Body Weight as an Indicator of Vulnerability to Domestic Cat Predation for Juveniles of Three Species of Cottontail Rabbits (Sylvilagus spp.) in Colorado, USA: Implications for Release Criteria.

Cottontail rabbits (Sylvilagus spp.) are frequently admitted to wildlife rehabilitation facilities due to predation by domestic cats (Felis catus). Our retrospective study (2015-19) of three species (Sylvilagus audubonii, Sylvilagus floridanus, and Sylvilagus nuttallii) indicated that once juveniles reached a weight over 220 g, they were unlikely to present due to domestic cat interactions.

Clostridial Enterotoxemia and Coccidiosis in Weanling Cottontail Rabbits ( Sylvilagus audubonii, Sylvilagus floridanus, Sylvilagus nuttallii) from Colorado, USA.

Wild cottontail rabbits ( Sylvilagus spp.), especially young individuals, are one of the most frequent wildlife species presented for rehabilitation at wildlife rehabilitation centers. These species are challenging to rehabilitate, with gastrointestinal (GI) disease being a major cause of morbidity and mortality during the weaning stage.

The Effectiveness of a Peer-Staffed Crisis Respite Program as an Alternative to Hospitalization.

Objective: This study assessed whether peer-staffed crisis respite centers implemented in New York City in 2013 as an alternative to hospitalization reduced emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalizations, and Medicaid expenditures for individuals enrolled in Medicaid.

Methods: This study used Medicaid claims and enrollment data for January 2009 through April 2016 to estimate impacts on ED visits, hospitalizations, and total Medicaid expenditures by using a difference-in-differences model with a matched comparison group. The study sample included 401 respite center clients and 1,796 members of the comparison group.

Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) Tissue Preparation: A Donor Diabetes Mellitus Categorical Risk Stratification Scale for Assessing Tissue Suitability and Reducing Tissue Loss.

Purpose: This study assessed a novel diabetes mellitus (DM) rating scale in relation to its utility in reducing Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) tissue preparation failure.

Methods: A 5-point DM rating scale was defined, in which 1 demonstrated relatively good health associated with DM and 5 represented comorbidities associated with DM. A chart review from consecutive donors who had at least 1 tissue prepared for DMEK was performed.

Surgical hospitalist: can this be a program for your group?

A shortage of general surgeons is creating issues for the coverage of many emergency departments. This article outlines a new way of thinking about how to diagnosis and treat this problem. Learn the basics behind the possible creation of a surgical hospitalist program from assessing the need; reviewing physician issues; computing the financial analysis; understanding the political and bureaucratic issues; and, finally, recruiting to fill the positions.

Endothelial keratoplasty: the relationship between donor tissue storage time and donor endothelial survival.

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between storage time in Optisol GS (Bausch & Lomb, St. Louis, MO) and postoperative cell loss after Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) surgery.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a noncomparative, interventional case series.

Endothelial cell damage in descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty with the underfold technique: 6- and 12-month results.

Purpose: To evaluate the endothelial cell loss at 6 and 12 months after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) using a modified 40/60 underfolding technique and to compare this to the literature on other commonly used implantation techniques, such as the conventional 60/40-fold, gliding, and hitch suture techniques.

Methods: Endothelial cell density was measured prospectively, and cell loss was calculated at 6 and 12 months after endothelial keratoplasty using a recently described underfolding implantation technique.

Results: In this study, 305 eyes undergoing DSAEK were evaluated.

Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty in eyes with previous trabeculectomy and tube shunt procedures: intraoperative and early postoperative complications.

Purpose: To evaluate the intraoperative and early postoperative outcomes of Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) in patients with previous glaucoma filtering surgeries.

Methods: A retrospective review of all DSAEK surgeries performed at one center comparing complications of DSAEK in eyes with previous glaucoma filtering procedures (study eyes) with a time-matched group of all other DSAEK cases (control eyes).

Results: There were 28 study eyes, 19 with previous trabeculectomies and 9 with previous glaucoma drainage devices (GDDs) and 431 control eyes.

Complications and clinical outcomes of descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty with intraocular lens exchange.

Purpose: To evaluate complications and clinical outcomes of Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) with intraocular lens (IOL) exchange compared with DSAEK alone.

Design: Retrospective, interventional case series.

Methods: DSAEK was performed in 19 eyes in which the anterior chamber IOL was exchanged for a posterior chamber IOL (study group) and in 188 eyes in which the posterior chamber IOL was left in place (comparison group).

NIP45 controls the magnitude of the type 2 T helper cell response.

Nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) transcription factors are key regulators of gene transcription within immune cells. The NFAT-interacting protein, (NIP45), augments NFAT-driven IL-4 expression by a mechanism that relies on arginine methylation. To establish the function of NIP45 in vivo, we generated mice with a targeted deletion of the gene encoding this cofactor.

Endothelial keratoplasty: endothelial cell loss after deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty with retention of an open-loop anterior chamber intraocular lens.

Purpose: To prospectively assess the impact of a retained open-loop anterior chamber intraocular lens (ACIOLs) on endothelial cell loss after deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty (DLEK).

Methods: Prospectively gathered central endothelial cell densities of eyes with open-loop ACIOLs after DLEK were examined at 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years.

Results: Nine eyes with an open-loop ACIOL were examined.

Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) using corneal donor tissue not acceptable for use in penetrating keratoplasty as a result of anterior stromal scars, pterygia, and previous corneal refractive surgical procedures.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate outcomes of Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) using anterior stromal flawed (ASF) donor corneas that were unsuitable for use in full-thickness penetrating keratoplasty as a result of stromal scars, pterygia, or previous corneal refractive surgery and to compare results with DSAEK using standard tissue.

Methods: We conducted a review of our initial 42 (19 with 6-month follow up) consecutive DSAEK surgeries using ASF tissue compared with 357 (199 with 6-month follow up) time-matched controls using standard tissue. Intraoperative and perioperative complications, including dislocations and primary graft failures, were compared.

Long-term anterior and posterior topographic analysis of the cornea after deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty.

Purpose: To analyze the 2-year topographic response of the cornea to deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty (DLEK).

Methods: The Orbscan topographies of 24 eyes that underwent DLEK for corneal decompensation were retrospectively analyzed. Twelve eyes received a large-incision DLEK technique and 12 eyes received a small-incision DLEK.

Endothelial keratoplasty: vision, endothelial survival, and complications in a comparative case series of fellows vs attending surgeons.

Purpose: To compare a 6-month postoperative vision, endothelial cell loss, and immediate postoperative complications in Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) cases performed by an experienced corneal surgeon and his inexperienced fellows using an established technique.

Design: Retrospective analysis of prospectively gathered data in 327 consecutive DSAEK cases.

Methods: DSAEK cases performed by fellows vs attending surgeons during a concurrent period were compared for 6-month postoperative best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA), endothelial cell loss, and immediate postoperative complications.

Endothelial keratoplasty for Fuchs' dystrophy with cataract: complications and clinical results with the new triple procedure.

Purpose: To report the immediate postoperative complications and the 6- and 12-month clinical results in a large series of cases undergoing the new triple-procedure Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and concurrent cataract surgery.

Design: Prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Participants: Three hundred fifteen eyes of 233 patients with Fuchs' corneal dystrophy were evaluated for the complications of dislocation and iatrogenic primary graft failure (IPGF).

Endothelial keratoplasty: the influence of insertion techniques and incision size on donor endothelial survival.

Purpose: To determine the acute endothelial cell damage from trephination and tissue insertion in endothelial keratoplasty (EK) surgery. The influence of insertion technique (forceps insertion vs "pull-through" insertion) of donor tissue and incision size (3 vs 5 mm length) was assessed.

Methods: Forty precut 8.

Precut tissue for Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty: vision, astigmatism, and endothelial survival.

Purpose: To report 6 and 12 month results using precut tissue for Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) and correlate donor characteristics with clinical outcomes.

Design: Prospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Participants: We reviewed 100 donor corneas precut for 100 eyes of 90 DSAEK patients.

Endothelial keratoplasty: the influence of preoperative donor endothelial cell densities on dislocation, primary graft failure, and 1-year cell counts.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if an association exists between preoperative donor central endothelial cell density (ECD) and the complications of donor dislocation, iatrogenic primary graft failure (IPGF), and endothelial survival at 1 year after endothelial keratoplasty (EK) surgery.

Methods: A prospective, nonrandomized, interventional case study was conducted evaluating 629 consecutive EK procedures. The preoperative donor ECD was recorded for each case.

Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty: insertion using a novel 40/60 underfold technique for preservation of donor endothelium.

Purpose: To describe a technique for insertion of an asymmetrically folded donor graft to minimize endothelial damage during Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty.

Methods: The tissue is folded in a 40/60 underfold rather than the commonly used 60/40 overfold. It is then grasped with the insertion forceps by using a prone hand position.

An easy and inexpensive method for quantitative analysis of endothelial damage by using vital dye staining and Adobe Photoshop software.

Purpose: We developed a simple, practical, and inexpensive technique to analyze areas of endothelial cell loss and/or damage over the entire corneal area after vital dye staining by using a readily available, off-the-shelf, consumer software program, Adobe Photoshop. The purpose of this article is to convey a method of quantifying areas of cell loss and/or damage.

Methods: Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty corneal transplant surgery was performed by using 5 precut corneas on a human cadaver eye.

Oyster sperm bindin is a combinatorial fucose lectin with remarkable intra-species diversity.

Sperm of the oyster, Crassostrea gigas, have ring-shaped acrosomes that, after exocytosis, bind the sperm to the egg vitelline layer. Isolated acrosomal rings contain proteins of various sizes: 35-, 48-, 63-, 75- and 88-kDa. These proteins, called bindins, have identical 24-residue signal peptides and conserved 97-residue N-terminal sequences, and they differ in mass because of the presence of between 1 and 5 tandemly repeated 134-residue fucose-binding lectin (F-lectin) domains.

Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty: six-month results in a prospective study of 100 eyes.

Purpose: To report 6-month results in a large, prospective study of Descemet-stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK).

Methods: A 5-mm scleral-limbal tunnel approach was created for placement of an automated microkeratome-prepared 8.0-mm endothelial graft after DSAEK in 150 consecutive cases between September 2005 and October 2006.

Mouse mast cell tryptase mMCP-6 is a critical link between adaptive and innate immunity in the chronic phase of Trichinella spiralis infection.

Although the innate immune function of mast cells in the acute phase of parasitic and bacterial infections is well established, their participation in chronic immune responses to indolent infection remains incompletely understood. In parasitic infection with Trichinella spiralis, the immune response incorporates both lymphocyte and mast cell-dependent effector functions for pathogen eradication. Among the mechanistic insights still unresolved in the reaction to T.