Taipei City Hospital

Smartphone-related early recurrent open globe injury: A case report and literature review

Abstract: Open globe injury (OGI) is a vision-threatening ophthalmic emergency, but recurrent OGI in the same eye is exceedingly rare. This case report describes a 45-year-old male who sustained a left eye OGI from a rebounding marble block at a construction site, with visual acu...

Age-related clinical characteristics and treatment patterns in hospitalized orbital cellulitis: a real-world federated database study

Orbital cellulitis is an uncommon but potentially severe infection that can cause vision-threatening complications and death. Differences in clinical characteristics and management between pediatric and adult patients remain incompletely characterized at the population level. Thi...

Long-Term Air Pollutant Exposure and the Risk of Cardiovascular- and Cancer-Related Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study in Taiwan

Air pollution exposure can cause vascular dysfunction and induce mutagenesis; however, its effects on cardiovascular disease (CVD)– and cancer-related mortality remain unclear. This prospective cohort study examined the impact of long-term exposure to multiple air pollutants on t...

Association of PR Interval with Illness Duration and Lymphocyte Count in Asian Adults with Bipolar Disorder

Objective: Individuals with serious mental illness are predisposed to a heightened risk of cardiac arrhythmias, with specific subtypes demonstrating a disproportionately high prevalence in Asian populations.An overlapping pathophysiology is hypothesized to underpin this clinical...

An integrated evaluation and uniformity control process for jet grouting column diameter in interlayered soils

Controlling the diameter of jet-grouted columns is difficult because of variable ground conditions and the complex interaction of grouting parameters. As jet grouting is increasingly used in space-constrained and traffic-intensive areas, traditional trial-and-error pilot tests ar...

Paired functional screening reveals GMI‑modulated drug response behavior in heterogeneous tumor models

Tumor drug sensitivity is often evaluated under static experimental conditions despite the dynamic biological environments that influence therapeutic response. Here, we established a paired ex vivo functional screening framework to evaluate modulation-dependent drug-response beha...

Diagnosing Cross-Media Environmental Risk Governance Gaps: A Hierarchical Topic–Aspect–Frame Framework for Sustainable Environmental Governance

Effective sustainable environmental governance requires feedback between institutional risk management and lived public experience. We propose a hierarchical Topic–Aspect–Frame framework to compare pollution discourse across news and social media. Using 30,635 chunk-level Taiwane...

A Novel Hemizygous CDX4 Missense Variant Identified in a Taiwanese Man with Severe Teratozoospermia

Background and Objectives: Male factors account for approximately 30–50% of subfertile couples. Teratozoospermia is one of the major causes of male infertility; however, the genetic factors underlying many cases remain incompletely understood. This study aimed to identify potenti...

Prognostic Accuracy of the Phoenix Sepsis Criteria for Mortality in Children With Suspected Infection: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the pooled prognostic accuracy of the Phoenix Sepsis Criteria (PSC) for in-hospital mortality and compare its performance with the International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference (IPSCC) criteria in children with suspected infection. Data Sour...

Diabetes mellitus and risk of injury requiring medical care: a nationwide population-based matched cohort study in Taiwan

Abstract Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with multiple microvascular and macrovascular complications; however, its association with clinically significant injury requiring medical care remains incompletely understood. This study aimed to investigate the associatio...