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To assess the impact of the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy held in Osaka City, Japan (G20 Osaka Summit) on the emergency medical services (EMS) system.

This study used the ORION database with its population-based registry of emergency patients comprising both ambulance and in-hospital records in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The G20 Osaka Summit was held in Osaka City from 28 to 29 June, 2019. Changes in the EMS system and traffic regulations in Osaka were made during the period from 27 to 30 June, but we focused on the two summit days as the G20 period. The control periods comprised the same calendar days 1week before and 1week after the G20 period. We evaluated differences in the number of emergency transports, difficulties in obtaining hospital acceptance of patients, deaths among hospitalized emergency patients, and ambulance transport times between the two periods.

In total, 2,590 cases in the G20 period and 5,152 cases in the control periods were registered. The relative risk of cases during the G20 versus control periods was 1.01 (0.96-1.05). Significant decreases were observed in the number of traffic accidents as ambulance calls (relative risk =0.77; 95% confidence interval, 0.64-0.91). There were no significant differences in difficulties in obtaining hospital acceptance or deaths among hospitalized emergency patients between the G20 and control periods. In addition, ambulance transport times during the G20 period were not significantly longer than those in the control periods.

The G20 Osaka Summit did not adversely impact the provision of emergency medical care in the Osaka area.

The G20 Osaka Summit did not adversely impact the provision of emergency medical care in the Osaka area.

Methanol poisoning is often suspected in patients with high anion gap metabolic acidosis and visual deficits. Although alcoholic ketoacidosis can cause high anion gap metabolic acidosis, reports on vision loss are limited. We report the case of a patient with alcoholic ketoacidosis with transient total blindness.

A 56-year-old man complaining of total blindness was transferred to our hospital. Physical examination revealed a clear consciousness and mydriasis with an absence of pupillary light reflex. Blood analysis revealed high anion gap metabolic acidosis with a high ketone body concentration. Alcoholic ketoacidosis was diagnosed because the patient had a chronic alcohol abuse history and denied methanol intake. As acidemia improved because of fluid infusion and glucose and vitamin B1 supplementation, his visual acuity recovered. He was discharged after 44days without visual deficits.

Patients with alcoholic ketoacidosis may present with acute vision loss, which recovers along with treatment.

Patients with alcoholic ketoacidosis may present with acute vision loss, which recovers along with treatment.Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, defined as resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin, have emerged as a major worldwide health threat. Spontaneous point mutations in various genes of M. tuberculosis cause resistance to isoniazid, with the most frequent gene target being katG; and resistance to rifampin is usually due to mutation in the rpoB gene. PCI-34051 purchase The current study was aimed to detect the point mutations in the katG and rpoB regions related to isoniazid and rifampin resistance. A total of 203 respiratory specimens were collected from patients suspected of having tuberculosis respiratory infections referred to hospitals of Tehran, Iran, during 2018-2019. The isolation and identification of M. tuberculosis isolates were performed according to the WHO protocol. Drug susceptibility testing was carried out by proportional method. PCR analysis and sequencing were used to detect mutations in the selected katG and rpoB regions. Forty-four M. tuberculosis strains were isolated, of which 12 (27.3%) and 10 (22.7%) were resistant to isoniazid and rifampin, respectively. Ten isolates were resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin and were considered as MDR isolates. Of the ten MDR isolates, six (60%) carried mutations in both rpoB and katG. The most common mutations among isoniazid- and rifampin-resistant isolates were in codon 315 of the katG gene (70%) and codon 441 of the rpoB gene (50%), respectively. The results of this study indicated that MDR-TB continues to be a serious public health problem in Iran.Pulmonary pleomorphic carcinoma (PPC) is a poorly differentiated non-small cell lung cancer. Because of its rarity, no standard therapy has been established for advanced disease. We herein report on a 62-year-old man with recurrent post-operative PPC, for whom durvalumab after chemoradiotherapy was effective. He was referred to our hospital because of an abnormal shadow in the right upper lung on chest X-ray. After surgical resection was performed, the imaging and histopathological findings revealed PPC (T4N0M0, stage IIIA) with elevated expression of programmed cell death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). A metastasis was found in the left hemithorax 22 months later, and chemoradiotherapy consisting of 60 Gy of radiation and cisplatin plus tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil potassium was administered. Durvalumab was then begun as consolidation therapy. The efficacy of the treatments has continued for longer than 10 months. This case suggests that multidisciplinary treatment with chemoradiotherapy and consolidation immunotherapy may improve the prognosis of locally advanced PPC.A 28-year-old man had a cavitary lesion in the upper right lobe with a tree-in-bud appearance on chest computed tomography (CT). Diagnostic bronchoscopy was performed. An ultrathin bronchoscope in the right B2aiiβxyy reached the cavity. We filled the cavity with saline under direct bronchoscopic visualization. We suspected a blood vessel was present in the cavity wall based on narrow-band imaging. Bronchial lavage of the cavity was performed. Next, endobronchial ultrasonography (EBUS) using a guide sheath was performed with a thin bronchoscope. EBUS showed a pulsating blood vessel in the cavity wall. Bronchial lavage collected with ultrathin and thin bronchoscopy revealed Mycobacterium kansasii. Observation of vessels in the wall of a cavitary lesion with ultrathin bronchoscopy and EBUS may be useful for avoiding severe bleeding associated with biopsy of a cavitary lesion.

