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Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) of high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) is a promising minimally invasive technique but its oncologic and functional outcomes are not well studied. The primary outcome was the efficacy of RFA, and the secondary outcomes were the functional and anatomical anal changes related to RFA.

This was a retrospective analysis of our prospectively collected database of patients who had RFA for HSIL at our institution, between August 2018 and March 2020. To be eligible for RFA, all patients had impairment of their immune function. Targeted ablation was applied in all cases, with 5 overlapping pulsations at the targeted HSILs (delivering 12J/cm

per application) followed by circumferential, 2-pulsation (12J/cm

) overlapping anal ablation, to cover the entire anal transition zone. Patients were assessed for recurrence or metachronous disease at 3-month intervals by means of high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) and targeted biopsies. Anorectal manometry, endoanal ultrasound, the 3procedure, no changes in anorectal anatomy or function, and some improvements in their sexual function. These results seem promising in light of the high recurrence reported after HSIL treatment. Larger studies are needed to validate our results.Aging, stress, and senescence in plants are interconnected processes that determine longevity. We focus here on compiling and discussing our current knowledge on the mechanisms of development that long-lived perennial plants have evolved to prevent and delay senescence. Clonal and nonclonal perennial herbs of various life forms and longevities will be particularly considered to illustrate what biological diversity can teach us about aging as a universal phenomenon. Source-sink relations and redox signaling will also be discussed as examples of regulatory mechanisms of senescence at the organ level. Whether or not effective mechanisms that biological diversity has evolved to completely prevent the wear and tear of aging will be applicable to human aging in the near future ultimately depends on ethical aspects.Vesicular chloride/proton exchangers of the CLC family are critically involved in the function of the endosomal-lysosomal pathway. Cyclosporin A Their dysfunction leads to severe disorders including intellectual disability and epilepsy for ClC-4, Dent's disease for ClC-5, and lysosomal storage disease and osteopetrosis for ClC-7. Here, we report a de novo variant p.Glu200Ala (p.E200A; c.599A>C) of the late endosomal ClC-6, encoded by CLCN6, in a patient with West syndrome (WS), severe developmental delay, autism, movement disorder, microcephaly, facial dysmorphism, and visual impairment. Mutation of this conserved glutamate uncouples chloride transport from proton antiport by ClC-6. This affects organellar ion homeostasis and was shown to be deleterious for other CLCs. In this study, we found that upon heterologous expression, the ClC-6 E200A variant caused autophagosome accumulation and impaired the clearance of autophagosomes by blocking autophagosome-lysosome fusion. Our study provides clinical and functional support for an association between CLCN6 variants and WS. Our findings also provide novel insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of WS, suggesting an involvement of autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction.Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are fatal neurodegenerative disorders associated with the misfolding and aggregation of the human prion protein (huPrP). Despite efforts into investigating the process of huPrP aggregation, the mechanisms triggering its misfolding remain elusive. A number of TSE-associated mutations of huPrP have been identified, but their role at the onset and progression of prion diseases is unclear. Here we report the NMR assignments of the C-terminal globular domain of the wild type huPrP and the pathological mutant T183A. The differences in chemical shifts between the two variants reveal conformational alterations in some structural elements of the mutant, whereas the analyses of secondary shifts and random coil index provide indications on the putative mechanisms of misfolding of T183A huPrP.

Diagnosis of posterior circulation stroke may be challenged. National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and brain imaging (non-contrast brain computed tomography-CT) are used for diagnosis; evaluation on posterior circulation stroke remains a limit of NIHSS, and the value of non-contrast CT (NCCT) is limited due to artifacts caused by the bones of the base of the skull. We tested the validity and prognostic value of posterior circulation Alberta Stroke Program Early CT Score (pc-ASPECTS) in patients with posterior circulation stroke.

Pc-ASPECTS allots the posterior circulation 10 points. We studied 50 patients with posterior circulation stroke. We applied pc-ASPECTS to NCCT, CT angiography, and CT Perfusion. We evaluated the correlation of pc-ASPECT with outcome parameters for stroke.

Out of 50 patients, CTP showed abnormalities in 34 cases. The pc-ASPECT score calculated on brain CT and on the brain CT + angio CT had a sensibility of 24%, calculated on brain CT, angio CT and CTPerfusion gain a sensibility of 72%. Pc-ASPECT MTT resulted to be the more reliable parameter outcome given by NIHSS score at discharge, mRS at discharge, and at 3 months was more severe in patients with Pc-ASPECT MTT alteration. Outcome given by NIHSS score at discharge and mRS at discharge and 1 at 3 months was more severe in patients with higher NIHSS score at admission.

We evaluated the usefulness of pc-ASPECTS on CTP in predicting functional outcome in acute posterior circulation stroke that appears to be a powerful marker for predicting functional outcome.

We evaluated the usefulness of pc-ASPECTS on CTP in predicting functional outcome in acute posterior circulation stroke that appears to be a powerful marker for predicting functional outcome.Coronary luminal dimensions change during the cardiac cycle. However, contemporary volumetric intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) analysis is performed in non-gated images as existing methods to acquire gated or to retrospectively gate IVUS images have failed to dominate in research. We developed a novel deep learning (DL)-methodology for end-diastolic frame detection in IVUS and compared its efficacy against expert analysts and a previously established methodology using electrocardiographic (ECG)-estimations as reference standard. Near-infrared spectroscopy-IVUS (NIRS-IVUS) data were prospectively acquired from 20 coronary arteries and co-registered with the concurrent ECG-signal to identify end-diastolic frames. A DL-methodology which takes advantage of changes in intensity of corresponding pixels in consecutive NIRS-IVUS frames and consists of a network model designed in a bidirectional gated-recurrent-unit (Bi-GRU) structure was trained to detect end-diastolic frames. The efficacy of the DL-methodology in identifying end-diastolic frames was compared with two expert analysts and a conventional image-based (CIB)-methodology that relies on detecting vessel movement to estimate phases of the cardiac cycle.