Ching-Kuei Chang's research while affiliated with Taipei Medical University Hospital and other places

Publications (3)

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Purpose: Infection events can trigger autoimmune responses in several chronic inflammatory diseases; however, no study has focused on their effects in patients with enterovirus (EV) infection. We aimed to investigate the association between EV infection and the risk of autoimmune diseases. Materials and Methods: We used insurance claims data from T...
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Gout is a common metabolic disorder characterized by deposits of monosodium urate monohydrate crystals (tophi) in soft tissue, triggering intense and acute arthritis with intolerable pain as well as articular and periarticular inflammation. Tophi can also promote chronic inflammatory and erosive arthritis. 2015 ACR/EULAR Gout Classification criteri...

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... However, the results of musculoskeletal US may depend on the specifics of the scanner and operator experience. To overcome this poor reliability, a recent study applied an artificial intelligence learning system to train a convolutional neural network for the identification of tophi in US images (10). Over the last few years, omics technologies have been applied to different biological fluids to discover potential diagnostic biomarkers. ...