Artificial Intelligence-Driven Patient Selection for Preoperative Portal Vein Embolization for Patients with Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases.

Purpose: To develop a machine learning algorithm to improve hepatic resection selection for patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) by predicting post-portal vein embolization (PVE) outcomes.

Materials And Methods: This multicenter retrospective study (2000-2020) included 200 consecutive patients with CRC liver metastases planned for PVE before surgery. Data on radiomic features and laboratory values were collected.

On-Line Assessment (OLA) as a preparation for the European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EDAIC), a retrospective observational study on the results and the potential impact on the Part-I examination.

Background: The EDAIC is a diploma of the European Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (ESAIC). which is obtained after passing two a written MCQ-based (Part1) and a structured oral (part2) examinationIn 2011, a formative On-Line Assessment (OLA) was introduced to help candidates to prepare for EDAIC Part1 examination (EDAIC-I). This retrospective observational study evaluated the results of the OLA and its impact on the EDAIC-1 between 2013 and 2019.

European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care in Spain: Results for the part 1 and part 2 exams in the last five years. Are we going in the right direction?

Background: The European Diploma in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (EDAIC) has become a standard of quality among Spanish anaesthesiologists. The aim of this retrospective observational study was to assess the results of Spanish participants for the Part1 and Part2 exams over a recent five years period from 2012 to 2016 and 2013 to 2017, respectively.

Material And Methods: After obtaining the authorization from the European Society of Anaesthesiology, the results of both parts of the EDAIC exams were anonymously analysed for five years.

Functional treatment of snoring based on the tongue-repositioning manoeuvre.

Orofacial biofunction comprises muscular and physical effects, which may contribute to stabilization of the oropharyngeal airway. The tongue-repositioning manoeuvre (TRM) provides physical stabilization of the tongue and the soft palate together with, as a prerequisite, a nasal breathing mode. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the influence of a TRM treatment concept on primary snoring.

Correlation of HPV16 L1 capsid protein expression in cervical dysplasia with HPV16 DNA concentration, HPV16 E6*I mRNA and histologic outcome.

Objective: To determine whether the absence ofHPV1i6 LI capsid protein is a prognostic parameter for the histologic outcome of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) 2+ in cytologically diagnosed cervical dysplasia.

Study Design: Papanicolaou-stained microscopic slides of 95 HPV16-positive cervical samples that had a cytologic diagnosis of cervical dysplasia or borderline cytology were immunostained using an HPV16-specific anti-L1 viral capsid antibody. In parallel to the cytologic examination, HPV16 DNA and E6*I mRNA were quantitated using real-time polymerase chain reaction.