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as found to be approximately a half hour longer on average in navigated compared to non-navigated surgery. Effective radiation dose trended higher in navigated cases compared to non-navigated cases but did not reach statistical significance.
Limited dorsal myeloschisis, a form of cervical spinal dysraphism, is a rare anomaly and is typically associated with spinal cord tethering. The objective is to illustrate a rare dysraphic anomaly in the cervicothoracic spine causing myelopathy, not due to tethering but secondary to progressive kyphosis. To our knowledge, such an anomaly has not been described in the literature.

Case report METHODS A 16-year-old boy presented with lower extremity spastic paraparesis due to progressive cervicothoracic deformity. The imaging studies revealed extensive posterior arch defects from C1 to T6. The cervical spinal cord and meninges had herniated out of the spinal canal in the hyperlordotic cervical spine, and the thoracic spinal cord was stretched and compressed over the T4/5 kyphotic apex. Free-floating spinous processes were found compressing the cord at the T4-5 level. Tethering was not detected.

The patient underwent a posterior vertebral column resection at T5 and excision of the free-floating spinous processes. The patient made a complete neurological recovery. At 8 year follow-up, he was asymptomatic and his deformity was stable.

We present a rare congenital cervical dystrophic anomaly causing myelopathy secondary to progressive kyphosis. We speculate that this anomaly was due to the sclerotomal cells' failure to migrate dorsally to the neural tube and fuse in the midline.
We present a rare congenital cervical dystrophic anomaly causing myelopathy secondary to progressive kyphosis. We speculate that this anomaly was due to the sclerotomal cells' failure to migrate dorsally to the neural tube and fuse in the midline.Infectious bronchitis (IB) is a highly contagious avian disease caused by infection with infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which seriously affects the development of the global poultry industry. The distribution of TW I-type IBV in China has increased in recent years, becoming a widespread genotype. We previously isolated a TW I-type IBV strain termed CK/CH/GD/GZ14 in 2014, but its pathogenicity and possibility for vaccine development were not explored. Therefore, this research aimed to develop a live-attenuated virus vaccine based on the CK/CH/GD/GZ14 strain. The wild type IBV CK/CH/GD/GZ14 strain was serially passaged in SPF embryos for 145 generations. The morbidity and mortality rate of wild-type strain in 14 day-old chickens is 100% and 80% respectively, while the morbidity rate in the attenuated strain was 20% in the 95th and 105th generations and there was no death. Histopathological observations showed that the pathogenicity of the 95th and 105th generations in chickens was significantly weakened. Further challenge experiments confirmed that the attenuated CK/CH/GD/GZ14 strain in the 95th and 105th generations could resist CK/CH/GD/GZ14 (5th generation) infection and the protection rate was 80%. Tracheal cilia stagnation, virus shedding, and viral load experiments confirmed that the 95th and 105th generations provide good immune protection in chickens, and the immunogenicity of the 105th generation is better than that of the 95th generation. check details These data suggest that the attenuated CK/CH/GD/GZ14 strain in the 105th generation may be applied as a vaccine candidate against TW I-type IBV.
Changes over time of phenotype and prognosis in CKD patients starting nephrology care are undefined. This information is critical to correctly plan and optimize healthcare resources and clinical management in tertiary care.

We performed a long-term observational cohort study including 2,866 non-dialysis CKD patients newly referred to our nephrology clinic from 2004 to 2018. Three cohorts were constituted based on 5-year calendar intervals (2004-2008, 2009-2013, and 2014-2018). The changes over time of main demographic, clinical and laboratory characteristics were compared among the three cohorts. We also compared between cohorts the risk of renal death (combined endpoint of renal replacement therapy-RRT, or death before RRT) as well as of the single components (RRT or death).

Across the three cohorts, we detected a significant increase in the prevalence of age ≥ 75years (from 22.0 to 28.4%), male gender (from 53.1 to 62.1%), diabetes (from 32.6 to 39.5%), severe proteinuria ≥ 500mg/24h (from 46.9 to 52.4%). Mean eGFR at referral declined from 56.8 ± 27.0 to 49.6 ± 26.1mL/min/1.73m
. Incidence of renal death significantly declined over time (5.36, 3.22 and 4.54/100 pts-year in 2004-2008, 2009-2013 and 2014-2018 cohorts, respectively). As compared with patients referred in 2004-2008, adjusted risk of renal death was lower in patients referred in 2009-2013 (HR 0.49, 95%CI 0.34-0.69) and 2014-2018 (HR 0.61, 95%CI 0.45-0.84). Similar results were obtained for RRT, while mortality did not change over time.

In the last 15years, phenotype of newly referred CKD patients has remarkably changed with increasing frequency of older patients and more severe disease; however, renal survival improved suggesting greater efficacy of nephrology care.
In the last 15 years, phenotype of newly referred CKD patients has remarkably changed with increasing frequency of older patients and more severe disease; however, renal survival improved suggesting greater efficacy of nephrology care.Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a structural spinal deformity mainly in the coronal plane and is among the most frequent deformities in children, adolescents, and young adults, with an overall prevalence of 0.47-5.2%. The Cobb angle is an objective measure to determine the progression of deformity and plays a critical role in the planning of surgical treatment. However, existing studies suggested that Cobb angle measurement is susceptible to inter- and intra-observer variability, as well as a high variability in the definition of the end vertebra. In this study, we proposed an automatic method for the spine vertebrae segmentation using Deeplab V3+, a powerful tool that has shown success in the image segmentation of other anatomical regions but spine, and Cobb angle measurement. The segmentation performance was compared to existing mainstay neural networks. Compared to U-Net, Residual U-Net and Dilated U-Net, our method using Deeplab V3+ showed the best performance in the Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), accuracy, sensitivity and Jaccard Index.
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