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Institutions across the world have observed a decrease in the incidence of preterm births during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The reason for this reduction remains unknown.
We sought to explore potential causes for the decrease in preterm births by exploring the following 3 hypotheses (1) do women who are more likely to be able to work from home incur less physical/or emotional stress resulting in longer gestation? (2) Does the effect of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the incidence of preterm births vary by race? (3) Is this change provider driven?
Using a retrospective cohort of all singleton deliveries at a single tertiary care center, we compared the deliveries for the period before the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic (January 1, 2018-January 31, 2020) with those occurring during the pandemic (April 1, 2020-October 27, 2020). Comparisons between the period before and during the pandemic were made using Pearson chi-square or t tests as appropriate. The overall incidence of pretered women with more indicators of advantage disproportionately more.
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of perioperative (pre- or intraoperative) intravenous acetaminophen in improving postcesarean pain control in healthy women receiving regional anesthesia.
MEDLINE, Ovid, ClinicalTrials.gov, and Scopus were searched from their inception to September 2019.
A systematic review of the literature was performed to identify all randomized placebo-controlled trials examining the effect of perioperative intravenous acetaminophen on postcesarean pain control and other postoperative outcomes. Included trials examined women who were healthy and received regional anesthesia before cesarean delivery at term.
The primary outcome was 24-hour postoperative pain scores with movement as measured by the individual studies. Secondary outcomes included intravenous morphine milligram equivalents used postoperatively. Meta-analysis was performed using the random effects model of DerSimonian and Laird, to produce summary treatment effects in terms of mean difference with 95% confiden, these patients did not receive long-acting neuraxial opioids, which may account for the finding of improved pain control in the early postoperative period.
There are limited data available on the use of perioperative intravenous acetaminophen for cesarean delivery performed at term with regional anesthesia. The use of long-acting neuraxial opioids may make perioperative (pre- or intracesarean) intravenous acetaminophen unnecessary, whereas intravenous (or oral) acetaminophen may become more effective as neuraxial opioid analgesia wears off. More level-1 data are needed.
There are limited data available on the use of perioperative intravenous acetaminophen for cesarean delivery performed at term with regional anesthesia. The use of long-acting neuraxial opioids may make perioperative (pre- or intracesarean) intravenous acetaminophen unnecessary, whereas intravenous (or oral) acetaminophen may become more effective as neuraxial opioid analgesia wears off. More level-1 data are needed.
Juvenile-onset fibromyalgia (JFM) is a chronic debilitating pain condition that negatively impacts physical, social and academic functioning. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is beneficial in reducing functional disability among adolescents with JFM but has only a modest impact on pain reduction and does not improve physical exercise participation. This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aims to test whether a novel intervention that combines CBT with specialized neuromuscular exercise training (the Fibromyalgia Integrative Training program for Teens "FIT Teens") is superior to CBT alone or a graded aerobic exercise (GAE) program.
This 3-arm multi-site RCT will examine the efficacy of the FIT Teens intervention in reducing functional disability (primary outcome) and pain intensity (secondary outcome), relative to CBT or GAE. All interventions are 8-weeks (16 sessions) in duration and are delivered in small groups of 4-6 adolescents with JFM. A total of 420 participants are anticipated to be enrolled across seven sites with approximately equal allocation to each treatment arm. Functional disability and average pain intensity in the past week will be assessed at baseline, post-treatment and at 3-, 6-, 9- and 12-month follow-up. The 3-month follow-up is the primary endpoint to evaluate treatment efficacy; longitudinal assessments will determine maintenance of treatment gains. Changes in coping, fear of movement, biomechanical changes and physical fitness will also be evaluated.
This multi-site RCT is designed to evaluate whether the combined FIT Teens intervention will have significantly greater effects on disability and pain reduction than CBT or GAE alone for youth with JFM. Clinical trials.gov registration NCT03268421.
This multi-site RCT is designed to evaluate whether the combined FIT Teens intervention will have significantly greater effects on disability and pain reduction than CBT or GAE alone for youth with JFM. Clinical trials.gov registration NCT03268421.
Spine surgery with posterior approaches may involve extensive manipulation of native structures, resulting in significant postoperative pain. Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) is an injectable analgesic that has demonstrated efficacy in decreasing postoperative pain and opioid requirements in patients across multiple surgical subspecialties.
To consolidate and analyze the findings of retrospective cohort-matched studies and prospective randomized controlled trials investigating the use of LB in spine surgery.
A systematic review.
Retrospective cohort-matched studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) investigating the efficacy of injected LB in spinal surgery compared with a control/no treatment group.
MEDLINE, Cochrane controlled trials register, and Google Scholar were searched to identify all studies that examined the effect of LB use on outcomes in spine surgery. Our search identified 10 articles that independently evaluated the effect of LB on reduction of postoperative opioid use, pain scores, hin spine surgery.