Gene-environment interactions are relevant for several respiratory diseases. This communication raises the hypothesis that the severity of COVID-19, a complex disease where the individual response to the infection may play a significant role, could partly result from a gene-environment interaction between air-pollution and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) genes.

To evaluate the impact of the AAT and air pollution interaction on COVID-19, we introduced an AAT*air pollution global risk score summing together, in each country, an air pollution score (ozone, nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter) and an AAT score (which sums the ranked frequency of MZ, SZ, MS). We compared this global score with the ranking of European countries in terms of death number per million persons.

The ranking of the AAT*air pollution global risk score matched the ranking of the countries in terms of the observed COVID-19 deaths per 1M inhabitants, namely in the case of the first European countries Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy, Sweden, France. We observed parallelism between the number of COVID deaths and the AAT*air pollution global risk in Europe. AAT anti-protease, immune-modulating and coagulation-modulating activities may explain this finding, although very speculatively.

Even if further studies taking into account genetic background, population density, temporal dynamics of individual epidemics, access to healthcare, social disparities and immunological response to SARS-CoV2 are needed, our preliminary observation urges to open a discussion on gene-environment interactions in COVID-19.

Even if further studies taking into account genetic background, population density, temporal dynamics of individual epidemics, access to healthcare, social disparities and immunological response to SARS-CoV2 are needed, our preliminary observation urges to open a discussion on gene-environment interactions in COVID-19.

Surgical spinal anesthesia is usually maintained for approximately 3h with bupivacaine, but it is difficult to accurately predict the duration of surgery for each case. When an operation continues for an extended duration, regression of spinal anesthesia often leads to general anesthesia. Here we present a case of extended spinal anesthesia assisted by monitored anesthesia care.

A 32-year-old male who suffered from persistent pain of the right knee was diagnosed with rupture of the right anterior cruciate ligament. Arthroscopic surgery of the right knee was conducted with spinal anesthesia. A local anesthetic mixture of 0.5% hyperbaric bupivacaine 12 mg with 50 μg of epinephrine was used. The surgery took longer than expected with a total anesthesia time of 402 minutes. In the final 30 minutes of surgery, spinal anesthesia regressed and the procedure was completed under monitored anesthesia care (MAC).

When spinal anesthesia is on regression during the final stage of surgery, the application of MAC safely secures additional operation time. By adopting MAC, the patient avoided general anesthesia and had minimal physiological distress and a rapid recovery. Another benefit of MAC is the reduced consumption of resources. Further, by avoiding endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation, the risk of transmission of infectious agents is minimized.

In situations where spinal anesthesia is regressing close to the end of a surgical procedure, the application of MAC has potential benefits over general anesthesia. These benefits are particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic.

In situations where spinal anesthesia is regressing close to the end of a surgical procedure, the application of MAC has potential benefits over general anesthesia. These benefits are particularly relevant during the current COVID-19 pandemic.Mental health problems are prevalent and an important issue in medicine. However, clinical diagnosis of mental health problems is costly, time-consuming, and often significantly delayed, which highlights the need for novel methods to identify them. Previous psycholinguistic and psychiatry research has suggested that the use of metaphors in texts is linked to the mental health status of the authors. In this paper, we propose a method for automatically detecting metaphors in texts to predict various mental health problems, specifically anxiety, depression, inferiority, sensitivity, social phobias, and obsession. We perform experiments on a composition dataset collected from second-language students and on the eRisk2017 dataset collected from Social Media. The experimental results show that our approach can help predict mental health problems in authors of written texts, and our algorithm performs better than other state-of-the-art methods. In addition, we report that the use of metaphors even in nonnative languages can be indicative of various mental health problems.

Peritoneal infection following pleural empyema is not a common occurrence. Concomitant pleural empyema and peritonitis have been described in the literature mostly in immunocompromised patients with different pathogenic mechanisms and a wide array of microorganisms. Here we report a case of concomitant pleural empyema and peritonitis with an unusual microorganism in an immunocompetent host.

The patient is a 42-year-old man with a history of 2 weeks epigastric pain who had been referred for surgical consult after failure of outpatient medical therapy. Physical examination at emergency ward revealed generalized abdominal guarding, tenderness and rebound tenderness. On emergent laparotomy, the peritoneal cavity was full of malodor pus. All abdominal viscera were intact but there was a 2x2 centimeter defect in the top of left hemi-diaphragm. Pus originated from the left thoracic cavity and then drained to the peritoneal cavity.

grew in the culture of aspirated pleural fluid. After abdominal lavage and chest tube drainage and receiving 14 days course of parenteral antibiotics, the patient experienced marked clinical improvement.