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Leicester Royal Infirmary

HealthcareLeicester, United Kingdom
About: Leicester Royal Infirmary is a healthcare organization based out in Leicester, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Carotid endarterectomy. The organization has 5300 authors who have published 6204 publications receiving 208464 citations.


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TL;DR: The condition is genuine and distressing and the cause lies in some localised musculoskeletal abnormality in the coccygeal region and there is no evidence of neurosis in patients.
Abstract: A five-year prospective trial involving 120 patients was undertaken to investigate the aetiology and treatment of coccydynia. The cause lies in some localised musculoskeletal abnormality in the coccygeal region. Lumbosacral disc prolapse is not a significant factor. The condition is genuine and distressing and we found no evidence of neurosis in our patients. Physiotherapy was of little help in treatment but 60% of patients responded to local injections of corticosteroid and local anaesthesia. Manipulation and injection was even more successful and cured about 85%. Coccygectomy was required in almost 20% and had a success rate of over 90%.

153 citations

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TL;DR: Improved survival in pregnancy and pulmonary hypertension using a multiprofessional approach using a multi-sectorial approach is described.

152 citations

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01 Jan 2013-Leukemia
TL;DR: This randomised trial compared the addition of the immunoconjugate, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), at a dose of 5 mg on day 1 of each course of LDAC with the intention of improving the remission rate and consequently survival.
Abstract: The treatment of older patients with acute myeloid leukaemia, who are not considered suitable for conventional intensive therapy, is unsatisfactory. Low-dose Ara-C(LDAC) has been established as superior to best supportive care, but only benefits the few patients who enter complete remission. Alternative or additional treatments are required to improve the situation. This randomised trial compared the addition of the immunoconjugate, gemtuzumab ozogamicin (GO), at a dose of 5 mg on day 1 of each course of LDAC, with the intention of improving the remission rate and consequently survival. Between June 2004 and June 2010, 495 patients entered the randomisation. The addition of GO significantly improved the remission rate (30% vs 17%; odds ratio(OR) 0.48 (0.32-0.73); P=0.006), but not the 12 month overall survival (25% vs 27%). The reason for the induction benefit failing to improve OS was two-fold: survival of patients in the LDAC arm who did not enter remission and survival after relapse were both superior in the LDAC arm. Although the addition of GO to LDAC doubled the remission rate it did not improve overall survival. Maintaining remission in older patients remains elusive.

152 citations

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01 Oct 2000
TL;DR: Both circulating N-BNP and cardiotrophin’1 are raised in unstable angina, while cardiotrophicin 1 alone is raised in stable angina.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE To compare circulating concentrations of N terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (N-BNP) and cardiotrophin 1 in stable and unstable angina. DESIGN AND SETTING Observational study in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS 15 patients with unstable angina, 10 patients with stable angina, and 15 controls. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Resting plasma N-BNP and cardiotrophin 1 concentrations. RESULTS N-BNP concentration (median (range)) was 714 fmol/ml (177–3217 fmol/ml) in unstable angina, 169.5 fmol/ml (105.7–399.5 fmol/ml) in stable angina (p = 0.005 v unstable angina), and 150.5 fmol/ml (104.7–236.9 fmol/ml) in controls (p v unstable angina; NS v stable angina). Cardiotrophin 1 concentration was 142.5 fmol/ml (42.2–527.4 fmol/ml) in unstable angina, 73.2 fmol/ml (41.5–102.1 fmol/ml) in stable angina (p v unstable angina), and 27 fmol/ml (6.9–54.1 fmol/ml) in controls (p v stable angina; p v unstable angina). Log cardiotrophin 1 correlated with log N-BNP in unstable angina ( r = 0.93, p CONCLUSIONS Both circulating N-BNP and cardiotrophin 1 are raised in unstable angina, while cardiotrophin 1 alone is raised in stable angina. The role of cardiotrophin 1 and the relation between cardiotrophin 1 and N-BNP in myocardial ischaemia remain to be defined.

152 citations

28 Nov 2013
TL;DR: Using the ImmunoChip custom genotyping array, this article analyzed 14,498 subjects with multiple sclerosis and 24,091 healthy controls for 161,311 autosomal variants and identified 135 potentially associated regions (P < 1.0 × 10(-4)).
Abstract: Using the ImmunoChip custom genotyping array, we analyzed 14,498 subjects with multiple sclerosis and 24,091 healthy controls for 161,311 autosomal variants and identified 135 potentially associated regions (P < 1.0 × 10(-4)). In a replication phase, we combined these data with previous genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from an independent 14,802 subjects with multiple sclerosis and 26,703 healthy controls. In these 80,094 individuals of European ancestry, we identified 48 new susceptibility variants (P < 5.0 × 10(-8)), 3 of which we found after conditioning on previously identified variants. Thus, there are now 110 established multiple sclerosis risk variants at 103 discrete loci outside of the major histocompatibility complex. With high-resolution Bayesian fine mapping, we identified five regions where one variant accounted for more than 50% of the posterior probability of association. This study enhances the catalog of multiple sclerosis risk variants and illustrates the value of fine mapping in the resolution of GWAS signals.

152 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
George Davey Smith2242540248373
Nilesh J. Samani149779113545
Peter M. Rothwell13477967382
John F. Thompson132142095894
James A. Russell124102487929
Paul Bebbington11958346341
John P. Neoptolemos11264852928
Richard C. Trembath10736841128
Andrew J. Wardlaw9231133721
Melanie J. Davies8981436939
Philip Quirke8937834071
Kenneth J. O'Byrne8762939193
David R. Jones8770740501
Keith R. Abrams8635530980
Martin J. S. Dyer8537324909
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
20234
202219
2021168
2020120
2019110
2018121