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Racca A, Alvarez M, Garcia Martinez S, Rodriguez I, Gonzalez-Foruria I, Polyzos NP, Coroleu B. Assessment of progesterone levels on the day of pregnancy test determination: A novel concept toward individualized luteal phase support. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) 2023; 14:1090105. [PMID: 36817599 PMCID: PMC9929287 DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1090105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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RESEARCH QUESTION The main objective of the study is to define the optimal trade-off progesterone (P4) values on the day of embryo transfer (ET), to identify low P4-human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and to establish whether P4 supplementation started on the hCG day can increase the success rate of the frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle. DESIGN A single-center, cohort, retrospective study with 664 hormone replacement therapy (HRT)-FET cycles analyzed female patients who received vaginal 600 mg/day of P4 starting from 6 days before the FET, had normal P4 values on the day before ET, and whose P4 on the day of the pregnancy test was assessed. RESULTS Of the 664 cycles, 69.6% of cycles showed P4 ≥ 10.6 ng/ml, while 30.4% showed P4 < 10.6 ng/ml on the day of the hCG. Of the 411 chemical pregnancies detected, 71.8% had P4-hCG ≥ 10.6 ng/ml (group A), while 28.2% had P4-hCG < 10.6 ng/ml. Of the cycles with P4-hCG < 10.6 ng/ml, 64.7% (group B) were supplemented with a higher dose of vaginal P4 (1,000 mg/day), while 35.3% (group C) were maintained on the same dose of vaginal micronized P4. The live birth rate was 71.9%, 96%, and 7.3% for groups A, B, and C, respectively. CONCLUSION The likelihood to detect P4-hCG < 10.6 ng/ml decreased as the level of serum P4 the day before ET increased. The live birth rate (LBR) was shown to be significantly lower when P4 was low and not supplemented.
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- A. Racca
- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
- *Correspondence: A Racca,
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
- Facultad de Medicina Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Vic, Spain
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Medicine, Dexeus University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
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Alvarez M, Benedi-Garcia C, Concepcion-Grande P, Dotor P, Gonzalez A, Chamorro E, Cleva JM. Early Detection of Refractive Errors by Photorefraction at School Age. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:15880. [PMID: 36497952 PMCID: PMC9739333 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192315880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2022] [Revised: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Early detection and treatment of refractive defects during school age are essential to avoid irreversible future vision loss and potential school problems. Previously, vision screening of preschool children used methods based on subjective visual acuity; however, technologies such as photorefraction have promoted the detection of refractive errors quickly and easily. In this study, 1347 children from 10 schools in Madrid aged 4 to 12 years participated in a program of early detection of visual problems, which consisted of visual screening composed of anamnesis and photorefraction with a PlusOptix A12R. The prevalence of refractive errors was analyzed in terms of spherical equivalent, cylinder and its orientation, and potential cases of development of high myopia or amblyopia. Hyperopia predominates in the early years, but the number of myopic subjects is higher than that of hyperopic subjects from the age of ten onwards. At all ages, the predominant orientation of astigmatism was with-the-rule. On average, 80% of the myopic subjects were uncorrected. Potential high myopia increased with age, from 4 to 21% of the measured population. Potential amblyopia cases decreased across age groups, from 19 to 13.7%. There is a need to raise awareness of the importance of vision screening at school age to address vision problems.
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Cain A, Alvarez M, Salazar C. Increase in Complications Following Vaginal Hysterectomy Compared to Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Using the ACS-NSQIP 2016 – 2019 Database. J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2022.09.035] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Racca A, Prats P, Garcias S, Alvarez M, Coroleu B, Polyzos N. P-403 Progesterone supplementation in frozen embryo transfer with hormonal replacement therapy is associated with a higher incidence of macrosomia. Hum Reprod 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deac107.380] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Abstract
Study question
Is there an impact of increased progesterone (P4) supplementation in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) frozen embryo transfer (FET) on obstetrical and neonatal outcomes?
Summary answer
Increased P4 supplementation from the day of FET is associated with a significantly higher risk of macrosomia and a slightly higher risk of preeclampsia.
What is known already
The most widely used method for endometrial preparation prior to FET is HRT, a sequential regimen with E2 and P4, which aims to mimic the endocrine exposure of the endometrium of the physiological cycle. However, in ∼40% of the patients undergoing HRT-FET cycles P4 levels before FET remain low and this may negatively affect pregnancy rates. Although recent prospective studies have shown that additional P4 supplementation in case of low serum P4 levels results in excellent reproductive outcomes, no data exist concerning the potential effect of this extra amount of P4 on obstetrical and neonatal outcomes
Study design, size, duration
This is a single-centre, retrospective-observational study. Women undergoing HRT-FET treatment meeting the inclusion criteria were allocated to one of the 2 study groups according to the P4 supplementation. Group A (277) included women with adequate levels (>10.6 ng/ml) of P4, while group B (129) included women who received P4 supplementation due to inadequate levels of P4 (<10.6 ng/ml) on the day before the FET. All FET-HRT cycles were performed between February 2018 and December 2020.
