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A rare disease is a medical condition with low prevalence in the general population, but these can collectively affect up to 10% of the population. Thus, rare diseases have a significant impact on the health care system, and health professionals must be familiar with their diagnosis, management, and treatment.
This paper aims to provide health indicators regarding the rare diseases in Brazil and to create a network of reference centers with health professionals from different regions of the country. RARASnet proposes to map, analyze, and communicate all the data regarding the infrastructure of the centers and the patients' progress or needs. The focus of the proposed study is to provide all the technical infrastructure and analysis, following the World Health Organization and the Brazilian Ministry of Health guidelines.
To build this digitized system, we will provide a security framework to assure the privacy and protection of each patient when collecting data. Systems development life cycle methodologito make the information available. The project had its financing approved in December 2019. Retrospective data collection started in October 2020, and we expect to finish in January 2021. During the third quarter of 2020, we enrolled 40 health institutions from all regions of Brazil.
The nature of rare disease diagnosis is complex and diverse, and many problems will be faced in the evolution of the project. However, decisions based on data analysis are the best option for the improvement of the rare disease network in Brazil. The creation of RARASnet, along with all the digitized infrastructure, can improve the accessibility of information and standardization of rare diseases in the country.
DERR1-10.2196/24826.
DERR1-10.2196/24826.
An important aspect of patient-centered care involves ensuring that patient-directed resources are usable, understandable, and responsive to patients' needs. A user-centered design refers to an empathy-based framework and an iterative design approach for developing a product or solution that is based on an in-depth understanding of users' needs, values, abilities, and limitations.
This study presents the steps taken to develop a prototype for a patient resource for young women who have completed treatment for gonadotoxic cancer to support their decision making about follow-up fertility care and family building.
User-centered design practices were used to develop Roadmap to Parenthood, a decision aid (DA) website for family building after cancer. A multidisciplinary steering group was assembled and input was provided. Guidelines from the International Patient DA Society and the Ottawa Decision Support Framework were used throughout the development process. In addition, guidelines for developing health DAh will pilot test the DA and a planning tool, and evaluate improvement in the decisional conflict regarding family building after cancer. Consistent with a patient-centered approach to health care, the strategies described here may be generalized and applied to the development of other patient resources and clinical contexts to optimize usability, empathy, and user engagement.
The design strategies presented in this study describe important steps in the early phases of developing a user-centered resource, which will enhance the starting point for usability testing and further design modifications. Future research will pilot test the DA and a planning tool, and evaluate improvement in the decisional conflict regarding family building after cancer. Consistent with a patient-centered approach to health care, the strategies described here may be generalized and applied to the development of other patient resources and clinical contexts to optimize usability, empathy, and user engagement.Interaction between adult stem cells and their progeny is critical for tissue homeostasis and regeneration. Acetylcholine Chloride in vivo In multiple organs, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) give rise to transit amplifying cells (TACs), which then differentiate into different cell types. However, whether and how MSCs interact with TACs remains unknown. Using the adult mouse incisor as a model, we present in vivo evidence that TACs and MSCs have distinct genetic programs and engage in reciprocal signaling cross talk to maintain tissue homeostasis. Specifically, an IGF-WNT signaling cascade is involved in the feedforward from MSCs to TACs. link2 TACs are regulated by tissue-autonomous canonical WNT signaling and can feedback to MSCs and regulate MSC maintenance via Wnt5a/Ror2-mediated non-canonical WNT signaling. Collectively, these findings highlight the importance of coordinated bidirectional signaling interaction between MSCs and TACs in instructing mesenchymal tissue homeostasis, and the mechanisms identified here have important implications for MSC-TAC interaction in other organs.Osteocalcin is a bone matrix protein that acts like a hormone when it reaches the blood, and has different effects in mice and humans.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and steroid-sparing effect of methotrexate (MTX) in patients with active polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) undergoing prednisone therapy.
A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to compare the efficacy and steroid-sparing effect of MTX with those of placebo in patients with PMR.
Four RCTs (97 patients and 97 controls) were used in this meta-analysis. The remission rate was significantly higher in the MTX group than in the placebo group (odds ratio (OR) = 5.699, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.401-13.53, p<0.001). The relapse rate appeared lower in the MTX group than in the placebo group, albeit without significance (OR=0.377, 95% CI=0.093-1.526, p=0.171). The cumulative steroid dosage was also significantly lower in the MTX group than in the placebo group (standard mean difference (SMD) = -1.636, 95% CI = -2.864-0.407, p=0.009), which suggested the steroid-sparing role of MTX in PMR therapy. All studies showed the same pattern of SMDs in the cumulative steroid dose, but there was variability in the meta-analysis results for the cumulative steroid dose owing to the disparity in the extent of the effect.
MTX in conjunction with prednisone was more successful than prednisone alone for treating PMR, and the use of MTX was correlated with a decreased average steroid dose.
