging presentation of consolidative opacities superimposed on GGO may be found in a smaller number of cases, mainly in the elderly population. Septal thickening, bronchiectasis, pleural thickening, and subpleural involvement are some of the less common findings, mainly in the later stages of the disease. Pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, lymphadenopathy, cavitation, CT halo sign, and pneumothorax are uncommon but may be seen with disease progression. Follow-up CT in the intermediate stage of disease shows an increase in the number and size of GGOs and progressive transformation of GGO into multifocal consolidative opacities, septal thickening, and development of a crazy paving pattern, with the greatest severity of CT findings visible around day 10 after the symptom onset. Acute respiratory distress syndrome is the most common indication for transferring patients with COVID-19 to the ICU and the major cause of death in this patient population. Imaging patterns corresponding to clinical improvement usually occur after week 2 of the disease and include gradual resolution of consolidative opacities and decrease in the number of lesions and involved lobes. CONCLUSION. This systematic review of current literature on COVID-19 provides insight into the initial and follow-up CT characteristics of the disease.


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Betacoronavirus , Infecções por Coronavirus/complicações , Infecções por Coronavirus/diagnóstico por imagem , Pulmão/diagnóstico por imagem , Pneumonia Viral/complicações , Pneumonia Viral/diagnóstico por imagem , COVID-19 , Humanos , Pandemias , SARS-CoV-2 , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
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BMC Surg ; 19(1): 76, 2019 Jul 04.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31272434

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BACKGROUND: An orbitocranial injury with a penetrating Intraorbital Foreign Body (IOFB) is listed as a rare cause of penetrating trauma. Since this type of trauma is considered a surgical emergency, taking a thorough history along with careful examination to find out the mechanism and cause of the trauma is crucial towards correct diagnosis and management of the disease. CASE PRESENTATION: A 35-year-old male patient was presented to the ER with an occupational craniofacial injury because of an IOFB. The patient underwent an extra-dural orbitocranial craniotomy procedure to remove the foreign body. Interestingly, a plastic foreign body (a piece of a plastic pipe) was removed from the orbital cavity, which was suspected to be a fractured orbital bone, at first place. CONCLUSION: In this study, we demonstrated that plastics could mimic bone structure in a Computerized Tomography (CT) scan leading to possible initial misdiagnosis. Hence high clinical suspicion is necessary for the correct diagnosis of such cases. However, despite the prompt intervention, our patient ended up with permanent vision loss in his injured eye.


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Corpos Estranhos no Olho/diagnóstico por imagem , Corpos Estranhos no Olho/cirurgia , Ferimentos Oculares Penetrantes/diagnóstico por imagem , Traumatismos Cranianos Penetrantes/diagnóstico por imagem , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/diagnóstico por imagem , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X , Adulto , Cegueira/etiologia , Craniotomia/métodos , Erros de Diagnóstico , Ferimentos Oculares Penetrantes/cirurgia , Traumatismos Cranianos Penetrantes/cirurgia , Humanos , Masculino , Traumatismos Ocupacionais/cirurgia , Traumatismos do Nervo Óptico/etiologia , Traumatismos do Nervo Óptico/cirurgia , Órbita/diagnóstico por imagem , Órbita/lesões , Fraturas Orbitárias/diagnóstico por imagem , Fraturas Orbitárias/cirurgia , Resultado do Tratamento
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Signal Image Video Process ; 17(4): 907-914, 2023.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35371333

