Articles: treatment.
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To understand mortality and secondary outcomes in patients with both end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) after no procedural treatment, primary amputation, endovascular treatment, and open surgery. ⋯ Patients living with both ESKD and CLTI experience poor outcomes irrespective of treatment. Exploratory analyses demonstrated that two-year survival among the three principal procedural treatments was similar except for superior survival among patients undergoing open therapy compared to primary amputation.
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The primary objective was to determine the prognostic significance of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) for localized pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) using digital droplet polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR). ⋯ Throughout treatment, KRAS ctDNA is detectable by ddPCR in patients with localized PDAC treated with NAC. Detection of mutant KRAS G12V after resection was associated with reduced OS.
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Retrospective propensity-score matched, case control study at 2 academic tertiary care centers. ⋯ Treatment Benefits, Level III.
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Secondary data analysis of the NIH sponsored study on Adult Symptomatic Lumbar Scoliosis (ASLS). ⋯ Operative treatment was more cost-effective than non-operative treatment for ASLS at eight-year follow-up. The ICER continued to improve as compared to the five-year values ($20,569 vs. $44,033).