Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Clinical Factors Associated with Postpartum Readmission.

To determine if socioeconomic, demographic, and clinical characteristics are associated with postpartum readmission. A retrospective cohort study evaluating all pregnant patients that delivered at seven hospitals within a large academic health system in New York between January 1, 2018 and March 1, 2020. Demographic information, medical comorbidities, and characteristics of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care were compared between patients who were readmitted within 6 weeks postpartum and those who were not.

Association of in vitro fertilization with severe maternal morbidity in low-risk patients without comorbidities.

Objective: To determine whether an association exists between in vitro fertilization (IVF) and severe maternal morbidity among low-risk pregnant patients.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Academic healthcare system.

Social vulnerability and prenatal diagnosis.

Objectives: There are limited data on how neighborhood-level risk factors affect the likelihood of having prenatal diagnosis. Neighborhood social vulnerability can be quantified and ranked using the social vulnerability index (SVI), a tool that measures the cumulative effect of external stressors in the local environment that may affect health outcomes. The objective of the study was to determine the relationship between SVI and prenatal diagnosis among pregnant patients who received genetic counseling.

Multi-Center Two-Year Patency Outcomes of Endovascular Arteriovenous Fistulas (endoAVF) Created with a 4 French System.

Purpose: To assess multicenter two-year patency outcomes of endovascular arteriovenous fistulas (endoAVF) created with the WavelinQ device.

Materials And Methods: Patients who had fistulas created at three centers from January 2018 to December 2020 were included in this retrospective study. In total, 112 patients underwent endoAVF creation [40 females, 72 males; mean age 60 years (range 18-88)].

Understanding consumer food choices & promotion of healthy and sustainable Mediterranean diet and lifestyle in children and adolescents through behavioural change actions: the DELICIOUS project.

Over the last decades, the abandonment of traditional dietary patterns, such as the Mediterranean diet, represents an important threat for human health and environmental safeguard. The DELICIOUS project aims to promote healthy lifestyles among children and adolescents by implementing activities and tools to increase the adherence to the Mediterranean Diet with an attention to the environmental impacts of the diet. This study protocol describes the DELICIOUS project as a single-arm, uncontrolled behavioural intervention providing formal and non-formal education activities, development of new snacks and recipe reformulation, web/mobile app development, and physical activities to school children and adolescents in five European countries.

Social Vulnerability Index and Surgical Management of Pelvic Organ Prolapse.

Importance/study Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine whether the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) is associated with the type of surgery for pelvic organ prolapse (POP) focusing on sacrocolpopexy (SCP) and uterosacral ligament suspension (USLS).

Study Design: This was a retrospective case-control study that included patients from 8 hospitals within a large academic health system in New York between January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2023. All patients 15-85 years of age with a preoperative diagnosis of POP who underwent a hysterectomy with an SCP or USLS were included.

Postoperative Activity Restrictions After Slings: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Importance: Restricting activity after midurethral slings is an unproven practice.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of postoperative activity restriction on satisfaction and outcomes after slings.

Study Design: This was a multicenter, 2-arm, noninferiority randomized controlled trial.

Environmental Justice Index and adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Background: The Environmental Justice Index is a tool released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that quantifies and ranks the environmental burden and social vulnerability of each census tract. Racial and ethnic disparities in adverse pregnancy outcomes are well established. The relative contributions of individual (person-level) and environmental (neighborhood-level) risk factors to disease prevalence remain poorly understood.

Severity of excessive gestational weight gain and risk of severe maternal morbidity.

Background: Both obesity and excessive gestational weight gain are associated with severe maternal morbidity, but there is limited literature evaluating whether the risk of severe maternal morbidity is further increased by the degree or severity of excessive gestational weight gain.

Objective: This study aimed to determine whether pregnant patients with excessive gestational weight gain who gained more than 50 lb were at increased risk of severe maternal morbidity compared with those who only moderately exceeded recommended gestational weight gain guidelines. A secondary objective was to determine whether patients who gained 10 lb more than the recommended upper limit of total weight gain for a given prepregnancy body mass index group were at increased risk of severe maternal morbidity compared with those who exceeded that upper limit by a lesser amount.

Risk of Severe Maternal Morbidity Associated with Maternal Comorbidity Burden and Social Vulnerability.

Objective: We evaluated the associations of the obstetric comorbidity index (OB-CMI) and social vulnerability index (SVI) with severe maternal morbidity (SMM).

Study Design: Multicenter retrospective cohort study of all patients who delivered (gestational age > 20 weeks) within a university health system from January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2021. OB-CMI scores were assigned to patients using clinical documentation and diagnosis codes.

Results of the transition from posterolateral to anterior minimally invasive approach for total hip arthroplasty.

Background: The anterior minimally invasive (AMI) approach reduces soft tissue damage, risk of dislocation and enhances recovery, but it is associated with certain complications. The aim of this study is to compare the outcomes of patients who underwent total hip arthroplasty (THA) through posterolateral (PL) and AMI approaches performed by the same surgeon, in order to determine the learning curve associated with this new approach.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included patients who underwent THA via PL and AMI approach between 2017 and 2022, with a minimum follow-up of 1 year.

Compartment syndrome of the foot: A case report.

Background: Exercise-induced compartment syndrome is a condition characterized by elevated pressure within a muscle compartment, resulting from repetitive loading or participation in sports activities. Primarily affecting the medial compartment of the foot, this rare condition manifests as sudden-onset pain in the medial aspect of the foot, without a discernible history of trauma, occurring during or after physical exertion. Diagnosis is primarily clinical in nature, as diagnostic imaging techniques provide limited utility.

