Clinical Outcome Prediction Model in Tetralogy of Fallot Without Pulmonary Valve Replacement Using Contraction Fraction From the SCOUT‐TOF Registry by Mark A. Fogel, Jennifer A. Faerber, Abdullah Mahmood, Keerthi Reddy, Xuemei Zhang, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, Matthew A. Harris, David Biko, Sara Partington, Stephen Paridon, Michael Mcbride, Victor Ferrari, Kevin K. Whitehead, Laura Mercer‐Rosa

“…Background Few large scale prediction models of clinical outcomes in repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) exist. …”
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Plasma Polyamines and Short‐Term Adverse Outcomes Among Patients With Ischemic Stroke: A Prospective Cohort Study by Pinni Yang, Mengyao Shi, Yiming Jia, Chongke Zhong, Hao Peng, Lulu Sun, Daoxia Guo, Jing Chen, Aili Wang, Tan Xu, Zhengbao Zhu, Yonghong Zhang, Jiang He

“…Background Polyamines have been reported to be associated with neurological function, but the associations between polyamines and the prognosis of ischemic stroke remain unclear. …”
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Angiographic Quantitative Flow Ratio–Guided Treatment of Patients With Physiologically Intermediate Coronary Lesions by Jiannan Dai, Changdong Guan, Xueming Xu, Jingbo Hou, Haibo Jia, Huai Yu, Zening Jin, Guosheng Fu, Xiaofan Wu, Liansheng Wang, Rongchong Huang, Zhujun Shen, Yanyan Zhao, Yuanzhe Jin, Lei Song, Shengxian Tu, Shubin Qiao, Bo Yu, Bo Xu, Gregg W. Stone

“…Background The FAVOR III (Comparison of Quantitative Flow Ratio Guided and Angiography Guided Percutaneous Intervention in Patients With Coronary Artery Disease) China trial reported improved clinical outcomes with percutaneous coronary intervention guided by quantitative flow ratio (QFR) compared with angiography. …”
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Cardiovascular risk in childhood and young adulthood is associated with the hemodynamic response function in midlife: The Bogalusa Heart Study by Kai-Cheng Chuang, Maryam Naseri, Sreekrishna Ramakrishnapillai, Kaitlyn Madden, Julia St Amant, Kevin McKlveen, Kathryn Gwizdala, Ramasudhakar Dhullipudi, Lydia Bazzano, Owen Carmichael

“…Background: In functional MRI, a hemodynamic response function (HRF) describes how neural events are translated into a blood oxygenation response detected through imaging. …”
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Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan for a Multicenter Randomized Trial of Ketamine vs Etomidate for Emergency Tracheal IntubationTake-Home Points by Stephanie C. DeMasi, MD, Brant Imhoff, MS, Ariel A. Lewis, BSN, RN, MPH, Kevin P. Seitz, MD, Brian E. Driver, MD, Kevin W. Gibbs, MD, Adit A. Ginde, MD, MPH, Stacy A. Trent, MD, MPH, Derek W. Russell, MD, Amelia L. Muhs, MD, Matthew E. Prekker, MD, MPH, John P. Gaillard, MD, Daniel Resnick-Ault, MD, L. Jane Stewart, MD, JD, MPH, Micah R. Whitson, MD, Graham W.W. Van Schaik, MD, MBA, Aaron E. Robinson, MD, MPH, Jessica A. Palakshappa, MD, Neil R. Aggarwal, MD, MHSc, Jason C. Brainard, MD, David J. Douin, MD, Carolynn Lyle, PA-C, MPH, Sheetal Gandotra, MD, Aaron J. Lacy, MD, Kristen C. Sherlin, PharmD, Greta K. Carlson, MD, J. Maycee Cain, BS, Brianne Redman, MD, Carrie Higgins, BSN, Cori Withers, BS, Logan L. Beach, MD, Barbara Gould, Jasmine McIntosh, Bradley D. Lloyd, RRT-ACCS, Tiffany L. Israel, MSSW, Li Wang, MS, Todd W. Rice, MD, Wesley H. Self, MD MPH, Jin H. Han, MD, Jonathan D. Casey, MD, Matthew W. Semler, MD

