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A 50-year-old woman underwent coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) for multivessel coronary artery disease. Due to hemodynamic instability, the patient could not be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass without mechanical support, even after multiple attempts. Subsequently, a right ventricular intramyocardial hematoma (IH) was found during postoperative coronary angiography. The IH was felt to be the main contributing factor leading to right ventricular failure and cardiogenic shock, which, to the authors' knowledge, has not been previously reported after CABG. An IH is a rare complication postoperatively that often requires a high level of suspicion to identify on transesophageal echocardiogram. It should be suspected when there is hemodynamic instability intraoperatively or postoperatively in the intensive care unit that cannot be explained easily. There currently is no standard treatment. Treatment often is based on the individual patient and degree of hemodynamic instability.<br /><br /> Primordial Germ Cells (PGCs) differentiate into spermatozoa or oocytes. They appear early during embryonic development before migrating to the gonadal ridges. Because of their long migration, PGCs have been proposed as a valuable model to study long distance cell migration. Some species also present a vascular phase in the migration of the germline and could therefore be compared to metastatic migration. HSP90 is a heat shock protein involved in the stabilization of several client-proteins, including oncoproteins. HSP90 inhibition has been proved to decrease PGCs migration in mouse and zebrafish.<br /><br /> We investigated the effect of geldanamycin on PGCs migration in a species with a vascular phase, the chicken. Geldanamycin was injected in the egg at 48h of incubation, PGC's were detected in blood using of blood smears, and in the embryo by immunohistochemistry using anti-HSP90 antibody.<br /><br /> The effects of the treatment were similar to those observed in mouse and zebrafish. We show the presence of ectopic germs cells in the vasculature and in the dorsal mesentery, and some deformities of the gonads.<br /><br /> Inhibition of HSP90 decreases the migration of PGCs and proposed the migration of PGCs in the chick embryo as an interesting model to study metastatic invasion.<br /><br />Inhibition of HSP90 decreases the migration of PGCs and proposed the migration of PGCs in the chick embryo as an interesting model to study metastatic invasion.<br /><br /> Many families in the United States struggle to pay medical debt. This study aims to investigate the association between having out-of-pocket medical bills from first childbirth sent to debt collection agencies and subsequent childbearing.<br /><br /> As part of a large-scale birth cohort study (N=2,169), women in Pennsylvania who delivered their first child in 2009 through 2011 were asked if any of the out-of-pocket medical expenditures resulting from the delivery were sent to debt collection agencies. Logistic regression models were used to assess the association between childbirth medical bills going to debt collections in the first year after delivery and subsequent childbearing over the following 2years, controlling for relevant confounders, including maternal age, education, race/ethnicity, marital status, poverty level, insurance coverage, pregnancy intendedness, difficulty paying for basic needs, plans to have another child, pregnancy complications, and childbirth maternal and neonatal complications.<br /><br /> Women received out-of-pocket medical bills for as much as $32,000. Overall, 8.3% reported having medical bills from the childbirth sent to debt collections. These women were substantially less likely to have a subsequent child during the follow-up period (22.4%) compared with their counterparts, whose medical bills did not go to collections (44.4%; adjusted odds ratio, 0.60; 95% confidence interval, 0.39-0.93).<br /><br /> When out-of-pocket medical bills from first childbirth are more than American families can afford to pay, they may postpone having a second child. This finding may be particularly true when childbirth medical bills are sent to debt collection agencies.<br /><br />When out-of-pocket medical bills from first childbirth are more than American families can afford to pay, they may postpone having a second child. This finding may be particularly true when childbirth medical bills are sent to debt collection agencies.Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients are at risk for pneumococcal infection. Twenty-one consecutive SLE patients (40[25-75] years) received the sequential PCV13/PPSV23 vaccine and factors associated with long-term protection were analyzed. Immune protection, defined by an antigen-specific IgG concentration ≥1.3 µg/mL for at least 70% of 7 pneumococcal serotypes was assessed at baseline, 2, 6, 12 and 36 months defining long-term protection. Only 10 patients showed pneumococcal immune protection 36 months after vaccination. Eleven (52.4%) patients had no long-term protection with a seroconversion that never or only transiently occurred. SLE disease features, treatment received and immunological characteristics did not differ between protected and unprotected patients except for the pre-vaccination IgG2 serum levels. Serum IgG2 level &gt;2.125 µg/ml showed a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 90.9% for long-term protection. Sequential pneumococcal vaccination conferred poor immune protection in SLE. Baseline IgG2 serum level identified patients able to benefit from pneumococcal vaccination.<br /><br /> The perceptions of healthcare students of vaccines have been poorly explored and appropriate training strategies to address possible confidence gaps concerning vaccination for these future professionals is still a subject of debate.