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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38537062/late-cytomegalovirus-disease-after-hematopoietic-cell-transplantation-significance-of-novel-transplantation-techniques
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alicja Sadowska-Klasa, Sezen Özkök, Hu Xie, Wendy M Leisenring, Danniel Zamora, Sachiko Seo, Jordan Sheldon, Stephanie J Lee, Keith R Jerome, Margaret L Green, Michael J Boeckh
Pre-emptive therapy (PET) and letermovir prophylaxis are effective in preventing CMV disease within the first 100 days after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) but are associated with late-onset CMV disease. We retrospectively examined the clinical manifestations, risk factors, prevention algorithm, and outcome of late CMV disease in CMV seropositive day 100 survivors transplanted between 2001-2017 (PET cohort) and 2018-2021 (letermovir cohort). There were 187 episodes of late CMV disease among 2469 day 100 survivors and the estimated cumulative incidence of first late CMV disease was 6...
March 27, 2024: Blood Advances
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536705/from-animal-models-to-gut-on-chip-the-challenging-journey-to-capture-inter-individual-variability-in-chronic-digestive-disorders
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aicha Kriaa, Vincent Mariaule, Charlotte De Rudder, Amin Jablaoui, Harry Sokol, Paul Wilmes, Emmanuelle Maguin, Moez Rhimi
Chronic digestive disorders are of increasing incidence worldwide with expensive treatments and no available cure. Available therapeutic schemes mainly rely on symptom relief, with large degrees of variability in patients' response to such treatments, underlining the need for new therapeutic strategies. There are strong indications that the gut microbiota's contribution seems to be a key modulator of disease activity and patients' treatment responses. Hence, efforts have been devoted to understanding host-microbe interactions and the mechanisms underpinning such variability...
2024: Gut Microbes
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536701/the-milan-score-a-novel-manometric-tool-for-a-more-efficient-diagnosis-of-gastro-esophageal-reflux-disease
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stefano Siboni, Marco Sozzi, Ivan Kristo, Sara Boveri, Benjamin D Rogers, Nicola De Bortoli, Anthony Hobson, Brian E Louie, Yeong Yeh Lee, Salvatore Tolone, Elisa Marabotto, Pierfrancesco Visaggi, Jordan Haworth, Megan L Ivy, Garrett Greenan, Takahiro Masuda, Roberto Penagini, Benedetta Barcella, Marina Coletta, Dimitrios Theodorou, Tania Triantafyllou, Chiara Facchini, Vincent Tee, Luigi Bonavina, Lorenzo Cusmai, Sebastian F Schoppmann, Edoardo Savarino, Emanuele Asti, C Prakash Gyawali
OBJECTIVE: A definitive diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) depends on endoscopic and/or pH-study criteria. However, high resolution manometry (HRM) can identify factors predicting GERD, such as ineffective esophageal motility (IEM), esophago-gastric junction contractile integral (EGJ-CI), evaluating esophagogastric junction (EGJ) type and straight leg raise (SLR) maneuver response. We aimed to build and externally validate a manometric score (Milan Score) to stratify the risk and severity of the disease in patients undergoing HRM for suspected GERD...
March 27, 2024: United European Gastroenterology Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536623/gut-barrier-dysfunction-and-the-risk-of-icu-acquired-bacteremia-a-case-control-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Meri R J Varkila, Diana M Verboom, Lennie P G Derde, Tom van der Poll, Marc J M Bonten, Olaf L Cremer
BACKGROUND: Impaired intestinal barrier function can enable passage of enteric microorganisms into the bloodstream and lead to nosocomial bloodstream infections during critical illness. We aimed to determine the relative importance of gut translocation as a source for ICU-acquired enterococcal bacteremia of unknown origin. METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study in two mixed medical-surgical tertiary ICUs in the Netherlands among patients enrolled between 2011 and 2018...
March 27, 2024: Annals of Intensive Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536603/a-case-of-young-male-with-recurrent-acute-pancreatitis-caused-by-an-intrapancreatic-gastric-duplication-cyst
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sayaka Miyamoto, Yasutaka Ishii, Masahiro Serikawa, Yumiko Tatsukawa, Shinya Nakamura, Juri Ikemoto, Yosuke Tamura, Kenichiro Uemura, Koji Arihiro, Shiro Oka
Gastric duplication cyst (GDC) is a rare gastrointestinal malformation that frequently occurs in the greater curvature of the gastric antrum or corpus. Herein, we reported a case of intrapancreatic GDC found as a result of recurring pancreatitis. A 15-year-old man experienced repeated episodes of acute pancreatitis and was found to have a cystic lesion in the pancreatic tail. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed a 20-mm cystic lesion with an enhanced thick wall. Endoscopic ultrasonography revealed an anechoic cyst with a three-layered wall...
