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No patients developed acute liver insufficiency, were admitted to the ICU, or had to undergo transplantation. Follow-up data (median of 1.3 years) were available for 30 patients. LTLI was observed in only one patient, who had previously received treatment with azoles. CONCLUSIONS Our study suggests that the administration of micafungin to patients with end-stage liver disease does not imply a higher risk of developing STLI or LTLI.Mast cells (MCs) are granular cells of the innate immune system which develop from CD34+/CD117+ progenitors and play a role in orchestrating adaptive immune responses. They have a well-known role in allergic reactions following immunoglobulin (Ig)E-mediated activation of the cell-surface expressed IgE high-affinity receptor (FcεRI). MCs can also respond to various other stimuli due to the expression of a variety of receptors including toll-like receptors (TLRs), immunoglobulin (IgG) receptors (FcγR), complement receptors such as C5a (CD88) expressed by skin MCs, neuropeptides receptors including nerve growth factor receptor, (NGFR), cytokines receptors such as (IL)-1R and IL-3R, and chemokines receptors including CCR-1 and CCR-3. MCs release three groups of mediators upon degranulation differentiated according to their chemical composition, storage, and time to release. These include preformed mediators (mainly histamine, tryptase, and chymase), de novo synthesized mediators such as prostaglandin (PG)D2, leukotriene (LT)B4 and LTD4, and cytokines including IL-1β, IL-3, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)α, and transforming growth factor(TGF)-β. Emerging evidence indicates a role for IgE-independent MC activation in the late-stage asthmatic response as well as in non-allergic airway diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and lung cancer. MC infiltration/activation has been reported in some, but not all, studies of lung cancer. MC-derived TNF-α possesses tumor-suppressive activity while IL-1β supports tumor progression and metastasis. In IPF lungs, an increase in density of tryptase- and chymase-positive MCs (MCTC) and overexpression of TGF-β support the fibrosis progression. MC-derived chymase activates latent TGF-β that induces the differentiation of fibroblasts to matrix-producing myofibroblasts. In summary, increasing evidence highlights a critical role of MCs in non-allergic diseases that may indicate new approaches for therapy.BACKGROUND Current practice for urinalysis mainly entails different manual or semi-automated procedures that generate substantial financial costs, as well as a high and time-consuming workload for laboratory personnel. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether the availability of integrated and fully automated urinalysis systems such as the UN-Series™ from Sysmex could resolve such concerns. METHODS The target population was established based on 92,459 urine samples, which is the total average number of urine samples collected in the clinical and microbiology laboratory department of La Mancha Centro Hospital over a 10-year period (2008-2018). Financial data were retrieved from the eSalud database. Reference and test scenarios were defined based on clinical features found in reports from public websites. The cost and savings analyses were based on total costs over a 1-year time frame for the reference and test scenarios. Selleck Setanaxib The total average annual time savings for laboratory personnel were also calculated. RESULTS The comparison of annual costs for current practice versus the automated examination of urine samples found average cost savings of €340,003 per year. Assessment of body fluids using the automated analysis system would provide average annual savings of €1063. The use of the UN-Series™ would save 1615 h annually for laboratory personnel. CONCLUSION Implementing the UN-Series™ for the automated analysis of urine samples within routine practice in clinical laboratories could minimise costs, provide substantial savings for investment and improve laboratory procedures. Furthermore, the UN-Series™ could contribute to synergy between clinical analysis and microbiology laboratories in Spain.SETTING There is a multitude of health equity tools but little guidance on how to effectively use these tools in public health nursing practice. In BC, public health nurses who are certified in sexually transmitted infection care utilize guidelines authorized by the nursing regulatory body. INTERVENTION As part of the Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) research project, an assessment of the nursing guideline, Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Assessment Decision Support Tool, was undertaken using the Assessing Equity in Clinical Practice Guidelines health equity assessment tool. The chosen tool is intended for use by health care providers, is broadly applicable to clinical practice guidelines, can be used retrospectively, and falls within the category of equity checklists and audits. OUTCOMES Overall, the tool was useful in assessing the inclusion and omission of an equity focus in the guideline. However, there were several challenges the identification of an appropriate health equity tool; the absence of an evaluation of the chosen tool; the tool's focus on chronic disease versus communicable disease; and the difficulty of obtaining client perspectives. IMPLICATIONS For an improved equity lens in the STI Assessment Decision Support Tool, future revisions should be equity focused and include perspectives from affected populations, an emphasis on the determinants of health that perpetuate inequities for populations who experience a disproportionate burden of STI, information on provincially available resources, and service delivery models that improve timely and equitable access to treatment and care.Pneumonectomy after traumatic lung injury (TLI) is associated with shock, increased pulmonary vascular resistance, and eventual right ventricular failure. Historically, trauma pneumonectomy (TP) mortality rates ranged between 53 and 100%. It is unclear if contemporary mortality rates have improved. Therefore, we evaluated outcomes associated with TP and limited lung resections (LLR) (i.e., lobectomy and segmentectomy) and aimed to identify predictors of mortality, hypothesizing that TP is associated with greater mortality versus LLR. We queried the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (2010-2016) and performed a multivariable logistic regression to determine the independent predictors of mortality in TLI patients undergoing TP versus LLR. TLI occurred in 287,276 patients. Of these, 889 required lung resection with 758 (85.3%) undergoing LLR and 131 (14.7%) undergoing TP. Patients undergoing TP had a higher median injury severity score (26.0 vs. 24.5, p = 0.03) but no difference in initial median systolic blood pressure (109 vs.