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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical and financial implications of a decade of prostate biopsies in the United Kingdom National health Service (NHS) through the transrectal (TR) and transperineal (TP) route. In the current antibiotic resistant era, TR biopsies of the prostate have alarmingly high infectious complications and readmissions. The TP route is a credible step to minimise these events, however the data comparing the two approaches has not been consolidated. METHODS This is an evaluation of TR versus TP biopsy approach in the context of 28 days post procedure complications and readmissions, with secondary evaluation of burden of expenditure in NHS hospitals over the entire decade (2008-2019) by evaluating national Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data. RESULTS In this data set of 486,467 prostate biopsies (387,879 TR and 98,588 TP), rates for infection and sepsis were higher for the TR compared to the TP cohort (0.53% vs 0.31% p less then 0.001 CI 99%). Rates of sepsis have more than doubled for TR brmed under a local anaesthetic. Funding-Intuitive Surgical provided a research grant to access HES data via Harvey Walsh. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Oligonucleotides incorporating a central C-nucleoside with either rigid or flexible benzaldoxime base moiety were synthesized and the hybridization properties of their metallacyclic derivatives studied by UV melting experiments. In all cases, the metallated duplexes were less stable than their unmetallated counterparts and the metallacyclic nucleobases did not show a clear preference for any of the canonical nucleobases as a base pairing partner. With palladated oligonucleotides, increased flexibility translated to less severe destabilization whereas the opposite was true for the mercurated oligonucleotides, reflecting the greater difficulties in accommodating a rigid Pd(II)-mediated base pair than a rigid Hg(II)-mediated base pair within the base stack of a double helix. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.Perioperative antibiotic treatment duration in skin reconstruction with dermal substitutes is not well established. This study compares the incidence of infective complications after two different durations of perioperative antibiotic treatment in patients undergoing surgical reconstruction with skin dermal substitutes (SDS) after excision of skin cancer. Infective complications at the site of SDS were compared in subjects undergoing surgical reconstruction who received either a > 24-hour (extended protocol) or a ≤ 24-hour (short protocol) perioperative antibiotic treatment. Of 116 patients undergoing SDS surgical reconstruction, 62 (53.4%) received an extended schedule, and 54 (46.6%) received a short schedule. The two groups were similar for gender, age, comorbidities, American Society of Anesthesiologists score, and type of skin cancer. Overall incidence rate of infection was 20.7% (24/116). No differences in terms of risk of infection were observed between the two groups (OR 1.04, 95% CI 0.42-2.55; P = .937). Patients undergoing SDS reconstruction in the limb/foot had a higher risk of infection in comparison with those undergoing SDS reconstruction in the chest/head (OR 2.69, 95% CI 1.06-6.86; P = .038). The short protocol was demonstrated to be beneficial to patients undergoing surgical reconstruction with SDS. A ≤ 24-hour perioperative antibiotic schedule did not increase the infection rate, potentially allowing a reduction of antibiotic exposure. © 2020 Medicalhelplines.com Inc and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.BACKGROUND Inflammation has an important role in cancer survival, yet whether serum markers of inflammation predict response to potentially curative neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OAC) is controversial. MEDICA16 cell line This study aimed to determine whether the systemic inflammatory response (SIR) is associated with response to NAC and survival. METHODS Consecutive patients with OAC planned for surgery with curative intent received blood neutrophil and lymphocyte measurements at diagnosis to calculate the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR). Pathological variables including pTNM stage, differentiation, vascular invasion and Mandard tumour regression grade (TRG) were recorded. TRGs 1 and 2 were taken to represent a good response, and the primary outcome was overall survival. RESULTS During follow-up of 136 patients, 36 patients (26·5 per cent) had recurrence and 69 (50·7 per cent) died. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis of NLR before NAC predicted poor TRG (area under the ROT (P less then  0,001), el estadio pN (P less then  0,001), una pobre diferenciación tumoral (P = 0,006), un margen positivo (P = 0,001), una pobre TRG (P = 0,014) y la NLR (dicotomizada a 2,25, P = 0,017) se asociaron con una pobre OS, pero solamente la NLR (cociente de riesgos instantáneos, hazard ratio, HR 2,28, i.c. del 95% 1,03-4,93, P = 0,042) conservó la significación estadística como variable independiente en el análisis multivariable. CONCLUSIÓN La NLR antes del tratamiento se asoció con respuesta patológica del OAC a la NAC y OS. © 2020 The Authors. BJS Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of BJS Society Ltd.COX15 mutations were shown to underlie Leigh syndrome (LS), a progressive subacute necrotizing encephalopathy caused by defects in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Here, two siblings of consanguineous kindred presented in infancy with a syndrome of hypotonia, nystagmus, psychomotor retardation, and pyramidal signs. Toward the end of their second year, both patients developed progressive quadriparesis, convulsions, and pseudobulbar palsy. Similar to two previously reported cases, one of the two affected siblings had severe hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, hearing loss, and no visual response. Through linkage analysis and whole-exome sequencing, we identified a homozygous p.R217W mutation in Cytochrome C oxidase assembly protein COX15 homolog. Consistent with the known heterogeneity of mitochondrial diseases in general and that of LS in particular, several phenotypic features were markedly distinguished between the affected siblings and in relation to previous reports of COX15 mutations. Interestingly, of the previously reported five cases of COX15-mutated patients, all of different ethnic origins, three had a p.