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Massive proteinuria in nephrotic syndrome causes depletion of various proteins. Iron deficiency can occur due to urinary loss of iron, transferrin, and soluble transferrin receptors. We conducted this cross-sectional study of 52 children with proteinuric nephrotic syndrome, aged 1-12 years (mean 7.1±2.7 years). Hemoglobin (Hb), RBC indices (MCV, MCH, MCHC), percentage of hypochromic RBCs (Hypo-He), reticulocyte hemoglobin content (Ret-He), and serum ferritin were examined. Seven (13%) patients had iron deficiency anemia and another 10 (19%) exhibited iron deficiency. A higher proportion of children with steroid-resistant disease had anemia than did steroid-sensitive children (P=0.076). Thus, children with nephrotic syndrome may have iron deficiency (32.7%), which needs to be screened.Adults who as children were adopted into a different linguistic community retain knowledge of their birth language. The possession (without awareness) of such knowledge is known to facilitate the (re)learning of birth-language speech patterns; this perceptual learning predicts such adults' production success as well, indicating that the retained linguistic knowledge is abstract in nature. Adoptees' acquisition of their adopted language is fast and complete; birth-language mastery disappears rapidly, although this latter process has been little studied. Here, 46 international adoptees from China aged four to 10 years, with Dutch as their new language, plus 47 matched non-adopted Dutch-native controls and 40 matched non-adopted Chinese controls, undertook across a two-week period 10 blocks of training in perceptually identifying Chinese speech contrasts (one segmental, one tonal) which were unlike any Dutch contrasts. Chinese controls easily accomplished all these tasks. The same participants also provided speech production data in an imitation task. In perception, adoptees and Dutch controls scored equivalently poorly at the outset of training; with training, the adoptees significantly improved while the Dutch controls did not. In production, adoptees' imitations both before and after training could be better identified, and received higher goodness ratings, than those of Dutch controls. The perception results confirm that birth-language knowledge is stored and can facilitate re-learning in post-adoption childhood; the production results suggest that although processing of phonological category detail appears to depend on access to the stored knowledge, general articulatory dimensions can at this age also still be remembered, and may facilitate spoken imitation.Somatic evolution of cells within the body is well known to lead to cancers. However, spread of somatic mutations within a tissue over time may also contribute to the pathogenesis of non-neoplastic diseases. Recent years have seen the publication of many studies aiming to characterize somatic evolution in healthy tissues. A logical next step is to extend such work to diseased conditions. As our understanding of the interplay between somatic mutations and non-neoplastic disease grows, opportunities for the joint study of germline and somatic variants will present themselves. Here, we present our thoughts on the utility of somatic mutations for understanding both the causes and consequences of common complex disease and the challenges that remain for the joint study of the soma and germline.Increased nucleated red blood cell (NRBC) counts have been reported to be associated with adverse fetal outcomes, and cord blood units (CBUs) with increased NRBC counts require a 2nd questionnaire to determine their suitability for transplantation. However, a recent study demonstrated a positive correlation of NRBCs with CD34+ cells and total nucleated cells (TNCs). We evaluated the association between the NRBC count and hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) content (TNC and CD34+ cell counts) in Korean full-term newborn CBUs. In addition, we assessed whether an increased NRBC count is associated with newborn health problems that impair CBU safety. Among the 32,876 units processed from May 2006 to December 2018, a total of 23,385 CBUs with a TNC count ≥ 7 × 108 and reliable perinatal information were analyzed to assess the association of the NRBC count with CBU parameters, and the newborns associated with 457 CBUs that required the 2nd questionnaire due to an increased NRBC (≥ 15 NRBCs/100 WBCs) were assessed a. Moreover, providing the NRBC count together with the NRBC-corrected TNC count will be useful for clinicians to select CBUs for transplantation.Asthma is a public health problem in patients of any age, although there is still a tendency to erroneously assume that it is almost always confined to children and young people. Epidemiological studies indicate that, from the sixth decade of life, the prevalence of this disease in countries such as Spain reaches 6-10%, with a higher prevalence among women aged 64 to 75 years. In addition, two-thirds of asthma deaths occur at this stage of life, resulting in a substantial number of hospital admissions, longer hospital stays and, from a finance point of view, significant direct economic costs. Asthma in older adults (65 years or older) is now a matter of great concern, the reality of which is underestimated and undertreated. It is therefore essential to establish appropriate recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma in the aging population. This consensus, which brings together the latest evidence available, was conceived with this objective. The proposed recommendations/conclusions are the result of a nominal consensus developed throughout 2019 and validated by panellists in successive rounds of voting.Canada is the only high-income country with a universal healthcare system that does not provide prescription drug coverage for all its residents. This study examines whether Canadians' prescription drug coverage status is associated with their health services use and how this association differs by gender across non-migrants and three categories of migrants economic immigrants, family-class immigrants, and refugees. Very few studies have examined differences across these migrant groups, and there is a need to do so as they experience varying health disparities. This study contributes to the prescription drug coverage, migration and health literature by employing an intersectional lens to analyze a sample of Ontario working-aged residents (n=39,792) generated from linking the Canadian Community Health Survey (2005, 2008, 2013, 2014) and Longitudinal Immigrant Database. Predicted probabilities and average marginal effects from multivariable logistic regression models were generated, and interaction effects between prescription drug coverage and immigrant status were examined. The study reveals important differences in the use of health services across prescription drug coverage groups by immigration status. As the general debate about universal pharmacare in Canada is ongoing, this study reveals that drug insurance is positively associated with health services use of most migrants and non-migrants, however, some immigrant women may still experience barriers to access general practitioner services. If pharmacare is introduced, ongoing evaluation is needed to ensure that its implementation produces equitable outcomes for all.Since the late 2000s, the Greek economy has entered a long period of recession, with reforms and retrenchment in health care being among the main public policy priorities. This study investigates the extent to which financial protection in health has changed among older households during the Greek crisis. We focus on the middle-aged and elderly, the heavy users of health services, who have faced a substantial health and financial burden during the crisis. Our analysis shows that the headcount and overshoot of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) substantially increased from 2007 to 2015, suggesting that financial protection has eroded to a great extent. Prior to the crisis, CHE was mainly due to inpatient care, followed by outpatient care and medicines. However, the contribution of spending for outpatient medicines to CHE substantially increased during the study period. The headcount of CHE rose across all socioeconomic groups we examined, with low-income households and households with chronic patients being disproportionately affected. In 2007, we do not report signs of socioeconomic inequalities in the risk of CHE. On the contrary, our results show that households of low socioeconomic status are more likely to incur CHE in 2015, revealing substantial inequalities in the risk of CHE. This finding raises significant distributional and equity concerns. Strengthening financial protection among older households is an imperative challenge for the Greek health system, and several policy responses need to be adopted towards this direction.

