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STH numbers refer to the Jena Microbial Resource Collection (JMRC).The rehabilitation of people after suffering a stroke is a long-term process, in which patients, their families and friends are reliant on social support and assistance. Therefore, the individual promotion of available resources and autonomy of those affected represents an important task. The College for Health in Bochum and the German Stroke Help Foundation have developed the volunteer-supported model "Trained stroke helpers-a partnership-based model for local care (GeSa)" that educates stroke helpers as experts for individual local support of stroke patients and their relatives. The stroke helpers offer a patient-oriented care and individual assistance in the daily routine and therefore make a contribution to improvement of the health-related quality of life of those affected and their relatives. A training curriculum was developed and successfully tested and evaluated in a course with 21 stroke helpers. Up to summer 2020 a total of 480 stroke helpers have been trained at 16 locations in 37 courses. The experiences with the project have so far been consistently positive, which was confirmed by two scientific studies. The inclusion of cooperation partners for the coordination of the volunteers, which was already implemented in the model project, has been shown to be the most important success factor for the sustainability of the project. This article presents the results of the pilot study and the standardized process on implementation of a regional stroke helper project and describes the experiences with the previous course of the project.The treatment of mental disorders in older adults is often restricted by limitations in efficacy and tolerability of pharmacologically dominated standard therapeutic strategies. Therefore, nonpharmacological therapeutic alternatives and supplements play a crucial role in these patients. Structured exercise and training are interventions that are associated with a high level of evidence in prevention and treatment of mental and cognitive disorders. This article is based on a selective search of the literature and provides an overview of the current scientific evidence with respect to the mechanisms of action, the effects on frequently occurring clinical disorders and modalities of the exercise interventions.Since 2018, following a revision of the German Social Code Book V (SGB V), it has been possible for psychiatric hospitals to provide inpatient outreach treatment in the domestic environment of psychiatric patients. Special structural features and documentation requirements must be observed. In addition to a member of the medical and nursing professions, the treatment team must include at least one member of a third professional group (e.g. occupational therapy, social work, physiotherapy). The reimbursement of services is negotiated between the respective medical institution and the health insurance companies and includes regionally divergent billing on the basis of lump sums, per minute worked or mixed models. From a psychiatric psychotherapeutic point of view the treatment of gerontopsychiatric patients in their living environment and thus in their social context offers many advantages. A prerequisite for the success of this approach is a multiprofessional treatment team that is also experienced in somatic illnesses and logistically highly flexible. Under the conditions of the corona pandemic special challenges arise from the prohibition of visiting nursing homes and the risk of infection for patients and members of the treatment team associated with outreach work.
Our group recently proposed thenovel Padova prognostic scoring system for temporal bone carcinoma (TBSCC) that considers the revised Pittsburgh staging system; radiological dura mater involvement; non-anterior spread (medial, inferior orposterior into the temporal bone and skull base) of T4 tumors; and histological grade. The aim of the present study was to validate this prognostic TBSCC scoring system in a case series selected from the literature.
A search was run to identify studies on TBSCC reporting the variables included in our score for each patient. Then our system was applied to the data extracted.
Only two published investigations reported all the clinical and pathological data required for our scoring system. Selumetinib in vivo In one series from the Gruppo Otologico in Piacenza (Italy), a significantly higher recurrence rate (p = 0.008), shorter disease-free survival (DFS) (p = 0.001), higher disease-specific mortality (DSM) (p = 0.006), and shorter disease-specific survival (DSS) (p = 0.004) were associated with scores ≥ 5. Receiver operating curve (ROC) analysis showed an AUC of 0.804 for TBSCC recurrence, and 0.832 for DSM. In a series from Kyushu University Hospital (Japan), a significantly higher DSM (p = 0.018) and shorter DSS (p = 0.021) were associated with scores ≥ 5. ROC analysis showed an AUC of 0.812 for tumor relapse and 0.790 for DSM.
Our TBSCCPadova scoring system confirmed its validity when applied to the only two international TBSCC series providing the required data. These preliminary results need to be confirmed in a multi-center prospective setting.
Our TBSCC Padova scoring system confirmed its validity when applied to the only two international TBSCC series providing the required data. These preliminary results need to be confirmed in a multi-center prospective setting.
The aim of this study is to investigate the presence and prevalence of BRAF V600E mutation in ameloblastomas using anti-BRAF V600E monoclonal antibody (VE1 clone) and to identify any clinicopathologic correlation with BRAF V600E mutation in ameloblastoma.
The pathology files of the Department of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Lagos, Nigeria, were searched for the diagnosis of ameloblastoma from 2016 to 2020. Archived non-decalcified formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue underwent immunohistochemistry using anti-BRAF V600E antibody at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Clinicopathologic data such as age at diagnosis, gender, jaw bone involved (mandible or maxilla), tumor location (anterior or posterior) and histologic subtype were collected. The clinicopathologic parameters were analyzed using Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test according to the BRAF status.
Forty-four cases of ameloblastoma were retrieved. The male to female ratio was 1.