Participants/materials, setting, methods
All patients received micronized P4 (200 mg trice a day) starting six days prior to the FET and continued until 10 weeks of pregnancy. In case P4<10.6 ng/ml, P4 supplementation was initiated rather with 400mg more micronized P4 (15%) or with subcutaneous P4 (25mg more/once a day) (85%). Only patients with day5-embryos, known P4 levels prior to FET, known obstetrical and neonatal outcomes were included. Multivariable-logistic-model was fitted for macrosomia after adjusting for confounding variables.
Main results and the role of chance
Patients’ age at oocyte retrieval was 33.5 and 33.6 years (p = 0.833), while the age at delivery was 39.9 and 39.1 years (p = 0.099), respectively for groups A and B. The incidence of diabetes, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, coagulation, and kidney disorders was comparable for both arms. The mean value of P4 was 16 ± 7.7 and 8.2 ± 1.9, respectively for groups A and B. The mean gestational length was 39 weeks in both arms, with comparable rates of premature deliveries (delivery <37 weeks respectively 4.3% and 3.1 % for group A and B; p = 0.553). The rate of cesarean-section was 56% vs 47.3%, respectively for groups A and B (p = 0.103); there were 5 cases of pre-eclampsia in group A and 7 in group B (1.8% vs 5.4%; p = 0.059). The incidence of macrosomia was significantly higher in group B (6.1% vs 12.4%; P = 0.031). Similarly, group B had a higher rate of BGA-big for gestational age- babies (9.7 vs 15.5, p = 0.091). In terms of weight at delivery, pH, Apgar, and sex the two groups were comparable. Multivariable-logistic regression showed an association between macrosomia and P4 supplementation, adjusting for potential confounders such as sex, gestational diabetes, and weeks of gestation (OR 2.3, 95% CI 1.1-4.8).
Limitations, reasons for caution
The main limitation of this study is its retrospective nature. Other potential limitations are the small sample size to detect obstetrical diseases with low incidence, such as preeclampsia. Furthermore, in our study population the PE rate is lower than in the general population, due to socioeconomic-conditions, race, and previous morbidity.
Wider implications of the findings
P4-supplemented patients have a higher risk of macrosomia and a tendency for a higher risk of preeclampsia. However, more studies are needed to confirm the present exploratory findings and explain the possible physiological mechanisms underlying the association between progesterone supplementation on macrosomia and preeclampsia.
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Affiliation(s)
- A Racca
- Dexeus University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Service , Barcelona, Spain
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- Dexeus University Hospital, Obstetric and Gynecology Service , Barcelona, Spain
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- Dexeus University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Service , Barcelona, Spain
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- Dexeus University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Service , Barcelona, Spain
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- Dexeus University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Service , Barcelona, Spain
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- Dexeus University Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Service , Barcelona, Spain
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Ruiz-Algueró M, Alejos B, García Yubero C, Riera Jaume M, Antonio Iribarren J, Asensi V, Pasquau F, Galera CE, Pascual-Carrasco M, Muñoz A, Jarrín I, Suárez-García I, Moreno S, Jarrín I, Dalmau D, Navarro ML, González MI, Blanco JL, Garcia F, Rubio R, Iribarren JA, Gutiérrez F, Vidal F, Berenguer J, González J, Alejos B, Hernando V, Moreno C, Iniesta C, Garcia Sousa LM, Perez NS, Muñoz-Fernández MÁ, García-Merino IM, Fernández IC, Rico CG, de la Fuente JG, Concejo PP, Portilla J, Merino E, Reus S, Boix V, Giner L, Gadea C, Portilla I, Pampliega M, Díez M, Rodríguez JC, Sánchez-Payá J, Gómez JL, Hernández J, Alemán MR, del Mar Alonso M, Inmaculada Hernández M, Díaz-Flores F, García D, Pelazas R, Lirola AL, Moreno JS, Caso AA, Hernández Gutiérrez C, Novella Mena M, Rubio R, Pulido F, Bisbal O, Hernando A, Domínguez L, Crestelo DR, Bermejo L, Santacreu M, Antonio Iribarren J, Arrizabalaga J, Aramburu MJ, Camino X, Rodríguez-Arrondo F, von Wichmann MÁ, Tomé LP, Goenaga MÁ, Bustinduy MJ, Azkune H, Ibarguren M, Lizardi A, Kortajarena X, Gutiérrez F, Masiá M, Padilla S, Navarro A, Montolio F, Robledano C, Gregori Colomé J, Adsuar A, Pascual R, Fernández M, García E, García JA, Barber X, Muga R, Sanvisens A, Fuster D, Berenguer J, de Quirós JCLB, Gutiérrez I, Ramírez M, Padilla B, Gijón