Women in cardiac surgery: a global workforce analysis.

Objectives: Cardiac surgery remains one of the most gender-imbalanced surgical specialties. Women constitute 6-11% of the North American workforce, while other regional data are scarce. Despite the acknowledged under-representation of women in cardiac surgery globally and evidence that surgeon-patient gender concordance enhances postoperative outcomes, precise figures remain poorly defined.

[Successful treatment with venetoclax and azacitidine for extramedullary relapse of acute myeloid leukemia after cord blood transplantation].

A 33-year-old man was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). He was treated with daunorubicin and cytarabine and achieved complete remission. He underwent consolidation therapy with three cycles of venetoclax and azacitidine (VEN+AZA).

Impact of bone marrow nucleated cell subfractions on transplant outcomes in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Objectives: Our previous study showed that a high pre-transplant nucleated cell count in the bone marrow is associated with increased non-relapse mortality (NRM) and decreased overall survival (OS) in patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in remission. In this retrospective multicenter study, we aimed to examine the association between nucleated cell subfractions and transplant outcomes using the same patient cohort as our previous study.

Methods: This study included patients with ALL who underwent their first allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) between 2010 and 2022.

Prognostic factors for patients 85 years or older undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer.

Background: Little is known about prognostic factors for patients 85 years or older undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer. Therefore, this study aimed to identify such prognostic factors.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the long-term outcomes and prognostic factors of 143 patients 85 years or older undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer at a single-center between October 2005 and September 2020.