The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in human reproduction is a rapidly evolving field with both exciting possibilities and ethical considerations. This technology has the potential to improve success rates and reduce the emotional and financial burden of infertility. However, it also raises ethical and privacy concerns.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Gastric liposarcoma (GL) is extremely rare and radical surgery has been the conventional treatment, even in small tumors. Laparoscopic wedge resection has been reported worldwide for subepithelial tumors of the stomach.
Case Presentation: The patient was an asymptomatic 63-year-old man presenting with a subepithelial gastric tumor.
The search for the minimum information required for an organism to sustain a cellular system network has rendered both the identification of a fixed number of known genes and those genes whose function remains to be identified. The approaches used in such search generally focus their analysis on coding genomic regions, based on the genome to proteic-product perspective. Such approaches leave other fundamental processes aside, mainly those that include higher-level information management.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploring the core components that define living systems and their operational mechanisms within emerging biological entities is a complex endeavor. In the realm of biological systems literature, the terms matter, energy, information, complexity, and entropy are frequently referenced. However, possessing these concepts alone does not guarantee a comprehensive understanding or the ability to reconstruct the intricate nature of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA typical absence seizure is a generalized epileptic event characterized by a sudden, brief alteration of consciousness that serves as a hallmark for various generalized epilepsy syndromes. Distinguishing between similar interictal and ictal electroencephalographic (EEG) epileptiform patterns poses a challenge. However, quantitative EEG, particularly spectral analysis focused on EEG rhythms, shows potential for differentiation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aimed to identify the predictive factors of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in patients with early gastric cancer (EGC) and to evaluate the applicability of the Japanese treatment guidelines for endoscopic resection in the western population.
Methods: Five hundred-one patients with pathological diagnoses of EGC were included. Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to identify the predictive factors of LNM.
Objective: To determine the initial management and in-hospital mortality of patients with acute coronary syndrome who attended referral hospitals in Paraguay.
Method: Observational, multicenter study, in patients over 18 years with a confirmed diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome.
Results: 780 patients were included from May 2015 to February 2016; the mean age was 64.
Purpose: Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm (SPN) is an uncommon pathology with a low-grade malignancy. Surgery is the milestone treatment. Nevertheless, despite appropriate management, some patients present recurrence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe brain has been understood as an interconnected neural network generally modeled as a graph to outline the functional topology and dynamics of brain processes. Classic graph modeling is based on single-layer models that constrain the traits conveyed to trace brain topologies. Multilayer modeling, in contrast, makes it possible to build whole-brain models by integrating features of various kinds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
November 2021
The hCoV-19 virus is continuously evolving to highly infectious and lethal variants. There is a latent risk that current vaccines will not be effective over these novel variants. This entails comprehending the genome-wide viral information to unveil mutagenic mechanisms of hCoV-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraph analysis allows exploring transcriptome compartments such as communities and modules for brain mesostructures. In this work, we proposed a bottom-up model of a gene regulatory network to brain-wise connectome workflow. We estimated the gene communities across all brain regions from the Allen Brain Atlas transcriptome database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe code of codes or metacode is a microcosm where biological layers, as well as their codes, interact together allowing the continuity of information flow in organisms by increasing biological entities' complexity. Through this novel organic code, biological systems scale towards niches with higher informatic freedom building structures that increase the entropy in the universe. Code biology has developed a novel informational framework where biological entities strive themselves through the information flow carried out through organic codes consisting of two molecular or functional landscapes intertwined through arbitrary linkages via an adaptor whose nature is autonomous from molecular determinism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Pancreas tumors are extremely rare in pediatric and adolescent patients. Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment; however, the data are limited with respect to morbidity and mortality. We aimed to evaluate short- and long-term outcomes of pediatric and adolescent patients who underwent surgical resection of pancreatic tumors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Noncoding sequences have been demonstrated to possess regulatory functions. Its classification is challenging because they do not show well-defined nucleotide patterns that can correlate with their biological functions. Genomic signal processing techniques like Fourier transform have been employed to characterize coding and noncoding sequences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlignment-free k-mer-based algorithms in whole genome sequence comparisons remainan ongoing challenge. Here, we explore the possibility to use Topic Modeling for organismwhole-genome comparisons. We analyzed 30 complete genomes from three bacterial families bytopic modeling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim Of The Study: Analyze the association between social health determinants (SHD) and chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Method: A cross-sectional study was performed in 58 TKA patients. The subjects were classified in two groups: with (n = 22) or without (n = 36) CPSP.
Purpose: The aim of the present study was to assess the first experience with outpatient total hip arthroplasty (THA) in a public health environment in Chile.
Methods: Prospective series of the first 69 patients/72 hips. Surgery was performed in a public university-affiliated hospital.
Diffuse multibacillary leprosy of Lucio and Latapí is mainly reported in Mexico and Central America. We report a case in a 65-year-old man in Peru. He also had Lucio's phenomenon, characterized by vascular thrombosis and invasion of blood vessel walls by leprosy bacilli, causing extensive skin ulcers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTerrestrial vertebrate frugivores constitute one of the major guilds in tropical forests. Previous studies show that the meso-scale distribution of this group is only weakly explained by variables such as altitude and tree basal area in lowland Amazon forests. For the first time we test whether seasonally limiting resources (water and fallen fruit) affect the dry season distribution in 25 species of terrestrial vertebrates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRev Gastroenterol Peru
July 2009
Purpose: Determine the frequency of gastric cancer and its clinical and pathological characteristics, clinical stages, surgical treatment, morbimortality and survival in a general hospital.
Materials And Methods: Retrospective, descriptive study on 71 consecutive patients diagnosed with gastric cancer at the Santa Rosa Hospital from January 1, 2005 to January 31, 2008.
Results: During the study period, 71 cases of gastric adenocarcinoma were confirmed by histopathology.
Background: Although cardiac output index (CI), stroke volume index (SVI), and total systemic vascular resistance (TSVR) are important hemodynamic parameters for the prognosis of chronic heart failure (CHF), they are difficult to measure in an outpatient setting. Whole body bioimpedance monitoring using a Non-Invasive Cardiac System (NICaS) allows for easy, non-invasive estimation of these parameters. Here, whether NICaS-derived hemodynamic parameters are clinically significant was investigated by relating them to other conventional cardiovascular functional indices, and by evaluating their predictive accuracy for CHF readmission.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study evaluated the efficacy of catheter-based transcoronary myocardial hypothermia (CTMH) in pigs with acute myocardial ischemia.
Background: Although it has been suggested that hypothermia therapy can attenuate myocardial necrosis, few applications have been accepted for clinical use.
Methods: This study comprises 2 substudies.
Aims: Since the intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) cannot detect neointimal layers in the majority of sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) at the chronic phase, it is still controversial to what extent SES remain uncovered. However, optical coherence tomography (OCT) with excellent resolution may be able to detect thinner neointima.
Methods And Results: A total of 34 patients (57 SES) underwent OCT and IVUS evaluations at 6-month follow-up.