March 27, 2024: Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536602/endoscopic-loco-regional-treatment-in-controlling-pancreatic-neuroendocrine-tumors-pnets-behavior-a-case-series-and-literature-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cosmas Rinaldi Adithya Lesmana
Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are considered rare pancreatic neoplasms, and it is a challenging disease entity due to its indolent behavior and is difficult to manage. Diagnostic challenge is usually found in the imaging-based approach, such as transabdominal ultrasound, abdominal CT scan, and abdominal MRI. Surgery is still the main key player in controlling the disease. The main problems in clinical practice are the early detection of small PNETs lesion and non-functional PNET (NF-PNET) cases. Most cases usually come with large tumor size or metastatic disease...
March 27, 2024: Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536586/prevalence-of-and-factors-associated-with-financial-toxicity-after-pancreatectomy-and-gastrectomy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yuki Hirata, Connie To, Heather Lyu, Grace L Smith, Joyce P Samuel, Hop S Tran Cao, Brian D Badgwell, Matthew H G Katz, Naruhiko Ikoma
BACKGROUND: Financial toxicity (FT) refers to the adverse impact of cancer treatment costs on patients' experiences, potentially leading to poor adherence to treatment and outcomes. However, the prevalence of FT among patients undergoing major upper gastrointestinal cancer operations, as well as factors associated with FT, remain unclear. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study by sending the Comprehensive Score for financial Toxicity (COST) survey and Surgery-Q (a survey specifically developed for this study) to patients who underwent gastrectomy or pancreatectomy for malignant disease at our institution in 2019-2021...
March 27, 2024: Annals of Surgical Oncology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536483/cacna2d1-regulates-the-progression-and-influences-the-microenvironment-of-colon-cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hiroyuki Inoue, Atsushi Shiozaki, Toshiyuki Kosuga, Hiroki Shimizu, Michihiro Kudou, Tomohiro Arita, Hirotaka Konishi, Shuhei Komatsu, Yoshiaki Kuriu, Takeshi Kubota, Hitoshi Fujiwara, Yukiko Morinaga, Eiichi Konishi, Eigo Otsuji
BACKGROUND: Calcium voltage-gated channel auxiliary subunit alpha 2/delta 1 (CACNA2D1), a gene encoding a voltage-gated calcium channel, has been reported as an oncogene in several cancers. However, its role in colon cancer (CC) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the function of CACNA2D1 and its effect on the microenvironment in CC. METHODS: Immunohistochemistry (IHC) analysis was performed on samples collected from 200 patients with CC who underwent curative colectomy...
March 27, 2024: Journal of Gastroenterology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536425/integrated-pretreatment-diffusion-kurtosis-imaging-and-serum-squamous-cell-carcinoma-antigen-levels-a-biomarker-strategy-for-early-assessment-of-radiotherapy-outcomes-in-cervical-cancer
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Xiang Zheng, Fangmin Shen, Wenjuan Chen, Wang Ren, Shaoliang Tang
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to explore the utility of pretreatment DKI parameters and serum SCC-Ag in evaluating the early therapeutic response of cervical cancer to radiotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 33 patients diagnosed with cervical cancer, including 31 cases of cervical squamous cell carcinoma and two cases of adenosquamous carcinoma, participated in the study. All patients underwent conventional MRI and DKI scans on a 3T magnetic resonance scanner before radiotherapy and after ten sessions of radiotherapy...
March 27, 2024: Abdominal Radiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535863/a-preliminary-study-assessing-a-transfer-learning-approach-to-intestinal-image-analysis-to-help-determine-treatment-response-in-canine-protein-losing-enteropathy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aarti Kathrani, Isla Trewin, Kenneth Ancheta, Androniki Psifidi, Sophie Le Calvez, Jonathan Williams
Dogs with protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) caused by inflammatory enteritis, intestinal lymphangiectasia, or both, have a guarded prognosis, with death occurring as a result of the disease in approximately 50% of cases. Although dietary therapy alone is significantly associated with a positive outcome, there is limited ability to differentiate between food-responsive (FR) PLE and immunosuppressant-responsive (IR) PLE at diagnosis in dogs. Our objective was to determine if a transfer learning computational approach to image classification on duodenal biopsy specimens collected at diagnosis was able to differentiate FR-PLE from IR-PLE...
