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With technological innovations especially newer parenchymal transection devices, improved understanding of hepatic anatomy facilitated by better imaging, and reconstructions along with experiences gained from advanced minimal invasive procedures, laparoscopic liver surgery is gaining momentum with more than 5300 reported cases worldwide. Most of the published literature comprises nonanatomical and segmental resections with only few case series having major hepatic resections performed by minimally invasive approach. Aim of this article is to share our technique and experience of total laparoscopic major hepatectomy.
It is a retrospective analysis of prospectively maintained database of 56 patients, who underwent laparoscopic major hepatectomy for various indications during 2001 to 2013.
Of 56 patients operated, 37 had malignant disease and 19 had benign lesions with mean size of 6.0 ± 2.8 cm. Thirty-four patients underwent right hepatectomy and 22 left with mean age of 54.8 ± 15.3 years. Mean operating time was 227.4 ± 51.8 min with mean blood loss 265.5 ± 143.4 ml and transfusion needed in 10.7 %. find more Pringle's maneuver was used in 19.6 % with mean occlusion time of 34.0 ± 11.4 min. Liver-specific complications were observed in 12.5 % and overall complications in 19.6 %. Mean resection margin length in malignant lesions was 2.1 ± 0.9 cm, with <1 cm margin noted in 5.4 %. Median hospital stay was 8 days (6-29) with readmission rate of 8.9 %, re-intervention rate of 5.3 % and 90 days mortality of 1.7 %.
Laparoscopic major liver resection is a formidable task. It requires considerable expertise in both, advanced laparoscopy, and liver surgery. It can be feasible, safe, and oncologically adequate in well-selected cases in experience hands.
Laparoscopic major liver resection is a formidable task. It requires considerable expertise in both, advanced laparoscopy, and liver surgery. It can be feasible, safe, and oncologically adequate in well-selected cases in experience hands.
Acute appendicitis represents the commonest cause of acute intra-abdominal pathology. Appendectomy and antibiotics are the mainstay of therapy for appendicitis. Evidence is emerging that antibiotics alone may adequately treat most cases of appendicitis. Decision analysis is a quantitative method of examining alternate treatment strategies. This study describes a modelled decision analysis comparing operative and conservative management of appendicitis.
The base case patient is a healthy, 23-year-old male presenting with migratory pain to the right iliac fossa (RIF) and elevated inflammatory markers. A decision tree was constructed comparing operative and conservative treatment. Rates of complications, failure of conservative therapy, recurrence and utilities were calculated via a systematic literature review. Variables were tested for sensitivity.
Overall, conservative management gives a significantly better outcome (51.51 vs 49.87 QALYs). Three variables proved sensitive. Once operative complication rates are lower than 11.5%, surgical treatment becomes the optimal strategy. If rates of failure of conservative management exceed 12.9%, surgery becomes optimal. If the utility assigned to a post-operative complication exceeds 0.44, surgery becomes optimal.
This decision analysis supports a conservative strategy, albeit with caveats. If operative complications are low or rates of failure of conservative management remain high, surgery is the preferable strategy.
This decision analysis supports a conservative strategy, albeit with caveats. If operative complications are low or rates of failure of conservative management remain high, surgery is the preferable strategy.Present theoretical study involves the delta shape complexes of beryllium, magnesium, and calcium where the metal atom interacts perpendicularly with disubstituted acetylene. Most of the complexes are found to be fairly stable. The dependence of second-hyperpolarizability on the basis set with increasing polarization and diffuse functions has been examined which showed the importance of 'f-type' type polarization function for heavy metal (Mg, Ca) and 'd-type' polarization function for beryllium. Larger second hyperpolarizability has been predicted for complexes having significant ground state polarization and low lying excited states favoring strong electronic coupling. Transition energy plays the most significant role in modulating the second hyperpolarizability.We investigated the mutual interplay between beryllium and boron bonds in the BeF2⋅⋅⋅X-Pyr⋅⋅⋅BF3 complexes (X = CN, F, Cl, Br, H, CH3, OH and NH2, where Pyr and ⋅⋅⋅ denote pyrimidine ring and beryllium and boron bonds, respectively) at the M06-2X/aug-cc-pVDZ level of theory. The results indicate that non-cooperative effects are observed when the two kinds of noncovalent interactions beryllium and boron bonds coexist in the complexes. These effects were studied in terms of the energetic and geometric features of the complexes. Atoms in molecules (AIM) and natural bond orbital (NBO) analyses were also performed to unveil the mechanism of these interactions in the title complexes. The electron-withdrawing/donating substituents decrease/increase the magnitude of the binding energies compared to the unsubstituted BeF2⋅⋅⋅X-Pyr⋅⋅⋅BF3 (X = H) complex. The Esynvalues are in agreement with the geometric features of the complexes. The results stress the importance of the mutual effects between noncovalent interactions involving aromatic systems.Initiation of the Tuberculosis Structural Consortium has resulted in the expansion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) protein structural database. Currently, 969 experimentally solved structures are available for 354 MTB proteins. This includes multiple crystal structures for a given protein under different functional