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use, or diabetes are less likely to achieve continence.
To describe a series of 3 cases of renal cell carcinoma that developed a metachronic recurrence in the form of inferior vena cava tumor thrombus after a first attempt of curative intent by means of radical nephrectomy.
A complete work-up consisting of total body computed tomography and transesophagic echocardiography was performed in all cases. After extensive counseling a decision for surgical excision was made. We used a transplant-based approach to eliminate every vestige of visible neoplastic tissue including the tumor thrombus in all cases. Three different approaches, including tangential and circumferencial excision of the inferior vena cava with or without caval replacement by prosthetic vascular graft were used for caval management after thrombectomy.
Estimated blood loss ranged between 500 and 2000 cc. Transfusion requirements varied from 1-9 red blood cell packed units. Complete thrombectomy along with excision of all visible neoplastic lesions was achieved in all cases. One of the patients experimented a cardiac arrest on postoperative day 7 without fatal consequences that increased de length of stay (range 7-30 days). No other major complications were registered. None of the patients died in the first 30 days after the procedure.
The transplant-based surgical approach to thrombectomy in these cases provides for excellent exposure and vascular control, thus minimizing the complication rate and resulting a safe treatment option for the patient.
The transplant-based surgical approach to thrombectomy in these cases provides for excellent exposure and vascular control, thus minimizing the complication rate and resulting a safe treatment option for the patient.
To compare follow-up outcomes of ureteroscopy (URS) and shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) for ureter calculi in the setting of asymptomatic renal calculi <15 mm.
This study included 789 patients who underwent URS (n = 301) or SWL (n = 488) as primary treatment for ureter calculi and who had ipsilateral renal calculi <15 mm between January 2012 and December 2019. For the URS group, all renal calculi were simultaneously treated unless contraindicated. One-to-one matching was performed using the propensity score (PS).
After PS matching, analysis included 262 matched pairs of URS and SWL patients. The stone-free rate for ureter calculi without auxiliary procedure was 97.3% in the URS group and 93.9% in the SWL group. Any complication rates were 11.0% and 9.2% in the URS and SWL group, respectively; 1.1% of the URS patients experienced complications classified as Clavien-Dindo ≥IIIb. The estimated 2-year intervention-free survival was 88.1% in the URS group and 84.2% in the SWL group (P = 0.045). The estimated 2-year stone-event-free survival was 80.1% in the URS group and 71.0% in the SWL group (P = 0.009). Cox multivariate analysis showed that the hazard ratios of URS were 0.62 (P = 0.025) for surgical interventions and 0.64 (P = 0.008) for stone-related events after adjusting for baseline variables.
For patients with symptomatic ureter calculi and asymptomatic renal calculi <15 mm, URS with active treatment for renal calculi reduces future ipsilateral surgical intervention and stone-related events compared with SWL for ureter calculi.
For patients with symptomatic ureter calculi and asymptomatic renal calculi less then 15 mm, URS with active treatment for renal calculi reduces future ipsilateral surgical intervention and stone-related events compared with SWL for ureter calculi.With the increasing prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction is a global health problem, especially because it is one of the earliest consequences of obesity and it precedes diabetes development. Fatty liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction is of particular concern in the Middle East and north Africa, where its prevalence is greater than that in the rest of the world. Despite the magnitude of the problem, no regional guidelines have been developed to address this disease. This Review describes suggestions of redefining fatty liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction, including its terminology and criteria for diagnosis. Experts have raised serious concerns on the current nomenclature, which labels the disease as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and its diagnostic criteria. The panel reached a consensus that the disease should be renamed as metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) and that the disease should be diagnosed by positive criteria. The aim is now to work with authorities across the region to implement these proposed changes and reflect them in health-care policy and to improve health care for patients in this region.The Latin American Association for the Study of the Liver (Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio del Hígado; ALEH) represents liver professionals in Latin America with the mission of promoting liver health and quality patient care by advancing the science and practice of hepatology and contributing to the development of a regional health policy framework. Fatty liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction is of specific concern in the ALEH region, where its prevalence is one of the highest globally, second only to the Middle East. A recent consensus from an international panel recommended a new definition of fatty liver disease associated with metabolic dysfunction, including a shift in name from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) to metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD), and adoption of a set of positive criteria to diagnose the disease, independent of alcohol intake or other liver diseases. Given, the importance of this proposal, ALEH invited leading members of regional nations to come to a consensus on it from a local perspective. We reached a consensus to endorse the proposal that the disease should be renamed as MAFLD and that the disease should be diagnosed by the proposed simple and easily applicable criteria. We expect that this change in nosology will result in improvements in disease awareness and in advances in scientific, economic, public health, political, and regulatory aspects of the disease.An important question in the context of the three-dimensional organization of chromosomes is the mechanism of formation of large loops between distant basepairs. Recent experiments suggest that the formation of loops might be mediated by loop extrusion factor proteins such as cohesin. Experiments on cohesin have shown that cohesins walk diffusively on the DNA and that nucleosomes act as obstacles to the diffusion, lowering the permeability and hence reducing the effective diffusion constant. An estimation of the times required to form the loops of typical sizes seen in Hi-C experiments using these low-effective-diffusion constants leads to times that are unphysically large. The puzzle then is the following how does a cohesin molecule diffusing on the DNA backbone achieve speeds necessary to form the large loops seen in experiments? We propose a simple answer to this puzzle and show that although at low densities, nucleosomes act as barriers to cohesin diffusion, beyond a certain concentration they can reduce loop formation times because of a subtle interplay between the nucleosome size and the mean linker length. This effect is further enhanced on considering stochastic binding kinetics of nucleosomes on the DNA backbone and leads to predictions of lower loop formation times than might be expected from a naive obstacle picture of nucleosomes.