<br /><br /> A questionnaire to assess the perceptions of vaccination and the feeling of preparedness to address patient concerns was submitted to 874 multidisciplinary healthcare students enrolled in the French program "Service Sanitaire des Etudiants en Santé" (SSES). The evolution of their perceptions during the year and the impact of having performed a primary prevention intervention in the context of the SSES program were assessed.<br /><br /> In total, 530 students of nursing (42.5%), medicine (31.5%), physiotherapy (11.3%), pharmacy (10.9%), and midwifery (3.8%) completed the questionnaires. Among them, 7.0% carried out an intervention within the topic "vaccination and hygiene" and 93.0% within another topic ("nutrition and physical activity" or "addiction"). A portion of the students showed althcare students concerning vaccination.<br /><br />A portion of French healthcare students show traits of vaccine hesitancy, with significant differences depending on the courses attended. Programs of health promotion, such as the French SSES program, which includes a primary prevention intervention conducted by multidisciplinary groups of students, may improve the global confidence of healthcare students concerning vaccination.<br /><br /> The objective of this study was to determine the appropriate timing for surgical intervention for Grade II acute cholecystitis patients. The study compares the clinical outcomes of patients in Group A, who were treated with early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) within the first two weeks of hospitalization, and Group B, treated with delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy (DLC) after recovering from symptoms and that received conservative treatment and were discharged for more than two weeks.<br /><br /> From November 2011 to June 2019, from a total of 196 acute cholecystitis patients that received percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage (PTGBD) insertion, we conducted a retrospective review of the group that received early laparoscopic cholecystectomy within 2 weeks and the group that received delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The clinical characteristics and post-treatment outcomes were evaluated.<br /><br /> In all patients treated with PTGBD insertion, Group A, the patients who were treated with ELC, showed a significantly longer mean operative time than Group B, the patients who were treated with DLC (72.46±46.396 vs. 54.08±27.12, P=0.001). Similarly, Group A showed a significantly longer postoperative hospital stay compared to Group B (5.71±5.062 vs. 4.27±2.931, P=0.014).<br /><br /> In patients with Grade II acute cholecystitis with PTGBD insertion, DLC produces better outcomes with shorter hospital stay and operative time than ELC. These results suggest that DLC may lead to a better outcome than ELC, specifically when deciding the timing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients diagnosed with acute Grade II cholecystitis.<br /><br />In patients with Grade II acute cholecystitis with PTGBD insertion, DLC produces better outcomes with shorter hospital stay and operative time than ELC. These results suggest that DLC may lead to a better outcome than ELC, specifically when deciding the timing for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients diagnosed with acute Grade II cholecystitis.<br /><br /> Sleepwalkers have consistently shown N3 sleep discontinuity, especially after sleep deprivation. In healthy subjects, sleep spindles activity has been positively correlated to sleep stability. We aimed to compare spindles density during N3 sleep between sleepwalkers and healthy controls.<br /><br /> Two cohorts of 10 and 21 adult sleepwalkers respectively controlled with 10 and 18 healthy volunteers underwent one baseline and one recovery sleep recording after 38h (cohort 1) and 25h (cohort 2) of sleep deprivation. For the two recordings, we performed an automatic detection of spindles (11-16Hz) from EEG signal during N3 sleep, restricted to the first sleep cycle and repeated for all cycles. For better interpretation of results, we extended the analysis to N2 sleep and we also measured the density of slow waves oscillation (SWO) (0.5-4Hz) during the same periods.<br /><br /> Compared to controls, sleepwalkers showed significantly lower spindle densities during N3 sleep considering the first sleep cycle (both cohorts) or all cycles (cohort 1). SWO densities did not differ (cohort 1) or were lower (cohort 2) for sleepwalkers. The effect of sleep deprivation did not interact with the effect of group on spindles and SWO densities.<br /><br /> This work suggests that the instability of N3 sleep inherent to sleepwalkers may be underpinned by a specific alteration of spindles activity.<br /><br />This work suggests that the instability of N3 sleep inherent to sleepwalkers may be underpinned by a specific alteration of spindles activity.<br /><br /> In recent months, doubts have arisen among patients, general practitioners, and neurologists as to whether some drugs commonly used in patients with headaches and neuralgia may favour or complicate the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2.<br /><br /> We collected information on the opinions of scientific societies and medicines agencies (American, European, and Spanish) to clarify doubts regarding the use of drugs such as lisinopril, candesartan, ibuprofen, corticosteroids, carbamazepine, and monoclonal antibodies targeting the calcitonin gene-related peptide in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br /><br /> We make recommendations about the use of standard headache treatments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on the current scientific evidence.<br /><br /> At present, there is no robust scientific argument to formally contraindicate any of the standard treatments employed for headaches and neuralgias.<br /><br />At present, there is no robust scientific argument to formally contraindicate any of the standard treatments employed for headaches and neuralgias.