conditions, such as the presence of different ligands or mutations. In depth analysis of the multiple structures reveal that subtle differences exist in conformations of a given protein under varied conditions. Therefore, it is immensely important to understand the conformational differences between the multiple structures of a given protein in order to select the most suitable structure for molecular docking and structure-based drug designing. Here, we introduce a web portal ( http//bmi.icmr.org.in/mtbsd/torsion.php ) that we developed to provide comparative data on the ensemble of available structures of MTB proteins, such as Cα root means square deviation (RMSD), sequence identity, presence of mutations and torsion angles. Additionally, torsion angles were used to perform principal component analysis (PCA) to identify the conformational differences between the structures. Additionally, we present a few case studies to demonstrate this database. Graphical Abstract Conformational changes seen in the structures of the enoyl-ACP reductase protein encoded by the Mycobacterial gene inhA.Blood flow plays a critical role in regulating embryonic cardiac growth and development, with altered flow leading to congenital heart disease. Progress in the field, however, is hindered by a lack of quantification of hemodynamic conditions in the developing heart. In this study, we present a methodology to quantify blood flow dynamics in the embryonic heart using subject-specific computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models. While the methodology is general, we focused on a model of the chick embryonic heart outflow tract (OFT), which distally connects the heart to the arterial system, and is the region of origin of many congenital cardiac defects. Using structural and Doppler velocity data collected from optical coherence tomography, we generated 4D ([Formula see text]) embryo-specific CFD models of the heart OFT. To replicate the blood flow dynamics over time during the cardiac cycle, we developed an iterative inverse-method optimization algorithm, which determines the CFD model boundary conditions such that differences between computed velocities and measured velocities at one point within the OFT lumen are minimized. Results from our developed CFD model agree with previously measured hemodynamics in the OFT. Further, computed velocities and measured velocities differ by [Formula see text]15 % at locations that were not used in the optimization, validating the model. The presented methodology can be used in quantifications of embryonic cardiac hemodynamics under normal and altered blood flow conditions, enabling an in-depth quantitative study of how blood flow influences cardiac development.Morphogenesis in multicellular organisms is accompanied by apoptotic cell behaviors cell shrinkage and cell disappearance. The mechanical effects of these behaviors are spatiotemporally regulated within multicellular dynamics to achieve proper tissue sizes and shapes in three-dimensional (3D) space. To analyze 3D multicellular dynamics, 3D vertex models have been suggested, in which a reversible network reconnection (RNR) model has successfully expressed 3D cell rearrangements during large deformations. To analyze the effects of apoptotic cell behaviors on 3D multicellular morphogenesis, we modeled cell apoptosis based on the RNR model framework. Cell shrinkage was modeled by the potential energy as a function of individual cell times during the apoptotic phase. Cell disappearance was modeled by merging neighboring polyhedrons at their boundary surface according to the topological rules of the RNR model. To establish that the apoptotic cell behaviors could be expressed as modeled, we simulated morphogenesis driven by cell apoptosis in two types of tissue topology 3D monolayer cell sheet and 3D compacted cell aggregate. In both types of tissue topology, the numerical simulations successfully illustrated that cell aggregates gradually shrank because of successive cell apoptosis. During tissue shrinkage, the number of cells in aggregates decreased while maintaining individual cell size and shape. Moreover, in case of localizing apoptotic cells within a part of the 3D monolayer cell aggregate, the cell apoptosis caused the global tissue bending by pulling on surrounding cells. In case of localizing apoptotic cells on the surface of the 3D compacted cell aggregate, the cell apoptosis caused successive, directional cell rearrangements from the inside to the surface. Thus, the proposed model successfully provided a basis for expressing apoptotic cell behaviors during 3D multicellular morphogenesis based on an RNR model framework.Nearly half of prescription medicines are metabolized by human cytochrome P450 (CYP) 3A. CYP3A4 and 3A5 are two major isoforms of human CYP3A and share most of the substrate spectrum. A very limited previous study distinguished the activity of CYP3A4 and CYP3A5, identifying the challenge in predicting CYP3A-mediated drug clearance and drug-drug interaction. In the present study, we introduced gomisin A (GA) with a dibenzocyclooctadiene skeleton as a novel selective probe of CYP3A4. The major metabolite of GA was fully characterized as 8-hydroxylated GA by LC-MS and NMR. CYP3A4 was assigned as the predominant isozyme involved in GA 8-hydroxylation by reaction phenotyping assays, chemical inhibition assays, and correlation studies. GA 8-hydroxylation in both recombinant human CYP3A4 and human liver microsomes followed classic Michaelis-Menten kinetics. The intrinsic clearance values indicated that CYP3A4 contributed 12.8-fold more than CYP3A5 to GA 8-hydroxylation. Molecular docking studies indicated different hydrogen bonds and π-π interactions between CYP3A4 and CYP3A5, which might result in the different catalytic activity for GA 8-hydroxylation.
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