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Schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD) share substantial neurodevelopmental components affecting brain maturation and architecture. This necessitates a dynamic lifespan perspective in which brain aberrations are inferred from deviations from expected lifespan trajectories. We applied machine learning to diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) indices of white matter structure and organization to estimate and compare brain age between patients with SZ, patients with BD, and healthy control (HC) subjects across 10 cohorts.

We trained 6 cross-validated models using different combinations of DTI data from 927 HC subjects (18-94 years of age) and applied the models to the test sets including 648 patients with SZ (18-66 years of age), 185 patients with BD (18-64 years of age), and 990 HC subjects (17-68 years of age), estimating the brain age for each participant. Group differences were assessed using linear models, accounting for age, sex, and scanner. A meta-analytic framework was applied to assess the heterogencally distributed deviations from expected lifespan trajectories that generalize across cohorts and scanners.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presents with myriad extra-pulmonary manifestation and a high mortality in patients with comorbidities. Its effect on patients with pre-existing acute pancreatitis is not known.

We hereby, present 3 cases with severe acute pancreatitis with persistent respiratory failure who acquired nosocomial COVID-19 during their hospital stay after recovery from respiratory failure. Their clinical course is highlighted which reflects on pathophysiology of organ dysfunction in these 2 disease states.

None of the 3 patients with severe acute pancreatitis who developed nosocomial COVID-19 redeveloped respiratory failure due to COVID-19 despite having recently recovered from pancreatitis induced acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Only one patient developed SARS-CoV2 induced moderate pneumonia.

These cases highlight that host responses and mechanisms of lung injury might be different in severe acute pancreatitis and COVID-19.

These cases highlight that host responses and mechanisms of lung injury might be different in severe acute pancreatitis and COVID-19.

The G-protein-coupled receptor Class C Group 6 Member A (GPRC6A) is activated by multiple ligands and is important for the regulation of calcium homeostasis. Extracellular calcium is capable to increase NLRP3 inflammasome activity of the innate immune system and deletion of this proinflammatory pathway mitigated pancreatitis severity invivo. As such this pathway and the GPRC6A receptor is a reasonable candidate gene for pancreatitis. Here we investigated the prevalence of sequence variants in the GPRC6A locus in different pancreatitis aetiologies.

We selected 6 tagging SNPs with the SNPinfo LD TAG SNP Selection tool and the functional relevant SNP rs6907580 for genotyping. Cohorts from Germany, further European countries and China with up to 1,124 patients and 1,999 controls were screened for single SNPs with melting curve analysis.

We identified an association of rs1606365(G) with alcoholic chronic pancreatitis in a German (odds ratio (OR) 0.76, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.65-0.89, p=8×10

) and a Chinese cohort (OR 0.78, 95% CI 0.64-0.96, p=0.02). However, this association was not replicated in a combined cohort of European patients (OR 1.18, 95% CI 0.99-1.41, p=0.07). Finally, no association was found with acute and non-alcoholic chronic pancreatitis.

Our results support a potential role of calcium sensing receptors and inflammasome activation in alcoholic chronic pancreatitis development. As the functional consequence of the associated variant is unclear, further investigations might elucidate the relevant mechanisms.

Our results support a potential role of calcium sensing receptors and inflammasome activation in alcoholic chronic pancreatitis development. As the functional consequence of the associated variant is unclear, further investigations might elucidate the relevant mechanisms.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of intermittent diet and/or physical therapy in patients with chronic low back pain.

Sixty sedentary volunteers with chronic low back pain participated in the study. Body weight and body mass index (BMI) were measured. Pain severity was assessed using Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Signs (LANSS), while assessment of disability was done using Barthel Index (BI).

The weight and BMI were reduced after treatment with diet only and diet plus physical therapy (p < 0.001). The pain severity was reduced in all the treated groups (p < 0.001), while BI was increased in the group treated with only physical therapy (p < 0.001).

The present study indicated that intermittent diet and/or physical therapy are beneficial to patients with chronic low back pain in terms of pain sensation and daily activities.

The present study indicated that intermittent diet and/or physical therapy are beneficial to patients with chronic low back pain in terms of pain sensation and daily activities.

Mixed-phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) poses a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma. No consensus exists on the strategy to assign patients with MPAL to either lymphoid- or myeloid-directed treatment. Thus, a better understanding of the characteristics of MPAL is a crucial unmet need. This study aims to provide information on a population-based cohort of children who received treatment based on standard, simple immunophenotypic criteria.

Single-center, retrospective clinical and laboratory reviews of patients with MPAL were provided by morphology, immunophenotyping, cytogenetics, and molecular methods. We identified 242 flow cytometry samples. see more Of all consecutive pediatric patients with acute leukemia, we identified 8 (3.3%) patients with MPAL fulfilling WHO 2016 criteria; these were classified as follows B-lymphoid+myeloid (n=4), T-lymphoid+myeloid (n=2), and B+T-lymphoid (n=2).

