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Biberthaler P, Förschner L, Gehring C, Trentzsch H, Kanz KG, Prückner S. [Importance of trauma and emergency surgery for German metropolitan emergency departments-an analysis of 524,716 emergency patients]. Unfallchirurg 2019; 122:44-52. [PMID: 30402692 DOI: 10.1007/s00113-018-0577-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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BACKGROUND The future of emergency departments in Germany is influenced by increasing numbers of patients, demographic changes, new therapeutic concepts, current legislation and expert opinions. There is a lack of reliable data concerning the quantity and the type of injuries and diseases presenting in emergency departments. MATERIAL AND METHODS This descriptive, epidemiological study included 14 emergency departments in Munich (1.41 million inhabitants in 2014), where 524,716 patients were treated from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014. 393,587 were included in this prospectively planned subgroup analysis. Patients presenting in special departments, such as gynecology or ophthalmology (59,523) or cases without a documented diagnosis (71,606) were excluded. Cases were assigned to the discipline trauma surgery or orthopedics according to the ICD-10 diagnosis chapters "injuries, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes" and "diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue". RESULTS Of the 393,587 cases included, 169,208 were treated due to trauma or orthopedic diseases (43%). 134,507 underwent outpatient treatment (79%) and 34,701 were admitted on the same day (21%). 29,920 patients suffered from head injuries (18%), 31,143 fractures (20%) and 24,367 deep wounds (14%) were recorded. On workdays between 8am and 10am, up to 47 patients per hour were treated and between 1pm and 3pm, up to 36 patients per hour. On weekends, most patients presented between 11am and 7pm. CONCLUSION The present study analyzed the frequency of major diagnoses corresponding to the various medical disciplines including more than 500,000 patients. Of the emergency cases included, 43% were allocated to trauma surgery or orthopedics. These patients presented in the emergency departments around the clock and necessitate the permanent attendance of a trauma and emergency surgeon. Thereby, timely surgical care and decisions regarding indications for surgery and admission are ensured. Competence in trauma and emergency surgery is therefore essential for emergency departments.
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- P Biberthaler
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, München, Deutschland.
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, München, Deutschland
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- Institut für Notfallmedizin und Medizinmanagement (INM), Klinikum der Universität München, München, Deutschland
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- Institut für Notfallmedizin und Medizinmanagement (INM), Klinikum der Universität München, München, Deutschland
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- Klinik und Poliklinik für Unfallchirurgie, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, München, Deutschland
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- Institut für Notfallmedizin und Medizinmanagement (INM), Klinikum der Universität München, München, Deutschland
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Hutter M, Gehring C, Lauber A, Gunther F, Bellicoso CD, Tsounis V, Fankhauser P, Diethelm R, Bachmann S, Bloesch M, Kolvenbach H, Bjelonic M, Isler L, Meyer K. ANYmal - toward legged robots for harsh environments. Adv Robot 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2017.1378591] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- M. Hutter
- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Heidegger HH, Gehring C, Peryanova M, Hutter S, Kästner R, Mahner S, Alba-Alejandre I. Zweizeitige Entbindung nach selektivem Fetozid einer Di-Di-Gemini Gravidität bei gesichertem Morbus Niemann-Pick-Typ C. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2016. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1593162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Shahzad K, Rauf M, Ahmed M, Malik ZA, Habib I, Ahmed Z, Mahmood K, Ali R, Masmoudi K, Lemtiri-Chlieh F, Gehring C, Berkowitz GA, Saeed NA. Functional characterisation of an intron retaining K(+) transporter of barley reveals intron-mediated alternate splicing. Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2015; 17:840-51. [PMID: 25631371 DOI: 10.1111/plb.12290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2014] [Accepted: 11/19/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Intron retention in transcripts and the presence of 5' and 3' splice sites within these introns mediate alternate splicing, which is widely observed in animals and plants. Here, functional characterisation of the K(+) transporter, HvHKT2;1, with stably retained introns from barley (Hordeum vulgare) in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), and transcript profiling in yeast and transgenic tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is presented. Expression of intron-retaining HvHKT2;1 cDNA (HvHKT2;1-i) in trk1, trk2 yeast strain defective in K(+) uptake restored growth in medium containing hygromycin in the presence of different concentrations of K(+) and mediated hypersensitivity to Na(+) . HvHKT2;1-i produces multiple transcripts via alternate splicing of two regular introns and three exons in different compositions. HKT isoforms with retained introns and exon skipping variants were detected in relative expression analysis of (i) HvHKT2;1-i in barley under native conditions, (ii) in transgenic tobacco plants constitutively expressing HvHKT2;1-i, and (iii) in trk1, trk2 yeast expressing HvHKT2;1-i under control of an inducible promoter. Mixed proportions of three HKT transcripts: HvHKT2;1-e (first exon region), HvHKT2;1-i1 (first intron) and HvHKT2;1-i2 (second intron) were observed. The variation in transcript accumulation in response to changing K(+) and Na(+) concentrations was observed in both heterologous and plant systems. These findings suggest a link between intron-retaining transcripts and different splice variants to ion homeostasis, and their possible role in salt stress.
