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The overall proportion of patients in clinical remission increased from 65.7% to 80.4% (P 5 mg/L. Conclusion In our cohort of inflammatory bowel disease patients, Bayes-based optimized dosing improved the short-term efficacy of infliximab treatment.Aims To analyse whether managerial support and ethical vision of patient care would be related to emotional exhaustion directly or through moral distress and whether these relationships would be conditional on individual levels of positive affectivity and resilience. Background Although some studies described the effects of ethical climate, moral distress, resilience and positive affectivity on emotional exhaustion, there are no attempts of explicative models containing these variables. Methods A total of 222 Italian professionals employed in neuro-rehabilitation medicine units participated in this cross-sectional study. Descriptive statistics, mediation and moderated mediation analyses were conducted using SPSS. Results Managerial support and ethical vision of patient care were negatively related to emotional exhaustion, directly and through moral distress. Professionals high in resilience and positive affectivity benefited more from the protective effect of managerial support on emotional exhaustion through moral distress. Conclusion Ethical climate represents a protective factor against moral distress and emotional exhaustion. Moreover, individual levels of positive affectivity and resilience may increase the beneficial effects deriving from managerial support in dealing with ethical issues. Implication for nursing management Health organisations may consider developing strategies to improve ethical climate, enhance managers' ability to support team in dealing with ethical issues and foster employees' positive affectivity and resilience.Emerging evidence suggests that activation of the complement system is critical in the pathogenesis of the novel coronavirus, SARS‐CoV‐2, the causative agent of COVID‐19 related lung injury. Inhibition of the terminal complement pathway by targeting complement protein 5 (C5) may be an effective therapeutic intervention in CoV‐mediated disease.1 Paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare, acquired hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) disease characterized by intravascular haemolysis, increased thromboembolic risk and bone marrow failure.2We screened 662 subjects comprising 462 essential tremor, ET (285 sporadic, 125 with family history and 52 probands from well-characterized ET pedigrees and 200 controls and identified pathogenic NOTCH2NLC GGC repeat expansions in four sporadic ET patients. Two patients were followed up for over a decade one with 90 repeats remained an ET phenotype that did not evolve after forty years, while another patient with 107 repeats developed motor symptoms and cognitive impairment after 8 to 10years. Neuroimaging in this patient revealed severe leukoencephalopathy; diffusion-weighted imaging hyperintensity in the corticomedullary junction and skin biopsy revealed intranuclear inclusions suggestive of intranuclear inclusion body disease (NIID). No GGC repeats above 60units were detected in familial ET cases and controls, though four ET patients carried 47-53 "intermediate" repeats. NOTCH2NLC GGC repeat expansions can be associated with sporadic ET. Carriers presenting with a pure ET phenotype may or may not convert to NIID up to four decades after initial tremor onset. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Patients with congenital heart disease have unique pacing challenges and often require epicardial systems. High pacing threshold is one of the major factors that decrease these systems' durability. Sometimes surgical reintervention or lead replacement is difficult or prohibitive in these patients due to repeated surgeries and extensive epicardial scar. We present a case report of a patient with Fontan physiology and chronically high epicardial lead pacing thresholds requiring frequent generator changes and a unique solution focusing on improving generator longevity.Introduction Systemic amyloidosis is a histological diagnosis, often achieved via critical organ biopsy. Screening biopsies represent a low-risk approach to diagnosis. Objectives and methods All patients with systemic AL and ATTR amyloidosis who underwent abdominal fat aspiration (AFA) and either a bone marrow (BM) or gastrointestinal (GI) biopsy at the UK National Amyloidosis Centre (2006-2019) were identified. We sought to determine diagnostic sensitivity in relation to whole body amyloid burden, amyloid type and organ involvement. Results Diagnostic sensitivity established in 471 patients with AL (n = 321) and ATTR (n = 150) amyloidosis, respectively, was 73.2% and 27.3% for AFA (P less then .001), 59.7% and 42.2% for BM (P less then .001), and 74.6% and 44.6% for GI biopsy (P less then .001). ATTR amyloid deposits were detected in 35.4% BMs and 33.3% of GI biopsies when AFA did not demonstrate amyloid. In AL amyloidosis, sensitivity of combined AFA and BM biopsy in AL amyloidosis was 82.9%. There was a strong association between whole body amyloid burden and sensitivity of each screening biopsy method. The diagnostic sensitivity of screening biopsies ranged from 80.0% to 90.5% for patients with a large amyloid load on 123 I-SAP scintigraphy in comparison with 53.9%-79.0% in those with no visceral amyloid visible on imaging. Conclusion Performing both AFA and BM biopsy should be considered in suspected AL amyloidosis to substantially reduce the clinical risk associated with critical organ biopsy. The sensitivity of screening biopsies in ATTR amyloidosis is poor.Since the first report of cutaneous manifestations of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Recalcati et al1 , there has been described five clinical patterns including pseudo-chilblain lesions, vesicular eruptions, urticarial lesions, livedo and necrosis and maculopapular eruptions2 . Several clinical reports have been published recently describing these clinical patterns although there is still a lack of information regarding histopathology of maculopapular eruptions. We designed a retrospective study of patients attended in our department over the course of three weeks. selleck We collected clinical data and pictures, and performed a biopsy when possible.