Nanostructured Oxide (SnO, FTO) Thin Films for Energy Harvesting: A Significant Increase in Thermoelectric Power at Low Temperature.

Previous studies have shown that undoped and doped SnO thin films have better optical and electrical properties. This study aims to investigate the thermoelectric properties of two distinct semiconducting oxide thin films, namely SnO and F-doped SnO (FTO), by the nebulizer spray pyrolysis technique. An X-ray diffraction study reveals that the synthesized films exhibit a tetragonal structure with the (200) preferred orientation.

Potential impact on cost-effectiveness estimates of using immature survival data: a case study based on transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) used for patients with severe mitral regurgitation at high surgical risk.

Objective: To review the survival modelling used in cost-effectiveness studies evaluating an interventional procedure and to discuss implications for decision-makers.

Design: A case study of three economic evaluations that each used immature data from the EVEREST II High Surgical Risk (HSR) Study of transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) for patients with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) who were at high risk of surgery.

Setting: Estimation of patient survival in cost-effectiveness studies.

Percutaneous mitral valve repair in severe secondary mitral regurgitation: Analysis of index hospitalization and economic evaluation based on the MITRA-FR trial.

Background: Percutaneous mitral valve repair (pMVR) is reimbursed in France for severe secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR), but French data regarding the hospitalization index stay are lacking.

Aims: Our objectives were to describe the index hospitalization stay and to evaluate the cost of hospital stay for pMVR used in SMR.

Methods: A secondary evaluation based on patients who were randomized to the intervention group of the MITRA-FR study was undertaken.

Drug interactions between emergency contraceptive drugs and cytochrome inducers: literature review and quantitative prediction.

The emergency contraceptive drugs (EC), levonorgestrel (LNG) and ulipristal acetate (UPA), are sensitive substrates of cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4). In 2016, the label of LNG was updated based on a drug-drug interaction (DDI) study showing a significant decrease in LNG exposure when co-administered with efavirenz, a known CYP3A4 inducer. DDI between UPA and CYP3A4 inducers are poorly characterized.

Cola therapy for oesophageal food bolus impactions a case series.

Introduction: This retrospective case series describes the use of cola to immediately treat complete oesophageal food bolus obstructions in the emergency centre. Short of emergent endoscopy - which is invasive, expensive, not without adverse events, and often unavailable in low-resource settings - no other proven therapies exist to relieve oesophageal food impactions.

Methods: We performed a chart review of adults with complete oesophageal food bolus obstructions presenting to two Dutch emergency centres.