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Limited data exist about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the training and clinical practice of young doctors. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact on paediatric gastroenterologists in training posts during the first wave of European COVID pandemic.

All Young ESPGHAN (YE) members received a multiple-choice questionnaire concerning the impact (if any) on their clinical practice, mental health, quality of care provided and fellowship/training experience. The survey was conducted between May 22nd, 2020 and June 10th, 2020.

Of the 144 responders (40% of YE members), 85% (n = 123) reported an impact of COVID-19. 96% reported an impact on their clinical practice, including more virtual patient consultation (n = 91), underutilization of ambulatory care (n = 113) and reduced or lack of planned admissions (n = 75). Endoscopy restrictions to semi-urgent or emergency cases were reported in 82 and lack of medical equipment/drugs (n = 47) were also reported.Reported adverse mental health issues included poor concentration, increased stress levels, an impact on family life in 62% and a reduced quality of care in 45%; this was more often reported in doctors from Southern Europe (54%) than in those from other geographical areas.77% reported an impact on the content of their fellowship, including lack of participation in national/international meetings, withdrawn research time and limited mentoring.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been shown to affect the clinical practice, training and mental health of YE members. Adaptations of training programmes and targeted strategies to improve the clinical practice of young practitioners are needed and proposed in this manuscript.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been shown to affect the clinical practice, training and mental health of YE members. Adaptations of training programmes and targeted strategies to improve the clinical practice of young practitioners are needed and proposed in this manuscript.

To compare the effectiveness and safety of the TECNIS Symfony® intraocular lens (IOL; ZXR00) with the TECNIS® 1-piece monofocal IOL (ZCB00).

Fifteen sites in the United States.

Prospective, randomized, subject/evaluator-masked clinical trial.

Randomized participants received either the ZXR00 or ZCB00 IOL bilaterally. Six-month postoperative outcomes included monocular and binocular distance, intermediate, and near visual acuity (VA), spherical equivalent refraction and refractive cylinder, spectacle wear, and visual symptoms.

Overall, 299 patients were implanted with a study lens (ZXR00, n = 148; ZCB00 control, n = 151). At 6-month follow-up, mean binocular uncorrected distance VA was comparable between ZXR00 and ZCB00 recipients (P = .1011). The ZXR00 group had significantly better mean binocular uncorrected intermediate VA and uncorrected near VA (both P < .0001) than the ZCB00 group. Mean binocular distance-corrected intermediate VA and distance-corrected near VA were also better in the ZXR00 group (both P < .0001). More ZXR00 recipients reported wearing spectacles "none of the time" or "a little of the time" for overall vision at 6 months compared with the ZCB00 group (85.0% vs 59.9%, P < .0001). In ZXR00-implanted patients, low incidence rates of night glare (mild to moderate, 2.7%), halo (mild to moderate, 13.6%; severe, 2.7%), and starbursts (mild to moderate, 7.5%; severe, 1.4%) were reported.

The TECNIS Symfony® IOL provided comparable distance vision and improved uncorrected and distance-corrected intermediate and near vision, along with decreased spectacle wear and low incidence rates of dysphotopsias, compared with the TECNIS® 1-piece monofocal IOL.

The TECNIS Symfony® IOL provided comparable distance vision and improved uncorrected and distance-corrected intermediate and near vision, along with decreased spectacle wear and low incidence rates of dysphotopsias, compared with the TECNIS® 1-piece monofocal IOL.Postgraduate orthopaedic programs for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) number 14 as of 2020. To better understand the characteristics of these programs a census was undertaken. The result is that most programs are 1 year in duration and in 2019 produced 40 graduates. The role of the orthopaedic PA and NP fellow is to gain an understanding of a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders, develop procedural skills, first assist in the operating room, and facilitate management of patients and discharge throughput. PA and NP fellows work alongside categorical orthopaedic physician residents. The number of graduates from PA orthopaedic training programs is estimated at 200, spanning 20 years. The other 11,145 + PAs (99%) are trained on-the-job. For hospital systems, the employment of orthopaedic postgraduate PA and NP fellows provides value through cost management and billable services.

Hypervirulent variants of Klebsiella pnuemoniae (hvKp) are emerging globally causing life-threatening infectious diseases; however, comprehensive studies on pediatric hvKp strains and related infections are still lacking.

Clinical data were collected from medical records. Genotype (multilocus sequence typing), capsular serotype, virulence gene profile and carbapenemase of the isolates were determined by PCR and DNA sequencing. Broth microdilution method was adopted to test the antimicrobial susceptibility. Hypermucoviscosity phenotype and the virulence of the strains were evaluated by string test and Galleria mellonella larvae killing assay.