P, Aldamiz-Echevarría T, Tejerina F, José Parras F, Balsalobre P, Diez C, Latorre LP, Vidal F, Peraire J, Viladés C, Veloso S, Vargas M, López-Dupla M, Olona M, Rull A, Rodríguez-Gallego E, Alba V, Montero Alonso M, López Aldeguer J, Blanes Juliá M, Tasias Pitarch M, Hernández IC, Calabuig Muñoz E, Cuéllar Tovar S, Salavert Lletí M, Navarro JF, González-Garcia J, Arnalich F, Arribas JR, de la Serna JIB, Castro JM, Escosa L, Herranz P, Hontañón V, García-Bujalance S, López-Hortelano MG, González-Baeza A, Martín-Carbonero ML, Mayoral M, Mellado MJ, Micán RE, Montejano R, Luisa Montes M, Moreno V, Pérez-Valero I, Rodés B, Sainz T, Sendagorta E, Stella Alcáriz N, Valencia E, Ramón Blanco J, Antonio Oteo J, Ibarra V, Metola L, Sanz M, Pérez-Martínez L, Arazo P, Sampériz G, Dalmau D, Jaén A, Sanmartí M, Cairó M, Martinez-Lacasa J, Velli P, Font R, Xercavins M, Alonso N, Repáraz J, de Alda MGR, de León Cano MT, de Galarreta BPR, Segura F, José Amengual M, Navarro G, Sala M, Cervantes M, Pineda V, Calzado S, Navarro M, de los Santos I, Sanz Sanz J, Aparicio AS, Sarriá Cepeda C, Garcia-Fraile Fraile L, Martín Gayo E, Moreno S, Luis Casado J, Dronda F, Moreno A, Jesús Pérez Elías M, Gómez Ayerbe C, Gutiérrez C, Madrid N, del Campo Terrón S, Martí P, Ansa U, Serrano S, Jesús Vivancos M, Cano A, García AA, Bravo Urbieta J, Muñoz Á, Jose Alcaraz M, Villalba MDC, García F, Hernández J, Peña A, Muñoz L, Casas P, Alvarez M, Chueca N, Vinuesa D, Martinez-Montes C, Romero JD, Rodríguez C, Puerta T, Carlos Carrió J, Vera M, Ballesteros J, Ayerdi O, Antela A, Losada E, Riera M, Peñaranda M, Leyes M, Ribas MA, Campins AA, Vidal C, Fanjul F, Murillas J, Homar F, Santos J, Ayerbe CG, Viciana I, Palacios R, González CM, Viciana P, Espinosa N, López-Cortés LF, Podzamczer D, Ferrer E, Imaz A, Tiraboschi J, Silva A, Saumoy M, Ribera E, Curran A, Olalla J, del Arco A, de la torre J, Prada JL, de Lomas Guerrero JMG, Stachowski JP, Martínez OJ, Vera FJ, Martínez L, García J, Alcaraz B, Jimeno A, Iglesias AC, Souto BP, de Cea AM, Muñoz J, Zubero MZ, Baraia-Etxaburu JM, Ugarte SI, Beneitez OLF, de Munain JL, López MMC, de la Peña M, Lopez M, Galera C, Albendin H, Pérez A, Iborra A, Moreno A, Merlos MA, Vidal A, Amador C, Pasquau F, Ena J, Benito C, Fenoll V, Anguita CG, Rabasa JTA, Suárez-García I, Malmierca E, González-Ruano P, Rodrigo DM, Seco MPR, Vidal MAG, de Zarraga MA, Pérez VE, Molina MJT, García JV, Moreno JPS, Górgolas M, Cabello A, Álvarez B, Prieto L, Sanz Moreno J, Arranz Caso A, Gutiérrez CH, Novella Mena M, Galindo Puerto MJ, Fernando Vilalta R, Ferrer Ribera A, Román AR, Brieva Herrero MT, Juárez AR, López PL, Sánchez IM, Martínez JP, Jiménez MC, Perea RT, Ruiz-Capillas JJJ, Pineda JA. Use of Generic Antiretroviral Drugs and Single-Tablet Regimen De-Simplification for the Treatment of HIV Infection in Spain. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2022; 38:433-440. [PMID: 35357907 DOI: 10.1089/aid.2021.0122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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The present study sought to describe the use of generic drugs and single-tablet regimen (STR) de-simplification for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among 41 hospitals from the cohort of the Spanish HIV/AIDS Research Network (CoRIS). In June 2018, we collected information on when generic antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) were introduced in the different hospitals, how the decisions to use them were made, and how the information was provided to the patients. Most of the nine available generic ARVs in Spain by June 2018 had been introduced in at least 85% of the participating hospitals, except for zidovudine (AZT)/lamivudine (3TC) and AZT. The time difference between the effective marketing date of each generic ARV and its first dispensing date in the hospitals was much shorter for the more recently approved generic ARV since the year 2017. However, only up to 20% of the hospitals de-simplified efavirenz (EFV)/tenofovir disoproxil (TDF)/emtricitabine (FTC), dolutegravir (DTG)/abacavir (ABC)/3TC, and rilpivirine (RPV)/TDF/FTC (to generic EFV+TDF/FTC, DTG+generic ABC/3TC, and RPV+generic TDF/FTC, respectively), whereas the generic STR EFV/TDF/FTC was introduced in 87.8% of the centers. The median times between the date of effective marketing of generic TDF/FTC and the date of de-simplification of EFV/TDF/FTC and RPV/TDF/FTC were 723 [interquartile range (IQR): 369-1,119] and 234 (IQR: 142-264) days, respectively; this time was 155 (IQR: 28-287) days for de-simplification of DTG/ABC/3TC. In conclusion, despite the widespread use of generic ARVs, STRs de-simplification was only undertaken in <20% of the hospitals. There was wide variability in the timing of the introduction of each generic ARV after they were available in the market.
