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ic injury effect than a low concentration (1.0 × 10

CFU/kg b.w.).

These results indicate that LF-XY18 has a potential role in the prevention of gastric injury through antioxidant effects, and a high concentration (1.0 × 109 CFU/kg b.w.) of LF-XY18 has a stronger anti-gastric injury effect than a low concentration (1.0 × 108 CFU/kg b.w.).

For symptomatic non-severe aplastic anemia (NSAA) patients who cannot afford anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), tacrolimus (FK) may be an option if these patients do not respond or become tolerant to cyclosporine A (CsA).

We enrolled 101 NSAA patients who were refractory or intolerant to CsA with no chance of HSCT or ATG treatment and treated these patients with tacrolimus for at least 6 months, with follow-up for at least one year.

The overall response rate (ORR) was 38.6% (complete response 9.9%; partial response 28.7%), and the median time to optimal response was 6 (3～10) months. Thirty-two (31.7%) cases had elevated creatinine levels. Eight (7.9%) cases had elevations in AST/ALT. A total of 25.6% (10/39) of patients relapsed at the end of follow-up. Age (

=0.0005), FK concentration (4.0~12 ng/mL,

=0.0005) and intolerance to CsA (

=0.012) were the independent risk factors for ORR. Treg cell levels pre-FK treatment were much lower than those of healthy controls (3.7±0.6% vs 6.8±0.7%,

=0.0004) but increased significantly after FK treatment (3.7±0.6% vs 7.1±0.8%,

=0.0039).

Our data suggest that tacrolimus is a salvage treatment for patients with NSAA that is refractory or intolerant to CsA.

Our data suggest that tacrolimus is a salvage treatment for patients with NSAA that is refractory or intolerant to CsA.

To determine the spherical aberration, pupil size, and other key refractive and topographic parameters in a large cohort of Egyptian cataract surgery candidates, and to investigate any existent relations between the spherical aberration and other possibly related parameters.

This is a cross-sectional, descriptive study that was conducted at Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. The study was performed on the right eyes of 1658 cataract surgery candidates. The mean corneal spherical aberration [Z4] and the pupil diameter, both photopic [P. Pupil] and mesopic [M. Pupil], were measured by the Oculus Keratograph 3, while the white-to-white corneal diameter [WTW], average keratometric readings [average K], axial length measurements [AL] and Anterior Chamber Depth [ACD] were all obtained from the IOL Master 500.

The mean age was 65 ± 11.3 years. The mean value of the Z4 was +0.26 ± 0.12 μm [95% Confidence Interval "CI" (0.2570-0.2681)]. AZD1390 The mean values of the measured parameters were P. Pupil 2.43 ± 0erical aberration [Z4], pupil size, and related refractive and topographic parameters in an old Egyptian population. The detected correlations have a weak clinical relevance and negate the existence of significant relations between the Z4 and the studied refractive and topographic parameters.

People with diabetes have an increased risk of developing sight-threatening conditions. Sight threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR) is an advanced microvascular of complication of diabetes on the eye. It remains one of the leading causes of preventable blindness among working age adults around the world. There is a paucity of evidence on the prevalence of STDR and its associated factors in Ethiopia, particularly in the study area. Therefore, the aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of STDR and its associated factors among adult diabetes patients at Debre Tabor General Hospital (DTGH), Northwest Ethiopia.

An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 306 diabetes patients at Debre Tabor General Hospital with systematic random sampling technique. Semi-structured questionnaire, document review and physical examination were applied to collect the data. Binary and multivariable logistic regression model were used to identify associated factors for STDR.

The majority of the particiic control, hypertension and obesity were positively associated with STDR. Early screening of STDR and improving diabetes self management in all diabetes patients were recommended.

This study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of TearCare

System to treat the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease (DED).

In this multicenter, prospective, post-market, exploratory, interventional trial, 58 eyes (29 subjects) received a single TearCare procedure and were assessed at baseline, post-procedure 1-week and 1-month. Effectiveness was assessed as mean change from baseline in tear break-up time (TBUT), Ocular Surface Disease Index (OSDI), total Meibomian Gland Secretion Score (MGSS), and corneal/conjunctival staining. Adverse events (AE) and changes in visual acuity were used to asses safety.

The baseline TBUT of 3.7±1.1 seconds was improved by 2.6±1.6 (70%) seconds at 1-week and by 3.1±2.2 (84%) seconds at 1-month (p < 0.0001). Mean baseline OSDI of 54.9±20.2 improved by 17.9±20.9 at 1-week and 25.8±24.3 at 1-month (p < 0.001). A clinically meaningful improvement was seen in 83% of subjects as per the Miller-Plugfelder definition and 66% of subjects improved by at least 1 OSDI catTearCare procedure is safe and effective in treating signs/symptoms of DED. Significant improvements were seen in all subjects (100%) in all signs and symptoms of DED within 1-week of treatment and 83% subjects experienced clinically meaningful symptom relief. Additionally, TearCare seems to be effective in treating DED associated with all severities of meibomian gland obstruction.

