Background Neuroinflammatory processes have been hypothesized to play a role in the
pathogenesis of psychiatric and neurological diseases. Studies on this topic often rely on …

Background: Body temperature is commonly used to screen patients for infectious diseases,
establish diagnoses, monitor therapy, and guide management decisions. Purpose: To …

Objectives To provide a summary of evidence for the diagnostic accuracies of three
multiplex PCR systems (mPCRs)—BioFire FilmArray RP (FilmArray), Nanosphere Verigene …

Exome sequencing and genome sequencing have the potential to improve clinical utility for
patients undergoing genetic investigations. However, evidence of clinical utility is limited to …

Background: The 2020 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines recommend using
the 0/1-hour and 0/2-hour algorithms over the 0/3-hour algorithm as the first and second …

Objective The accuracy of prospective sonographic prenatal detection of invasive
placentation is unclear. The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review and …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Transient elastography is a non-invasive method, for the
assessment of hepatic fibrosis, developed as an alternative to liver biopsy. We studied the …

Objective To assess systematically the performance of prenatal magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) in diagnosing the presence, degree and topography of disorders of invasive …

The 4Ts is a pretest clinical scoring system for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT).
Although widely used in clinical practice, its predictive value for HIT in diverse settings and …

The diagnostic use of procalcitonin for bacterial infections remains a matter of debate. Most
studies have used ambiguous outcome measures such as sepsis instead of infection. We …