Training and Competition Loads in Women's Rugby Sevens Athletes: Are There Implications for Cardiovascular Health?

National- and international-level rugby sevens athletes are exposed to high training and competition loads over the course of a competitive season. Research on load monitoring and body-system responses is widespread; however, the primary focus has been on optimizing performance rather than investigating or improving cardiovascular health. There is a degree of cardiovascular remodeling, as well as local and systemic inflammation, in response to excessive exercise.

[Atypical Kawasaki disease with acute cholestasis and early coronary involvement at onset in an adolescent].

Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile illness of childhood that affects usually children younger than 5 years of age. The diagnosis is based on typical clinical features. Atypical or incomplete forms of Kawasaki disease can be observed in almost 20% of patients and at onset is a clinical challenge leading to diagnostic and therapeutic delays with higher risk of coronary abnormalities.

A rare case of endophthalmitis after bleb needle revision for glaucoma Xen gel stent.

Purpose: To describe the first case of endophthalmitis caused by , a glucose non-fermenting Gram-negative rod, in a patient previously implanted with a Xen gel stent.

Case Report Description: An 83-year-old patient, affected by open-angle glaucoma and with a previous surgery of combined cataract extraction and Xen gel stent implantation, developed endophthalmitis 1 month after bleb needle revision with 5-fluorouracil injection. At presentation, best corrected visual acuity was hand movement, hypopyon was evident into the anterior chamber and a flat bleb with no sign of leakage was present over the Xen gel implant.

Metagenomics in ophthalmology: current findings and future prospectives.

Less than 1% of all microorganisms of the available environmental microbiota can be cultured with the currently available techniques. Metagenomics is a new methodology of high-throughput DNA sequencing, able to provide taxonomic and functional profiles of microbial communities without the necessity to culture microbes in the laboratory. Metagenomics opens to a 'hypothesis-free' approach, giving important details for future research and treatment of ocular diseases in ophthalmology, such as ocular infection and ocular surface diseases.