MTX in conjunction with prednisone was more successful than prednisone alone for treating PMR, and the use of MTX was correlated with a decreased average steroid dose.A retrospective data analysis was performed to investigate the association between polypharmacy and adverse events using three different spontaneous adverse event reporting system databases. Multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to investigate the association between the number of drugs and adverse events, including hepatic disorders, renal disorders, hypersensitivity, and extrapyramidal syndrome. The results showed that the risk of hepatic and renal disorders increased with the number of drugs. Thus, decreasing the number of drugs may reduce the risk of hepatic and renal disorders. Furthermore, attention should be given to specific drugs that may cause hypersensitivity and extrapyramidal syndrome.
Meropenem, a potent carbapenem is considered the first choice for the empirical treatment of severe infections. Being a hydrophilic drug, more than 83% of the administered dose is eliminated through the renal route, and therefore, the kidney status of the patient may have a significant effect on meropenem clearance (CL).
The data of 205 samples obtained from 59 patients treated with meropenem at the General Hospital Lahore, Pakistan, was used for the development of a population pharmacokinetic (-popPK) model by using nonlinear mixed-effects modeling software. The effect of age, body weight, creatinine clearance (CRCL), and gender was observed on meropenem CL through a stepwise covariate modeling approach. Simulations of 1,000mg q8h and 1,500mg q12h over 3-hour infusion were performed based on the renal status of the patients.
A two-compartment model was used for popPK analysis, and the values of the pharmacokinetic parameters for CL, V
, V
, and Q were 12.2L/h, 21.7L, 7.74L, and 3.28 L/h, respectively. Meropenem CL was significantly influenced by CRCL, while no significant effect of body weight, age, and sex was observed. Both simulated dosage regimens were equally effective if CRCL of the patient was ≤100 mL/min, while 1,000mg q8h produced better results if CRCL was >100 mL/min.
The CL of meropenem depends on the renal status of the patients. The model can be used for dosing simulations based on the CRCL of the patients in order to tailor the dose of meropenem in Pakistani patients.
The CL of meropenem depends on the renal status of the patients. The model can be used for dosing simulations based on the CRCL of the patients in order to tailor the dose of meropenem in Pakistani patients.
To detect signals of potential adverse events (AEs) after botulinum toxin (BTX) treatment using the Korea Institute of Drug Safety & Risk Management-Korea adverse event reporting system database (KIDS-KD).
The individual case safety reports (ICSRs) submitted to KIDS-KD from 1999 to 2016 were analyzed. To detect safety signals, disproportionality analysis was introduced, and the three indices (proportional reporting ratio (PRR), reporting odds ratio (ROR), and information component (IC)) were calculated based on the reported preferred terms (WHO-ART, preferred term (PT)). The signals detected were compared with drug labels from Korea and the USA.
A total of 5,896 AE reports were collected in January 1999 - December 2016 in the Korea Adverse Event Reporting System (KAERS) databases. Among the total of 103,785 drug-AE pairs, 1,413 were attributed to BTX. The disproportionality analysis produced 44 PTs as safety signals and detected 7 unlabeled PTs that were not listed on the labels. After matching for age and sex (12), the adjusted ROR of ineffective medicine and depression in BTX was 21.60 (95% confidence interval (CI), 19.12-24.41) and 6.02 (95% CI, 3.41-10.64) respectively.
The number of AE reports after BTX has increased, the majority of which were from females. Safety signals such as "medicine ineffective" and "concentration impaired" may be due to increasing off-label use, which warrants long-term surveillance, especially among females after BTX injection.
The number of AE reports after BTX has increased, the majority of which were from females. Safety signals such as "medicine ineffective" and "concentration impaired" may be due to increasing off-label use, which warrants long-term surveillance, especially among females after BTX injection.During a project focusing on the diversity of meat microbiota associated with beef ripening, a Pseudomonas strain was isolated exhibiting high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities (>99 %) to Pseudomonas carnis DSM 107652T, P. lactis DSM 29167T, P. paralactis DSM 29164T and P. azotoformans DSM 18862T. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete rpoB gene sequences of the isolate V5/DAB/2/5T indicated a separate branch with about 99.0 % nucleotide identities to the closest relatives P. carnis DSM 107652T, P. lactis DSM 29167T and P. paralactis DSM 29164T, while average nucleotide identities (ANIb) calculated from the draft genomes were 94.8, 94.2 and 90.2 %, respectively. Pairwise genome-to-genome distance calculations (GGDC) resulted in values of 67.7, 63.5 and 45.7 %, respectively, lying below the actual species demarcation line as well. A second isolate, UBT403, was detected some years later by using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight MS of the microbiota of minced beef. link3 The fatty acid profile of V5/DAB/2/5T consisted of C16 0, summed feature C 16 1ω7c/iso-C15 0 2-OH, C18 1ω7c, C17 0 cyclo, C12 0, C12 0 3-OH, C10 0 3-OH and C12 0 2-OH.
