The Impact of Follow-Up on Mortality in Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia.

Background: Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) is associated with high morbidity and mortality. As such, close follow-up is recommended to ensure patency of revascularization, limb viability, and optimization of cardiovascular risk factors. This study aimed to test the association between follow-up adherence and mortality, and to identify risk factors for nonadherence with recommended vascular follow-up.

Real-world use of medical therapy in moderate asymptomatic carotid stenosis.

Objective: Despite level 1 evidence demonstrating the benefit of carotid endarterectomy for the prevention of stroke in patients with severe asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS), there has been a trend toward recommending optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone. This recommendation has been promulgated based on the observation that modern advances in OMT reduce the overall stroke risk in the general population, but the success of this treatment strategy is dependent on patient and provider adherence. In current practice, patients with moderate ACS are nearly all treated with OMT alone.

The Prevalence of the Celiac Disease in Patients with Dyspepsia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Patients with celiac disease (CeD) can commonly present with symptoms of dyspepsia. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the present literature to assess the prevalence of CeD in patients diagnosed with dyspepsia.

Methods: We searched MEDLINE and EMBASE databases for the keywords: celiac disease, coeliac disease, anti-gliadin, tissue transglutaminase antibody, anti-endomysial antibody, dyspepsia and functional gastrointestinal disorder.

Cell-Mediated Therapies to Facilitate Operational Tolerance in Liver Transplantation.

Cell therapies using immune cells or non-parenchymal cells of the liver have emerged as potential treatments to facilitate immunosuppression withdrawal and to induce operational tolerance in liver transplant (LT) recipients. Recent pre-clinical and clinical trials of cellular therapies including regulatory T cells, regulatory dendritic cells, and mesenchymal cells have shown promising results. Here we briefly summarize current concepts of cellular therapy for induction of operational tolerance in LT recipients.

A Study of Assessment of Knowledge of Childhood Autism among Medical Students in Mumbai.

Aims: This study is to study the knowledge and awareness on autism among medical students and the factors which impact their knowledge on autism.

Settings And Design: For the study, a multicenter cross-sectional research has been carried out among medical students in seven medical colleges in Mumbai.

Subjects And Methods: A total of 201 final-year medical students from seven medical colleges in Mumbai completed the knowledge on childhood autism among healthcare workers (KCAHW) survey and a semi-structured pro forma.