To analyze and compare the mid-term objective and subjective performance of two phakic intraocular lenses (PIOLs) - Visian

ICL™ V4c and Artiflex

and to correlate those results with anatomical parameters.

Observational retrospective study including thirty patients (15 for each PIOL) randomly selected from those who underwent bilateral implantation of one of the PIOLs (60 eyes were analysed). Uncorrected and corrected distance visual acuities (UDVA and CDVA), anterior chamber structural parameters, and corneal endothelial cells density and morphology were evaluated. Quality of vision was assessed both subjectively with a questionnaire, and objectively using a double-pass technology optical quality analysis system.

At the end of follow-up the Artiflex

group showed better UDVA (0.95±0.11 vs 0.99±0.05, p=0.027) and higher proportion of eyes reaching at least 20/20 (28/30 vs 18/30, p=0.005). Excellent and similar objective scatter index (1.79±0.9 vs 2.14±1.6, p=0.306) and modular transfer function cutof the reduction of high sphero-cylindrical refractive errors, despite better UDVA results with the Artiflex®.Traditional deep learning methods are sub-optimal in classifying ambiguity features, which often arise in noisy and hard to predict categories, especially, to distinguish semantic scoring. Semantic scoring, depending on semantic logic to implement evaluation, inevitably contains fuzzy description and misses some concepts, for example, the ambiguous relationship between normal and probably normal always presents unclear boundaries (normal - more likely normal - probably normal). Thus, human error is common when annotating images. Differing from existing methods that focus on modifying kernel structure of neural networks, this study proposes a dominant fuzzy fully connected layer (FFCL) for Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) scoring and validates the universality of this proposed structure. This proposed model aims to develop complementary properties of scoring for semantic paradigms, while constructing fuzzy rules based on analyzing human thought patterns, and to particularly reduce the influence of semantic conglutination. Specifically, this semantic-sensitive defuzzier layer projects features occupied by relative categories into semantic space, and a fuzzy decoder modifies probabilities of the last output layer referring to the global trend. Moreover, the ambiguous semantic space between two relative categories shrinks during the learning phases, as the positive and negative growth trends of one category appearing among its relatives were considered. We first used the Euclidean Distance (ED) to zoom in the distance between the real scores and the predicted scores, and then employed two sample t test method to evidence the advantage of the FFCL architecture. Extensive experimental results performed on the CBIS-DDSM dataset show that our FFCL structure can achieve superior performances for both triple and multiclass classification in BI-RADS scoring, outperforming the state-of-the-art methods.We present a case of bilateral infraclavicular brachial plexus palsy at terminal branching level in organophosphorus poisoning patient. The complication occurred during treatment. The patient was tied to the side railing of the bed with bandage as patient was restless. It is an acceptable practice so that the restless patient does not inflict injuries when he is restrained on the bed. Failure to recognize the significance of this will lead to patient injury.Background  Pisiform dislocations are an extremely rare injury. There are reports in the literature of isolated dislocations, but to our knowledge there are no reports of distal radius fractures with associated pisiform dislocations. Methods and Results  We present two cases of isolated pisiform dislocation and distal radius fracture in the adult population. Both patients were managed conservatively with closed reduction in both the distal radius and pisiform, and subsequently achieved good pain relief and progressive return of wrist function. Conclusion  For adult patients with distal radius fractures and an associated pisiform dislocation, successful closed reduction and immobilization can result in symptomatic improvement and return of function.Introduction The pediatric chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS) type I is a recognized syndrome that follows a preliminary event (e.g., trauma, fracture) with amplified spontaneous or stimuli-induced extremity pain that differs from its adult form with rather favorable outcomes. Conservative treatment is usually indicated for CRPS treatment. Case Description We present a unique case of an adolescent girl who revealed severe wrist joint sequelae following a blunt trauma, complicated by a challenging CRPS resistant to treatment. Diagnostic wrist arthroscopy eventually revealed a massive cartilage degeneration and scapholunate tear as underlying causes for the pain and CRPS. It was decided to proceed with radioscapholunate wrist fusion, which promptly led to pain relief and disappearance of the CRPS. Conclusion The relevance of this report is therefore to emphasize the possibility, against earlier thoughts, that well-indicated surgeries in pediatric CRPS patients may lead to prompt symptom improvement and may not be uniformly predicted to fail. With the clinical probability of a presence of an uncontrolled, symptomatic causative factor such as cartilage degeneration and chondrolysis, further early diagnostic and therapeutic interventions may be indicated to control the disease.