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They are rarer and carry higher lifetime risk of strangulation and bowel obstruction. Surgical management is necessary after diagnosis.

Paraduodenal hernias are frequently diagnosed late or incidentally because of vague symptoms. They are rarer and carry higher lifetime risk of strangulation and bowel obstruction. Surgical management is necessary after diagnosis.

Polycystic ovary syndrome is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. Women with this syndrome may have infrequent menstrual periods or amenorrhea and excess androgen levels. The ovaries develop numerous small follicles and fail to ovulate on a regular basis, with subsequent subfertility in those women that wish to conceive.The etiology of polycystic ovary syndrome is unclear. Early diagnosis and treatment may reduce the risk of long-term complications such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

To assess the knowledge and attitude of university students towards polycystic ovary syndrome at two universities in the north of Jordan.

ology This is a cross-sectional online survey that polled female students at two universities in the north of Jordan. The main outcome measures included average polycystic ovary syndrome awareness score, predictors of high awareness scores, and sources of information.

Formal diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome was reported by 29.9% of the 1182 studemore likely to seek information from healthcare professionals, this level of awareness should spread-out to other segments of the population.

Although students in this study demonstrated a satisfactory level of polycystic ovary syndrome awareness and were more likely to seek information from healthcare professionals, this level of awareness should spread-out to other segments of the population.

Neuroendocrine tumors represent a rare entity whose diagnosis is based on clinical, biological and radiological arguments. When they are secreting, they expose the patient to serious complications that can be much more severe during pregnancy and engage the vital prognosis of both the mother and the fetus, which requires multidisciplinary management anesthesiologist resuscitator - obstetrician - endocrinologist.

In our article, we report the case of a patient with an estimated pregnancy at 25 weeks of amenorrhea (WA) with a history of 3 miscarriages related to atypical gravid hypertension.The treatment consisted of preoperative medical preparation followed by removal of the paraganglioma and postoperative monitoring. The maternal-fetal evolution was favorable.

The non-negligible morbi-mortality of this type of tumors require a multidisciplinary management.

The non-negligible morbi-mortality of this type of tumors require a multidisciplinary management.

Worldwide, inguinal hernia repair is one of the commonest surgeries. The best treatment option to primary hernia has been investigated, but there still remains lack of evidence about the ideal approach. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the outcomes of inguinal hernia repair using transabdominal preperitoneal procedure (TAPP) & Lichtenstein techniques.

This was a retrospective cohort study, conducted at Department of General & Minimal Invasive Surgery, SKIMS Medical College, Bemina, Srinagar. For performing the analysis, we used SPSS. Continuous variables were expressed as mean and standard deviation, and the categorical ones were presented as frequencies and percentages.

