Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an autoimmune disorder resulting from Group A Streptococcus (GAS) pharyngitis or impetigo in ...

Competing risk analyses were performed using the Fine and Gray model to assess the risk of recurrent MR. In the present analysis, accounting for the competing risk of mortality, the cumulative ...

A pooled analysis of all European screening trials is advocated to assess the benefit-to-harm ratio of LDCT screening and its ... deficit of LC cases in the active group (−7%). The cumulative ...