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Though vertical transmission of COVID-19 still needs more definitive evidence, strict isolation is necessary for the newborn of COVID-19 mothers. Psychological support for the parturients is also an important issue during COVID-19 pandemic.
It is well documented that the results of clinical trials are often not made publicly available. It is not known whether this also applies to trials of treatment for shoulder complaints.

Searches were conducted in the registries ClinicalTrials.gov, EUCTR and ISRCTN for registered and completed randomised and non-randomised trials of conservative and surgical interventions for shoulder complaints. The percentage that had published results in a peer-reviewed journal and/or reported results to a registry was determined.

A total of 278 randomised and 70 non-randomised trials were completed in the period 1January 2000-31 December 2018. Of these, 177 (51%) had published their results in a peer-reviewed journal as of 31 May 2020 and/or described their results in a registry. More than 15 000patients had taken part in trials for which results were not available. Results reporting had little connection with trial size or design, funding source, or type of intervention or shoulder complaint. Nor was there evidence that the reporting improved during the period in which the trials were conducted.

The high percentage of completed trials without information about results weakens the evidence basis for treatment of shoulder complaints. Moreover, such a practice is ethically unacceptable.
The high percentage of completed trials without information about results weakens the evidence basis for treatment of shoulder complaints. Moreover, such a practice is ethically unacceptable.
Rapunzel syndrome refers to a gastric bezoar with post-pyloric extension.

A child of primary school age presented with four days of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and a non-tender palpable mass in the upper part of the abdomen. The child had a history of trichotillomania and trichotillophagia. Preoperative imaging including abdominal ultrasound and upper gastrointestinal series was suggestive of gastric bezoar extending into the duodenum. At laparotomy and gastrotomy a large trichobezoar which had taken the shape of the stomach with a 60cm long tail extending into the jejunum was removed. The child had an uneventful recovery and was discharged home on the fifth postoperative day.

Although rare, trichobezoar should be considered as a differential diagnosis for abdominal pain in young patients with a known history of trichotillomania and trichotillophagia.
Although rare, trichobezoar should be considered as a differential diagnosis for abdominal pain in young patients with a known history of trichotillomania and trichotillophagia.
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the service provision for lumbar spine surgery within the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area complies with the distribution of functions that has been decided for the hospitals in the region, and whether there are any geographical variations in service provision. We therefore studied the treatment rates in Norway as a whole and in the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area, and assessed the activity in the region.

We included lumbar spine procedures in the Norwegian Patient Registry from the years 2014-2018 in a retrospective analysis and estimated treatment rates standardised by sex and age for Norway as a whole, the health regions and the health enterprises in Northern Norway Regional Health Authority. We estimated the local coverage as the proportion of patients who had undergone surgery in a hospital within their own area of residence.

The treatment rate for lumbar spine surgery in Norway amounted to approximately 120procedurity area than in the country as a whole. For this to be compensated in this region, we have estimated that the activity needs to be increased by approximately 170procedures per year.
The treatment rate for complex spine procedures and the local coverage for all surgical procedures for degenerative lumbar spine disease were lower within the Northern Norway Regional Health Authority area than in the country as a whole. For this to be compensated in this region, we have estimated that the activity needs to be increased by approximately 170 procedures per year.The consequences of hip disorders and hip injuries in children and adolescents may require surgical intervention. Joint-preserving procedures performed between the ages of 12 and 21 years often give good long-term results and may postpone the need for prostheses. In patients aged less than 21 years, more than 90 % of modern hip prostheses implanted in the last two decades are intact after ten years.
The combination of jaundice and acute abdominal pain is a common clinical problem associated with a broad array of aetiologies.

A 36-year-old male with Down's syndrome and Eisenmenger's syndrome presented with abdominal pain, jaundice and acute liver failure. Initial transabdominal ultrasound and subsequent magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) revealed gallbladder stones, but no common bile duct stones. During the course of the patient's hospital admission, his liver chemistries were consistently elevated. Thus, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) with sphincterotomy was performed, despite the anaesthesiological risk associated with his chronic heart failure. However, the ERC and sphincterotomy did not relieve the patient's symptoms and had no apparent effect on his abnormal liver chemistries. By the end of his hospital stay, the patient recovered spontaneously and was discharged with no final conclusion having been reached. An unexpected turn of events led us to conclude upon a diagnosis a few weeks later.

