Reflector-guided localization compared with wire-guided localization for non-palpable breast cancer resection: organizational impacts and costs analysis.

Background: Wire-guided localization (WGL) for non-palpable breast cancer lesions has drawbacks like wire migration, localization difficulties, and logistical challenges. Wireless methods, such as reflector-guided localization (RGL), address these issues and are compatible with breast MRI. This study evaluates the organizational and cost impacts of RGL compared to WGL.

VEGF-A plasma levels are associated with impaired DLCO and radiological sequelae in long COVID patients.

Background: Long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), is characterized by persistent clinical symptoms following COVID-19.

Objective: To correlate biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction with persistent clinical symptoms and pulmonary function defects at distance from COVID-19.

Methods: Consecutive patients with long COVID-19 suspicion were enrolled.

Hypertension treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest rate of hypertension worldwide. Blood pressure (BP) control rests on the association of lifestyle modification and antihypertensive medicines. We aimed to systematically review antihypertensive strategies implemented in SSA to achieve BP control.

Assessment of Good Practice Guidelines for Administration of Drugs via Feeding Tubes by a Clinical Pharmacist in the Intensive Care Unit.

Background: In intensive care units, patients are frequently unable to take oral drugs because of orotracheal intubation or sedation.

Local Problem: Adverse events occurred during the administration of drugs by feeding tube. This study assessed the impact of implementing good practice guidelines by a clinical pharmacist on the prescription and administration of drugs through feeding tubes.

Barriers to up-titrated antihypertensive strategies in 12 sub-Saharan African countries: the Multination Evaluation of hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africa Study.

Background: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces the highest rate of hypertension worldwide. The high burden of elevated blood pressure (BP) in black people has been emphasized. Guidelines recommend two or more antihypertensive medications to achieve a BP control.

Blood pressure-lowering medicines implemented in 12 African countries: the cross-sectional multination EIGHT study.

Objective: In Africa, the number of patients with hypertension is expected to reach 216.8 million by 2030. Large-scale data on antihypertensive medications used in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are scarce.

[Temporary approval for intranasal naloxone: Setting up in a French addiction center].

Intranasal naloxone aims at preventing opioid overdose related deaths in active drug users. In France, it has been available since July 2016 through a temporary approval which requires a hospital-based pharmacy and a nominative registration of each patient. We present the characteristics of the first patients who could receive this prescription in our hospital-based addiction center and how they used naloxone during follow-up.

Impact of a Hypnotically-Based Intervention on Pain and Fear in Women Undergoing Labor.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a hypnotically-based intervention for pain and fear in women undergoing labor who are about to receive an epidural catheter. A group of 155 women received interventions that included either (a) patient rocking, gentle touching, and hypnotic communication or (b) patient rocking, gentle touching, and standard communication. The authors found that the hypnotic communication intervention was more effective than the standard communication intervention for reducing both pain intensity and fear.

[Effect of rocking motion on labor pain before epidural catheter insertion in the sitting position].

Objectives: To assess the effects of rocking motion on labour pain and before epidural catheter insertion.

Study Design: Clinical prospective observational study.

Patients And Methods: Pain scores (numerical scale: 0-10) were recorded in 50 laboring women in three consecutive positions: lying down, sitting and then rocking back and forth while seated.

Chromosome painting shows that skunks (Mephitidae, Carnivora) have highly rearranged karyotypes.

The karyotypic relationships of skunks (Mephitidae) with other major clades of carnivores are not yet established. Here, multi-directional chromosome painting was used to reveal the karyological relationships among skunks and between Mephitidae (skunks) and Procyonidae (raccoons). Representative species from three genera of Mephitidae (Mephitis mephitis, 2n = 50; Mephitis macroura, 2n = 50; Conepatus leuconotus, 2n = 46; Spilogale gracilis, 2n = 60) and one species of Procyonidae (Procyon lotor, 2n = 38) were studied.

Correlation between pre-operative metabolic syndrome and persistent blood glucose elevation during cardiac surgery in non-diabetic patients.

Background: Cardiopulmonary-bypass (CPB) induces hyperglycemia. There is growing evidence that perioperative maintenance of blood glucose within the physiological range improves patients' outcome. Nevertheless, perioperative normoglycemia is often difficult to achieve during surgery with CPB and the response to insulin infusion is characterized by a considerable variability.

Black rat ( Rattus rattus) genomic variability characterized by chromosome painting.

Black rats are of outstanding interest in parasitology and infective disease analysis. We used chromosome paints from both the mouse ( Mus musculus) and the Norway rat ( Rattus norvegicus) to characterize the genome of two Black rat subspecies from Italy. Both subspecies have two large metacentrics (n.

Genomic homology of the domestic ferret with cats and humans.

We used chromosome paints from both the domestic cat and humans to directly establish chromosomal homology between the genome of these species and the domestic ferret. The chromosome painting data indicate that the ferret has a highly conserved karyotype closer to the ancestral carnivore karyotype than that of the cat. The cat chromosome paints revealed 22 homologous autosomal regions in the ferret genome: 16 ferret chromosomes were hybridized by a single cat paint, while 3 ferret chromosomes were hybridized by two cat paints.

Suppression of chimpanzee NORS in hamster/chimpanzee hybrid: report on cell line R48-26.

We present the first documented NOR suppression in a hybridoma other than man-mouse for the hamster-chimpanzee hybrid cell line R48-26. Alu PCR and chromosome painting showed that in this cell line chimpanzee chromosomes 13-15-23 are maintained. NORs on chimpanzee chromosomes 15-23, whose presence was directly verified by FISH with H 28s rDNA, resulted inactive while telomeric rDNA on hamster chromosomes resulted active even if hamster chromosomes presented extensive rearrangements.

A comparison of standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation and active compression-decompression resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. French Active Compression-Decompression Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Study Group.

Background: We previously observed that short-term survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was greater with active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) than with standard CPR. In the current study, we assessed the effects of the active compression-decompression method on one-year survival.

Methods: Patients who had cardiac arrest in the Paris metropolitan area or in Thionville, France, more than 80 percent of whom had asystole, were assigned to receive either standard CPR (377 patients) or active compression-decompression CPR (373 patients) according to whether their arrest occurred on an even or odd day of the month, respectively.

Reciprocal chromosome painting shows that genomic rearrangement between rat and mouse proceeds ten times faster than between humans and cats.

Reciprocal chromosome painting between mouse and rat using complete chromosome probe sets of both species permitted us to assign the chromosomal homology between these rodents. The comparative gene mapping data and chromosome painting have a better than 90% correspondence. The reciprocal painting results graphically show that mouse and rat have strikingly different karyotypes.