Urinalysis should not be underestimated in assessment of scleritis to detect early stages of glomerular disease. Scleritis may be the first manifestation whose study may lead to the diagnosis of IgAV. Multidisciplinary approach is necessary to prevent irreversible organ damage such as renal failure.

Although uncommon, IgAV should be included in…[Read more]

Additive Manufacturing (AM) or rapid prototyping technologies are presented as one of the best options to produce customized prostheses and implants with high-level requirements in terms of complex geometries, mechanical properties, and short production times. The AM method that has been more investigated to obtain metallic implants for medical…[Read more]

For each sample, 72 l of seawater were filtered on board with a mesh size of 100 μm, where the presence of microplastics has been clearly observed. Our results reveal the presence of microplastics at least up to 1150 m depth, at the Northeastern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre with noticeable seasonal differences. The spatial distribution of these…[Read more]

Research that explores the role of substance use treatment among older individuals is scarce. This paper offers a historical investigation of admissions and discharges for treatment episodes over the past two decades across race, ethnicity, gender, and age. Our results suggest that although older individuals are not typically associated with risky…[Read more]

These themes included (1) limitations of patient recruitment strategies; (2) timing of stakeholder engagement; (3) lack of palliative care health literacy; and (4) novelty of the HBPC market. Conclusion These findings point to factors that contributed to the failure, and subsequent closure, of the original randomized controlled trial. Our findings…[Read more]

Bile acids (BAs) are signalling molecules that mediate various cellular responses in both physiological and pathological processes. Several studies report that BAs can be detected in the brain1, yet their physiological role in the central nervous system is still largely unknown. Here we show that postprandial BAs can reach the brain and activate a…[Read more]

3%) showed a grade 2 histological response, and 2 (3.1%) showed a grade 3 response. A multivariate analysis demonstrated that a low Treg infiltration in stromal cell areas was significantly associated with the achievement of a PR or CR [odds ratio (OR) 7.69; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.96-33.33; p < 0.01] and a histological grade 2 or 3 res…[Read more]

We report a 13-year-old Japanese female with ovarian teratoma due to anti-NMDAR encephalitis. The patient was admitted with psychiatric symptoms, including memory impairment, insomnia, binge eating and mouth and hand twisting, associated with constipation. Serum alphafetoprotein and neopterin levels were elevated 102 ng/mL and 19 pmol/mL,…[Read more]

4 mg/day per animal for 20 days); group placebo control treated with a placebo served as control. Results demonstrated that groups could be easily discriminated by thymus microscopy as well as by two meat markers, namely, cooking loss and shear firmness or Warner-Bratzler shear force. The combination of thymus microscopic features and meat…[Read more]

Limiting the length of catheter placement may prevent knot formation.Informal cash payments from patient to healthcare providers for services provided by the healthcare system have attracted increasing scholarly interest. However, the root and mechanism of informal payments are not well understood. This paper contributes to the literature by…[Read more]

Design of single-site catalysts with catalytic sites at atomic-scale and high atom utilization, provides new opportunities to gain superior catalytic performance for targeted reactions. In this contribution, we report a one-pot green approach for in situ implanting of single tungsten sites (up to 12.7 wt.%) onto the nodes of defective UiO-66(Zr) s…[Read more]