Association of psychosocial risk factors and liver transplant evaluation outcomes in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease.

The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT) is a standardized psychosocial assessment tool used in liver transplantation (LT) evaluation and has been primarily studied in patients with alcohol-associated liver disease. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between SIPAT score and metabolic syndrome severity and LT waitlist outcomes in a large cohort of patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). We performed a single-center retrospective cohort study of patients with MASLD evaluated for LT from 2014 to 2021.

Sex and Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Disease: A Review of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.

This review highlights sex- and gender-specific considerations in cardiovascular diseases with a particular focus on pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, risk factors, diagnosis, and management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection. It aims to summarize the most up to date evidence and gaps in knowledge that exist in the spontaneous coronary artery dissection space while highlighting salient points with regards to sex- and gender-based differences in clinical implications, current management, and recommended counseling practices.

Radiofrequency ablation for the management of pancreatic mass lesions.

Purpose Of Review: Patients with pancreatic tumors may have limited treatment options. Pancreatic tumor ablation is a novel and emerging treatment modality which can now be performed using endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guidance. This modality is well suited to guide energy delivery for radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation.

Widespread phenotypic hypervariation in the enigmatic anchialine shrimp Barbouria cubensis (Decapoda: Barbouriidae).

Classification and evolutionary relationships among anchialine shrimp from the family Barbouriidae Christoffersen, 1987, has long been a topic of debate amongst crustacean taxonomists. To date, no study has examined morphological or molecular variation among populations of these enigmatic shrimp. The present study documents and analyzes patterns of widespread morphological variation within populations of Barbouria cubensis von Martens, 1872, from anchialine pools on three Bahamian islands.

Mitochondrial DNA evolution in the Anaxyrus boreas species group.

The Anaxyrus boreas species group currently comprises four species in western North America including the broadly distributed A. boreas, and three localized species, Anaxyrus nelsoni, Anaxyrusexsul and Anaxyrus canorus. Phylogenetic analyses of the mtDNA 12S rDNA, cytochrome oxidase I, control region, and restriction sites data, identified three major haplotype clades.