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We aimed to investigate predictors of intervention of acute type B aortic penetrating ulcer (PAU) and intramural hematoma (IMH). We conducted a retrospective chart review of all patients admitted for acute type B PAU or IMH in a tertiary referral hospital. Indications to intervention were "complicated" (rupture, impending rupture, malperfusion) or "high risk for unfavorable outcome" (refractory hypertension and/or pain despite best medical treatment, morphologic aortic evolution, transition to a new aortic syndrome, or increase in IMH/PAU depth >5 mm) during the acute/subacute phase. The primary outcomes were overall mortality, aortic-related mortality, and freedom from intervention. Time-dependent outcomes were estimated with Kaplan-Meier curves. Cox proportional hazards models were used to identify predictors of intervention and mortality. There were 54 acute aortic syndromes, 37 PAUs and 17 IMHs. Mean age was 69 ± 14 years and 33 patients (62.2%) were male. Six (11.5%) patients had complicated aortic syndr3-4.70; p = 0.035) were significantly associated with need for intervention. Six additional (16.2%) PAUs required intervention during the chronic phase owing to PAU growth. Maximum aortic diameter >35 mm was significantly associated with intervention (HR 1.45, 95%CI 1.00-2.32; p = 0.037). Acute symptomatic type B IMHs and PAUs are characterized by a high risk of complications during the first month from presentation. Morphologic features associated with intervention were IMH with ULPs or extension in more than 3 aortic zones, as well as PAUs with depth>15 mm, width >20 mm, or depth/aortic diameter ratio>0.3. A strict follow-up protocol or consideration for early intervention within 30 days from presentation should be taken into account for these high-risk patients. During the chronic phase imaging follow-up is particularly important for PAUs in order to identify progression to saccular aneurysms.Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) severity after mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) has been shown to impact outcomes but unknown in patients requiring mitral valve (MV) surgery after TEER. We sought to determine the impact of preoperative TR severity and right ventricular (RV) dysfunction on MV surgery after TEER. From 7/2009 to 7/2020, 260/332 patients in the CUTTING-EDGE registry who underwent MV surgery after TEER had paired echocardiographic evaluation on TR severity, and ≥moderate (2+) vs less then 2+ TR at the time of index TEER were compared. Median follow-up post-MV surgery was 9.1 months, 96.5% complete at 30 days and 81.9% complete at 1 year. Mean age was 73.8 ± 10.3; with primary/mixed and secondary MR present in 65.6% and 32.0%, respectively. Proportion of ≥2+ TR increased from TEER to MV surgery (40% vs 57%, P less then 0.001). Compared to less then 2+ TR group, ≥2+ pre-TEER TR patients were older, had higher STS risk score at TEER, higher RVSP, more RV dysfunction, more MR post-TEER, and a shorter median interval from TEER to MV surgery (1.9 vs 4.9 months, P = 0.023). Mortality was higher in the ≥2+ pre-TEER TR group at 30 days(24.2% vs 13.8%, P = 0.043) and 1 year (45.3% vs 22.3%, P = 0.003). On Kaplan-Meier analysis, cumulative mortality was 23.8% at 1 year and 31.6% at 3 years after MV surgery overall, and was associated with preoperative RV dysfunction (P = 0.023), ≥2+ TR at pre-TEER (P = 0.001) and presurgery (P = 0.004), but not concomitant tricuspid surgery. Moderate or greater pre-TEER TR was associated with worse outcomes, and pre-TEER TR worsened significantly at MV surgery. Concomitant tricuspid surgery did not increase overall mortality.Single ventricle (SV) patients with pulmonary vascular disease (SV-PVD) are considered poor surgical candidates for Glenn or Fontan palliation. CCT128930 in vitro Given limited options for Stage 1 (S1) and Stage 2 (S2) SV patients with SV-PVD, we report on the use of subcutaneous treprostinil (TRE) to treat SV-PVD in this population. This single-center, retrospective cohort study examined SV patients who were not candidates for subsequent surgical palliation due to SV-PVD and were treated with TRE. The primary outcome was ability to progress to the next surgical stage; secondary outcomes included changes in hemodynamics after TRE initiation. Between 3/2014 and 8/2021, 17 SV patients received TRE for SV-PVD 11 after S1 and 6 after S2 (median PVR 4.1 [IQR 3.2-4.8] WU*m2 and 5.0 [IQR 1.5-6.1] WU*m2, respectively). Nine of 11 (82%) S1 progressed to S2, and 2 (18%) underwent heart transplant (HTx). Three of 6 (50%) S2 progressed to Fontan, 1 underwent HTx and 2 are awaiting Fontan on TRE. TRE significantly decreased PVR in S1 patients with median post-treatment PVR of 2.0 (IQR 1.5-2.6) WU*m2. TRE can allow for further surgical palliation in select pre-Fontan patients with SV-PVD, obviating the need for HTx. Improvement in PVR was significant in S1 patients and persisted beyond discontinuation of therapy for most patients.The goals of the Association for Molecular Pathology Clinical Practice Committee's Pharmacogenomics (PGx) Working Group are to define the key attributes of pharmacogenetic alleles recommended for clinical testing and a minimum set of variants that should be included in clinical PGx genotyping assays. This article provides recommendations for a minimum panel of variant alleles (Tier 1) and an extended panel of variant alleles (Tier 2) that will aid clinical laboratories when designing assays for PGx testing. The Association for Molecular Pathology PGx Working Group considered the functional impact of the variant alleles, allele frequencies in multiethnic populations, the availability of reference materials, as well as other technical considerations for PGx testing when developing these recommendations. The ultimate goal of this Working Group is to promote standardization of PGx gene/allele testing across clinical laboratories. This article focuses on clinical TPMT and NUDT15 PGx testing, which may be applied to all thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) and nudix hydrolase 15 (NUDT15)-related medications. These recommendations are not to be interpreted as prescriptive, but to provide a reference guide.Pharmacogenetic testing is increasingly provided by clinical and research laboratories; however, only a limited number of quality control and reference materials are currently available for many of the TPMT and NUDT15 variants included in clinical tests. To address this need, the Division of Laboratory Systems, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-based Genetic Testing Reference Material (GeT-RM) coordination program, in collaboration with members of the pharmacogenetic testing and research communities and the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, has characterized 19 DNA samples derived from Coriell cell lines. DNA samples were distributed to four volunteer testing laboratories for genotyping using a variety of commercially available and laboratory developed tests and/or Sanger sequencing. Of the 12 samples characterized for TPMT, newly identified variants include TPMT∗2, ∗6, ∗12, ∗16, ∗21, ∗24, ∗32, ∗33, and ∗40; for the 7 NUDT15 reference material samples, newly identified variants are NUDT15∗2, ∗3, ∗4, ∗5, ∗6, and ∗9. In addition, a novel haplotype, TPMT∗46, was identified in this study. Preexisting data on an additional 11 Coriell samples, as well as some supplemental testing, were used to create comprehensive reference material panels for TPMT and NUDT15. These publicly available and well-characterized materials can be used to support the quality assurance and quality control programs of clinical laboratories performing clinical pharmacogenetic testing.Rare cases of immunoglobulin G (IgG)-dominant immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis demonstrate immunoglobulin subclass restriction without light chain restriction. Some of these cases may represent proliferative glomerulonephritis with monotypic immunoglobulin deposits (PGNMID) in which monotypic immunoglobulin is obscured by coexisting polytypic immunoglobulin. However, rigorous demonstration of this possibility is lacking to date. Here, we describe a case of IgG3-restricted immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis without light chain restriction that apparently "transformed" into IgG3κ-PGNMID in a subsequent biopsy. We demonstrate, using several ancillary techniques, including use of the newly described antibodies directed against the conformational epitope at the junctions of heavy and light chains (HLC-IF), that the first biopsy likely represents IgG3κ-PGNMID in which monotypic IgG3κ was hidden by polytypic IgM. This case underscores the need to consider PGNMID in a differential diagnosis of IgG-dominant immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis without light chain restriction and highlights the potential utility of IgG subclass staining and HLC-IF in such cases to detect monotypic immunoglobulin that may be obscured by coexisting IgM and/or IgA deposits.
Cerebrospinal fluid tap test is a common procedure to predict the efficacy of ventriculoperitoneal shunt for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Objective tests after cerebrospinal fluid tap test are used to establish the surgical indication, but subjective improvements may also be important in selection of surgical candidates. The aim of this study was to evaluate surgical outcomes of patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunt for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, comparing patients showing objective improvement with patients improving only on subjective assessments.