March 14, 2024: Veterinary Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535842/neonatal-calf-diarrhea-and-gastrointestinal-microbiota-etiologic-agents-and-microbiota-manipulation-for-treatment-and-prevention-of-diarrhea
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REVIEW
Emma Jessop, Lynna Li, David L Renaud, Adronie Verbrugghe, Jennifer Macnicol, Lisa Gamsjäger, Diego E Gomez
Neonatal calf diarrhea is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality globally. The changes associated with the gastrointestinal microbiota in neonatal calves experiencing diarrhea and its etiology are not fully understood or completely defined in the literature. Several studies have demonstrated that the fecal microbiota of calves that experience diarrhea substantially deviates from that of healthy age-matched calves. However, one key question remains: whether the changes observed in the bacterial communities (also known as dysbiosis) are a predisposing factor for, or the consequence of, gastrointestinal inflammation caused by the pathogens associated with calf diarrhea...
February 29, 2024: Veterinary Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535578/current-knowledge-of-enterococcal-endocarditis-a-disease-lurking-in-plain-sight-of-health-providers
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REVIEW
Francesco Nappi
Enterococcus faecalis is a bacterial pathogen that can cause opportunistic infections. Studies indicate that initial biofilm formation plays a crucial regulatory role in these infections, as well as in colonising and maintaining the gastrointestinal tract as a commensal member of the microbiome of most land animals. It has long been thought that vegetation of endocarditis resulting from bacterial attachment to the endocardial endothelium requires some pre-existing tissue damage, and in animal models of experimental endocarditis, mechanical valve damage is typically induced by cardiac catheterisation preceding infection...
March 7, 2024: Pathogens
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535499/modulation-of-the-mas-related-g-protein-coupled-receptor-x2-mrgprx2-by-xenobiotic-compounds-and-its-relevance-to-human-diseases
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REVIEW
Alicja Dziadowiec, Iwona Popiolek, Mateusz Kwitniewski, Grzegorz Porebski
Mast cells (MCs) are immune cells that reside in tissues; particularly in the skin, and in the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts. In recent years, there has been considerable interest in the Mas-Related G Protein-Coupled Receptor X2 (MRGPRX2), which is present on the surface of MCs and can be targeted by multiple exogenous and endogenous ligands. It is potentially implicated in non-IgE-mediated pseudoallergic reactions and inflammatory conditions such as asthma or atopic dermatitis. In this paper, we review natural products and herbal medicines that may potentially interact with MRGPRX2...
March 13, 2024: Journal of Xenobiotics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535317/integrative-multiomics-approach-to-skin-the-sinergy-between-individualised-medicine-and-futuristic-precision-skin-care
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REVIEW
Angelica Dessì, Roberta Pintus, Vassilios Fanos, Alice Bosco
The skin is a complex ecosystem colonized by millions of microorganisms, the skin microbiota, which are crucial in regulating not only the physiological functions of the skin but also the metabolic changes underlying the onset of skin diseases. The high microbial colonization together with a low diversity at the phylum level and a high diversity at the species level of the skin is very similar to that of the gastrointestinal tract. Moreover, there is an important communication pathway along the gut-brain-skin axis, especially associated with the modulation of neurotransmitters by the microbiota...
March 7, 2024: Metabolites
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38535207/a-novel-carmil2-immunodeficiency-identified-in-a-subset-of-cavalier-king-charles-spaniels-with-pneumocystis-and-bordetella-pneumonia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emily L Coffey, Liang Ma, Ousmane H Cissé, Joseph A Kovacs, Katie M Minor, Antti Sukura, Patrizia Danesi, Steven G Friedenberg, Jonah N Cullen, Christiane Weissenbacher-Lang, Julie C Nadeau, Amber M Graham, Martin N Granick, Natalie K Branson, Kyle C Branson, Barbara Blasi, Casandra M Jacobs, Eva Furrow
Pet dogs are a valuable natural animal model for studying relationships between primary immunodeficiencies and susceptibility to Pneumocystis and other opportunistic respiratory pathogens. Certain breeds, such as the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, are over-represented for Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), suggesting the presence of a primary immunodeficiency in the breed. Here, we report the discovery of a CARMIL2 nonsense variant in three Cavalier King Charles Spaniel dogs with either PCP (n = 2) or refractory Bordetella pneumonia (n = 1)...