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Since December 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has claimed the lives of more than 3.75 million people worldwide. Consequently, methods for accurate COVID-19 diagnosis and classification are necessary to facilitate rapid patient care and terminate viral spread. Lung infection segmentations are useful to identify unique infection patterns that may support rapid diagnosis, severity assessment, and patient prognosis prediction, but manual segmentations are time-consuming and depend on radiologic expertise. Deep learning-based methods have been explored to reduce the burdens of segmentation; however, their accuracies are limited due to the lack of large, publicly available annotated datasets that are required to establish ground truths. For these reasons, we propose a semi-automatic, threshold-based segmentation method to generate region of interest (ROI) segmentations of infection visible on lung computed tomography (CT) scans. Infection masks are then used to calculate the percentage of lung abnormality (PLA) to determine COVID-19 severity and to analyze the disease progression in follow-up CTs. Compared with other COVID-19 ROI segmentation methods, on average, the proposed method achieved improved precision ( 47.49 % ) and specificity ( 98.40 % ) scores. Furthermore, the proposed method generated PLAs with a difference of ± 3.89 % from the ground-truth PLAs. The improved ROI segmentation results suggest that the proposed method has potential to assist radiologists in assessing infection severity and analyzing disease progression in follow-up CTs.

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Front Public Health ; 11: 1252668, 2023.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38045980

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Background: COVID-19 is constantly evolving, and highly populated communities consist of many different characteristics that may contribute to COVID-19 health outcomes. Therefore, we aimed to (1) quantify the relationships between county characteristics and severe and non-severe county-level health outcomes related to COVID-19. We also aimed to (2) compare these relationships across time periods where the Delta (B.1.617.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529 and BA.1.1) variants were dominant in the U.S. Methods: We used multiple regression to measure the strength of relationships between healthcare outcomes and county characteristics in the 50 most populous U.S. counties. Results: We found many different significant predictors including the proportion of a population vaccinated, median household income, population density, and the proportion of residents aged 65+, but mainly found that socioeconomic factors and the proportion of a population vaccinated play a large role in the dynamics of the spread and severity of COVID-19 in communities with high populations. Discussion: The present study shines light on the associations between public health outcomes and county characteristics and how these relationships change throughout Delta and Omicron's dominance. It is important to understand factors underlying COVID-19 health outcomes to prepare for future health crises.


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COVID-19 , Humanos , COVID-19/epidemiologia , SARS-CoV-2 , Renda , Densidade Demográfica
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Front Public Health ; 11: 1148200, 2023.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37228717

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Introduction: COVID-19 vaccine inequities have been widespread across California, the United States, and globally. As COVID-19 vaccine inequities have not been fully understood in the youth population, it is vital to determine possible factors that drive inequities to enable actionable change that promotes vaccine equity among vulnerable minor populations. Methods: The present study used the social vulnerability index (SVI) and daily vaccination numbers within the age groups of 12-17, 5-11, and under 5 years old across all 58 California counties to model the growth velocity and the anticipated maximum proportion of population vaccinated. Results: Overall, highly vulnerable counties, when compared to low and moderately vulnerable counties, experienced a lower vaccination rate in the 12-17 and 5-11 year-old age groups. For age groups 5-11 and under 5 years old, highly vulnerable counties are expected to achieve a lower overall total proportion of residents vaccinated. In highly vulnerable counties in terms of socioeconomic status and household composition and disability, the 12-17 and 5-11 year-old age groups experienced lower vaccination rates. Additionally, in the 12-17 age group, high vulnerability counties are expected to achieve a higher proportion of residents vaccinated compared to less vulnerable counterparts. Discussion: These findings elucidate shortcomings in vaccine uptake in certain pediatric populations across California and may help guide health policies and future allocation of vaccines, with special emphasis placed on vulnerable populations, especially with respect to socioeconomic status and household composition and disability.


