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NEK1-mediated retromer trafficking stimulates blood-brain hurdle strength by simply managing sugar metabolism and RIPK1 initial.
In patients with corneal melt, pretreatment crosslinking (CXL) of donor tissue prior to placement of Boston keratoprosthesis (K-Pro I) decreases graft failure. We report a case of corneal sparing in a phthisical eye following penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) with pretreatment CXL of the donor cornea.

A 69-year-old female with a history of familial aniridia and bilateral K-Pro I placement. Her clinical course was complicated by recurrent corneal melt and hypotony in the left eye, resulting in extraction of the K-Pro I and successive PKP with pretreatment CXL of the donor cornea. She subsequently developed phthisis of the globe with notable retention of corneal structure. At 8 years, she maintains corneal contour without recurrence of keratolysis or extension of phthisis.

This is the first reported case of corneal sparing in a phthisical eye with a history of PKP, suggesting a protective role of pretreatment CXL of donor tissue against keratolysis and phthisis.
This is the first reported case of corneal sparing in a phthisical eye with a history of PKP, suggesting a protective role of pretreatment CXL of donor tissue against keratolysis and phthisis.
This study reports two cases of malaria-induced ptosis with surgical resolution.

Case 1 is a 27-year-old female with a past medical history of bilateral ptosis following childhood malaria. Case 2 is a 63-year-old male with left-side ptosis following adult-onset malaria. Both patients required revision surgery but ultimately did well after surgical correction.

Malaria-induced ptosis is a rare entity that should be suspected in patients presenting with ptosis following infection and treatment of malaria. It is unknown if the patients' malaria results from malarial infection, antimalarial treatment, or a combination of both. Surgical correction is the mainstay of treatment.
Malaria-induced ptosis is a rare entity that should be suspected in patients presenting with ptosis following infection and treatment of malaria. It is unknown if the patients' malaria results from malarial infection, antimalarial treatment, or a combination of both. Surgical correction is the mainstay of treatment.
To report a case of simultaneous bilateral choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with
infective endocarditis.

A 35-year-old man presented with acute visual impairment 14 days after cardiac surgery for acute infective endocarditis caused by methicillin-susceptible
. Fundus photography, fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and OCT angiography confirmed the presence of a single CNV area in the right eye and three CNV areas in the left eye. Treatment with intravitreal aflibercept resulted in an improvement in the visual acuity in both eyes.

The findings from this case highlight the importance of monitoring visual symptoms in patients with infective endocarditis. CNV can result in vision loss when it involves the macula; therefore, prompt diagnosis is important. MSU-42011 mouse Intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injection can be an effective treatment in such cases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of simultaneous bilateral CNV associated with infective endocarditis.
The findings from this case highlight the importance of monitoring visual symptoms in patients with infective endocarditis. CNV can result in vision loss when it involves the macula; therefore, prompt diagnosis is important. Intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injection can be an effective treatment in such cases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of simultaneous bilateral CNV associated with infective endocarditis.
This report describes pseudopapilledema in two siblings with Cockayne syndrome and examines a structural mechanism for its development.

Two siblings with genetically documented Cockayne syndrome, enophthalmos, and hyperopia were found to have pseudopapilledema. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging disclosed retrodisplacement of the globes, axial foreshortening, posterior scleral flattening, and protrusion of the optic papilla into the vitreous.

In the setting of Cockayne syndrome, pseudopapilledema may arise from retrodisplacement of the globes causing indentation of the posterior sclera by the distal optic nerves. This anatomic aberration may contribute to the development of hyperopia as well.
In the setting of Cockayne syndrome, pseudopapilledema may arise from retrodisplacement of the globes causing indentation of the posterior sclera by the distal optic nerves. This anatomic aberration may contribute to the development of hyperopia as well.We introduce a Bayesian optimization method for estimating the maximum tolerated dose in this article. A number of parametric model-based methods have been proposed to estimate the maximum tolerated dose; however, parametric model-based methods need an assumption that dose-toxicity relationships follow specific theoretical models. This assumption potentially leads to suboptimal dose selections if the dose-toxicity curve is misspecified. Our proposed method is based on a Bayesian optimization framework for finding a global optimizer of unknown functions that are expensive to evaluate while using very few function evaluations. It models dose-toxicity relationships with a nonparametric model; therefore, a more flexible estimation can be realized compared with existing parametric model-based methods. Also, most existing methods rely on point estimates of dose-toxicity curves in their dose selections. In contrast, our proposed method exploits a probabilistic model for an unknown function to determine the next dose candidate without ignoring the uncertainty of posterior while imposing some dose-escalation limitations. We investigate the operating characteristics of our proposed method by comparing them with those of the Bayesian-based continual reassessment method and two different nonparametric methods. Simulation results suggest that our proposed method works successfully in terms of selections of the maximum tolerated dose correctly and safe dose allocations.Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is the most common standard surgical procedure used for benign prostatic hyperplasia. Transurethral resection in saline (TURis) is a bipolar electrosurgery system used to prevent TURP (or TUR) syndrome. The bicarbonate Ringer's solution is not generally used as perfusate for TURP. Hence, we compared the efficacy of the bicarbonate Ringer's solution with that of physiological saline as perfusate during TURP. This prospective, multicenter, cooperative study was conducted on 40 adult patients admitted to a medical college hospital. After obtaining informed consent from all the patients, they were divided into two groups (20 patients per group). For patients of one group, bicarbonate Ringer's solution, and for other group, physiological saline was used as perfusate. Compared to the physiological saline, the electrolyte composition of the bicarbonate Ringer's solution was closer to that of plasma. Hence, the group using bicarbonate Ringer's solution as perfusate was exhibited less variation in plasma electrolytes and blood gas data.
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