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  • This study reviews isolated sixth cranial nerve (abducens nerve) palsy in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA), focusing on its subtle presentation with ophthalmoplegia.
  • The systematic review analyzed 25 articles, revealing that up to 48% of diplopia cases in GCA were linked to sixth nerve palsy, with most patients responding positively to corticosteroid treatment.
  • The findings emphasize the importance of recognizing sixth nerve palsy in GCA patients, as most recover fully, but some may experience ongoing symptoms.
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  • Acute care surgery (ACS) was implemented at a medical facility to improve the surgical treatment and management of acute appendicitis (AA) by creating a standardized perioperative clinical pathway.
  • A study compared patient outcomes before (2016-2018) and after (2018-2020) implementing this pathway, analyzing 492 patients and focusing on hospital length of stay (LOS) as the primary outcome.
  • Results showed a significant reduction in LOS (31.2 vs. 50.4 hours), quicker transition times from CT scans to surgery, reduced opioid use, and improved discharge processes in the post-implementation group, indicating overall enhanced surgical efficiency and care.
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  • Mavacamten, a cardiac myosin inhibitor, showed significant improvements in symptoms and heart function in Japanese patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) during the HORIZON-HCM study.
  • In a trial involving 38 patients, 36 completed the 30-week treatment, which resulted in a notable reduction in postexercise left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) gradient and improvements in cardiac biomarkers and quality of life metrics.
  • The treatment was well tolerated, with adverse events reported but none leading to discontinuation, and no deaths occurred throughout the study.
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  • The study aimed to assess if adding the PARP inhibitor talazoparib to the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab could enhance outcomes for patients with SLFN11-positive extensive stage small cell lung cancer (ES-SCLC) after initial treatment.
  • A total of 106 patients were randomized into two groups, showing that the combination therapy (talazoparib plus atezolizumab) led to improved progression-free survival compared to atezolizumab alone, though overall survival rates remained similar between the two groups.
  • While the combination therapy improved progression-free survival, it also resulted in higher rates of severe hematological side effects, such as grade 3 anemia, highlighting the need for careful patient selection based on genetic markers
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A framework to conceptualize social prescribing services from a prevention perspective.

Prev Med

December 2024

Child Health Services Research Unit, Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Moorenstraße 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. Electronic address:

Objective: Social prescribing models are expanding worldwide to serve multiple goals, such as attending to social conditions that affect people's health, supporting patients with mental health issues or other long-term conditions, facilitating community building and reducing demands on the health care system. Implicitly, many social prescribing services seek to promote health, prevent morbidity or deterioration of disease. Given that the scientific literature currently does not systematically describe these services as preventive service models, we propose a framework to explicitly conceptualize social prescribing from a prevention perspective.

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Aims: Patients with endometrial cancer who progress following first line therapy have improved survival outcomes with pembrolizumab and lenvatinib (pem/len) compared with standard of care chemotherapy, as demonstrated in KEYNOTE-775. This was in a group of trial patients with good performance status and excluded those with carcinosarcoma histology. In KEYNOTE-775 pem/len was associated with significant toxicity, leading to dose reductions, treatment cessation, and patient morbidity.

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The History of Clinical Nurse Specialists in Emergency Care.

Adv Emerg Nurs J

November 2024

Author Affiliations: UC Health Air Care & Mobile Care, Cincinnati, Ohio (Dr Miller); University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing, Cincinnati, Ohio (Dr Miller); University Hospitals Geauga Medical Center, Chardon, Ohio (Dr Cornell); and St. Luke's Health System, Boise Idaho (Dr Foley).

The Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) role has been instrumental in advancing nursing practice, healthcare delivery, and patient outcomes across various specialties, particularly in emergency care. This manuscript provides an extensive review of the history of CNSs in emergency settings, exploring the development of the practice model, the challenges encountered, and their impact on patient and organizational outcomes.

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Purpose: Diabetic retinopathy leads to vision-threatening complications, such as proliferative diabetic retinopathy and tractional retinal detachment (TRD) and is a major global health concern. Despite advancements in vitrectomy techniques, challenges exist in managing postoperative complications and long-term visual acuity. This study aimed to evaluate postoperative outcomes of 27-gauge pars plana vitrectomy (27 g PPV) for diabetic TRD and identify associated risk factors.

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  • This study explored the adverse events (AEs) related to COVID-19 vaccination in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as part of the COVAD-2 study, which surveyed participants from February to June 2022.
  • It included 7203 participants, including 1423 RA patients, and found that RA patients reported higher rates of both major and minor AEs compared to healthy controls, and even more when compared to those with other autoimmune diseases.
  • Active RA significantly increased the risk of major AEs and hospitalization, while patients on certain medications like methotrexate or TNF inhibitors experienced fewer AEs than those not on these treatments.
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Disseminated histoplasmosis is a rare yet serious fungal infection that primarily affects individuals with compromised immune systems. While it is widely known for its endemicity in the Midwest region of the USA, recent studies have indicated a noteworthy increase in sporadic cases, suggesting a widening of the endemic region for the pathology. This report describes a case of disseminated histoplasmosis in a 39-year-old female with a history of lupus, hypertension, anxiety, asthma, idiopathic edema, and fibromyalgia from a nonendemic region, who presented with cyclic fevers of unknown origin, peripheral edema, and oral sores.

