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KEY RESULTS Among 29 participants with SIBO and 44 without SIBO, 33 (45%) had evidence of delayed gastric emptying. There was no significant association between a microbiological diagnosis of SIBO and delayed gastric emptying by scintigraphy. Percent retained at 2 and 4 h, and total GCSI scores did not differ significantly between those with and without SIBO. CONCLUSIONS Although delayed gastric emptying is common in patients with suspected SIBO, gastric emptying is not associated with a microbiological diagnosis of SIBO.The original version of the article is unfortunately missing the surname of last author in the author group. Last author name was published as 'Preet Mohinder' and the full name of the author is 'Preet Mohinder Singh'.PURPOSE A new classification system is proposed to help the interpretation of drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE). The purpose is to create a classification system that improves upon existing systems designed to assess suitability of lateral wall surgery such as expansion pharyngoplasty whilst improving the reliability of the classification. METHODS A qualitative study into the difficulties trainees had with existing systems was used to identify key issues that needed to be addressed. A visual description of the palate, tonsils, lateral pharyngeal wall, tongue base, epiglottis (PTLTbE) classification was developed. Preliminary data on the inter-rater reliability of PTLTbE were collected. Twenty junior doctors were asked to interpret 5 DISE videos using the PTLTbE classification, and the kappa and percentage agreement were calculated. RESULTS The Krippendorff alpha ranged between 0.56 and 0.86 for individual DISE videos which compared favourably with the results from those who also completed the VOTE classification (range 0.31 to 0.66). The overall percentage agreement for PTLTbE was 90.1%. CONCLUSIONS There are a number of advantages of the PTLTbE system over other existing DISE classifications. (1) Tonsillar obstruction is separated from lateral pharyngeal wall collapse. (2) Interobserver reliability is improved, critical to improve communication, patient outcomes and future research. (3) The learning curve to use this system is short. Most doctors did not need to refer to the classification images as an aide-memoire after a few uses of the PTLTbE system. A fuller examination of the reliability of the PTLTbE system is underway along with examination of its use in clinical settings.PURPOSE Monitoring the pH of IVF culture media is a good practice, but the required pH levels have been "arbitrarily" set. Assisted reproductive technology centers around the world are spending time and money on pH monitoring without any consensus to date. The objective of this narrative review was to evaluate the importance of pH monitoring during IVF, discover how the oocyte and embryo regulate their intracellular pH and try to determine the optimal pH to be applied. METHODS A narrative literature review was performed on publications in the PubMed database reporting on the impact of pH on cellular function, oocyte and embryo development, IVF outcomes and pathophysiology, or on physiological pH in the female reproductive tract. RESULTS Intracellular pH regulates many cellular processes such as meiotic spindle stability of the oocyte, cell division and differentiation, embryo enzymatic activities, and blastocoel formation. The internal pH of the human embryo is maintained by regulatory mechanisms (mainly Na+/H+ and HCO3-/Cl- exchangers) that can be exceeded, particularly in the oocyte and early-stage embryos. The opinion that the optimal pH for embryo culture is physiological pH is not correct since several physicochemical parameters specific to IVF culture conditions (temperature, medium composition, duration of culture, or implication of CO2) can modify the intracellular pH of the embryo and change its needs and adaptability. CONCLUSIONS Because correct and stable extracellular pH is essential to embryo health and development, monitoring pH is imperative. However, there is a lack of clinical data on choosing the ideal pH for human IVF culture media.PURPOSE The preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic defects (PGT-M) is a beneficial strategy for the patients suffering from a Mendelian disease, which could protect their offspring from inheriting the disease. Barasertib ic50 The purpose of this study is to report the effectiveness of PGT-M based on karyomapping for three cases of dynamic mutation diseases with trinucleotide repeat expansion. METHODS PGT-M was carried out on three couples, whose family members were diagnosed with Huntington's disease or spinocerebellar ataxias 2 or 12. The whole genome amplification was obtained using the multiple displacement amplification (MDA) method. Then, karyomapping was performed to detect the allele that is carrying the trinucleotide repeat expansion using single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) linkage analyses, and the copy number variations (CNVs) of the embryos were also identified. Prenatal diagnosis was performed to validate the accuracy of PGT-M. RESULTS PGT-M was successfully performed on the three couples, and they accepted the transfers of euploid blastocysts without the relevant pathogenic allele. The clinical pregnancies were acquired and the prenatal diagnosis of the three families confirmed the effectiveness of karyomapping. The three born babies were healthy and free of the pathogenic alleles HTT, ATXN2, or PPP2R2B corresponding to Huntington's disease, spinocerebellar ataxias 2 or 12, respectively. CONCLUSION This study shows that karyomapping is a highly powerful and efficient approach for dynamic mutation detection in preimplantation embryos. In this work, we first report the birth of healthy babies that are free of the pathogenic gene for dynamic mutation diseases in patients receiving PGT-M by karyomapping.PURPOSE To investigate the relation between mutations in ciliopathy-related SPAG6 and RSPH3 and male infertility with severe asthenoteratospermia characterized by multiple flagellar malformations and reveal the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) outcomes of those primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) patients. METHODS Whole-exome sequencing was applied to identify the pathogenic genes for the five PCD patients. The ICSI outcomes of those patients were compared with eight DNAH1-mutated patients and 215 oligo-asthenospermia (OAT) patients. RESULTS We identified, for the first time, the compound heterozygous SPAG6 mutations (c.143_145del p.48_49del, c.585delA p.Lys196Serfs*6) in a sporadic PCD patient. Further, a novel homozygous nonsynonymous RSPH3 mutation (c.C799T p.Arg267Cys) was identified in another PCD patient with consanguineous parents. The pathogenicity of these mutations in the assembly of sperm flagella was confirmed by flagellar ultrastructure analysis, immunofluorescence, and quantitative real-time PCR.
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