David Bertsch
A5053860857- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
- Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
- Pleural and Pulmonary Diseases
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Organ Donation and Transplantation
- Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors
- Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications
- Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
- Colorectal Cancer Treatments and Studies
- Lung Cancer Research Studies
- Neurofibromatosis and Schwannoma Cases
- Helminth infection and control
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treatment and Prognosis
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Colorectal and Anal Carcinomas
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Gastrointestinal Tumor Research and Treatment
- Spinal Hematomas and Complications
- Genetic factors in colorectal cancer
Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital
2017-2025
SUNY Upstate Medical University
2017-2025
University of California, Los Angeles
2025
Guthrie Foundation
2024
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2019-2023
Case Western Reserve University
2013-2021
Mount Sinai Hospital
2021
Commonwealth Medical College
2021
Center for Global Health
2013-2020
Caribbean University
2019
Effective interruption of the Schistosoma life cycle is essential to blocking parasite’s transmission, and thus truly preventing human schistosomiasis over long term. Our current mass treatment campaigns were expected limit transmission by reducing environmental contamination with parasite eggs. However, process has proven be very focal highly efficient, such that, in practice, drug itself not been effective lowering many affected areas. Alternative means for are now being considered,...
Background The low-dose CT (≤3 mGy) screening report of 1000 Early Lung Cancer Action Program (ELCAP) participants in 1999 led to the International ELCAP (I-ELCAP) collaboration, which enrolled 31 567 annual between 1992 and 2005. In 2006, I-ELCAP investigators reported 10-year lung cancer-specific survival 80% for 484 diagnosed with a first primary cancer through screening, high frequency clinical stage I (85%). Purpose To update cure rate by determining 20-year expanded cohort. Materials...
Background Pulmonary noncalcified nodules (NCNs) attached to the fissural or costal pleura with smooth margins and triangular lentiform, oval, semicircular (LOS) shapes at low-dose CT are recommended for annual follow-up instead of immediate workup. Purpose To determine whether management mediastinal diaphragmatic pleura-attached NCNs (M/DP-NCNs) same features as can follow recommendations. Materials Methods This retrospective study reviewed chest examinations in participants from two...
A splenic inflammatory pseudotumour (IPT) is a rare condition in which cells and non-cancerous specialised known as myofibroblasts abnormally replicate the spleen. Patients with IPT may experience symptoms like abdominal pain, fever weight loss, making it difficult to distinguish from processes cancer. As result, diagnosing often requires imaging studies microscopic examination. Here, we present case of woman her 60s history significant for acute myeloid leukaemia now remission who presented...
Serotonin (5-HT) is a hormonal messenger that confers state-level changes upon the nervous system in both humans and flies. In Drosophila, lobula columnar (LC) cells are feature-detecting neurons project from optic lobe to central brain, where each population forms an anatomically-distinct glomerulus with heterogeneous synaptic partners. Here, we investigated serotonin's effect on two LC populations different 5-HT receptor expression profiles. Receptor does not predict neuromodulatory...
Objective: Secondary failure due to late restenosis continues occur in 30–50% of individuals after PTCA. β-Blockers play an important role the treatment CAD. The aim this study was investigate effects new β-blocker nebivolol on cell proliferation human coronary smooth muscle cells (haCSMCs) and endothelial (haECs) comparison traditional β-blockers. Methods: effect other β-blockers HaECs HaCSMCs analyzed by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation. Apoptosis measured determination hypodiploid DNA both...
Background Solid costal pleura-attached noncalcified nodules (CP-NCNs) less than 10.0 mm with lentiform, oval, or semicircular (LOS) triangular shapes and smooth margins on baseline low-dose CT scans from the Mount Sinai Early Lung Cardiac Action Program (MS-ELCAP) were reviewed, it was determined that they can be followed up at first annual screening rather having a shorter-term work-up. Purpose To determine whether same criteria could used for solid CP-NCNs newly identified examinations....
PURPOSE: Patterns of metastatic spread are difficult to determine with routine postoperative follow-up. This study was undertaken evaluate two selected populations colorectal cancer patients injected and screened antitumor antibody. METHODS: Eighty-six evaluable underwent exploratory laparotomy both traditional surgical exploration radioimmunoguided surgery (RIGS) following injection of125I-labeled CC49 monoclonal RIGS-positive tissue detectable a handheld gamma-detecting probe defined as...
At any given moment behavior is controlled by a combination of external stimuli and an animal's internal state. As physiological conditions change, vastly different behaviors might result from the same stimuli. For example, motivation to hunt hunting strategy influenced satiety. Here, we describe how sensory responsiveness motor activity praying mantis (Tenodera sinensis) are changed as insect feeds, leading altered strategy. We further show that these changes can be induced injection...
Praying mantises hunt by standing on their meso- and metathoracic legs using them to rotate translate (together, 'pivot') bodies toward prey. We have developed a neuromechanical software model of the praying mantis Tenodera sinensis use as platform for testing postural controllers that animal may while hunting. Previous results showed feedforward was insufficient capturing diversity posture observed in (Szczecinski et al 2014 Biomimetic Biohybrid Syst. 3 296-307). Therefore we expanded upon...
Background Gastrointestinal leiomyosarcomas (LMSs) from intramural smooth muscle are extremely rare, with limited literature. This paper evaluates the epidemiology and survival prognostic factors in LMSs of gastrointestinal tract. Methods Clinical data Surveillance, Epidemiology End Results (SEER) 18 registry 2001 to 2016 additional treatment fields were compared between primary tumor sites using chi-squared test for categorical variables ANOVA continuous variables. A five-year rate analysis...
Benign nonepithelial neoplasms of the gallbladder are unusual. The majority neurofibromas found incidentally in specimens following cholecystectomy. There have been only few reports literature describing this rare entity. In study we report a case neurofibroma presenting as chronic epigastric pain young patient.A thirty two year old otherwise healthy man presented to our clinic with symptom after eating. Physical examination, laboratory and radiologic workups were unremarkable for signs...
Gangliocytic paragangliomas are unusual and often misunderstood tumors that occur almost exclusively in the second portion of duodenum, although they have been described other sites such as urinary bladder, spermatic cord, prostate, urethra, uterus scalp. We describe our experience with surgical management an endoscopically unresectable gangliocytic paraganglioma located third part duodenum causing a partial upper gastrointestinal obstruction.A fifty-two-year-old male presented to Geisinger...
How we interact with our environment largely depends on both the external cues presented by surroundings and internal state from within. Internal states are ever-changing physiological conditions that communicate immediate survival needs motivate animal to behaviorally fulfill them. Satiety level constitutes such a state, therefore has dynamic influence output behaviors of an animal. In predatory insects like praying mantis, hunting tactics, grooming, mating have been shown change...