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Background: Evaluations of oral vancomycin prophylaxis (OVP) against have been reported in stem cell transplant populations with short follow-up periods. The longest known duration of standardized follow-up post-OVP is 90 days within an allogeneic stem cell transplant population. In 2017, we implemented OVP 125 mg twice daily in autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) recipients beginning the day of admission and continued until the day of discharge.

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Purpose: To investigate the impact of the Global Alignment and Proportion (GAP) score components on patient outcomes in Adult Spine Deformity (ASD) surgery.

Methods: Patients included underwent assessment via the GAP score and its individual components: pelvic version (GAP PV), lumbar lordosis (GAP LL), lumbar distribution index (GAP LDI) and spinopelvic component (GAP SP). Multivariable analyses assessed the association between alignment in these components and clinical outcomes in ASD patients.

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Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the rationale and design of two multinational phase 3 clinical trials of survodutide, an investigational glucagon and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor dual agonist for the treatment of obesity with or without type 2 diabetes (T2D; SYNCHRONIZE-1 and -2).

Methods: In these ongoing double-blind trials, participants were randomized to once-weekly subcutaneous injections of survodutide or placebo added to lifestyle modification. Survodutide doses are uptitrated to 3.

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Early diagnosis of nonconvulsive status epilepticus due to lithium intoxication using 6-channel electroencephalography.

CJEM

December 2024

Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima, 734-8553, Japan.

Introduction: Nonconvulsive status epilepticus is a severe complication of lithium intoxication that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. While conventional electroencephalography (EEG) remains the gold standard for diagnosis for nonconvulsive status epilepticus, its implementation in emergency settings can be challenging and time-consuming. We present a case in which simplified EEG with six electrodes enabled rapid detection and monitoring of nonconvulsive status epilepticus in lithium intoxication in the emergency setting.

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Background: Biomarkers to predict the recurrence risk are required to optimize perioperative treatment. Adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with human epidermal growth factor 2-positive (HER2-positive) early breast cancer is decided by pathological responses of neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). However, whether pathological responses are appropriate biomarkers is unclear.

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Trends in Transcatheter Mechanical Thrombectomy for Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

November 2024

Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI (A.E., O.H., M.S., S.T.M., P.A.S., J.D.A.).

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Aerococcus urinae, a gram-positive, catalase-negative coccus, has emerged as a notable pathogen in clinical microbiology. It is traditionally associated with urinary tract infections in elderly males with underlying urologic conditions. Recently, A.

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  • Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major health issue involving various heart-related disorders, and understanding in-hospital mortality rates is important for healthcare improvements and family impacts.
  • This study analyzed data from over 6 million hospital admissions, finding an in-hospital mortality rate of 3.01% for patients with CVDs, with diabetes showing a stronger correlation to mortality compared to other risk factors like hypertension and smoking.
  • The research utilizes national hospital discharge data to fill gaps in current knowledge about in-hospital mortality related to CVDs, which is vital for ongoing healthcare system development.
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  • Finite element analysis (FEA) is crucial in orthopaedics for simulating and analyzing surgical procedures, revealing that removing over 20% of the meniscus significantly raises shear stress in cartilage and heightens knee joint degeneration risk.
  • Meniscal root repair can enhance meniscal biomechanics and lower osteoarthritis risk, even with non-ideal repairs, while FEA helps to study the biomechanics of knee ligaments, showing that certain graft techniques closely mimic native knee function.
  • Incorporating lateral augmentation techniques can enhance stability in ACL and PCL repairs, and there is a need for future studies to integrate patient-specific anatomical and mechanical data for better experimental models.
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  • Severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) significantly impacts patients' health status, affecting their symptoms, physical and social functions, and overall quality of life, but may improve with a procedure called transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR).
  • The TRISCEND II trial studied 400 patients with severe TR, comparing outcomes of those receiving TTVR combined with optimal medical therapy (OMT) to those receiving OMT alone, using established health status questionnaires.
  • Results showed that patients receiving TTVR+OMT experienced significantly greater improvements in health status at every follow-up, with notable differences in scores indicating enhanced quality of life compared to those who only received
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  • The study investigated factors linked to myopia progression and axial elongation in children with myopia.
  • It analyzed data from a trial comparing atropine treatment with a placebo, focusing on children aged 5 to <13 with specific refractive errors and other characteristics.
  • Results showed that younger children and those with higher initial myopia experienced more significant changes in refractive error and axial length, highlighting the need for treatments to slow progression in this at-risk group.
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  • Previous studies suggest that women have better outcomes than men when undergoing extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but detailed research on this is limited.
  • This study analyzed data from the SAVE-J II registry, examining the sex differences and outcomes in ECPR patients, focusing on neurological recovery at hospital discharge.
  • Findings showed that while there were more male patients, women had a higher adjusted odds ratio for favorable neurological outcomes (1.60), indicating better recovery compared to men, especially given the differences in cardiac rhythms presented at the time of treatment. *
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Dissection and re-entry techniques are essential to achieve safe and effective chronic total occlusion recanalization. Several studies have demonstrated similar outcomes following extraplaque stenting compared with intraplaque stenting. Dissection techniques most often involve the use of knuckled wires to progress within and beyond the chronic total occlusion segment.

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