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Kidney Decline Faster After Severe COVID vs Other Pneumonia
Comparing the change in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) before and after COVID, individuals had a mean eGFR ...
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Potential Impact of Prescribing Metformin According to eGFR Rather Than Serum Creatinine
Objective Many societies recommend using estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) rather than serum creatinine (sCr) to determine metformin eligibility. We examined the potential impact of ...
Medscape14d
COVID-19 Takes a Greater Toll on Kidneys Than Pneumonia
A cohort study identified a link between COVID-19 and a faster decline in kidney function, especially following ...
Nature1y
Optimal first-line therapy for NSCLC with EGFR mutations
The IPASS (Iressa Pan-Asia Study) is the first large randomized clinical trial that compared first-line EGFR TKI therapy with chemotherapy. 1 In this study, 1,217 Asian non-smokers or former light ...
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Cetuximab plus chemotherapy in patients with advanced NSCLC
Figure 1: Schematic of EGFR signal transduction pathway. Patients recruited in the FLEX study were selected on the basis of a rather narrow definition of EGFR positivity, namely, detection of at ...