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Vacinas contra COVID-19 , COVID-19 , Criança , Adolescente , Humanos , Pré-Escolar , Conservação dos Recursos Naturais , COVID-19/epidemiologia , COVID-19/prevenção & controle , Vacinação , Demografia , California/epidemiologia
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ArXiv ; 2023 Aug 30.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37426452

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As data sharing has become more prevalent, three pillars - archives, standards, and analysis tools - have emerged as critical components in facilitating effective data sharing and collaboration. This paper compares four freely available intracranial neuroelectrophysiology data repositories: Data Archive for the BRAIN Initiative (DABI), Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration (DANDI), OpenNeuro, and Brain-CODE. The aim of this review is to describe archives that provide researchers with tools to store, share, and reanalyze both human and non-human neurophysiology data based on criteria that are of interest to the neuroscientific community. The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) and Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) are utilized by these archives to make data more accessible to researchers by implementing a common standard. As the necessity for integrating large-scale analysis into data repository platforms continues to grow within the neuroscientific community, this article will highlight the various analytical and customizable tools developed within the chosen archives that may advance the field of neuroinformatics.

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Sci Data ; 10(1): 719, 2023 10 19.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37857685

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As data sharing has become more prevalent, three pillars - archives, standards, and analysis tools - have emerged as critical components in facilitating effective data sharing and collaboration. This paper compares four freely available intracranial neuroelectrophysiology data repositories: Data Archive for the BRAIN Initiative (DABI), Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration (DANDI), OpenNeuro, and Brain-CODE. The aim of this review is to describe archives that provide researchers with tools to store, share, and reanalyze both human and non-human neurophysiology data based on criteria that are of interest to the neuroscientific community. The Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS) and Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) are utilized by these archives to make data more accessible to researchers by implementing a common standard. As the necessity for integrating large-scale analysis into data repository platforms continues to grow within the neuroscientific community, this article will highlight the various analytical and customizable tools developed within the chosen archives that may advance the field of neuroinformatics.


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Disseminação de Informação , Neurofisiologia , Bases de Dados Factuais
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Curr Med Imaging ; 19(5): 442-455, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35726407

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BACKGROUND: In 2019, a series of novel pneumonia cases later known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) were reported in Wuhan, China. Chest computed tomography (CT) has played a key role in the management and prognostication of COVID-19 patients. CT has demonstrated 98% sensitivity in detecting COVID-19, including identifying lung abnormalities that are suggestive of COVID-19, even among asymptomatic individuals. METHODS: We conducted a comprehensive literature review of 17 published studies, focusing on three subgroups, pediatric patients, pregnant women, and patients over 60 years old, to identify key characteristics of chest CT in COVID-19 patients. RESULTS: Our comprehensive review of the 17 studies concluded that the main CT imaging finding is ground glass opacities (GGOs) regardless of patient age. We also identified that crazy paving pattern, reverse halo sign, smooth or irregular septal thickening, and pleural thickening may serve as indicators of disease progression. Lesions on CT scans were dominantly distributed in the peripheral zone with multilobar involvement, specifically concentrated in the lower lobes. In the patients over 60 years old, the proportion of substantial lobe involvement was higher than the control group and crazy paving signs, bronchodilation, and pleural thickening were more commonly present. CONCLUSION: Based on all 17 studies, CT findings in COVID-19 have shown a predictable pattern of evolution over the disease. These studies have proven that CT may be an effective approach for early screening and detection of COVID-19.


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COVID-19 , Gravidez , Humanos , Feminino , Criança , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , COVID-19/diagnóstico por imagem , SARS-CoV-2 , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/métodos
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Future Virol ; 2022 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35783674

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Laboratory tests seeking to improve detection of COVID-19 have been widely developed by laboratories and commercial companies. This review provides an overview of molecular and antigen tests, presents the sensitivity and specificity for 329 assays that have received US FDA Emergency Use Authorization and evaluates six sample collection methods - nasal, nasopharyngeal, oropharyngeal swabs, saliva, blood and stool. Molecular testing is preferred for diagnosis of COVID-19, but negative results do not always rule out the presence of infection, especially when clinical suspicion is high. Sensitivity and specificity ranged from 88.1 to 100% and 88 to 100%, respectively. Antigen tests may be more easy to use and rapid. However, they have reported a wide range of detection sensitivities from 16.7 to 85%, which may potentially yield many false-negative results.