This case illustrates the challenges of a multidisciplinary approach in a complex patient, and an overlooked detail that became a lesson to learn from.
This case illustrates the challenges of a multidisciplinary approach in a complex patient, and an overlooked detail that became a lesson to learn from.
People with obesity are at risk for developing heart failure (HF), but little is known about the mechanistic pathways that link obesity with cardiac dysfunction.

We included 2030 participants from the Swedish Obese Subjects study who received conventional obesity treatment. First-time detection of HF was obtained by cross-checking the study population with the Swedish National Patient Register and the Swedish Cause of Death Register. We also examined if atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction as time-dependent variables could predict incident HF The mean age of the study cohort was 48.7years, and 28% were men. The mean body mass index at baseline was 40.1kg/m
and remained stable during a median follow-up of 20.1years. First-time diagnosis of HF occurred in 266 of patients and was related to male sex, increasing age, greater waist-hip ratio, hypertension, higher cholesterol, diabetes mellitus, and elevated free thyroxine in univariable analysis. Estimated glomerular filtration rate was negatively related to HF risk. In multivariable analysis, atrial fibrillation, which is related to HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), and myocardial infarction, which is linked to HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), were strongly associated with incident HF with sub-hazard ratios 3.75 (95% confidence interval 2.72-5.18, P<0.001) and 3.68 (95% confidence interval 2.55-5.30, P<0.001), respectively.

Both atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction as time-dependent variables were independently and strongly related to incident HF in people with excess body fat, suggesting two main obesity-related mechanistic pathways leading to either HFpEF or HFrEF.
Both atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction as time-dependent variables were independently and strongly related to incident HF in people with excess body fat, suggesting two main obesity-related mechanistic pathways leading to either HFpEF or HFrEF.
In patients treated with bevacizumab, hypertension may be a biomarker of therapeutic efficacy. However, it is not clear whether drugs that control blood pressure influence bevacizumab's efficacy. In this study, we investigated drugs that may affect hypertension in bevacizumab-treated patients and examined the impact on the therapeutic effect.

We analyzed 3,724,555 reports from the third quarter of 2010 to the second quarter of 2015. All data were obtained from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) analysis. In this retrospective cohort study, we investigated a total of 58 patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer and treated for the first time with bevacizumab containing XELOX or mFOLFOX6 at The University of Tokushima Hospital between January 2010 and December 2015. The effect of the treatment was evaluated according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors version 1.0. Thereafter, the effect was confirmed using Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and cultured cells.

There are few reports in FAERS of hypertension in patients treated with omeprazole on bevacizumab. Based on the chart review, patients who used proton pump inhibitors (PPI) had a lower response to treatment than those who did not (response rate 25% vs 50%). Furthermore, experiments on GEO and cell lines suggested that induction of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene expression by PPIs is the cause of the reduced therapeutic effect.

PPIs prevent hypertension in bevacizumab-treated patients but may reduce bevacizumab's anti-tumoral effects by inducing VEGF expression.
PPIs prevent hypertension in bevacizumab-treated patients but may reduce bevacizumab's anti-tumoral effects by inducing VEGF expression.Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is a rare, rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disease. Richardson's syndrome (PSP-RS) and predominant parkinsonism (PSP-P) are characterized by wide range of cognitive and behavioural disturbances, but these variants show similar cognitive pattern of alterations, leading difficult differential diagnosis. For this reason, we explored with an Artificial Intelligence approach, whether cognitive impairment could differentiate the phenotypes. Forty Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, 25 PSP-P, 40 PSP-RS, and 34 controls were enrolled following the consensus criteria diagnosis. Participants were evaluated with neuropsychological battery for cognitive domains. Random Forest models were used for exploring the discriminant power of the cognitive tests in distinguishing among the four groups. The classifiers for distinguishing diseases from controls reached high accuracies (86% for PD, 95% for PSP-P, 99% for PSP-RS). Regarding the differential diagnosis, PD was discriminated from PSP-P with 91% (important variables HAMA, MMSE, JLO, RAVLT_I, BDI-II) and from PSP-RS with 92% (important variables COWAT, JLO, FAB). PSP-P was distinguished from PSP-RS with 84% (important variables JLO, WCFST, RAVLT_I, Digit span_F). This study revealed that PSP-P, PSP-RS and PD had peculiar cognitive deficits compared with healthy subjects, from which they were discriminated with optimal accuracies. Moreover, high accuracies were reached also in differential diagnosis. Most importantly, Machine Learning resulted to be useful to the clinical neuropsychologist in choosing the most appropriate neuropsychological tests for the cognitive evaluation of PSP patients.
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