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- K Shahzad
- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
- Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), Dubai, UAE
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
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- National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, Faisalabad, Pakistan
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Bardenhewer M, König A, Gehring C, Harbeck N, Würstlein R. Gibt es ein unterschiedliches Therapieansprechen bei viszeral versus nicht viszeral metastasiertem Mammakarzinom? Eine systematische Literaturrecherche der Zulassungsstudien beim metastasierten Mammakarzinom. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2014. [DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1388466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Flowering plants, angiosperms, can be divided into two major clades, monocots and dicots, and while differences in amino acid composition in different species from the two clades have been reported, a systematic analysis of amino acid content and distribution remains outstanding. Here, we show that monocot and dicot proteins have developed distinct amino acid content. In Arabidopsis thaliana and poplar, as in the ancestral moss Physcomitrella patens, the average mass per amino acid appears to be independent of protein length, while in the monocots rice, maize and sorghum, shorter proteins tend to be made of lighter amino acids. An examination of the elemental content of these proteomes reveals that the difference between monocot and dicot proteins can be largely attributed to their different carbon signatures. In monocots, the shorter proteins, which comprise the majority of all proteins, are made of amino acids with less carbon, while the nitrogen content is unchanged in both monocots and dicots. We hypothesise that this signature could be the result of carbon use and energy optimisation in fast-growing annual Poaceae (grasses).
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- B Jankovic
- Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Bösmann A, Enzenberger F, Gehring C, Tietz W, Schulze J, Wasserscheid P. Reaktivextraktion von Milchsäure aus Fermenterbrühe. CHEM-ING-TECH 2009. [DOI: 10.1002/cite.200950173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Gehring C, Kranzfelder D, Keil G. Beckenbodenrekonstruktion mit Netzimplantaten – Evaluation und kritische Bewertung. Geburtshilfe Frauenheilkd 2007. [DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-983616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Blouin JL, Meeks M, Radhakrishna U, Sainsbury A, Gehring C, Saïl GD, Bartoloni L, Dombi V, O'Rawe A, Walne A, Chung E, Afzelius BA, Armengot M, Jorissen M, Schidlow DV, van Maldergem L, Walt H, Gardiner RM, Probst D, Guerne PA, Delozier-Blanchet CD, Antonarakis SE. Primary ciliary dyskinesia: a genome-wide linkage analysis reveals extensive locus heterogeneity. Eur J Hum Genet 2000; 8:109-18. [PMID: 10757642 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), or immotile cilia syndrome (ICS), is an autosomal recessive disorder affecting ciliary movement with an incidence of 1 in 20000-30000. Dysmotility to complete immotility of cilia results in a multisystem disease of variable severity with recurrent respiratory tract infections leading to bronchiectasis and male subfertility. Ultrastructural defects are present in ciliated mucosa and spermatozoa. Situs inversus (SI) is found in about half of the patients (Kartagener syndrome). We have collected samples from 61 European and North American families with PCD. A genome-wide linkage search was performed in 31 multiplex families (169 individuals including 70 affecteds) using 188 evenly spaced (19cM average interval) polymorphic markers. Both parametric (recessive model) and non-parametric (identity by descent allele sharing) linkage analyses were used. No major locus for the majority of the families was identified, although the sample was powerful enough to detect linkage if 40% of the families were linked to one locus. These results strongly suggest extensive locus heterogeneity. Potential genomic regions harbouring PCD loci were localised on chromosomes 3p, 4q, 5p, 7p, 8q, 10p, 11q, 13q, 15q, 16p, 17q and 19q. Linkage analysis using PCD families with a dynein arm deficiency provided 'suggestive' evidence for linkage to chromosomal regions 8q, 16pter, while analyses using only PCD families with situs inversus resulted in 'suggestive' scores for chromosomes 8q, and 19q.
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- J L Blouin
- Division of Medical Genetics, Cantonal Hospital and University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Caffarelli E, Fragapane P, Gehring C, Bozzoni I. The accumulation of mature RNA for the Xenopus laevis ribosomal protein L1 is controlled at the level of splicing and turnover of the precursor RNA. EMBO J 1987; 6:3493-8. [PMID: 2448138 PMCID: PMC553808 DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1987.tb02674.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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A specific control regulates, at the level of RNA splicing, the expression of the L1 ribosomal protein gene in Xenopus laevis. Under particular conditions, which can be summarized as an excess of free L1 protein, a precursor RNA which still contains two of the nine introns of the L1 gene accumulates. In addition to the splicing block the two intron regions undergo specific endonucleolytic cleavages which produce abortive truncated molecules. The accumulation of mature L1 RNA therefore results from the regulation of the nuclear stability of its precursor RNA. We propose that a block to splicing can permit the attack of specific intron regions by nucleases which destabilize the pre-mRNA in the nucleus. Therefore the efficiency of splicing could indirectly control the stability of the pre-mRNA.
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- E Caffarelli
- Centro Acidi Nucleici of C.N.R., University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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