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- Marta Ruiz-Algueró
- National Center for Epidemiology, Institute of Health Carlos, Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institute of Health CArlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- National Center for Epidemiology, Institute of Health Carlos, Madrid, Spain
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- Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Donostia, Instituto de Investigación BioDonostia, San Sebastián, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain
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- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institute of Health CArlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Unidad de Investigación en Telemedicina y Salud Digital (UITes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institute of Health CArlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Unidad de Investigación en Telemedicina y Salud Digital (UITes), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- National Center for Epidemiology, Institute of Health Carlos, Madrid, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institute of Health CArlos III, Madrid, Spain
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- CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Institute of Health CArlos III, Madrid, Spain
- Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitario Infanta Sofía, Madrid, Spain
- Facultad de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Hassan MAA, Sayed RKA, Abdelsabour-Khalaf M, Abd-Elhafez EA, Anel-Lopez L, Riesco MF, Ortega-Ferrusola C, Montes-Garrido R, Neila-Montero M, Anel L, Alvarez M. Morphological and ultrasonographic characterization of the three zones of supratesticular region of testicular artery in Assaf rams. Sci Rep 2022; 12:8334. [PMID: 35585142 PMCID: PMC9117313 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-12243-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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To fully understand the histological, morphometrical and heamodynamic variations of different supratesticular artery regions, 20 mature and healthy Assaf rams were examined through ultrasound and morphological studies. The testicular artery images of the spermatic cord as shown by B-mode analysis indicated a tortuous pattern along its course toward the testis, although it tends to be less tortuous close to the inguinal ring. Doppler velocimetric values showed a progressive decline in flow velocity, in addition to pulsatility and vessel resistivity when entering the testis, where there were significant differences in the Doppler indices and velocities among the different regions. The peak systolic velocity, pulsatility index and resistive index were higher in the proximal supratesticular artery region, followed by middle and distal ones, while the end diastolic velocity was higher in the distal supratesticular region. The total arterial blood flow and total arterial blood flow rate reported a progressive and significant increase along the testicular cord until entering the testis. Histological examination revealed presence of vasa vasorum in the tunica adventitia, with their diameter is higher in the proximal supratesticular zone than middle and distal ones. Morphometrically, the thickness of the supratesticular artery wall showed a significant decline downward toward the testis; meanwhile, the outer arterial diameter and inner luminal diameter displayed a significant increase distally. The expression of alpha smooth muscle actin and vimentin was higher in the tunica media of the proximal supratesticular artery zone than in middle and distal ones.