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Curr Med Imaging ; 18(3): 275-284, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34182911

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BACKGROUND: Background: Small Bowel Obstruction (SBO) accounts for 15% of abdominal pain complaints referred to emergency departments and imposes significant financial burdens on the healthcare system. The most common symptom and sign of SBO is the absence of stool or flatus passsage and abdominal distension, respectively. Patients who do not demonstrate severe clinical or imaging findings are typically treated with conservative approaches. Patients with clinical signs of sepsis or physical findings of peritonitis are often instantly transferred to the operating room without supplementary imaging assessment. However, in cases where symptoms are non-specific or physical examination is challenging, such as in cases with loss of consciousness, the diagnosis can be complicated. This paper discusses the key findings identifiable on Computed Tomography (CT) which are vital for the emergent triage, proper treatment and appropriate decision making in patients with suspected SBO. METHODS: Narrative review of the literature. RESULTS: CT plays a key role in emergent triage, proper treatment and decision making and provides high sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy in the detection of early-stage obstruction and acute intestinal vascular compromise. CT can also differentiate between various etiologies of SBO entity which is considered an important criterion in the triage of patients into surgical vs. non-surgical treatment. CONCLUSION: There Key CT findings which may suggest a need for surgical treatment include mesenteric edema, lack of the small-bowel feces, bowel wall thickening, fat stranding in the mesentery, and intraperitoneal fluid which are predictive of urgent surgical exploration.


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Obstrução Intestinal , Humanos , Obstrução Intestinal/diagnóstico por imagem , Obstrução Intestinal/cirurgia , Intestino Delgado/diagnóstico por imagem , Intestino Delgado/cirurgia , Estudos Retrospectivos , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X/métodos
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J Immigr Minor Health ; 24(1): 18-30, 2022 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34797451

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disparities among vulnerable populations are of paramount concern that extend to vaccine administration. With recent uptick in infection rates, dominance of the delta variant, and authorization of a third booster shot, understanding the population-level vaccine coverage dynamics and underlying sociodemographic factors is critical for achieving equity in public health outcomes. This study aimed to characterize the scope of vaccine inequity in California counties through modeling the trends of vaccination using the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI). Overall SVI, its four themes, and 9228 data points of daily vaccination numbers from December 15, 2020, to May 23, 2021, across all 58 California counties were used to model the growth velocity and anticipated maximum proportion of population vaccinated, defined as having received at least one dose of vaccine. Based on the overall SVI, the vaccination coverage velocity was lower in counties in the high vulnerability category (v = 0.0346, 95% CI 0.0334, 0.0358) compared to moderate (v = 0.0396, 95% CI 0.0385, 0.0408) and low (v = 0.0414, 95% CI 0.0403, 0.0425) vulnerability categories. SVI Theme 3 (minority status and language) yielded the largest disparity in coverage velocity between low and high-vulnerable counties (v = 0.0423 versus v = 0.035, P < 0.001). Based on the current trajectory, while counties in low-vulnerability category of overall SVI are estimated to achieve a higher proportion of vaccinated individuals, our models yielded a higher asymptotic maximum for highly vulnerable counties of Theme 3 (K = 0.544, 95% CI 0.527, 0.561) compared to low-vulnerability counterparts (K = 0.441, 95% CI 0.432, 0.450). The largest disparity in asymptotic proportion vaccinated between the low and high-vulnerability categories was observed in Theme 2 describing the household composition and disability (K = 0.602, 95% CI 0.592, 0.612; versus K = 0.425, 95% CI 0.413, 0.436). Overall, the large initial disparities in vaccination rates by SVI status attenuated over time, particularly based on Theme 3 status which yielded a large decrease in cumulative vaccination rate ratio of low to high-vulnerability categories from 1.42 to 0.95 (P = 0.002). This study provides insight into the problem of COVID-19 vaccine disparity across California which can help promote equity during the current pandemic and guide the allocation of future vaccines such as COVID-19 booster shots.