Of 8 MPAL cases, 4 were boys and 4 girls [median age at diagnosis 10.8 (range 1.1-17) years]. The b3a2 (p210) and e1a2 (p190) BCR/ABL fusion transcripts were detected in 1 patient with B/myeloid MPAL. Regarding the morphology, all patients were initially diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, but no morphological characteristics or cytogenetic aberration was particularly predictive of an MPAL. Furthermore, 4 of 8 patients (50%) with MPAL were associated with chromosome 21 monosomy or partial trisomy.

Despite no single recurrent chromosomal abnormality that could serve as a hallmark lesion in MPAL, cytogenetic alterations are frequent and predominantly associated with complex karyotype involving chromosome 21 abnormalities.

Despite no single recurrent chromosomal abnormality that could serve as a hallmark lesion in MPAL, cytogenetic alterations are frequent and predominantly associated with complex karyotype involving chromosome 21 abnormalities.

The main indication of covered stents (CS) is coronary artery perforation (CAP), but, they have been increasingly used in other scenarios. Data on the long-term follow-up of CS is limited, and no studies have been conducted specifically using new-generation polyurethane-covered cobalt-chromium Papyrus CS.

to evaluate the clinical outcomes after hospital discharge of Papyrus CS and to compare their outcome after implantation in CAP or coronary artery aneurysms (CAA).

We evaluated the baseline clinical characteristics, lesion subsets, procedural features and the outcomes after initial discharge of Papyrus CS implanted in 17 high-PCI-volume centers.

127 Papyrus CS were implanted in 108 patients (68 ± 1 years; 82.8% male) admitted for stable coronary disease (32.3%), NSTEMI (42.4%) or STEMI (25.3%). The number of CS per patient was 1.2 ± 0.6 (diameter 3.5 ± 1.7 mm; length 18.5 ± 3.7 mm). Angiographic success rate was 96%. CS diameter was larger in CAA (CAP3.04 ± 0.5 mm vs CAA4.1 ± 2.7 mm; p = .022). Intrar ST rate.

Pre-clinical studies indicated that arginine-deprivation therapy using pegylated arginine deiminase (pegargiminase, ADI-PEG 20) may be effective in patients with argininosuccinate synthetase 1 (ASS1)-deficient small-cell lung cancer (SCLC).

Patients were enrolled into either a 'sensitive' disease cohort (≥ 90 days response to first-line chemotherapy) or a 'refractory' disease cohort (progression while on chemotherapy or< 90 days afterwards or≥ third-line treatment). Patients received weekly intramuscular pegargiminase, 320 IU/m

(36.8 mg/m

), until unacceptable toxicity or disease progression. The primary endpoint was tumor response assessed by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) 1.1 with secondary endpoints including tolerability, pharmacodynamics, and immunogenicity.

Between January 2011 and January 2014, 22 patients were enrolled 9 in the sensitive disease cohort and 13 in the refractory disease cohort. At a pre-planned interim analysis, the best overall response observed was stable disease in 2 patients in each cohort (18.2%). Owing to the lack of response and slow accrual in the sensitive disease cohort, the study was terminated early. Pegargiminase treatment was well-tolerated with no unexpected adverse events or discontinuations.

Although pegargiminase monotherapy in SCLC failed to meet its primary endpoint of RECIST-confirmed responses, more recent molecular stratification, including MYC status, may provide new opportunities moving forward.

Although pegargiminase monotherapy in SCLC failed to meet its primary endpoint of RECIST-confirmed responses, more recent molecular stratification, including MYC status, may provide new opportunities moving forward.The incidence of multiple births has risen in the last few decades. This rise is mainly due to the widespread use of assisted reproduction techniques mainly as a result of increasing maternal age at conception. Twin and higher-order multiple pregnancies are associated with increased risk of perinatal, as well as maternal, mortality and morbidity compared to singleton pregnancies. There can also be psychosocial and socioeconomic implications for women and their families. In this chapter, we aim to discuss the risks associated with multiple pregnancies, the pros and cons of fetal reduction, the current techniques used in clinical practice, and how to approach counselling parents, enabling them to make informed decisions.

To perform a hypothesis-generating evaluation of patient outcomes following neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) compared with those following primary debulking surgery (PDS) in patients over age 75 with high-grade ovarian cancer.

This was a retrospective cohort study of consecutive patients aged 75 years and older, with high-grade ovarian cancer. Data were analyzed in SPSS 25.0 using descriptive statistics to characterize groups based on primary treatment modality, Kaplan-Meier survival curves to estimate overall and progression-free survival, and Cox proportional hazards to analyze confounders.

Of 429 patients with stages III and IV high-grade ovarian cancer (endometrioid and serous), 71 were aged older than 75 years and met our criteria for inclusion; 58 were treated with NACT while 13 underwent primary debulking. Sixteen patients did not undergo interval debulking following NACT. There were no significant differences in demographic characteristics between the groups. Following NACT, more patients were completely debulked-36.