“…Background: Emergency tracheal intubation is a common and high-risk procedure. …”
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Effectiveness of biomarker-guided duration of antibiotic treatment in children hospitalised with confirmed or suspected bacterial infection: the BATCH RCT by Cherry-Ann Waldron, Philip Pallmann, Simon Schoenbuchner, Debbie Harris, Lucy Brookes-Howell, Céu Mateus, Jolanta Bernatoniene, Katrina Cathie, Saul N Faust, Josie Henley, Lucy Hinds, Kerry Hood, Chao Huang, Sarah Jones, Sarah Kotecha, Sarah Milosevic, Helen Nabwera, Sanjay Patel, Stéphane Paulus, Colin VE Powell, Jenny Preston, Huasheng Xiang, Emma Thomas-Jones, Enitan D Carrol

“…Background Procalcitonin is a biomarker specific for bacterial infection, with a more rapid response than other commonly used biomarkers, such as C-reactive protein, but it is not routinely used in the National Health Service. …”
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Tumor mutational burden and survival on immune checkpoint inhibition in >8000 patients across 24 cancer types by Vivek Subbiah, Samuel J Klempner, Neeraj Agarwal, David P Carbone, Amit Mahipal, Shilpa Gupta, David Fabrizio, Jeffrey S Ross, Gerald Li, David R Gandara, Miles C Andrews, Jonathan W Riess, Ramez N Eskander, Ryon P Graf, Geoffrey R Oxnard, Sarah Sammons, Jeremy Snider, Lilia Bouzit, Cheryl Cho-Phan, Megan Price, Julia C F Quintanilha, Richard Sheng Poe Huang

“…Background There is uncertainty around clinical applicability of tumor mutational burden (TMB) across cancer types, in part because of inconsistency between TMB measurements from different platforms. …”
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poetics of Eevhen Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan”: (anti)colonial strategies of the art CONSCIOUSNESS by Olga V. Shaf, Oleksandra V. Goniuk

“…Yurchuk grounded in the West postcolonialism theory), intertextological and other literary analysis methods. Evhen Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan” as well as his other Russian-language works have not been appropriately read because of its ideological points. …”
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Evaluation of prognostic models to improve prediction of metastasis in patients following potentially curative treatment for primary colorectal cancer: the PROSPECT trial by Vicky Goh, Susan Mallett, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Victor Boulter, Rob Glynne-Jones, Saif Khan, Sarah Lessels, Dominic Patel, Davide Prezzi, Stuart Taylor, Steve Halligan

“…Background Despite apparently curative treatment, many patients with colorectal cancer develop subsequent metastatic disease. …”
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Influenza vaccination and myocarditis among patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors by Anju Nohria, Stephane Ederhy, Franck Thuny, Michael Mahmoudi, Alexander R. Lyon, Ryan J. Sullivan, Javid J. Moslehi, Justine V. Cohen, Magid Awadalla, Doll Lauren Alexandra Golden, Syed S. Mahmood, Raza M. Alvi, Nathaniel D. Mercaldo, Malek Z. O. Hassan, Dahlia Banerji, Adam Rokicki, Connor Mulligan, Sean P. T. Murphy, Maeve Jones-O’Connor, Lucie M. Heinzerling, Merna Armanious, Rongras Damrongwatanasuk, Carol L. Chen, Dipti Gupta, Michael C. Kirchberger, Sachin P. Shah, Sarju Ganatra, Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, Muhammad A. Rizvi, Gagan Sahni, Carlo G. Tocchetti, Valentina Mercurio, Donald P. Lawrence, John D. Groarke, Michael G. Fradley, Kerry L. Reynolds, Tomas G. Neilan

“…Background Influenza vaccination (FV) is recommended for patients with cancer. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…Background Long-term exposure to aircraft noise has been associated with small increases in cardiovascular disease risk, but there are almost no short-term exposure studies. …”
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