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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a heterogeneous, severe and progressive disease with an impact on quality of life and life-expectancy despite specific therapies.

(i) to compare prognosis significance of each PH subgroup in a cohort from a referral center, (ii) to identify phenotypically distinct high-risk PH patient using machine learning.

Patients with PH were included from 2002 to 2019 and routinely followed-up. We collected clinical, laboratory, imaging and hemodynamic variables. Four-year survival rate of each subgroups was then compared. Next, phenotypic domains were imputed with 5 eigenvectors for missing values and filtered if the Pearson correlation coefficient was>0.6. Thereafter, agglomerative hierarchical clustering was used for grouping phenotypic variables and patients a heat map was generated and participants were separated using Penalized Model-Based Clustering. P<0.05 was considered significant.

328 patients were prospectively included (mean age 63±18 yo, 46% male). PH secondary tsimultaneous kidney-cardiac-pulmonary comorbidities were identified as having high-risk of mortality. Specific targeted therapy in this phenogroup should be prospectively evaluated.

Dengue continues to remain a public health problem in many regions of the world. This study focuses on addressing the community level barriers and opportunities using a health education intervention model to aid in dengue control.

In-depth interviews of frontline workers were conducted to understand potential barriers during surveillance. A house-to-house cross-sectional survey was conducted in November 2018 among the crowded urban Pratapnagar area followed by intervention in the form of health education using pamphlets and counselling.

The entomological indices were found to be above the critical levels in the hotspot area. 90% of the population had heard about dengue but only 51.4% had knowledge about fever as one of the symptoms of dengue. Overall knowledge among the community was good. But attitudes and practices were low and probably required more sustained health education intervention over prolonged period. The potential barriers for surveillance which were recognised during In-depth interviews were safety issues, lack of manpower and availability of dedicated vehicles, dearth of community participation and lack of inter and intra departmental coordination.

The health administration needs to adopt robust surveillance and monitoring activities with inter-departmental coordination ensuring greater community participation focusing on behaviour change.

The health administration needs to adopt robust surveillance and monitoring activities with inter-departmental coordination ensuring greater community participation focusing on behaviour change.After the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in November 2002, coronaviruses (CoVs) received worldwide attention. On December 1, 2019, the first case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), was reported in Wuhan, China, and CoVs returned to public view. On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the COVID-19 epidemic is a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), and on March 11, 2020, the WHO classified COVID-19 as a pandemic disease. 3PO cost As of July 31, 2020, COVID-19 has affected 216 countries and regions, with 17,064,064 confirmed cases and 668,073 deaths, and the number of new cases has been increasing daily. Additionally, on March 19, 2020, there were no new confirmed cases in China, providing hope and valuable experience for the international community. In this review, we systematically compare COVID-19 and SARS in terms of epidemiology, pathogenesis and clinical characteristics and discuss the current treatment approaches, scientific advancements and Chinese experience in fighting the epidemic to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. We also discuss the lessons that we have learned from COVID-19 and SARS.We read with great interest a recent article by O'Neill et al. on the implementation of an accelerated postoperative recovery protocol following DIEP flap breast reconstruction. Our department has formally introduced a DIEP Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Pathway in May 2019. Although in a much smaller sample size, our results were similar to this article and we would agree with the authors' conclusion that implementation of such protocol could effectively reduce the length of inpatient stay (LoS) and cost of care, without compromising patient care nor increasing complication rates. Prior to the introduction of ERAS Pathway, 28 of our patients who had DIEP between November 2018 and May 2019 had an mean LoS of 7.1 days (median 6 days, range 5-21 days); whereas 27 patients who experienced the ERAS Pathway between May and December 2019 had an mean LoS of 4.8 days (median 5 days, range 3-7 days). The cost of inpatient stay in a normal ward at our hospital is approximately £232 per patient per day. By reducing an extra 2.3 days of inpatient stay, our Trust could save at least an average of £32,016 per annum with the estimated 60 DIEP performed annually at our department. We would like to emphasise the benefits and effectiveness of this multimodal, patient-centre and evidence-based ERAS. This, perhaps, should be the standard of care for all patients who undergo microvascular breast reconstruction in the future.

With the emergence of blunt-tipped microcannulas, there is a hypothesis that these could cause less damage and reduce pain as compared to conventional sharp needles in eyelid surgery. The purpose is to determine whether an 18G blunt-tipped cannula can be better than a 26G needle.

This prospective, observer-blinded, randomized clinical trial was conducted from June 2017 to December 2018. Sixty-eight patients were randomized to receive local anesthesia injections for upper blepharoplasty. Infiltration was performed by using a 26-gauge sharp needle on one side and on the other side, infiltration was performed by using an 18-gauge stainless-steel blunt-tipped microcannula. A numeric rating scale (NRS) from 0 to 10 was used to blindly assess pain in patients receiving anesthesia injections with both needle types. Photographs of the eyelids of each patient were taken in five different periods and used by three blinded observers to identify bruise or ecchymoses.

A total of 136 eyelid operations were performed.