Low-quality evidence suggests that liposomal bupivacaine may safely decrease postoperative opioid requirements, pain scores, and length of stay in patients undergoing spine surgery, whereas moderate-quality evidence does not support its use at this time. Therefore, additional standardized well-powered prospective studies are necessary to more clearly assess the efficacy of LB in spine surgery.
Hepatoblastoma (HB), the most common pediatric liver cancer, often bears β-catenin mutations and deregulates the Hippo tumor suppressor pathway. Murine HBs can be generated by co-expressing β-catenin mutants and the constitutively active Hippo effector YAP
. Some HBs and other cancers also express mutants of NFE2L2/NRF2 (NFE2L2), a transcription factor that tempers oxidative and electrophilic stress. In doing so, NFE2L2 either suppresses or facilitates tumorigenesis.
We evaluated NFE2L2's role in HB pathogenesis by co-expressing all combinations of mutant β-catenin, YAP
, and the patient-derived NFE2L2 mutants L30P and R34P in murine livers. We evaluated growth, biochemical and metabolic profiles, and transcriptomes of the ensuing tumors.
In association with β-catenin+YAP
, L30P and R34P markedly accelerated HB growth and generated widespread cyst formation and necrosis, which are otherwise uncommon features. Surprisingly, any 2 members of the mutant β-catenin-YAP
-L30P/R34P triad were tumorigenic, thus directly establishing NFE2L2's oncogenicity. Each tumor group displayed distinct features but shared 22 similarly deregulated transcripts, 10 of which perfectly correlated with survival in human HBs and 17 of which correlated with survival in multiple adult cancers. One highly up-regulated transcript encoded serpin E1, a serine protease inhibitor that regulates fibrinolysis, growth, and extracellular matrix. Although the combination of mutant β-catenin, YAP
, and serpin E1 did not accelerate cystogenic tumor growth, it did promote the widespread necrosis associated with mutant β-catenin-YAP
-L30P/R34P tumors.
Our findings establish the direct oncogenicity of NFE2L2 mutants and key transcripts, including serpin E1, that drive specific HB features.
Our findings establish the direct oncogenicity of NFE2L2 mutants and key transcripts, including serpin E1, that drive specific HB features.
There are few studies exploring the pathophysiological pathways that may condition differentially the emergence/course of neurodevelopmental disorders (ND) in very preterm and extremely preterm newborns (VPTN/EPTN). Furthermore, there are no established biological markers predictive of ND in this population. The aim of this study is four-fold in two cohorts of VPTN/EPTN (i) to characterize the emergence/course of ND up to corrected-age 6 years, (ii) to identify those factors (from prenatal stages up to age 6 years) that explain the interindividual differences related to emergence/course of ND, (iii) to identify in the first hours/days of life a urinary metabolomic biomarker profile predictive of ND, and (iv) to determine longitudinally variations in DNA methylation patterns predictive of ND.
Observational, longitudinal, prospective, six-year follow-up, multicentre collaborative study. Two cohorts are being recruited the PeriSTRESS-Valencia-cohort (n=26 VPTN, 18 EPTN, and 122 born-at-term controls), and the PremTEA-Madrid-cohort (n=49 EPTN and n=29 controls).
We describe the rationale, objectives and design of the PeriSTRESS-PremTEA project and show a description at birth of the recruited samples.
The PeriSTRESS-PremTEA project could help improve early identification of clinical, environmental and biological variables involved in the physiopathology of ND in VPTN/EPTN. It could also help to improve the early identification of non-invasive ND biomarkers in this population. This may allow early ND detection as well as early and personalised intervention for these children.
The PeriSTRESS-PremTEA project could help improve early identification of clinical, environmental and biological variables involved in the physiopathology of ND in VPTN/EPTN. It could also help to improve the early identification of non-invasive ND biomarkers in this population. This may allow early ND detection as well as early and personalised intervention for these children.This study was aimed to explore the metabolomical mechanisms for the potentially ameliorative effect of cyst(e)ine (Cys) fortification on growth performance of broilers fed low crude protein (CP) diet. A total of 432 1-d-old broilers were randomly divided into 6 groups, each of which received one of the following diets normal-CP diet (positive control, PC), low-CP diet (negative control, NC), NC diet fortified with 0.05%, 0.1%, 0.15% or 0.2% of Cys. Samples were collected on d 42. Results showed that increasing Cys fortification quadratically elevated (P less then 0.05) the accumulative growth performance and leg muscle yield of broilers fed NC diet, with 0.1% being the optimal dose. this website Thus, samples from PC, NC and NC plus 0.1% Cys (NCC) groups were selected for further analysis. Both dietary CP reduction and fortification of 0.1% Cys in NC diet caused complex changes (P less then 0.05) in serum amino acids and some other metabolites primarily involved in lipid metabolism. Multiple lipogenesis-related pathways were regulated (P less then 0.