Association of Maternal Comorbidity Burden With Cesarean Birth Rate Among Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex Pregnancies.

Importance: Cesarean birth rate among nulliparous, term, singleton, vertex (NTSV) pregnancies is a standard quality measure in obstetrical care. There are limited data on how the number and type of preexisting conditions affect mode of delivery among primigravidae, and it is also uncertain how maternal comorbidity burden differs across racial and ethnic groups and whether this helps to explain disparities in the NTSV cesarean birth rate.

Objective: To determine the association between obstetric comorbidity index (OB-CMI) score and cesarean delivery among NTSV pregnancies and to evaluate whether disparities in mode of delivery exist based on race and ethnicity group after adjusting for covariate factors.

Longitudinal micro-incision creation prior to balloon angioplasty for treatment of arteriovenous access dysfunction in a real-world patient population: 6-month cohort analysis.

Introduction: Routine hemodialysis depends on well-functioning vascular access. In the event of vascular access dysfunction, percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty (PTA) is conducted to restore patency. Although an angioplasty procedure can provide an excellent immediate result by opening the access to allow dialysis to continue, the long-term patency rates are less than satisfactory.

Bilateral asymmetric traumatic hip dislocation associated with epiphysiolysis of the femoral head in an adolescent patient.

Background: Bilateral asymmetric hip dislocation is uncommon in childhood, even more when associated with epiphyseal slippage, leading to catastrophic complications of the affected joints, requiring additional surgical interventions, and increasing patient morbidity. In this article, we present the case of a 15 years-old patient with a post-traumatic bilateral hip dislocation with epiphyseal slippage, initially managed with open reduction and fixation, with subsequent need of total hip arthroplasty. Afterward, the patient presented satisfactory outcomes.

Economic appraisal of using genetics to control Streptococcus agalactiae in Nile tilapia under cage and pond farming system in Malaysia.

Disease outbreaks have been seen as the major threat to sustainable aquaculture worldwide. Injectable vaccines have been one of the few strategies available to control the diseases, however, the adoption of this technology globally is limited. Genetic selection for disease resistance has been proposed as the alternative strategy in livestock and aquaculture.

[Heart rate variability in children: methodological issues and clinical applications].

Heart rate variability (HRV) corresponds to variations in heart rate or beat-beat time interval. This parameter reflects the status of the autonomic mechanisms of cardiovascular control, which may be influenced by changes characteristic of the life cycle of people, sedentary lifestyle, and various disease processes that directly or indirectly generate changes in the HRV and shift the autonomic balance, either towards greater sympathetic or parasympathetic influence on the heart. These antecedents support the use of HRV indices for the diagnosis and monitoring of various nosological entities in adults.

Is lupus nephritis a prognosis factor for pregnancy? Maternal and foetal outcomes.

Background: Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and nephritis (LN) is at risk of foetal and maternal complications.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of LN on pregnancy with respect to foetal and maternal outcome.

Methods: We retrospectively studied all pregnant SLE patients with and without diagnosis of LN, who attended the Materno Neonatal Hospital in Cordoba city, Argentina, from January 2015 to April 2017.

Corticosteroids for COVID-19 symptoms and quality of life at 1 year from admission.

The long-term evolution of COVID-19 is unknown, making it necessary to study the persistence of symptoms over time and their impact on quality of life in people who have had the disease. We analyzed these aspects 1 year after admission for COVID-19 and explored the influence of treatment with systemic corticosteroids during the acute phase of the illness. This observational cohort study took place in a tertiary hospital in March and April 2021 and included people admitted due to infection with SARS-CoV-2 in March, April, or May 2020.

Is Lupus Nephritis a Prognosis Factor for Pregnancy? Maternal and Foetal Outcomes.

Background: Pregnancy in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and nephritis (LN) is at risk of foetal and maternal complications.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of LN on pregnancy with respect to foetal and maternal outcome.

Methods: We retrospectively studied all pregnant SLE patients with and without diagnosis of LN, who attended the Materno Neonatal Hospital in Cordoba city, Argentina, from January 2015 to April 2017.

Bayesian genomic models boost prediction accuracy for survival to Streptococcus agalactiae infection in Nile tilapia (Oreochromus nilioticus).

Background: Streptococcosis is a major bacterial disease in Nile tilapia that is caused by Streptococcus agalactiae infection, and development of resistant strains of Nile tilapia represents a sustainable approach towards combating this disease. In this study, we performed a controlled disease trial on 120 full-sib families to (i) quantify and characterize the potential of genomic selection for survival to S. agalactiae infection in Nile tilapia, and (ii) identify the best genomic model and the optimal density of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for this trait.

Antagonistic Activity of Lactic Acid Bacteria Against Phytopathogenic Fungi Isolated from Cherry Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme).

The postharvest deterioration of cherry tomatoes due to diseases caused by fungi is one of the main causes of the loss of this product. The objective of this study was to determine the antagonistic capacity by evaluating the antifungal power of nine strains of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) in vitro against the phytopathogenic fungi Aspergillus niger, Fusarium sp., and Rhizopus stolonifer isolated from cherry tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum var.

pH-Sensitive Starch-Based Hydrogels: Synthesis and Effect of Molecular Components on Drug Release Behavior.

The drug release behavior of pH-sensitive starch-based hydrogels was systematically studied. Hydrogels were synthesized by copolymerization of acrylic acid (AA) and other acrylate comonomers onto the starch backbone. The hydrophilic agents 2-hydroxy ethyl methacrylate (HEMA), and acrylamide (AAm), as well as the hydrophobic butyl-methacrylate (BMA), were utilized as comonomers.