Incidence, Prediction, and Prevention of Fractures After Kidney Transplantation: A Systematic Review Protocol.

Background: Kidney transplant recipients are uniquely exposed to the disordered bone metabolism associated with chronic kidney disease beginning before transplantation followed by chronic corticosteroid use after transplantation. Previous efforts to synthesize the rapidly accruing evidence regarding estimation and management of fracture risk in kidney transplant recipients are outdated and incomplete.

Objective: To synthesize the evidence informing the overall incidence, patient-specific risk prediction, and methods of prevention of fractures in patient living with a kidney transplant.

Mid-term survival and complications of double-crown-retained removable dental prostheses placed in the dental practice - a retrospective study.

Objectives: Clinical data on the performance of double-crown-retained removable dental prostheses (dcRDPs), especially beyond university studies, are rare. The objective of this retrospective clinical study was to evaluate the survival and complication-freeness probabilities of dcRDPs and to identify risk factors for failure and complications in a dental practice setting.

Materials And Methods: Anonymized practice data of 174 patients (56.

Dynamics of polymers in coarse-grained nematic solvents.

Polymers are a primary building block in many biomaterials, often interacting with anisotropic backgrounds. While previous studies have considered polymer dynamics within nematic solvents, rarely are the effects of anisotropic viscosity and polymer elongation differentiated. Here, we study polymers embedded in nematic liquid crystals with isotropic viscosity numerical simulations to explicitly investigate the effect of nematicity on macromolecular conformation and how conformation alone can produce anisotropic dynamics.

Borromean hypergraph formation in dense random rectangles.

We develop a minimal model to study the stochastic formation of Borromean links within topologically entangled networks without requiring the use of knot invariants. Borromean linkages may form in entangled solutions of open polymer chains or in Olympic gel systems such as kinetoplast DNA, but it is challenging to investigate this due to the difficulty of computing three-body link invariants. Here, we investigate rectangles randomly oriented in three Cartesian planes and densely packed within a volume, and evaluate them for Hopf linking and Borromean link formation.