Follow-up Adherence and Barriers to Care for Pediatric Glaucomas at a Tertiary Care Center.

Purpose: To determine the percent adherence to follow-up for patients with pediatric glaucomas seen at a tertiary care center and to elucidate risk factors.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Methods: Patients with pediatric glaucomas seen at the University of Minnesota over 8.

Effect of the Affordable Care Act on a Safety-Net Burn Center.

We hypothesized that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) would have beneficial financial effects on our burn center at a safety-net hospital. We performed a retrospective chart review of all burn patients admitted to our center from 2008-2016. These were further divided into three time periods: 2008-2010 (pre-ACA), 2011-2013 (transitional), and 2014-2016 (post-ACA).

Human papillomavirus in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: assessing virus presence in normal tissue and activity in cervical metastasis.

Objectives/hypothesis: Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been established as an etiologic and prognostic factor in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC). HPV oncogenesis involves expression of E6/E7 oncoproteins, with downstream p53 degradation and pRb inhibition. Although much research has focused on HPV's oncogenic behavior in primary OPSCC, minimal information exists about HPV in adjacent normal and metastatic tissue.

LSINCT5 is over expressed in breast and ovarian cancer and affects cellular proliferation.

More than 98% of the human genome is comprised of non-protein coding sequences. Interestingly, a considerable fraction of these sequences is transcribed into non-protein coding RNA transcripts. These transcripts range in size from very small RNAs such as the miRNAs (20-25 base pairs) to transcripts that can range up to 100 kb or more.