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- Mohamed A A Hassan
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, 82524, Egypt
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, 82524, Egypt
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- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, 83523, Egypt
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- Department of Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, 71526, Egypt
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain. .,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.,Cellular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology, University of León, 24071, León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy, University of León, 24071, León, Spain
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy, University of León, 24071, León, Spain
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy, University of León, 24071, León, Spain
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- ITRA-ULE, INDEGSAL, University of León, 24071, León, Spain.,Department of Veterinary Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy, University of León, 24071, León, Spain
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Redding LE, Tu V, Abbas A, Alvarez M, Zackular JP, Gu C, Bushman FD, Kelly DJ, Barnhart D, Lee JJ, Bittinger KL. Genetic and phenotypic characteristics of Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile from canine, bovine, and pediatric populations. Anaerobe 2022; 74:102539. [PMID: 35217150 PMCID: PMC9359814 DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2022.102539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2021] [Revised: 02/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Objectives: Carriage of Clostridioides difficile by different species of animals has led to speculation that animals could represent a reservoir of this pathogen for human infections. The objective of this study was to compare C. difficile isolates from humans, dogs, and cattle from a restricted geographic area. Methods: C. difficile isolates from 36 dogs and 15 dairy calves underwent whole genome sequencing, and phenotypic assays assessing growth and virulence were performed. Genomes of animal-derived isolates were compared to 29 genomes of isolates from a pediatric population as well as 44 reference genomes. Results: Growth rates and relative cytotoxicity of isolates were significantly higher and lower, respectively, in bovine-derived isolates compared to pediatric- and canine-derived isolates. Analysis of core genes showed clustering by host species, though in a few cases, human strains co-clustered with canine or bovine strains, suggesting possible interspecies transmission. Geographic differences (e.g., farm, litter) were small compared to differences between species. In an analysis of accessory genes, the total number of genes in each genome varied between host species, with 6.7% of functional orthologs differentially present/absent between host species and bovine-derived strains having the lowest number of genes. Canine-derived isolates were most likely to be non-toxigenic and more likely to carry phages. A targeted study of episomes identified in local pediatric strains showed sharing of a methicillin-resistance plasmid with dogs, and historic sharing of a wide range of episomes across hosts. Bovine-derived isolates harbored the widest variety of antibiotic-resistance genes, followed by canine Conclusions: While C. difficile isolates mostly clustered by host species, occasional co-clustering of canine and pediatric-derived isolates suggests the possibility of interspecies transmission. The presence of a pool of resistance genes in animal-derived isolates with the potential to appear in humans given sufficient pressure from antibiotic use warrants concern.
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- L E Redding
- Department of Clinical Studies-New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, PA, 19348, USA.
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Division of Protective Immunity, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Division of Protective Immunity, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Division of Protective Immunity, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Clinical Studies-New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, PA, 19348, USA
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- Department of Clinical Studies-New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine, Kennett Square, PA, 19348, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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Benavides M, Alcaide-Garcia J, Torres E, Gil S, Durán G, Reyna C, Wolman R, Alvarez M, Kushnir M, Faull I, Muñoz M, Alba E. 503P Mutational landscape in synchronous unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) according to upfront primary tumour resection (UPTR). Ann Oncol 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.annonc.2021.08.1022] [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: 11/28/2022] Open
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Alvarez M, Racca A, García S, Martínez F, González-Foruria I, Parriego M, Coroleu B. P–672 Higher pregnancy outcomes in patients undergoing embryo transfer-under hormonal replacement therapy where an individualised Progesterone supplementation was applied on the day of β-hCG. Hum Reprod 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deab130.671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Study question
Does progesterone-supplementation (PS) from the day of β-hCG assessment improve pregnancy rates in embryo transfer-under hormonal replacement therapy (ET-HRT) in patient with Progesterone (P)<10.6 ng/mL?
Summary answer
Reduced P on the β-hCG day is associated with lower pregnancy-rates and higher miscarriage-rate. PS from the same day showed significant increase of reproductive outcomes.
What is known already
Up until now, in ART, very little has been done to understand whether the P intake should be personalized during the luteal phase. Most recent studies on the topic showed that low P levels on the day of ET-HRT or on the day before are associated with decreased pregnancy rates; however, when low P values are supplemented from the day before embryo-transfer (ET), similar results to cases with adequate P are reported. Nevertheless, little is known about the association between low P level, on the day of β-hCG (P- β-hCG) and PS from this day in ET-HRT, and pregnancy outcomes.
Study design, size, duration
This is a single centre, cohort, retrospective study conducted at a university-affiliated fertility centre between January 2018 and June 2020 where PS took place from the day of positive β-hCG determination when P < 10.6 ng/mL. In total 789 ET-HRT cycles were analysed of which 239 were performed in both fresh and frozen heterologous ET-HRT (het-ET), 336 in homologous ET-HRT (hom-FET) and 214 in euploid ET-HRT (eu-FET) after preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidies IVF cycles (PGT-A).
Participants/materials, setting, methods
Women undergoing ET-HRT with normal P (>10.6ng/mL) on the day before ET were screened for P on the day of β-hCG. All women received vaginal P 200 mg/8 hours for the second part of HRT. PS was performed by adding P to the HRT when P- β-hCG was considered low (<10.6 ng/mL). Primary outcome: ongoing-pregnancy-rate (OPR); secondary outcome: miscarriage-rate (MR). Both were evaluated by considering PS on the day of β-hCG as a categorical variable.
