A systematic review of educational interventions to enhance cancer awareness and screening in individuals with intellectual disabilities: A mixed-methods approach.

Background: Cancer awareness and screening among individuals with intellectual disabilities face unique challenges. To bridge this gap, educational interventions have been developed.

Aims: This review comprehensively analyzes educational interventions aimed at enhancing cancer awareness among individuals with intellectual disabilities (IDs).

Treatment outcomes and challenges of treating tuberculosis in children in a nomadic pastoralist community in Kenya.

Background: Tuberculosis in children has remained a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality, especially in the developing countries where it has been associated with marginalization, vulnerability and poverty.

Study Objectives: To evaluate treatment outcomes and determine the challenges experienced by health providers while treating tuberculosis in children in a nomadic pastoralist community in Kenya.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross sectional study design utilizing mixed methods, conducted at Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County- Kenya.

Perioperative complications and short-term outcomes of sacrocolpopexy using self-adhesive mesh.

Background And Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the perioperative complications and short-term outcomes of patients who underwent sacrocolpopexy using a self-adhesive mesh.

Materials And Methods: This is a prospective, monocentric study conducted between October 2019 and December 2020. We included 20 consecutive patients on whom sacrocolpopexy using the Parietex ProGripTM Self-Fixating Mesh (Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, USA) was performed.

Spreading depolarization remarkably exacerbates ischemia-induced tissue acidosis in the young and aged rat brain.

Spreading depolarizations (SDs) occur spontaneously in the cerebral cortex of subarachnoid hemorrhage, stroke or traumatic brain injury patients. Accumulating evidence prove that SDs exacerbate focal ischemic injury by converting zones of the viable but non-functional ischemic penumbra to the core region beyond rescue. Yet the SD-related mechanisms to mediate neurodegeneration remain poorly understood.

Infected hydronephrosis: can we reduce patient suffering and costs?

Objective: To investigate the correlation among clinical parameters, risk factors, outcomes and costs in the context of patients with infected hydronephrosis.

Methods: This retrospective, multi-centric study was conducted in three Romanian academic urology departments, and comprised data of patients with infected hydronephrosis treated between July 2013 and July 2014. Based on per-patient hospitalisation costs, the participants were divided into three groups: group A: cost less than 500 euros), group B: between 500 and 1,000 euros, and group C: over 1,000 euros).