In this retrospective analysis, patients were divided into 2 groups group 1 included patients with improvement on objective evaluation after cerebrospinal fluid tap test; group 2 included patients who showed only subjective improvement. The surgical outcomes of the 2 groups were compared.

Of 28 included patients, 17 were objective responders (group 1), and 11 were subjective responders (group 2). Clinical and radiological characteristics were similar. The only significant difference was the baseline Berg Balance Scale, which was lower in objective responders (P= 0.0015). At 3 months after surgery and at last follow-up, there was no difference in surgical outcomes between the 2 groups. However, in the group of subjective responders, a continuous improvement for incontinence and gait was more frequently observed (P= 0.04 and P<0.001, respectively).

Surgical outcomes after ventriculoperitoneal shunt were similar between the 2 groups, with a more favorable trend in terms of symptom improvement for subjective responders. Subjective assessment seems to be an important factor to consider in preoperative evaluation.
Surgical outcomes after ventriculoperitoneal shunt were similar between the 2 groups, with a more favorable trend in terms of symptom improvement for subjective responders. Subjective assessment seems to be an important factor to consider in preoperative evaluation.
Rates of aneurysm occlusion following treatment with flow-diverting stents have been quantified at predefined time points in clinical trials, but data characterizing the continuous temporal progression of aneurysm occlusion are lacking. This study used real-world variability in timing of angiographic follow-up to characterize the time line of aneurysm occlusion following treatment with the Pipeline embolization device (PED).

All aneurysms treated with a PED at our institution between 2011 and 2020 were screened. Nonsaccular or ruptured aneurysms were excluded. Aneurysm occlusion status and time since treatment were recorded for each follow-up angiogram. Aneurysm occlusion was characterized using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards analysis after censoring at last follow-up or subsequent treatment.

There were 290 aneurysms in 222 patients analyzed. The median time of observed aneurysm occlusion was 7.5 months, and overall rate of aneurysm occlusion was 77.9%. Larger aneurysms demonstrated a longer median time to occlusion and lower rate of aneurysm occlusion (P= 0.
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