Main results and the role of chance
Patients characteristics were comparable between groups (het-ET, hom-FET and eu-FET) although significantly lower body mass index was found when P- β-hCG>10.6 ng/mL compared to the subgroup with P- β-hCG<10.6 ng/mL and no PS (p = 0.012). Overall clinical pregnancy rate was 52.1% with no-significant differences between groups (48.5% in het-ET, 52.9% in hom-FET and 54.7% in eu-FET). P- β-hCG was considered as adequate in 75.7% (311/411) ET-HRT with positive β-hCG and low in 24.3% (100/411), with no differences between groups. In case of positive β-hCG and P- β-hCG >10.6 ng/mL, OPR was 83.6% and MR was 16.4%, with no-significant differences between groups. Among the 100 low P- β-hCG, 80 ET-HRT received PS. In this subgroup OPR was 96.2% and MR was 3.8%, with no-significant differences between groups. In 20 out of 100 ET with P- β-hCG <10.6 ng/mL, no PS was added for different reasons. This group showed the lowest OPR (30%) and the highest MR (70%), again with no between-group differences according to het-ET, hom-FET or eu-FET. Miscarriage rate was significantly higher (p < 0.001) when P- β-hCG was <10.6 ng/mL and no PS was added to HRT compared to P- β-hCG <10.6 ng/mL but with PS, and also compared to the P- β-hCG >10.6 ng/mL group.
Limitations, reasons for caution
The main limitation of the study is due to its retrospective nature and the small sample of patients with P- β-hCG<10.6 ng/mL that was not supplemented. Furthermore, the cut-off of P- β-hCG was arbitrarily decided upon previous studies, and lastly different routes of administration were considered for the PS.
Wider implications of the findings: The results of this study showed that individualization of Progesterone supplementation in ET-HRT may be a crucial turn point in order to increase the pregnancy rates and decrease the miscarriage rates. An adequate PS should be considered in case of low P- β-hCG levels for both het-ET, hom-FET and eu-FET.
Trial registration number
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- M Alvarez
- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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- Reproductive Medicine Service. Dexeus Mujer. Dexeus University Hospital, Department of Obstetrics- Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine, Barcelona, Spain
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Le Roy C, Barja S, Sepúlveda C, Guzmán M, Olivarez M, Figueroa M, Alvarez M. Deficiencia de vitamina D y de hierro en niños y adolescentes con parálisis cerebral. Neurologia 2021; 36:112-118. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2017.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2017] [Revised: 10/23/2017] [Accepted: 11/05/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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van der Nelson H, O'Brien S, Burnard S, Mayer M, Alvarez M, Knowlden J, Winter C, Dailami N, Marques E, Burden C, Siassakos D, Draycott T. Intramuscular oxytocin versus Syntometrine ® versus carbetocin for prevention of primary postpartum haemorrhage after vaginal birth: a randomised double-blinded clinical trial of effectiveness, side effects and quality of life. BJOG 2021; 128:1236-1246. [PMID: 33300296 DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.16622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/03/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare intramuscular oxytocin, Syntometrine® and carbetocin for prevention of postpartum haemorrhage after vaginal birth. DESIGN Randomised double-blinded clinical trial. SETTING Six hospitals in England. POPULATION A total of 5929 normotensive women having a singleton vaginal birth. METHODS Randomisation when birth was imminent. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Primary: use of additional uterotonic agents. Secondary: weighed blood loss, transfusion, manual removal of placenta, adverse effects, quality of life. RESULTS Participants receiving additional uterotonics: 368 (19.5%) oxytocin, 298 (15.6%) Syntometrine and 364 (19.1%) carbetocin. When pairwise comparisons were made: women receiving carbetocin were significantly more likely to receive additional uterotonics than those receiving Syntometrine (odds ratio [OR] 1.28, 95% CI 1.08-1.51, P = 0.004); the difference between carbetocin and oxytocin was non-significant (P = 0.78); Participants receiving Syntometrine were significantly less likely to receive additional uterotonics than those receiving oxytocin (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.65-0.91, P = 0.002). Non-inferiority between carbetocin and Syntometrine was not shown. Use of Syntometrine reduced non-drug PPH treatments compared with oxytocin (OR 0.64, 95% CI 0.42-0.97) but not carbetocin (P = 0.64). Rates of PPH and blood transfusion were not different. Syntometrine was associated with an increase in maternal adverse effects and reduced ability of the mother to bond with her baby. CONCLUSIONS Non-inferiority of carbetocin to Syntometrine was not shown. Carbetocin is not significantly different to oxytocin for use of additional uterotonics. Use of Syntometrine reduced use of additional uterotonics and need for non-drug PPH treatments compared with oxytocin. Increased maternal adverse effects are a disadvantage of Syntometrine. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT IM carbetocin does not reduce additional uterotonic use compared with IM Syntometrine or oxytocin.
