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Chronic rhinosinusitis with (CRwNP) or without (CRsNP) nasal polyps can have a great impact on quality of life. Typical symptoms include nasal obstruction, olfactory dysfunction, nasal discharge, and facial pain or pressure. Diagnostic gold standard is nasal endoscopy followed by CT scan of the paranasal sinuses. Besides first-line treatment with topical or systemically applied glucocorticoids, nasal rinsing, and surgical therapy, monoclonal antibodies have been approved in Germany since 2019.If one could talk about a superstar in abdominal surgery, the appendix would definitely be qualified for this name. Much has already been said about the vermiform appendix. The potential to talk about the appendix is, however, by no means exhausted. In this article already published articles are selected and subsumed. Less known details on the discovery and research of the appendix as well as the diagnostics of appendicitis and establishment of appendectomy are also included.
Pancreatic cancer is the second most frequent cause of death among all forms of cancer in Germany with more than 19,000 deaths per year. Ac-FLTD-CMK supplier The evaluation of the nationwide clinical cancer register aims to depict the reality of treatment and to improve the quality of treatment in the future by targeted analyses.

The data from the clinical cancer register of Brandenburg-Berlin for the diagnosis years 2001-2017 were analyzed with respect to the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Data from patients resident in the State of Brandenburg were evaluated with respect to epidemiological and therapeutic parameters.

A total of 5418 patients with pancreatic cancer were documented in the register from 2001 to 2017 and 49.6% of the patients were diagnosed as having the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) stage IV. A pancreas resection was carried out in 26.4% of the cases. In cases of cancer of the head of the pancreas the most frequent procedure was a pylorus-preserving resection with 51.8% and a pancreatectomy ions.Diabetes contributes to the development of heart failure through various metabolic, structural and biochemical changes. The presence of diabetes increases the risk for the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD), and since the introduction of cardiovascular outcome trials to test diabetic drugs, the importance of improving our understanding of the mechanisms by which diabetes increases the risk for heart failure has come under the spotlight. In addition to the coronary vasculature changes that predispose individuals with diabetes to coronary artery disease, diabetes can also lead to cardiac dysfunction independent of ischaemic heart disease. The hyperlipidaemic, hyperglycaemic and insulin resistant state of diabetes contributes to a perturbed energy metabolic milieu, whereby the heart increases its reliance on fatty acids and decreases glucose oxidative rates. In addition to changes in cardiac energy metabolism, extracellular matrix remodelling contributes to the development of cardiac fibrosis, and impairments in calcium handling result in cardiac contractile dysfunction. Lipotoxicity and glucotoxicity also contribute to impairments in vascular function, cardiac contractility, calcium signalling, oxidative stress, cardiac efficiency and lipoapoptosis. Lastly, changes in protein acetylation, protein methylation and DNA methylation contribute to a myriad of gene expression and protein activity changes. Altogether, these changes lead to decreased cardiac efficiency, increased vulnerability to an ischaemic insult and increased risk for the development of heart failure. This review explores the above mechanisms and the way in which they contribute to cardiac dysfunction in diabetes.
To assess the change in inpatient radiotherapy related to COVID-19 lockdown measures during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.

We included cases hospitalized between January1 and August31, 2018-2020, with aprimary ICD-10 diagnosis of C00-C13, C32 (head and neck cancer, HNC) and C53 (cervical cancer, CC). Data collection was conducted within the Medical Informatics Initiative. Outcomes were fractions and admissions. Controlling for decreasing hospital admissions during holidays, calendar weeks of 2018/2019 were aligned to Easter 2020. Alockdown period (LP; 16/03/2020-02/08/2020) and areturn-to-normal period (RNP; 04/05/2020-02/08/2020) were defined. The study sample comprised acontrol (admission 2018/19) and study cohort (admission 2020). We computed weekly incidence and IR ratios from generalized linear mixed models.

We included 9365 (CC 2040, HNC 7325) inpatient hospital admissions from 14German university hospitals. For CC, fractions decreased by 19.97% in 2020 compared to 2018/19 in the LP. In the RNP the reduction was 28.57% (p < 0.001 for both periods). LP fractions for HNC increased by 10.38% (RNP 9.27%; p < 0.001 for both periods). Admissions for CC decreased in both periods (LP 10.2%, RNP 22.14%), whereas for HNC, admissions increased (LP 2.25%, RNP 1.96%) in 2020. Within LP, for CC, radiotherapy admissions without brachytherapy were reduced by 23.92%, whereas surgery-related admissions increased by 20.48%. For HNC, admissions with radiotherapy increased by 13.84%, while surgery-related admissions decreased by 11.28% in the same period.

