Anthropometric estimates can predict satisfaction with breast in a population of asymptomatic women.

Background: Several authors hypothesized that normative values of breast related quality of life in asymptomatic populations can be helpful to better understand changes induced by surgery. Breast related quality of life can be associated to breast anthropometry. This study was designed to explore this hypothesis, find relevant correlations and, using machine learning techniques, predict values of satisfaction with breast from easy body measurements.

When It Rains It Pours...: Wernicke Encephalopathy with Sudden Blindness after Bariatric Surgery in a Patient with Congenital Deafness.

Background: Malabsorption syndromes are known chronic complications of bariatric surgery. Therefore, it is recommended to take oral supplementation with multivitamins. Wernicke's encephalopathy represents an acute neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with alcoholism or severe malnutrition; sporadic cases of this potential complication related to bariatric surgery are described in the literature.

Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery and Physico-Chemical Properties of Nanosystems: Analysis and Correlation Studies of Data from Scientific Literature.

Background: In the last few decades, nose-to-brain delivery has been investigated as an alternative route to deliver molecules to the Central Nervous System (CNS), bypassing the Blood-Brain Barrier. The use of nanotechnological carriers to promote drug transfer via this route has been widely explored. The exact mechanisms of transport remain unclear because different pathways (systemic or axonal) may be involved.

Computational identification of differentially-expressed genes as suggested novel COVID-19 biomarkers: A bioinformatics analysis of expression profiles.

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, and since then, it has not stopped spreading like wildfire in almost every corner of the world, despite the many efforts made to stem its spread. SARS-CoV-2 has one of the biggest genomes among RNA viruses and presents unique characteristics that differentiate it from other coronaviruses, making it even more challenging to find a cure or vaccine that is efficient enough. This work aims, using RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data, to evaluate whether the expression of specific human genes in the host can vary in different grades of disease severity and to determine the molecular origins of the differences in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection in different patients.