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- H van der Nelson
- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.,University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.,University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Royal United Hospitals NHS Trust, Bath, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
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- University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK
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- North Bristol NHS Trust, Bristol, UK.,University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Cotte L, Hocqueloux L, Lefebvre M, Pradat P, Bani-Sadr F, Huleux T, Poizot-Martin I, Pugliese P, Rey D, Cabié A, Chirouze C, Drobacheff-Thiébaut C, Foltzer A, Bouiller K, Hustache-Mathieu L, Lepiller Q, Bozon F, Babre O, Brunel AS, Muret P, Chevalier E, Jacomet C, Laurichesse H, Lesens O, Vidal M, Mrozek N, Aumeran C, Baud O, Corbin V, Goncalvez E, Mirand A, brebion A, Henquell C, Lamaury I, Fabre I, Curlier E, Ouissa R, Herrmann-Storck C, Tressieres B, Receveur MC, Boulard F, Daniel C, Clavel C, Roger PM, Markowicz S, Chellum Rungen N, Merrien D, Perré P, Guimard T, Bollangier O, Leautez S, Morrier M, Laine L, Boucher D, Point P, Cotte L, Ader F, Becker A, Boibieux A, Brochier C, Brunel-Dalmas F, Cannesson O, Chiarello P, Chidiac C, Degroodt S, Ferry T, Godinot M, Livrozet JM, Makhloufi D, Miailhes P, Perpoint T, Perry M, Pouderoux C, Roux S, Triffault-Fillit C, Valour F, Charre C, Icard V, Tardy JC, Trabaud MA, Ravaux I, Ménard A, Belkhir AY, Colson P, Dhiver C, Madrid A, Martin-Degioanni M, Meddeb L, Mokhtari M, Motte A, Raoux A, Toméi C, Tissot-Dupont H, Poizot-Martin I, Brégigeon S, Zaegel-Faucher O, Obry-Roguet V, Laroche H, Orticoni M, Soavi MJ, Ressiot E, Ducassou MJ, Jaquet I, Galie S, Colson H, Ritleng AS, Ivanova A, Debreux C, Lions C, Rojas-Rojas T, Cabié A, Abel S, Bavay J, Bigeard B, Cabras O, Cuzin L, Dupin de Majoubert R, Fagour L, Guitteaud K, Marquise A, Najioullah F, Pierre-François S, Pasquier J, Richard P, Rome K, Turmel JM, Varache C, Atoui N, Bistoquet M, Delaporte E, Le Moing V, Makinson A, Meftah N, Merle de Boever C, Montes B, Montoya Ferrer A, Tuaillon E, Reynes J, Lefèvre B, Jeanmaire E, Hénard S, Frentiu E, Charmillon A, Legoff A, Tissot N, André M, Boyer L, Bouillon MP, Delestan M, Goehringer F, Bevilacqua S, Rabaud C, May T, Raffi F, Allavena C, Aubry O, Billaud E, Biron C, Bonnet B, Bouchez S, Boutoille D, Brunet-Cartier C, Deschanvres C, Gaborit BJ, Grégoire A, Grégoire M, Grossi O, Guéry R, Jovelin T, Lefebvre M, Le Turnier P, Lecomte R, Morineau P, Reliquet V, Sécher S, Cavellec M, Paredes E, Soria A, Ferré V, André-Garnier E, Rodallec A, Pugliese P, Breaud S, Ceppi C, Chirio D, Cua E, Dellamonica P, Demonchy E, De Monte A, Durant J, Etienne C, Ferrando S, Garraffo R, Michelangeli C, Mondain V, Naqvi A, Oran N, Perbost I, Carles M, Klotz C, Maka A, Pradier C, Prouvost-Keller B, Risso K, Rio V, Rosenthal E, Touitou I, Wehrlen-Pugliese S, Zouzou G, Hocqueloux L, Prazuck T, Gubavu C, Sève A, Giaché S, Rzepecki V, Colin M, Boulard C, Thomas G, Cheret A, Goujard C, Quertainmont Y, Teicher E, Lerolle N, Jaureguiberry S, Colarino R, Deradji O, Castro A, Barrail-Tran A, Yazdanpanah Y, Landman R, Joly V, Ghosn J, Rioux C, Lariven S, Gervais A, Lescure FX, Matheron S, Louni F, Julia Z, Le GAC S, Charpentier C, Descamps D, Peytavin G, Duvivier C, Aguilar C, Alby-Laurent F, Amazzough K, Benabdelmoumen G, Bossi P, Cessot G, Charlier C, Consigny PH, Jidar K, Lafont E, Lanternier F, Leporrier J, Lortholary O, Louisin C, Lourenco J, Parize P, Pilmis B, Rouzaud C, Touam F, Valantin MA, Tubiana R, Agher R, Seang S, Schneider L, PaLich R, Blanc C, Katlama C, Bani-Sadr F, Berger JL, N’Guyen Y, Lambert D, Kmiec I, Hentzien M, Brunet A, Romaru J, Marty H, Brodard V, Arvieux C, Tattevin P, Revest M, Souala F, Baldeyrou M, Patrat-Delon S, Chapplain JM, Benezit F, Dupont M, Poinot M, Maillard A, Pronier C, Lemaitre F, Morlat C, Poisson-Vannier M, Jovelin T, Sinteff JP, Gagneux-Brunon A, Botelho-Nevers E, Frésard A, Ronat V, Lucht F, Rey D, Fischer P, Partisani M, Cheneau C, Priester M, Mélounou C, Bernard-Henry C, de Mautort E, Fafi-Kremer S, Delobel P, Alvarez M, Biezunski N, Debard A, Delpierre C, Gaube G, Lansalot P, Lelièvre L, Marcel M, Martin-Blondel G, Piffaut M, Porte L, Saune K, Robineau O, Ajana F, Aïssi E, Alcaraz I, Alidjinou E, Baclet V, Bocket L, Boucher A, Digumber M, Huleux T, Lafon-Desmurs B, Meybeck A, Pradier M, Tetart M, Thill P, Viget N, Valette M. Microelimination or Not? The Changing Epidemiology of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Hepatitis C Virus Coinfection in France 2012–2018. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:e3266-e3274. [DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 01/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Background
