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This study highlights the importance of considering the parental perspective in the context of genetic testing in clinical practice.

This study highlights the importance of considering the parental perspective in the context of genetic testing in clinical practice.Fibrillin-2, encoded by FBN2, plays an important role in the early process of elastic fiber assembly. To date, heterozygous pathogenic variants in FBN2 have been shown to cause congenital contractural arachnodactyly (CCA; Beals-Hecht syndrome). Classical CCA is characterized by long and slender fingers and toes, ear deformities, joint contractures at birth, clubfeet, muscular hypoplasia and often tall stature. In individuals with a severe CCA form, different cardiovascular or gastrointestinal anomalies have been described. Here, we report on a 15-year-old girl with a severe form of CCA and novel biallelic variants in FBN2. The girl inherited the missense variant c.3563G > T/p.(Gly1188Val) from her unaffected father and the nonsense variant c.6831C > A/p.(Cys2277*) from her healthy mother. We could detect only a small amount of FBN2 transcripts harboring the nonsense variant in leukocyte-derived mRNA from the patient and mother suggesting nonsense-mediated mRNA decay. As the father did not show any clinical signs of CCA we hypothesize the missense variant c.3563G > T to be a hypomorphic allele. Taken together, our data suggests that severe CCA can be inherited in an autosomal-recessive manner by compound heterozygosity of a hypomorphic and a null allele of the FBN2 gene.The Accessible Care Pregnancy Clinic provides consolidated pregnancy care, including ultrasound, for people with physical disabilities. Sonography was identified as likely presenting unique challenges for this population. Therefore, over a 2-year period, sonographers recorded notes describing ultrasound techniques and challenges on 136 scans from 23 patients. These notes, along with ongoing communication between sonographers, administrative staff, nurses, and physicians, informed troubleshooting, which included preparing equipment, scheduling extra time with patients, and including support people. Final feedback revealed that sonographers experienced increased comfort and skill scanning people with physical disabilities and felt tht longer booking times, larger space, and partnering with the individual throughout their pregnancy improved quality of care.

To identify systematic reviews of interventions for glaucoma conditions and to assess their reliability, thereby generating a list of potentially reliable reviews for updating glaucoma practice guidelines.

Cross-sectional study.

Systematic reviews of interventions for glaucoma conditions.

We used a database of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in vision research and eye care maintained by the Cochrane Eyes and Vision United States Satellite. We examined all Cochrane systematic reviews of interventions for glaucoma conditions published before August 7, 2019, and all non-Cochrane systematic reviews of interventions for glaucoma conditions published between January 1, 2014, and August 7,2019.

We assessed eligible reviews for reliability, extracted characteristics, and summarized key findings from reviews classified as reliable.

Of the 4451 systematic reviews in eyes and vision identified, 129 met our eligibility criteria and were assessed for reliability. Of these, we classified 49 (38%) as reliabk regarding the effectiveness of minimally invasive glaucoma surgeries.

Most systematic reviews evaluating interventions for glaucoma are of poor reliability. Even among those that may be considered reliable, important limitations exist in the value of information because of the uncertainty of the evidence as well as small and sometimes unimportant clinical differences between interventions.

Most systematic reviews evaluating interventions for glaucoma are of poor reliability. Even among those that may be considered reliable, important limitations exist in the value of information because of the uncertainty of the evidence as well as small and sometimes unimportant clinical differences between interventions.Assumptions made at design stage regarding the true treatment effect, background event rate and other factors may not always hold. Thus, long-term and large-scale studies may be designed with an interim analysis in order that the trials may be stopped early due to futility to save resource. There are many considerations of trial conducts for this type of trials. In this paper, we use a mock study to illustrate systematically the thinking and procedures for trial monitoring with a futility criterion for the interim results on a count data endpoint and a continuous endpoint. We focus on the discussions of blinded trial monitoring, the probability of meeting the futility criterion, conditional power/probability of success, Bayesian inference, potential delayed treatment effect and subgroup analysis. The experience should be applicable to future studies with similar features.

Choosing the right recruitment strategy has implications for the successful conduct of a trial. Our objective was to compare a novel peer recruitment strategy to four other recruitment strategies for a large randomized trial testing a digital tobacco intervention.

We compared enrollment rates, demographic and baseline smoking characteristics, and odds of completing the 6-month study by recruitment strategy. Cost of recruitment strategies per retained participant was calculated using staff personnel time and advertisement costs.

We enrolled 1487 participants between August 2017 and March 2019 from Peer recruitment n=273 (18.4%), Facebook Ads n=505 (34%), Google Ads=200 (13.4%), ResearchMatch n=356 (23.9%) and Smokefree.govn=153 (10.3%). Mean enrollment rate per active recruitment month 1) Peer recruitment, n=13.9, 2) Facebook ads, n=25.3, 3) Google ads, n=10.51, 4) Research Match, n=59.3, and 5) Smokefree.gov, n=13.9. Peer recruitment recruited the greatest number of males (n=110, 40.3%), young adults (n=41, 14.7%), participants with a high school degree or less (n=24, 12.5%) and smokers within one's social network. Compared to peer recruitment (retention rate=57%), participants from Facebook were less likely (OR 0.46, p<0.01, retention rate=40%), and those from ResearchMatch were more likely to complete the study (OR 1.90, p<0.01, retention rate=70%). Peer recruitment was moderate in cost per retained participant ($47.18) and substantially less costly than Facebook ($173.60).

Though peer recruitment had lower enrollment than other strategies, it may provide greater access to harder to reach populations and possibly others who smoke within one's social network while being moderately cost-effective. selleck chemical ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03224520.

Though peer recruitment had lower enrollment than other strategies, it may provide greater access to harder to reach populations and possibly others who smoke within one's social network while being moderately cost-effective. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03224520.