Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on services for patients with chronic kidney disease: findings of a national survey of UK kidney centres.

Background: Services for patients with kidney disease underwent radical adaptations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We undertook an online national survey of UK kidney centres to understand the nature, range, and degree of variation in these changes and to explore factors contributing to differing practice.

Methods: The survey was designed by a multidisciplinary team of kidney professionals, service users and researchers.

Recipient Reaction and Composition of Autologous Sural Nerve Tissue Grafts into the Human Brain.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a severe neurological disease for which there is no effective treatment or cure, and therefore it remains an unmet need in medicine. We present data from four participants who received autologous transplantation of small pieces of sural nerve tissue into either the basal forebrain containing the nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) or the midbrain substantia nigra (SN). The grafts did not exhibit significant cell death or severe host-tissue reaction up to 55 months post-grafting and contained peripheral cells.

The influence of posterior acromial morphology on outcomes and return to pushups in young patients undergoing arthroscopic posterior capsulolabral repair.

Background: Prior evidence has identified specific posterior acromial morphology as significantly associated with unidirectional posterior shoulder instability. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of posterior acromial morphology on the outcomes of arthroscopic posterior capsulolabral repair (APCLR) for unidirectional posterior shoulder instability. Additionally, we sought to determine the influence of posterior acromial morphology on the rate and time to return to pushups following APCLR.

A High Rate of Return to Running Is Seen After Both Arthroscopic and Open Shoulder Surgery.

Purpose: To determine the percentage of patients who report the ability to run 1 mile at various time points after arthroscopic and open shoulder surgery.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of prospectively collected data for all active-duty military patients aged 18 to 45 years who underwent shoulder surgery at a single institution over a 2-year period. The rehabilitation protocol discouraged running before 3 months, but all patients were able to return to unrestricted running at 3 months postoperatively.

Visualization of the Movement Disorder Society Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Results.

We sought to design a data visualization platform to represent the Movement Disorder Society- Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (MDS-UPDRS) item scores in an easy-to-use display without modification of the raw data or summary scores. Score items for Parts I, II, and IV were arranged as separate inline blocks, while Part III item blocks were arranged in an anatomical fashion. A color scale was created to represent symptom severity and changes observed from one exam to another.