Related to the COVID-19 lockdown in an inpatient setting, radiotherapy for HNC treatment became amore frequently applied modality, while admissions of CC cases decreased.
Related to the COVID-19 lockdown in an inpatient setting, radiotherapy for HNC treatment became a more frequently applied modality, while admissions of CC cases decreased.
This study aimed to design and implement amobile phone application (app) aiming to enhance the cooperation and oral hygiene of orthodontic patients.

An orthodontic app named "Labkhand" was designed by ateam of orthodontists and programmers according to the needs and scheduled interventions for patients. The aim of this app was to obviate the orthodontic needs of patients by providing educational content in the form of texts and videos, oral hygiene reminders, appointment reminders, and nutrition reminders. It also enabled instant messaging and chatting between patients and dental personnel. In this study, 61patients were monitored during their orthodontic treatment procedure. All patients were evaluated using aquestionnaire with 7questions before and after a6-month treatment period. A total of 31patients were instructed to use the app, while the other 30patients received treatment without the app. The collected data were analyzed using paired t‑test and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) test.

While the control group's questionnaire score remained almost the same (P > 0.05), the mean questionnaire score of patients in the intervention group significantly increased after using the app compared to the baseline scores acquired before using the app (P < 0.001). The greatest improvement was noted in topics related to "reminding of appointments", "general information about orthodontic treatment", and "oral hygiene maintenance and instructions". "Quality of services" and "patient-orthodontist communication" showed the least improvement in patient satisfaction.

The Labkhand orthodontic app has multiple functions and can obviate the needs of orthodontic patients easily and at alow cost.
The Labkhand orthodontic app has multiple functions and can obviate the needs of orthodontic patients easily and at a low cost.Contractile ring constriction during cytokinesis is thought to compact central spindle microtubules to form the midbody, an antiparallel microtubule bundle at the intercellular bridge. In Caenorhabditis elegans, central spindle microtubule assembly requires targeting of the CLASP family protein CLS-2 to the kinetochores in metaphase and spindle midzone in anaphase. CLS-2 targeting is mediated by the CENP-F-like HCP-1/2, but their roles in cytokinesis and midbody assembly are not known. We found that although HCP-1 and HCP-2 mostly function cooperatively, HCP-1 plays a more primary role in promoting CLS-2-dependent central spindle microtubule assembly. HCP-1/2 codisrupted embryos did not form central spindles but completed cytokinesis and formed functional midbodies capable of supporting abscission. These central spindle-independent midbodies appeared to form via contractile ring constriction-driven bundling of astral microtubules at the furrow tip. This work suggests that, in the absence of a central spindle, astral microtubules can support midbody assembly and that midbody assembly is more predictive of successful cytokinesis than central spindle assembly.
Despite generally high coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination rates in the UK, vaccination hesitancy and lower take-up rates have been reported in certain ethnic minority communities.

We used vaccination data from the National Immunisation Management System (NIMS) linked to the 2011 Census and individual health records for subjects aged ≥40 years (n = 24094186). We estimated age-standardized vaccination rates, stratified by ethnic group and key sociodemographic characteristics, such as religious affiliation, deprivation, educational attainment, geography, living conditions, country of birth, language skills and health status. To understand the association of ethnicity with lower vaccination rates, we conducted a logistic regression model adjusting for differences in geographic, sociodemographic and health characteristics. ResultsAll ethnic groups had lower age-standardized rates of vaccination compared with the white British population, whose vaccination rate of at least one dose was 94% (95% CI 94%-94%). Black communities had the lowest rates, with 75% (74-75%) of black African and 66% (66-67%) of black Caribbean individuals having received at least one dose. The drivers of these lower rates were partly explained by accounting for sociodemographic differences. However, modelled estimates showed significant differences remained for all minority ethnic groups, compared with white British individuals.

Lower COVID-19 vaccination rates are consistently observed amongst all ethnic minorities.
Lower COVID-19 vaccination rates are consistently observed amongst all ethnic minorities.
Maximal resection is the preferred management for sacral chordomas but can be associated with unacceptable morbidity. Outcomes with radiotherapy are poor. Carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) is being explored as an alternative when surgery is not preferred.

To compare oncologic outcomes and treatment-related toxicity of CIRT and en bloc resection for sacral chordoma.

Univariable logistic regression was performed to evaluate the association between treatment type and oncologic and toxicity outcomes in this retrospective cohort study. Nearest-neighbor propensity score matching was used to match the CIRT cohort with the en bloc resection cohort and 10 National Cancer Database (NCDB) cohorts separately, with the objective of obtaining more homogeneous cohorts when comparing treatments. Patient- and tumor-related characteristics from 2 institutional cohorts were collected for patients diagnosed with sacral chordomas between April 1, 1994, and July 31, 2017. The NCDB was queried for data on patients with sacral chordoma from January 1, 2004, to December 31, 2016, as a comparator in overall survival (OS) analyses.
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