March 5, 2024: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534970/sars-cov-2-infection-is-an-independent-risk-factor-for-decompensation-in-cirrhosis-patients
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mark Ayoub, Julton Tomanguillo, Carol Faris, Nadeem Anwar, Harleen Chela, Ebubekir Daglilar
BACKGROUND: SARS-CoV-2 causes varied gastrointestinal symptoms. Cirrhosis patients face higher mortality rates from it, especially those with decompensated cirrhosis. This study examines SARS-CoV-2's impact on decompensation in previously compensated cirrhotic patients. METHODS: We analyzed the Global Collaborative Network, comprising 98 healthcare organizations across sixteen countries, using TriNetX's deidentified research database. Compensated cirrhosis patients were split into two groups: one with SARS-CoV-2-positive patients and another testing negative...
February 25, 2024: Diseases (Basel)
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534341/gut-brain-interactions-and-their-impact-on-astrocytes-in-the-context-of-multiple-sclerosis-and-beyond
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REVIEW
Julia Zißler, Veit Rothhammer, Mathias Linnerbauer
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that leads to physical and cognitive impairment in young adults. The increasing prevalence of MS underscores the critical need for innovative therapeutic approaches. Recent advances in neuroimmunology have highlighted the significant role of the gut microbiome in MS pathology, unveiling distinct alterations in patients' gut microbiota. Dysbiosis not only impacts gut-intrinsic processes but also influences the production of bacterial metabolites and hormones, which can regulate processes in remote tissues, such as the CNS...
March 13, 2024: Cells
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38534052/multispecialty-management-of-metastatic-colon-adenocarcinoma-involving-the-extraocular-muscles-primary-excision-and-simultaneous-treatment-of-strabismus-with-a-review-of-the-literature
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fereshteh Azad, Tassapol Singalavanija, Robert Beaulieu, Federica Mingardo, Steven M Archer, Victor Maurice Elner, Hakan Demirci
Metastatic colon adenocarcinoma involving the extraocular muscles is extremely rare. It usually develops following the diagnosis of the systemic disease and therefore, management and treatment require a multispecialty approach. Within this manuscript, we provide a summary of cases of orbital metastasis secondary to colon cancer. We further discuss a detailed case of a 42-year-old male patient who developed recent-onset diplopia in the left gaze. Orbital CT imaging showed a localized, well-circumscribed enlargement of the right medial rectus muscle...
March 21, 2024: Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533893/evaluation-of-laparoscopic-colorectal-resection-among-elderly-individuals-with-colorectal-malignancy-a-single-center-retrospective-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yanru Zhang, Tufeng Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Yiquan Li, Purun Lei
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current study was to statistically clarify the precise risk age in elderly patients undergoing colorectal surgery and to evaluate the safety and efficacy of laparoscopic colorectal resection in these patients. METHODS: Patients' clinical variables were extracted from the database of the Gastrointestinal Surgery Centre, Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, from 2015 to 2019. Logistic regression was conducted to identify independent risk factors of postoperative complications and ORs for each age...
March 27, 2024: Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38533825/the-effect-of-an-electronic-medical-record-based-clinical-decision-support-system-on-adherence-to-clinical-protocols-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease-care-interrupted-time-series-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reed Taylor Sutton, Kaitlyn Delaney Chappell, David Pincock, Daniel Sadowski, Daniel C Baumgart, Karen Ivy Kroeker
BACKGROUND: Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) embedded in electronic medical records (EMRs), also called electronic health records, have the potential to improve the adoption of clinical guidelines. The University of Alberta Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Group developed a CDSS for patients with IBD who might be experiencing disease flare and deployed it within a clinical information system in 2 continuous time periods. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate the impact of the IBD CDSS on the adherence of health care providers (ie, physicians and nurses) to institutionally agreed clinical management protocols...
March 22, 2024: JMIR Medical Informatics
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