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Vacinas contra COVID-19 , COVID-19 , California , Conservação dos Recursos Naturais , Demografia , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2 , Vulnerabilidade Social , Fatores Sociodemográficos , Vacinação
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Curr Probl Diagn Radiol ; 51(2): 204-216, 2022.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33526366

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Computed tomography angiography not only detects atherosclerotic coronary artery disease but also helps delineate the anomalous coronary arterial anatomy that may be more than just an incidental finding and could contribute to patients' symptomatology. Additionally, identification of coronary artery anomalies is clinically significant for preoperative planning and optimizing the approach for coronary catheterizations or surgical treatments. In this work, we review rare origination anomalies of coronary arteries and illustrate their characteristics through computed tomography images.


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Angiografia por Tomografia Computadorizada , Anomalias dos Vasos Coronários , Adulto , Angiografia , Angiografia Coronária , Anomalias dos Vasos Coronários/diagnóstico por imagem , Humanos , Tomografia Computadorizada por Raios X
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Clin Imaging ; 69: 37-44, 2021 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32652456

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Contrast media administration has been associated with complications such as nephropathy, cardiovascular morbidity, and neurovascular events, particularly in patients with renal insufficiency. This association has been questioned in recent studies. This review was performed to summarize the most current evidence on contrast induced nephropathy (CIN), contributing factors, and considerations in patients with renal insufficiency. The risk of CIN was over-estimated by the previous studies, due to a lack of control groups or presence of non-randomized control groups, which led to a selection bias. However, the thresholds associated with an increased risk of CIN are controversial and require risk-benefit analysis on an individual basis. Regarding the administration of contrast media (CM) in the emergency setting, the majority of studies suggested that CM exposure does not meaningfully increase the risk of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients (including trauma patients). Several strategies have been suggested to reduce the risk of CIN, including volume expansion to increase renal blood flow, sodium bicarbonate or N-acetylcysteine administration, and use of low-osmolal contrast media in end-stage renal disease.


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Injúria Renal Aguda , Nefropatias , Insuficiência Renal , Acetilcisteína , Injúria Renal Aguda/induzido quimicamente , Meios de Contraste/efeitos adversos , Humanos , Nefropatias/induzido quimicamente , Insuficiência Renal/induzido quimicamente , Bicarbonato de Sódio
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J Patient Saf ; 17(4): e255-e261, 2021 06 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32168282

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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to reach consensus on quality assessment of clinical information in imaging requisitions using Reason for exam Imaging Reporting and Data System (RI-RADS). METHODS: A Delphi study was conducted in September 2018 with a panel of 87 radiologists with diverse levels of experience from various settings (community hospitals, private hospitals, university hospitals, and clinics), of which 74.7% completed the survey. The agreement was assessed in the following subjects: (a) presumed effect of standardization, (b) the standardized system for information, (c) the scoring system for evaluation of requisitions, and (d) the implementation of RI-RADS. The consensus threshold was set at 51% responding (strongly) agree. The rate of lawsuits preventable with clinical information was also assessed. RESULTS: Consensus was reached on all objectives of the study with a high level of agreement. Radiologists agreed on the need for standardization of imaging requisitions and attributed it to increased speed and accuracy of interpretations. Three categories of information were determined as key indicators of quality: impression, clinical findings, and clinical question. The scoring system is intended to grade requisitions based on the presence of these categories. Radiologists also agreed that RI-RADS will encourage physicians to improve requisitions. Among radiologists who responded to the survey, 12.6% had experienced at least one lawsuit potentially preventable with sufficient information in requisitions. CONCLUSIONS: Reason for exam Imaging Reporting and Data System can be used as a standard for quality assessment of requisitions. Its use may improve the quality of patient care and reduce lawsuits against radiologists.


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Radiologia , Consenso , Diagnóstico por Imagem , Humanos
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