Minimally invasive surgery versus open gastrectomy for older patients with gastric cancer: A propensity score-matching analysis.

Aim: To compare minimally invasive and open surgery for older patients with gastric cancer.

Methods: This study included 464 consecutive patients with gastric cancer aged ≥75 years who underwent open or laparoscopic gastrectomy at our institution from January 2004 to December 2018. We performed propensity score-matching and compared short- and long-term outcomes between the two groups.

Switching from first or second generation EGFR-TKI to osimertinib in mutation-positive NSCLC.

Aim: We evaluated the efficacy of a novel switch protocol for EGFR-TKIs for mutation-positive NSCLC.

Materials & Methods: Clinical records were collected from the patients who had received one of two sequential combination strategies of EGFR-TKIs: Salvage use of osimertinib for -mediated acquired resistance to an prior EGFR-TKI or switch use of osimertinib where an EGFR-TKI was switched to osimertinib before disease progression.

Results: Progression-free survival of osimertinib and time from the start of treatment until progression to osimertinib was comparable between the salvage use and switch use of osimertinib.

Glucoselysine is derived from fructose and accumulates in the eye lens of diabetic rats.

Prolonged hyperglycemia generates advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), which are believed to be involved in the pathogenesis of diabetic complications. In the present study, we developed a polyclonal antibody against fructose-modified proteins (Fru-P antibody) and identified its epitope as glucoselysine (GL) by NMR and LC-electrospray ionization (ESI)- quadrupole TOF (QTOF) analyses and evaluated its potential role in diabetes sequelae. Although the molecular weight of GL was identical to that of fructoselysine (FL), GL was distinguishable from FL because GL was resistant to acid hydrolysis, which converted all of the FLs to furosine.

Predictors of Successful Extubation in Reintubated Patients: The Impact of Fluid Balance during the 24 Hours Prior to Extubation.

Tanaka A, Yamashita T, Koyama Y, Uchiyama A, Fujino Y. Predictors of Successful Extubation in Reintubated Patients: The Impact of Fluid Balance during the 24 Hours Prior to Extubation. Indian J Crit Care Med 2019;23(7):344-345.