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05) after freezing/thawing. We also found that it is necessary to avoid re-crystallization during thawing to maintain the quality of the frozen product. The use of OMFs with rapid thawing has the potential to improve cryopreservation in the food industry as well as in the bioscience industry.Background Acetazolamide is the most common medication used for acute mountain sickness prevention, with speculation that a reduced dose may be as efficacious as standard dosing with fewer side effects. Methods This double-blind, randomized, controlled non-inferiority trial compared acetazolamide 62.5 mg twice daily to the standard dose acetazolamide 125 mg twice daily starting the evening prior to ascent from 1,240 m (4,100 ft) to 3,810 m (12,570 ft) over 4 hours. The primary outcome was acute mountain sickness incidence (headache and Lake Louise Questionnaire ≥ 3 and another symptom). Results 106 participants were analyzed, with 51 (48%) randomized to 125 mg and 55 (52%) to 62.5 mg, with a combined acute mountain sickness incidence of 53 (50%) and mean severity of 3 (± 2.1). The 62.5 mg group failed to fall within the pre-specified 26% non-inferiority margin for acute mountain sickness incidence [62.5 mg = 30 (55%) versus 125 mg = 23 (45%), 95% CI -11% to 30%]. Participants in the 62.5 mg group had a higher risk of acute mountain sickness (OR = 1.5, 95% CI 0.7 to 3.2) and moderate acute mountain sickness (OR = 1.8, 95% CI 0.6 to 5.9), with a NNH of 9, with a NNT in the 125 mg group of 4.8. Increased acute mountain sickness incidence and symptom severity corresponded to lower weight-based and body mass index dosing, with similar side effects between groups. Conclusion Acetazolamide 62.5 mg twice daily failed to demonstrate equal effectiveness to 125 mg twice daily for prevention of acute mountain sickness. With increased risk and no demonstrable symptomatic or physiologic benefits, acetazolamide 62.5 mg twice daily should not be recommended for acute mountain sickness prevention.Background Elderly patients are under-represented in clinical trials and registries, and a gap of evidence exists for clinical decision making in the setting of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). We aimed to assess the prevalence and independent prognostic impact of valvular heart disease (VHD) diagnosed during the index hospitalization on clinical outcomes among elderly patients with ACS. Included VHDs were moderate-to-severe mitral regurgitation (MR), moderate-to-severe aortic stenosis (AS), or both combined. Methods We explored the Elderly-ACS 2 dataset, which includes patients older than 74 years of age diagnosed with ACS and managed invasively. The primary endpoint was a composite of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, disabling stroke, and rehospitalization for heart failure at 1 year; the secondary endpoint was death for cardiovascular causes. Patients were stratified into 4 groups no VHD, moderate-to-severe MR, moderate-to-severe AS, and both moderate-to-severe MR and AS. Results Of the 1443 subjects enrolled, 190 (13.2%) had moderate-to-severe MR, 26 (1.8%) had moderate-to-severe AS, and 13 (0.9%) had both moderate-to-severe MR and AS. When compared with those with no VHD, patients with moderate-to-severe MR had hazard ratios (HRs) for the primary endpoint of 2.04 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.36-3.07], those with moderate-to-severe AS had HRs of 3.10 (95% CI, 1.39-6.93), and those with both moderate-to-severe MR and AS had HRs of 4.00 (95% CI, 1.65-9.73] (all P less then 0.01). Patients with moderate-to-severe MR also had increased risks of cardiovascular death (HR 3.17; 95% CI, 1.57-6.42; P less then 0.01), whereas in those with moderate-to-severe AS or both moderate-to-severe MR and AS, a nonsignificant increased risk was observed. Conclusions In a contemporary cohort of elderly patients admitted for ACS, VHD was found in 1 of 5 subjects and had an independent, consistent impact on prognosis.COVID-19 poses an extraordinary threat to global public health and an effective vaccine could provide a key means of overcoming this crisis. Human challenge studies involve the intentional infection of research participants and can accelerate or improve vaccine development by rapidly providing estimates of vaccine safety and efficacy. Human challenge studies of low virulence coronaviruses have been done in the past and human challenge studies with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 have been proposed. These studies of coronaviruses could provide considerable benefits to public health; for instance, by improving and accelerating vaccine development. However, human challenge studies of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in particular might be controversial, in part, for ethical reasons. The ethical issues raised by such studies thus warrant early consideration involving, for example, broad consultation with the community. This Personal View provides preliminary analyses of relevant ethical considerations regarding human challenge studies of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, including the potential benefits to public health and to participants, the risks and uncertainty for participants, and the third-party risks (ie, to research staff and the wider community). We argue that these human challenge studies can reasonably be considered ethically acceptable insofar as such studies are accepted internationally and by the communities in which they are done, can realistically be expected to accelerate or improve vaccine development, have considerable potential to directly benefit participants, are designed to limit and minimise risks to participants, and are done with strict infection control measures to limit and reduce third-party risks.Viruses are a constant threat to global health as highlighted by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, lack of data underlying how the human host interacts with viruses, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus, limits effective therapeutic intervention. We introduce Viral-Track, a computational method that globally scans unmapped single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data for the presence of viral RNA, enabling transcriptional cell sorting of infected versus bystander cells. We demonstrate the sensitivity and specificity of Viral-Track to systematically detect viruses from multiple models of infection, including hepatitis B virus, in an unsupervised manner. ABBV-075 Applying Viral-Track to bronchoalveloar-lavage samples from severe and mild COVID-19 patients reveals a dramatic impact of the virus on the immune system of severe patients compared to mild cases. Viral-Track detects an unexpected co-infection of the human metapneumovirus, present mainly in monocytes perturbed in type-I interferon (IFN)-signaling. Viral-Track provides a robust technology for dissecting the mechanisms of viral-infection and pathology.
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