Racial discrimination and depressive symptoms among Asian Americans: moderating effects of colorblind racial attitude and nativity.

Objectives: Anti-Asian American racism has negatively impacted Asian Americans' mental health. This study investigated how colorblind racial ideology moderates the relationship between COVID-19 racial discrimination and depressive symptoms among Asian Americans.

Design: Data come from an online survey conducted among 794 Asian Americans.

Management of an Incidentally Discovered Ovarian Teratoma in an Adolescent Patient.

Mature ovarian teratomas are a benign subset of germ cell tumors (GCT) often diagnosed during reproductive years and are the most common GCT among children and adolescents. Many are found incidentally on unrelated imaging. There are no definitive guidelines on the management of these teratomas, particularly in the pediatric population.

Lymph Node Sampling in Pediatric Renal Tumors: Survey of Current Practices and Impact of Education.

Objective: To characterize how often and to what extent surgeons are willing to perform retroperitoneal node sampling (RPLNS) for a unilateral renal tumor, and whether they would be encouraged to change goal number of LNs after "targeted education" (TE) METHODS: A survey with selected demographic and LN sampling practice questions was distributed to practicing members of the Society of Pediatric Urology (SPU). After answering a 7-question questionnaire, participants were provided with an abstract on the adequacy of LN yield for staging. This served as the TE and then participants were asked to answer a final question on LN sampling goals.

Locally advanced solitary fibrous tumour of the prostate.

Solitary fibrous tumours (SFTs) are rare mesenchymal neoplasms composed of spindle cells, most often occurring in the pleura. SFTs arising from the prostate are exceptionally rare, with only around 40 cases reported in literature to date. We report a man in his 60s who was referred to our clinic for elevated prostate-specific antigen and presented with mild obstructive lower urinary tract and defecatory symptoms.

Yin-Yang: Programming Abstractions for Cross-Domain Multi-Acceleration.

FPGA accelerators offer performance and efficiency gains by narrowing the scope of acceleration to one algorithmic domain. However, real-life applications are often not limited to a single domain, which naturally makes -Domain -Acceleration a crucial next step. The challenge is, existing FPGA accelerators are built upon their specific vertically-specialized stacks, which prevents utilizing multiple accelerators from different domains.

Influencing Factors of Preference Signaling in the 2022 Urology Residency Match.

Objective: To evaluate influencing factors of preference signaling (PS) among urology residency applicants during the 2022 American Urological Association (AUA) Match.

Methods: We emailed an anonymous, deidentified questionnaire survey to applicants to our institution for the 2022 AUA Match. The main question asked to applicants was "What factor(s) went into your decision to send 'Program X' a preference signal?" Certain questions allowed the selection of multiple options, and applicants were further asked to specify these by selecting a single most important option.

Bilateral Wilms Tumor in CLOVES Syndrome.

Wilms tumor is the most common pediatric renal mass and occurs in up to 10% of predisposition syndromes. One such syndrome is CLOVES syndrome, an extremely rare disorder within the umbrella of PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum disorders. This case presents the management of a bilateral Wilms tumor in a patient with CLOVES syndrome and highlights the many intricacies in caring for complex oncology patients.

Percutaneous drainage for non-operative management of emphysematous pyelonephritis: Clinical characteristics and predictors of success.

Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is a necrotizing renal infection that can rapidly progress without urgent intervention. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous nephrostomy (PN) in the management of EPN, as well as the relationship of outcomes with initial classification by the Huang-Tseng classification system and other prognostic factors such as thrombocytopenia. A retrospective review of medical records revealed seven patients with EPN treated with PN.

Predicting neurosurgical clearance in the polytrauma patient with concomitant traumatic brain injury.

The goal of this study is to develop a model based on previously used prognostic predictors in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with polytrauma, which will facilitate the decision-making of whether to clear these patients for non-cranial surgery. Data of eligible patients was obtained from a trauma database at a Level I trauma and academic tertiary referral center in the United States. The number of days seen by the neurosurgical service prior to clearance, injury severity score (ISS), post-trauma day 0 (PTD 0) of Glasgow Coma Score (GCS), intracranial pressure (ICP) score and computed tomography (CT) score, as well as the changes in GCS, ICP score and CT score between PTD 0 and day of clearance were the variables used in developing the model.

Cancer outcomes are independent of preoperative CA 19-9 in anatomically resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A retrospective cohort analysis.

Background And Objectives: Current guidelines recommend neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients with anatomically resectable tumors but elevated CA 19-9. However, this recommendation is based on data from anatomically resectable and borderline resectable PDAC patients. Therefore, we analyzed the association of preoperative CA 19-9 with oncologic outcomes in a cohort of anatomically resectable PDAC patients.

The Impact of Socioeconomic Deprivation on Clinical Outcomes for Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma at a High-volume Cancer Center: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis.

Objective: To assess the impact of a granular measure of SED on pancreatic surgical and cancer-related outcomes at a high-volume cancer center that employs a standardized clinic pathway.

Summary Of Background Data: Prior research has shown that low socioeconomic status leads to less treatment and worse outcomes for PDAC. However, these studies employed inconsistent definitions and categorizations of socioeconomic status, aggregated individual socioeconomic data using large geographic areas, and lacked detailed clinicopathologic variables.

Analysis of surgeon biometrics during open and robotic radical cystectomy with electromyography and motion capture analysis.

Purpose:: To determine feasibility of measuring surgeon physical stress during both open radical cystectomy (ORC) and robotic radical cystectomy (RRC).

Materials And Methods:: One patient underwent ORC, while the other underwent RRC by a single surgeon. The diversion was excluded from this study.

Paraganglioma of the testicle: A case presentation and review of the literature.

Paragangliomas are rare extra-adrenal neuroendocrine tumors and presentation within the scrotum is exceedingly rare. Only thirteen other cases have been reported in medical literature, with only one other case presenting within the testicle itself. We present the second known case of paraganglioma of the testicle in a patient who initially presented with a two-week history of right testicular pain with no associated dysuria and hematuria.

Progesterone and allopregnanolone improves stroke outcome in male mice via distinct mechanisms but neither promotes neurogenesis.

Based on the outcome of a number of experimental studies, progesterone (PROG) holds promise as a new therapy for stroke. To understand more about the mechanisms involved, we administered PROG (or the major metabolite, allopregnanolone, ALLO), intra-peritoneally, for a period of 24 h after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion to male mice variably expressing intracellular progesterone receptors (iPR) A/B. Effects on infarct volume and neurogenesis were then assessed up to 1 month later.