Weighing the benefits: Exploring the differential effects of light-weight and heavy-weight polypropylene meshes in inguinal hernia repair in a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Inguinal hernia repair is a common surgical procedure, with more than 20 million cases yearly. Choice between mesh types varies in clinical practice. To compare light-weight polypropylene (LW-PP, 34-36 g/m2) and heavy-weight polypropylene (HW-PP, 95 ​g/m2) meshes.

Aryl diazonium salts and benzene derivatives bearing two electron-donor substituents: chemical and mechanistic behaviours.

The reaction between benzene derivatives 1-4 and -substituted benzenediazonium tetrafluoroborates 5a-c provided novel azo-coupling products in high yields under mild conditions. The monitoring of the reaction progress using H-NMR provided mechanistic information on both the relative reactivity of the reagents and the possibility to detect novel reaction intermediates.

Cytoreduction surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) as treatment choice of metastatic Urachal carcinoma.

Introduction: Urachal carcinoma accounts for approximately 0.01 % of all adult malignancies and 1 % of bladder cancers. Its prognosis remains poor, with a 5-year overall survival rate of less than 50 %.

Tacrolimus-Associated Terminal Ileitis After Kidney Transplantation, Mimicking Crohn Disease: A Case Report.

The onset of gastroduodenal ulcers is a frequent complication after transplantation, whereas cases of intestinal ulcers are sporadic and poorly described in the literature. A patient on immunosuppressive therapy with tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil after kidney transplant for immunoglobulin A-related glomerulonephritis developed symptoms compatible with Crohn disease 7 months after the transplant. The patient was hospitalized for abdominal pain, diarrhea, fever, and weight loss.

Interactions between Damaged Hair Keratin and Juglone as a Possible Restoring Agent: A Vibrational and Scanning Electron Microscopy Study.

Juglone, a quinonic compound present in walnut extracts, was proposed as a restoring agent for hair keratin treated with permanent or discoloration processes. The proposed mechanism of restoration by juglone involves the formation of a Michael adduct between the quinone and the thiol moieties of cysteine residues. To this purpose, the first part of the present paper involved the spectroscopic study of the product of the reaction between juglone and N-acetyl-L-cysteine as a model compound.