Persistent Gastrocutaneous Fistula (GCF) is common problem encountered in the pediatric population. Several management options for intervening on pediatric persistent GCF have been described and range from open surgical management to medical management. Here we describe a novel adaptation on a previously described technique that utilizes a punch biopsy to excise the GCF we have coined as Punch Excision of Epithelialized Tracts (PEET).

The steps to this procedure include passing a punch biopsy tool over a Foley catheter. The catheter is inserted into the GCF tract, the balloon is inflated, the catheter is retracted against the abdominal wall, and the punch biopsy instrument is pushed through the skin and subcutaneous tissue circumferentially excising the tract.

Four patients at our institution have undergone GCF excision using the PEET approach. Mean duration of the GCF in our four patients was 9 months. Mean follow-up after GCF excision using the PEET approach was 7.8 months. No patients in the cohort had any post-operative complications including surgical site wound infection, emergency department visits, or re-hospitalizations related to their surgical care.

Based on our preliminary findings in this small patient cohort, we believe the PEET approach for managing persistent pediatric GCF has short-term efficacy and has the potential upside of utilizing fewer hospital resources to perform the procedure in a time-efficient manner.

Based on our preliminary findings in this small patient cohort, we believe the PEET approach for managing persistent pediatric GCF has short-term efficacy and has the potential upside of utilizing fewer hospital resources to perform the procedure in a time-efficient manner.

Carcinoid crises, defined as the sudden onset of hemodynamic instability in patients with neuroendocrine tumors undergoing operation, are associated with significantly increased risk of postoperative complications. Octreotide has been used prophylactically to reduce crisis rates as well as therapeutically to treat crises that still occur. However, studies using octreotide still report crisis rates of 3.4% to 35%, leading to the questioning of its efficacy.

Patients with neuroendocrine tumors undergoing operation between 2017 to 2020 with no perioperative octreotide were prospectively studied. Clinicopathologic data were compared by χ

test for discrete variables and by Mann-Whitney U test for continuous variables.

One hundred and seventy-one patients underwent 195 operations. U0126 nmr Crisis was documented in 49 operations (25%), with a mean duration of 3 minutes. Crisis was more likely to occur in patients with small bowel primary tumors (P= .012), older age (P= .015), and carcinoid syndrome (P < .001). Those with crises were more likely to have major postoperative complications (P= .