Development of Bleeding Artificial Intelligence Detector (BLAIR) System for Robotic Radical Prostatectomy.

Background: Addressing intraoperative bleeding remains a significant challenge in the field of robotic surgery. This research endeavors to pioneer a groundbreaking solution utilizing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The objective is to establish a system capable of forecasting instances of intraoperative bleeding during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) and promptly notify the surgeon about bleeding risks.

Drug-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus after 5 years of treatment with carbamazepine.

Drug-induced lupus is a disease, inducible by several drugs, that shares symptoms and laboratory characteristics with idiopathic lupus erythematosus. We report a case of carbamazepine-induced cutaneous lupus erythematosus which developed after 5 years of treatment in a patient who was on this medication because of an epileptic crisis after cranial trauma. Carbamazepine is a medication rarely implicated in drug-induced cutaneous lupus, moreover there are very few reports of such long periods between the start of therapy and the presentation of the clinical symptoms.

Factors associated with emergency department visits due to acute asthma.

It is important to identify characteristics related to poor disease control and frequent visits to the emergency department (ED). The objective of the present study was to compare the characteristics of patients attending the adult ED for treatment of asthma exacerbation with those attending an asthma specialist clinic (AC) in the same hospital, and to determine the factors associated with frequent visits to the ED. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of consecutive patients (12 years and older) attending the ED (N = 86) and the AC (N = 86).

The S100B protein inhibits phosphorylation of GFAP and vimentin in a cytoskeletal fraction from immature rat hippocampus.

The S100B protein belongs to a family of small Ca2+-binding proteins involved in several functions including cytoskeletal reorganization. The effect of S 100B on protein phosphorylation was investigated in a cytoskeletal fraction prepared from immature rat hippocampus. An inhibitory effect of 5 microM S100B on total protein phosphorylation, ranging from 25% to 40%, was observed in the presence of Ca2+ alone, Ca2+ plus calmodulin or Ca2+ plus cAMP.