Search Results - "Valenta, Zdenĕk"
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Elucidating vaccine efficacy using a correlate of protection, demographics, and logistic regression
Published in BMC medical research methodology (30-04-2024)“…Vaccine efficacy (VE) assessed in a randomized controlled clinical trial can be affected by demographic, clinical, and other subject-specific characteristics…”
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Distance from main arteries influences microstructural and functional brain tissue characteristics
Published in NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) (01-01-2024)“…Given the substantial dependence of neurons on continuous supply of energy, the distribution of major cerebral arteries opens a question whether the distance…”
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Utility of quantitative MRI metrics in brain ageing research
Published in Frontiers in aging neuroscience (09-03-2023)“…The advent of new, advanced quantitative MRI metrics allows for evaluation of multiple biological processes highly relevant for ageing. The presented study…”
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Kidney Graft Failure and Patient Survival Modelling Based on Competing Risks Under Nonproportional Hazards
Published in Transplantation proceedings (01-05-2022)“…•The violation of proportional subdistribution hazards assumption must be identified.•The identification of time-varying covariates indicates a violation of…”
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Tremor associated with similar structural networks in Parkinson's disease and essential tremor
Published in Parkinsonism & related disorders (01-02-2022)“…Despite substantial clinical and pathophysiological differences, the characteristics of tremor in Parkinson's disease (PD) and essential tremor (ET) patients…”
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Improving precision of vaccine efficacy evaluation using immune correlate data in time-to-event models
Published in npj vaccines (11-11-2024)“…Understanding potential differences in vaccine-induced protection between demographic subgroups is key for vaccine development. Vaccine efficacy evaluation…”
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Effect of early postnatal supplementation of newborns with probiotic strain E. coli O83:K24:H31 on allergy incidence, dendritic cells, and microbiota
Published in Frontiers in immunology (09-01-2023)“…Probiotic administration seems to be a rational approach to promote maturation of the neonatal immune system. Mutual interaction of the microbiota with the…”
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Active transforming growth factor-β2 in the aqueous humor of posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy patients
Published in PloS one (01-04-2017)“…Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy (PPCD) is characterized by abnormal proliferation of corneal endothelial cells. It was shown that TGF-β2 present in…”
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Survival after liver transplantation in the United States: A disease‐specific analysis of the UNOS database
Published in Liver transplantation (01-07-2004)“…Our goal was to describe disease‐specific survival and the clinical variables that predict survival in a large national cohort of adult liver transplant…”
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Dental implants and improvement of oral health-related quality of life
Published in Community dentistry and oral epidemiology (01-02-2012)“…Kriz P, Seydlova M, Dostalova T, Valenta Z, Chleborad K, Zvarova J, Feberova J, Hippmann R. Dental implants and improvement of oral health‐related quality of…”
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Exploiting Stein's paradox in analysing sparse data from genome-wide association studies
Published in Biocybernetics and biomedical engineering (01-01-2015)“…Abstract Unbiased estimation appeared to be an accepted golden standard of statistical analysis ever until the Stein's discovery of a surprising phenomenon…”
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Effectiveness of transoral laser microsurgery for precancerous lesions and early glottic cancer guided by analysis of voice quality
Published in Head & neck (01-06-2014)“…ABSTRACT Background The purpose of this study was to show our comparison of the quality of voice obtained after superficial transoral endoscopic cordectomies…”
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The decrease in C-reactive protein concentration after diet and physical activity induced weight reduction is associated with changes in plasma lipids, but not interleukin-6 or adiponectin
Published in Metabolism, clinical and experimental (01-03-2006)“…Subclinical inflammation is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms underlying increased levels of inflammatory markers and their changes in…”
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Patient and physician perception of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic appendectomy
Published in World journal of gastroenterology : WJG (21-04-2012)“…AIM:To investigate perception of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery(NOTES)as a potential technique for appendectomy.METHODS:One hundred patients…”
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OCT guidance during stent implantation in primary PCI: A randomized multicenter study with nine months of optical coherence tomography follow-up
Published in International journal of cardiology (01-01-2018)“…To assess the possible merits of optical coherence tomography (OCT) guidance in primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI). 201 patients with…”
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Analysis of Complications and Recipients' and Graft Survival in Patients 60 Years of Age and Older in the Long-Term Follow-up Period After Kidney Transplant: A Single-Center, Paired Kidney Analysis
Published in Transplantation proceedings (01-05-2022)“…•Long-term complication rates are the same in younger and older kidney recipients.•Five-year serum creatinine occurrence is more frequent in older kidney…”
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Randomized comparison of 9-month stent strut coverage of biolimus and everolimus drug-eluting stents assessed by optical coherence tomography in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. Long-term (5-years) clinical follow-up (ROBUST trial)
Published in Cardiology journal (01-12-2023)“…The aim of the study was to compare healing (assessed by optical coherence tomography [OCT]) of biolimus A9 (BES) and everolimus drug-eluting stents (EES) at…”
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Active transforming growth factor-[beta]2 in the aqueous humor of posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy patients
Published in PloS one (17-04-2017)“…Purpose Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy (PPCD) is characterized by abnormal proliferation of corneal endothelial cells. It was shown that TGF-[beta]2…”
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Early Complications After Kidney Transplantation in Patients Aged 60 Years and Older: A Single-Center, Paired-Kidney Analysis
Published in Transplantation proceedings (01-10-2020)“…As the population ages, the number of people suffering from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and diabetes mellitus (DM) increases. The coexistence of these…”
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