Clinicopathological characteristics of individuals with coexisting melanoma and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a multicentre cohort study.

Background: Individuals with a prior diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) have a higher risk of developing melanoma and exhibit poorer outcomes than patients without CLL. However, there are limited data reporting the clinicopathological features of melanoma diagnosed in patients with CLL.

Aims: To review clinicopathological characteristics of patients with coexisting diagnoses of melanoma and CLL.

VEXAS syndrome (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) for the dermatologist.

In 2020, Beck et al described a novel adult autoinflammatory syndrome entitled VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, Autoinflammatory, Somatic), a newly-discovered disorder that connected previously unrelated inflammatory syndromes and a prototype for a new class of hematoinflammatory diseases. Eighty-nine percent of published cases have documented skin involvement, but despite the high incidence and diagnostic accessibility of skin manifestations, there has been little focus on the dermatological features of VEXAS syndrome thus far. A PubMed search of all published case reports of VEXAS syndrome to date was performed, with inclusion of all cases confirmed by genetic sequencing, and this review summarizes the reported dermatological signs.

Composite biomarker panel for prediction of severity and diagnosis of acute GVHD with T-cell-depleted allogeneic stem cell transplants-single centre pilot study.

Aims: Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical utility of a composite biomarker panel to help identify individuals at risk of developing aGVHD, and to help predict and differentiate between severity of aGVHD following T-cell-depleted allogeneic HSCT.

Methods: We retrospectively analysed our cohort of biopsy confirmed patients with aGVHD, who underwent T-cell-depleted HSCT and matched them with negative controls without any evidence of aGVHD.

Sneddon's syndrome: it is all in the ectoderm.

A 51-year-old man gave a 2-year history of worsening mobility, cognitive decline and headaches. He had a history of thromboembolic stroke, recurrent transient ischaemic attacks and a spontaneous intraventricular haemorrhage. On examination, he had livedo reticularis and perniosis and a systolic murmur.

Chronic relapsing remitting Sweet syndrome--a harbinger of myelodysplastic syndrome.

Sweet syndrome (SS) is an acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis. It has been associated with malignant disease, especially acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), infections, autoimmune disorders and drugs, particularly granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCSF). No cause is found in the rest, which are labelled idiopathic.

α MnMoO₄/graphene hybrid composite: high energy density supercapacitor electrode material.

A unique and cost effective hydrothermal procedure has been carried out for the synthesis of hexahedron shaped α MnMoO4 and its hybrid composite with graphene using three different weight percentages of graphene. Characterization techniques, such as XRD, Raman and FTIR analysis, established the phase and formation of the composite. The electrochemical characterization of the pseudocapacitive MnMoO4 and the MnMoO4/graphene composites in 1 M Na2SO4 displayed highest specific capacitances of 234 F g(-1) and 364 F g(-1), respectively at a current density of 2 A g(-1).