Among 319 K. pneumoniae strains, 26 (8.2%) hvKp were identified, the detection rates in 2017, 2018 and 2019 were 1.8%, 5.2% and 11.3%. The majority of hvKp infections were found in school-age children and adolescents (57.7%). Pneumonia was the most common diagnosis (38.5%). Single fatal case was hvKp caused liver abscess complicated with bacteremia. hvKp were dominated by ST23 (30.8%) and ST11 (30.8%). Eight carbapenem-resistant hvKp (CR-hvKp) were found, which all belonged to ST11. Virulence gene profile revealed that ST11 hvKp might carry incomplete pLVPK-like plasmids, but they exhibited comparable in vivo virulence to the other hvKp.

The infections caused by hvKp are not frequent among pediatric populations, but the detection rate of hvKp in pediatric populations is increasing rapidly in recent years. The emerging and dissemination of ST11 CR-hvKp should be monitored continuously.

The infections caused by hvKp are not frequent among pediatric populations, but the detection rate of hvKp in pediatric populations is increasing rapidly in recent years. The emerging and dissemination of ST11 CR-hvKp should be monitored continuously.

The role of anaerobic organisms in the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiome is unclear. Our objectives were to investigate the effect of broad (BS) versus narrow (NS) spectrum antianaerobic antibiotic activity on lung microbiome diversity and pulmonary function, hypothesizing that BS antibiotics would cause greater change in microbiome diversity without a significant improvement in lung function.

Pulmonary function tests and respiratory samples were collected prospectively in persons with CF before and after treatment for pulmonary exacerbations. Treatment antibiotics were classified as BS or NS. Gene sequencing data from 16S rRNA were used for diversity analysis and bacterial genera classification. We compared the effects of BS versus NS on diversity indices, lung function and anaerobic/aerobic ratios. Statistical significance was determined by multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear models and mixed-effects regression models.

Twenty patients, 6-20 years of age, experienced 30 exacerbations. BS the.

Accessibility to chest radiography remains a major challenge in high burden and low-income countries. The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines acknowledge that for child contacts under 5 years, a negative symptom-based screening is sufficient to exclude active tuberculosis (TB), but in child contacts older than 5 years, a chest radiograph should be considered. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to assess the performance of symptom-based screening compared to chest radiography in household contacts under 15 years in low-income and middle-income countries.

Screening articles published prior 1 October 2020 and data extraction were performed by 2 independent reviewers. The primary outcome was the concordance between symptom screening and chest radiography using the prevalence adjusted bias adjusted kappa coefficient (PABAK) and the proportion of asymptomatic children with negative chest radiography. The analysis was stratified by age group.

Of 639 identified articles, 10 were included.on to use symptom-based screening alone when chest radiography is not available.

A large number of people experience misophonia. In 2013, the Amsterdam Study Group recommended diagnostic criteria for misophonia. However, misophonia is not yet included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This report is the first report on drug use that directly affects misophonia and demonstrates a 14-year-old adolescent girl with misophonia successfully treated with fluoxetine.

The patient's misophonia symptoms had been continuing for approximately 2 years, and her quality of life was significantly reduced. Psychotherapy conditions could not be applied, and fluoxetine 10 mg/d was started and increased to 20 mg/d after a week. At the second-month follow-up, because of partial improvement, fluoxetine dose was increased to 30 mg/d.

At the fourth-month follow-up, there was a 40% decrease in Amsterdam Misophonia Scale score with a 70% decrease in the children's global assessment scale scores. By the 16th week, the overall functionality level was good at the end.

Fluoxetine may be used as an effective drug in the treatment of misophonia.

Fluoxetine may be used as an effective drug in the treatment of misophonia.Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with gastrointestinal tract metastasis is a rare condition. Recently, we encountered one case of HCC with direct invasion to the colon, which was manifested by intestinal obstruction. The patient was an 86-year-old man who underwent multiple transarterial chemoembolization and microwave ablation treatment for HCC lesions for 10 years. Two months after last palliative microwave ablation, computed tomography showed a 7.0-cm liver tumor directly invading the hepatic flexure of colon with the symptom of right abdominal pain and discontinuous nausea and vomiting. HCC colon metastasis with intestinal obstruction was diagnosed. Intestinal adhesion lysis and colostomy were performed. Navitoclax The patient survived 10 months after surgery and died of tumor progression.With the wide application of low-dose computed tomography (CT) and high-resolution CT, the increasing cases of pulmonary nodules are identified through routine thoracic imaging examination, many of which are presented as multiple ground-glass opacities (GGOs). The multiple GGOs could be divided into four pathological types and usually got different combined mutation patterns, suggesting that each GGO is an independent event and should be treated separately. However, there is no established guideline to the treatment of multiple GGOs so far. Here, we report a multiple GGOs case with a different mutation pattern treated by CT-guided percutaneous microwave ablation.