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We evaluated whether combining the serum albumin level and the Prediction Rule for Admission policy in Complicated urinary Tract InfeCtion LEiden (PRACTICE) class could be a prognostic predictor in elderly patients with urinary tract infection (UTI).

We retrospectively included adult patients (age≥65years) with UTI who were hospitalized in the emergency department (ED) between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018. We graded the serum albumin level and classified the PRACTICE score; the modified PRACTICE was defined as the sum of the albumin level grade and the PRACTICE class. We comparatively assessed the predictive value for in-hospital mortality and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) in survivor and non-survivor groups.

In total, the study analysis included 1159 patients, and in-hospital mortality was 3.4% (n=39). The modified PRACTICE score (4.0 [1.4] vs 6.1 [1.2], p<0.001) was significantly increased in the non-survivor group. The area under the curve value of factors associated with in-hospital mortality were the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) 0.57 (95% CI 0.54-0.60), albumin 0.83 (95% CI 0.81-0.85), PRACTICE 0.71 (95% CI 0.69-0.74), and the modified PRACTICE 0.86 (95% CI 0.84-0.88). Factors associated with ICU admission were MEWS 0.65 (95% CI 0.62-0.68), albumin 0.66 (95% CI 0.64-0.69), PRACTICE 0.66 (95% CI 0.63-0.68), and the modified PRACTICE 0.72 (95% CI 0.69-0.74).

The modified PRACTICE score can be a useful prognostic predictor in elderly patients with UTI.

The modified PRACTICE score can be a useful prognostic predictor in elderly patients with UTI.Changes in social behavior are recognized as potential symptoms of behavioral-variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) and semantic dementia (SD), yet objective ways to assess these behaviors in natural social situations are lacking. This study takes a truly social (or second-person) approach and examines changes in real-world social behavior in different dementia syndromes, by analyzing non-scripted social interactions in bvFTD patients (n = 20) and SD patients (n = 20), compared to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (n = 20). Video recordings of 10-min conversations between patients and behavioral neurologists were analyzed for the presence of socially engaging (e.g., nodding, smiling, gesturing) and disengaging behavior (e.g., avoiding eye contact, self-grooming, interrupting). Results demonstrated disease-specific profiles, with bvFTD patients showing less nodding and more looking away than AD, and SD patients showing more gesturing than AD. A principal components analysis revealed the presence of four unobserved components, showing atypical disengaging patterns of behavior. Whole-brain voxel-based morphometry analyses revealed distinct neurobiological bases for each of these components, with the brain regions identified previously associated with behavior selection, abstract mentalization and processing of multi-sensory and socially-relevant information, in mediating socially engaging and disengaging behavior. This study demonstrates the utility of systematic behavioral observation of social interactions in the differential diagnosis of dementia.Children with beta thalassemia major (BTM) are known to have reduced bone mass which increases incidence of non-traumatic fractures. Few studies have assessed prevalence of fractures and bone health in underprivileged children with BTM. Our objectives were to 1) determine prevalence of fractures in underprivileged Indian children with BTM, 2) assess size corrected bone density and bone geometry using Dual x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and peripheral quantitative computerized tomography (pQCT) in these children and healthy controls 3) determine predictors of fractures in children with BTM 4) compare differences in bone density between children with BMT with and without fractures. Bone mineral content and areal bone mineral density (aBMD) of lumbar spine and whole body and vertebral fracture assessment (VFA) was performed by DXA in 334 children (3-18 years, 167 BTM + 167 controls). Volumetric BMD (vBMD) and bone geometry were assessed by pQCT (subset, 70 BTM, 70 healthy) at distal radius. Children with BTM had higher prevalence of vertebral and long bone fractures (p 0.05). Children with BTM had lower total distal radial vBMD, cortical vBMD and strength strain index (SSI) at 66% site whereas, distal radial trabecular vBMD at 4% was higher (p less then 0.05). On height adjustment, children with BTM had lower muscle area and cortical thickness and higher marrow area (p less then 0.05) at 66% site. Age, body size, total body less head (TBLH) aBMD and strength strain index (SSI) were important predictors of fractures in children with BTM. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/phi-101.html Thus, children with BTM had higher prevalence of non-traumatic fractures. Despite lower areal and volumetric densities, they had higher LSBMAD and trabecular densities which may be attributed to erythroid hyperplasia and iron deposition due to inadequate transfusion and chelation. As LSBMAD is raised in these children, it is unlikely to identify BTM subjects at risk of fracture; VFA thus maybe useful in identifying asymptomatic vertebral fractures.Cardiac autonomic imbalance including sympathetic overactivity and diminished parasympathetic activity is associated with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in cases of cardiac ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Electrical stimulation to increase vagal activity has been shown to reduce infarct size and decrease fatal arrhythmias in cardiac I/R injury. However, the benefits of a parasympathomimetic drug on the heart during I/R are unclear. We hypothesized that administration of donepezil provides cardioprotection in cardiac I/R injury via reducing cellular apoptosis, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, mitochondrial dynamic imbalance, increasing autophagy, and mitophagy. Fifty-four male Wistar rats were randomly assigned into sham and I/R groups. Acute cardiac I/R injury was induced by 30-minutes left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery occlusion followed by 120-minutes reperfusion. These rats with induced I/R injury were randomly assigned to be treated with either (1) Saline (vehicle group) or donepezil 3 mg/kg via intravenous injection given (2) before ischemia, (3) during ischemia, or (4) at the onset of reperfusion.