The Relationship Between Prognostic Nutritional Indexes and the Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Purpose: Nutritional status is related to the clinical outcomes of patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD). The aim of this study was to investigate the association between nutritional status, measured by the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), and adverse hospitalization outcomes in patients with AECOPD.

Methods: Consecutive AECOPD patients admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University between January 1, 2015 to October 31, 2021 were enrolled.

Recent research on the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy.

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscular weakness and atrophy. SMA, as an inherited disease, is the leading cause of death in infants and young children. Rapid progress has been made in the research field of SMA in recent years, and some related treatment drugs have been successfully approved for marketing.

Conditioning Regimen of 5-Day Decitabine Administration for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Myeloproliferative Neoplasms.

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) is a potentially curative treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN). However, post-HSCT relapse remains a major cause of treatment failure. Here we assessed the efficacy of a new conditioning regimen comprising decitabine (Dec), busulfan (Bu), cyclophosphamide (Cy), fludarabine (Flu), and cytarabine (Ara-c) for allo-HSCT in patients with MDS and MDS/MPN.

(2S,3R)-2-[(4-Ethyl-2,3-dioxopiperazin-1-yl)carbonyl-amino]-3-hydroxy-butyric acid monohydrate.

In the title compound, C(11)H(17)N(3)O(6)·H(2)O, an important building block of the medicine cefbuperazone sodium, the piperazine ring adopts a screw-boat conformation. Inter-molecular O-H⋯O and intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds are observed. The water mol-ecule participates as both donor and acceptor in this framework.

Methyl 4-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-6-isopropyl-2-(methylsulfonyl)pyrimidine-5-carbox-ylate.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(16)H(17)FN(2)O(4)S, contains three independent mol-ecules, in which the pyrimidine and benzene rings are oriented at dihedral angles of 41.72 (3)°, 26.21 (3)° and 36.

Methyl 4-(4-fluoro-phen-yl)-6-isopropyl-2-[N-methyl-N-(methylsulfonyl)amino]-pyrimidine-5-carboxyl-ate.

In the mol-ecule of the title compound, C(17)H(20)FN(3)O(4)S, the pyrimidine and benzene rings are oriented at a dihedral angle of 35.59 (3)°. Intra-molecular C-H⋯N and C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds result in the formation of one five- and two six-membered non-planar rings.