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Older adults often rely on family and friends for care and support. Individuals providing support can take advantage of their vulnerabilities, resulting in neglect, physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, or financial exploitation. Conventional approaches, which older adults are often reluctant to pursue, utilize social service interventions, criminal justice responses, civil litigation, and case review multi-disciplinary teams. This project explored providers' perspectives on using restorative processes, alternative approaches that bring together the person harmed, the person committing the harm, and the community to address the harm and repair relationships. Researchers recruited and interviewed providers working with abused older adults, as referred by a community-based elder justice working group. Selleck NSC 663284 Providers perceived that restorative processes have the potential to address and prevent social isolation, which often leads to elder abuse. We recommend providers explore restorative processes to address elder abuse, paying attention to implementation barriers and identifying appropriate methods for supporting and maintaining outcomes.UCHL3 (ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L3) is a de-ubiquitinating enzyme involved in the homologous recombination repair mechanism of double-strand breaks (DBS) of the DNA. Multiple studies indicated that UCHL3 inhibitors could be used in combination therapy with high therapeutic efficacy against cancer thus highlighting the validity of directing research against UCHL3 as a druggable target in oncology. In this study, a combination of virtual screening methods was utilized to identify new potential UCHL3 inhibitors. A series of UCHL3 ligands were identified by applying a combination of cheminformatics and molecular modeling filtration techniques to a ChemBl database of over two million small molecules viz. Lipinski's Rule of Five, Veber's rule, pharmacophore model, Hierarchical molecular docking, Pan-assay Interference Compounds (PAINS) alerts, toxicity filter, and single-point Molecular mechanics Poisson/Boltzmann surface area (MM/PBSA) docking pose rescoring. This multi-layer filtration strategy led to the identification of twenty-one compounds as potential UCHL3 inhibitors that were subsequently subjected to a 50 ns molecular dynamics (MD) simulations predict the stability of their ligand-protein complexes. Furthermore, MM/PBSA calculations based on MD trajectories were performed, and the energy contribution per residue to the binding energy was calculated. Three compounds, 1, 2 and 3, were finally recognized as having the highest potential of being UCHL3 inhibitors. Therefore, those were used for binding mode analysis to the UCHL3 active site, leading to identification of four residues as key for binding viz. Pro8, Leu55, Val166, and Leu168. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.Tricuspid valve infective endocarditis is an increasingly common sequela of the opioid epidemic. While often managed medically, certain subsets of patients will require surgical intervention, including repair, replacement, and possibly even excision. Historically, simple valvectomy was performed in instances of recidivism and reinfection; however, reoperation and replacement has become the preferred treatment in the current era. Given the increasing incidence of intravenous drug use and the increase in the number of patients presenting with recurrent infections, simple valvectomy has regained favor in recent years. In this article, we present the management of a critically ill patient with recurrent tricuspid valve endocarditis who underwent tricuspid valvectomy that was complicated by a left ventricle to right atrium fistula and discuss some of the most important perioperative issues and complications for patients who undergo tricuspid valvectomy.

Our understanding of the impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on pregnancies and perinatal outcomes is limited. The clinical course of neonates born to women who acquired coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during their pregnancy has been previously described. However, the course of neonates born with complex congenital malformations during the COVID-19 pandemic is not known.

We report a case series of seven neonates with congenital heart and lung malformations born to women who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during their pregnancy at a single academic medical center in New York City.

Six infants had congenital heart disease and one was diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. In all seven infants, the clinical course was as expected for the congenital lesion. None of the seven exhibited symptoms generally associated with COVID-19. None of the infants in our case series tested positive by nasopharyngeal test for SARS-CoV-2 at 24 hours of life and at multiple points during their hospital course.

In this case series, maternal infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy did not result in adverse outcomes in neonates with complex heart or lung malformations. Neither vertical nor horizontal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was noted.

In this case series, maternal infection with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy did not result in adverse outcomes in neonates with complex heart or lung malformations. Neither vertical nor horizontal transmission of SARS-CoV-2 was noted.

While spirituality and quality of life (QOL) are essential components of end-of-life (EOL) care, limited studies have examined these constructs for indigenous peoples. Therefore, the purpose of this article was to examine the state of the science regarding spirituality and QOL at EOL for indigenous people, particularly Native Americans.

The Arksey and O'Malley (2005) framework guided this scoping review, which examined 30 articles that included qualitative and quantitative studies, commentary papers, and reviews.

The findings identified five spiritual dimensions the life and death journey, a belief in spirits, tribally grounded traditions, dominant cultural religion influences, and a family focus. QOL indicators included survivorship, optimization of holistic health, communication, and access to appropriate resources. Death rituals were important EOL elements.

Given the importance of spirituality to QOL for indigenous people, clinicians must be knowledgeable and responsive to indigenous spiritual needs to promote QOL at EOL.