To determine the cardiometabolic demands associated with exoskeletal-assisted walking (EAW) in persons with paraplegia. find more This study will further examine if training in the device for 60 sessions modifies cost of transport (CT).
Prospective cohort study. Measurements over the course of a 60-session training program, approximately 20 sessions apart.
James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Center for the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury Research Center.
The participants' demographics (N=5) were 37-61 years old, body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of 22.7-28.6, level of injury from T1-T11, and 2-14 years since injury.
Powered EAW.
Oxygen consumption per unit time (V˙O
, mL/min/kg), velocity (m/min), cost of transport (V˙O
/velocity), and rating of perceived exertion (RPE).
With training EAW velocity significantly improved (Pre 51±51m; 0.14±0.14m/s vs Post 99±42m; 0.28±0.12m/s, P=.023), RPE significantly decreased (Pre 13±6 vs Post 7±4, P=.001), V˙O
significantly improved (Pre 9.76±1.23 mL/kg/m vs Post 12.73±2.30 mL/kg/m, P=.04), and CT was reduced from the early to the later stages of training (3.66±5.2 vs 0.87±0.85 mL/kg/m).
The current study suggests that EAW training improves oxygen uptake efficiency and walking velocities, with a lower perception of exertion.
The current study suggests that EAW training improves oxygen uptake efficiency and walking velocities, with a lower perception of exertion.
To assess effects of 15 exoskeleton-assisted gait training sessions, reflected by the muscle strength of the lower limbs and by walking speed immediately after the training sessions and at the 6-week follow-up.
Single-group longitudinal preliminary study.
Individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) at a hospital neurology ward.
Participants (N=14) included women and men aged from 36-61 years, with Expanded Disability Status Scale scores from 5.0-6.5.
Exoskeleton-assisted walk training.
Primary outcomes included dynamometric knee extensor and flexor strength (Biodex Pro4), postural balance, and center of pressure displacements (Zebris FMD-S). Secondary outcomes included walking speed measured with the timed 25-foot walk test and fatigue (Fatigue Severity Scale). Assessments were performed 4 times, that is, prior to the start of the program (T0), at the end of the physiotherapy without an exoskeleton (T1), at the end of the exoskeleton-assisted training (T2), and at 6-week follow-up (T3).
At the end ait impairment participating in exoskeleton-assisted gait training achieved significant improvement in lower-limb muscle strength and increase in walking speed, yet the effect was not long-lasting.In the present situation, COVID-19 has become the global health concern due to its high contagious nature. It initially appeared in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and now affected more than 190 countries. As of now preventive measures are the sole solution to stop this disease for further transmission from person to person transmissions as there is no effective treatment or vaccine available to date. Research and development of new molecule is a laborious process; therefore, drug repurposing can be an alternative solution that involves the identification of potential compounds from the already available data. Alkaloids are potential source of therapeutic agents which might be able to treat novel COVID-19. Therefore, in the present study, twenty potential alkaloid molecules that possess antiviral activity against different viral diseases have taken into consideration and scrutinized using Lipinski's rule. Then out of twenty compounds seventeen were further selected for docking study. Docking study was performed using Autodock software and the best four molecule which provides maximum negative binding energy was selected for further analysis.
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