Table of contents

Original research

• Linkage to specialty care in the hepatitis C care cascade (17 November, 2020)

  Dena P Blanding, William P Moran, John Bian, Jingwen Zhang, Justin Marsden, Patrick D Mauldin, Don C Rockey, Andrew D Schreiner
• Circulating miR-146a expression predicts early treatment response to imatinib in adult chronic myeloid leukemia (10 November, 2020)

  Eman M Habib, Nahla A Nosiar, Manal A Eid, Atef M Taha, Dalia E Sherief, Asmaa E Hassan, Muhammad Tarek Abdel Ghafar
• Prognostic value of estimated plasma volume in patients with chronic systolic heart failure (22 December, 2020)

  Yuyao Lin, Yanbo Xue, Jing Liu, Xiqiang Wang, Linyan Wei, Ling Bai, Aiqun Ma
• Cut-off value of serum homocysteine in relation to increase of coronary artery calcification (4 November, 2020)

  Nam-Seok Joo, Susie Jung, Yu-Na Kim, Beom-Hee Choi
• Incidentally detected acromegaly: single-center study of surgically treated patients over 22 years (4 November, 2020)

  Erica Alexandra Giraldi, Emir Veledar, Nelson M Oyesiku, Adriana G Ioachimescu
• In-hospital outcomes and prevalence of comorbidities in patients with infective endocarditis with and without heart blocks: Insight from the National Inpatient Sample (28 October, 2020)

  Shakeel M Jamal, Asim Kichloo, Michael Albosta, Beth Bailey, Jagmeet Singh, Farah Wani, Muhammad Shah Zaib, Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Dilawar Khan, Ronak Soni, Michael Aljadah, Hafiz Waqas Khan, Mahin Khan, Muhammad Z Khan
• Modulating the Infarcted Ventricle’s Refractoriness with an Epicardial Biomaterial (28 October, 2020)

  Ikeotunye Royal Chinyere, Mathew Hutchinson, Talal Moukabary, Jen Watson Koevary, Elizabeth Juneman, Steven Goldman, Jordan J Lancaster
• Evaluation of the in vitro interaction of fosfomycin and meropenem against metallo-β-lactamase–producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa using Etest and time-kill assay (29 October, 2020)

  Sanjida Jahan, Heather Davis, Deborah S Ashcraft, George A Pankey
• Suppression of miR-886-3p mediated by arecoline (ARE) contributes to the progression of oral squamous cell carcinoma (12 December, 2020)

  Yanbo Zhang, Xuefeng Wang, Shangzhi Han, Yangyang Wang, Rui Liu, Fanli Meng, Zhejun Su, Feng Huo
• Association between goal-striving stress and rapid kidney function decline among African Americans: the Jackson Heart Study (17 December, 2020) Free

  Loretta Cain-Shields, LáShauntá Glover, Bessie Young, Mario Sims
• Factors predicting length of stay in patients hospitalized for acute parotitis (21 October, 2020)

  Avinoam Markovich, Ohad Ronen
• Efficacy and safety of oral simvastatin in the treatment of patients with vitiligo (22 October, 2020)

  Shiyu Zhang, Tanja Prunk Zdravković, Tao Wang, Yuehua Liu, Hongzhong Jin