A total of 60 patients were included (30 in each group). The mean age of the patients in both groups was around 54 years, and all patients were males. In unilateral cases the operating time was greater in the TAPP group than the Lichtenstein group (p<0.001); however, in the bilateral cases, the operating time was signife from the hospital, earlier return to usual activities, better cosmetic outcomes, and less persisting pain. However, there was no significant difference in the complication rate and TAPP repair was more costly for the patient.Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy is a mainstay of adjunctive therapy for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. The instillation of BCG in the upper urinary tract after complete tumour eradication has also been studied and used after kidney-sparing management. It is effective in increasing the length of remission. However, it is also associated with rare but severe local and systemic side effects which may potentially become life-threatening. We present a case report of a 37-year-old gentleman who developed BCGosis following intra-renal instillation of BCG immunotherapy. The patient presented with systemic symptoms of jaundice, fever, myalgia and arthralgia, rather than local symptoms. Cyclopamine Smoothened antagonist Mycobacterium bovis infection was confirmed on blood cultures. The patient also developed hepatosplenomegaly, dyspnoea and pancytopaenia. BCGosis following intravesical instillation has been well documented in literature; to the best of our knowledge, this is the first case report documenting BCGosis following intra-renal instillation.This paper analyzes changes in U.S. energy-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) manufacturing over the past decade, through the lens of previously proposed climate policy measures. The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 defined measures and thresholds for EITE eligibility and proposed compensatory allowances designed to reduce negative competitive impacts to domestic industry and to prevent emissions leakage. We undertook a retrospective analysis of the 2009 eligibility criteria, using the same methods with more recent data to examine trends over the 2004-2017 period. We find that energy intensity, emissions intensity, output, and emissions have fluctuated with economic conditions, and defining measures and thresholds that remain informative is challenging. Had ACES been enacted as written and not revised, the number of sectors qualifying for rebates would have decreased from 39 to 26, after adjustment for the changes in North American Industry Classification System definitions. Emissions from the eligeclassification problems, (3) identifying industries prone to emissions leakage rather than just changes in output and (4) consider spatial heterogeneity of emissions and trade patterns.The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein is the first contact point between the SARS-CoV-2 virus and host cells and mediates membrane fusion. Recently, a fatty acid binding site was identified in the spike (Toelzer et al. Science 2020). The presence of linoleic acid at this site modulates binding of the spike to the human ACE2 receptor, stabilizing a locked conformation of the protein. Here, dynamical-nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations reveal that this fatty acid site is coupled to functionally relevant regions of the spike, some of them far from the fatty acid binding pocket. Removal of a ligand from the fatty acid binding site significantly affects the dynamics of distant, functionally important regions of the spike, including the receptor-binding motif, furin cleavage site and fusion-peptide-adjacent regions. Simulations of the D614G mutant show differences in behaviour between these clinical variants of the spike the D614G mutant shows a significantly different conformational response for some structural motifs relevant for binding and fusion. The simulations identify structural networks through which changes at the fatty acid binding site are transmitted within the protein. These communication networks significantly involve positions that are prone to mutation, indicating that observed genetic variation in the spike may alter its response to linoleate binding and associated allosteric communication.[This corrects the article DOI 10.4102/jamba.v13i1.1115.].Active learning is an effective solution to interactively select a limited number of informative examples and use them to train a learning algorithm that can achieve its optimal performance for specific tasks. It is suitable for medical image applications in which unlabeled data are abundant but manual annotation could be very time-consuming and expensive. However, designing an effective active learning strategy for informative example selection is a challenging task, due to the intrinsic presence of noise in medical images, the large number of images, and the variety of imaging modalities. In this study, a novel low-rank modeling-based multi-label active learning (LRMMAL) method is developed to address these challenges and select informative examples for training a classifier to achieve the optimal performance. The proposed method independently quantifies image noise and integrates it with other measures to guide a pool-based sampling process to determine the most informative examples for training a classifier. In addition, an automatic adaptive cross entropy-based parameter determination scheme is proposed for further optimizing the example sampling strategy. Experimental results on varied medical image datasets and comparisons with other state-of-the-art multi-label active learning methods illustrate the superior performance of the proposed method.

Cough features a complex peripheral and central neuronal network. The function of the chemosensitive and stretch (afferent) cough receptors is well described but partly understood. It is speculated that chronic cough reflects a neurogenic inflammation of the cough reflex, which becomes hypersensitive. This is mediated by neuromediators, cytokines, inflammatory cells, and a differential expression of neuronal (chemo/stretch) receptors, such as transient receptor potential (TRP) and purinergic P2X ion channels; yet the overall interaction of these mediators in neurogenic inflammation of cough pathways remains unclear.

The World Allergy Organization/Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma (WAO/ARIA) Joint Committee on Chronic Cough reviewed the current literature on neuroanatomy and pathophysiology of chronic cough. The role of TRP ion channels in pathogenic mechanisms of the hypersensitive cough reflex was also examined.

Chemoreceptors are better studied in cough neuronal pathways compared to stretch rronic cough. Current evidence strongly suggests neurogenic inflammation induces a hypersensitive cough reflex marked by increased expression of neuromediators, mast cells, and eosinophils, among others. TRP ion channels, mainly TRP V1/A1, are important in the pathogenesis of chronic cough due to their role in mediating chemosensitivity to various endogenous and exogenous triggers, as well as a crosstalk between neurogenic and inflammatory pathways in cough-associated airways diseases.

The histopathology of pediatric chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) and without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) is rarely reported due to low prevalence or the unavailability of tissue samples. Hence, we aimed to characterize and compare the histologic features and protein expression of Th1/Th2/Th17-related cytokines in pediatric CRSsNP and CRSwNP.

The histologic characteristics of 15 children with CRSsNP, 52 children with CRSwNP, and 12 control participants were analyzed using hematoxylin and eosin staining. The expression of Th1/Th2/Th17-related cytokines were examined using immunohistochemistry and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Pediatric subjects with CRSwNP had more intact epithelium and less submucosal mucous glands compared to those with CRSsNP. Tissue eosinophils were more prevalent in the younger CRSwNP group compared to the older CRSwNP or the CRSsNP groups. The protein concentrations of Th2 cytokines were significantly higher in the CRSwNP group than the CRSsNP group or the control group.