The arrival of highly effective, well-tolerated, direct-acting antiviral agents (DAA) led to a dramatic decrease in hepatitis C virus (HCV) prevalence. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-HCV–coinfected patients are deemed a priority population for HCV elimination, while a rise in recently acquired HCV infections in men who have sex with men (MSM) has been described. We describe the variations in HIV-HCV epidemiology in the French Dat’AIDS cohort.
Methods
This was a retrospective analysis of a prospective cohort of persons living with HIV (PLWH) from 2012 to 2018. We determined HCV prevalence, HCV incidence, proportion of viremic patients, treatment uptake, and mortality rate in the full cohort and by HIV risk factors.
Results
From 2012 to 2018, 50 861 PLWH with a known HCV status were followed up. During the period, HCV prevalence decreased from 15.4% to 13.5%. HCV prevalence among new HIV cases increased from 1.9% to 3.5% in MSM but remained stable in other groups. Recently acquired HCV incidence increased from 0.36/100 person-years to 1.25/100 person-years in MSM. The proportion of viremic patients decreased from 67.0% to 8.9%. MSM became the first group of viremic patients in 2018 (37.9%). Recently acquired hepatitis represented 59.2% of viremic MSM in 2018. DAA treatment uptake increased from 11.4% to 61.5%. More treatments were initiated in MSM in 2018 (41.2%) than in intravenous drug users (35.6%). In MSM, treatment at the acute phase represented 30.0% of treatments in 2018.
Conclusions
A major shift in HCV epidemiology was observed in PLWH in France from 2012 to 2018, leading to a unique situation in which the major group of HCV transmission in 2018 was MSM.
Clinical Trials Registration. NCT02898987.
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- Laurent Cotte
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1052, Lyon, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Régional d’Orléans – La Source, Orléans, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Hôtel-Dieu, Nantes; Centre d’Investigation Clinique (CIC) 1413, INSERM, Nantes, France
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- Center for Clinical Research, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Robert Debré Hospital, University Hospital, Reims, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Travel Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Gustave-Dron, Tourcoing, France
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- Immuno-Hematology Clinic, Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, Aix-MarseilleUniversity–Inserm–Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Sciences Economiques & Sociales de la Santé & Traitement de l’Information Médicale, Marseille, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Hôpital l’Archet, Nice, France
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- HIV Infection Care Centre, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Martinique, Fort de France, Université des Antilles EA4537, Fort de France, INSERM CIC1424, Fort-de-France, France
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Puig I, Alvarez M, Lozano M, Lucente G. A case of late-onset osmotic demyelination syndrome. Neurologia 2020; 36:S0213-4853(20)30311-X. [PMID: 33176921 DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2020.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Accepted: 10/10/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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- I Puig
- Department of Neuroscience, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Department of Neuroscience, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Department of Neuroscience, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España
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- Department of Neuroscience, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, España; Grup de Recerca en Malalties Neuromusculars i Neuropediatriques, Department of Neurosciences, Institut Investigació en Ciències de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Barcelona, España; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Badalona, Barcelona, España.
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Cohen O, Boumaza X, Alvarez M, Porte L, Lansalot P, Martin-Blondel G, Delobel P. Épidémie d’oreillons en milieu sportif chez des patients correctement vaccinés. Med Mal Infect 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2020.06.393] [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: 10/23/2022]
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Suárez-García I, Moreno C, Ruiz-Algueró M, Pérez-Elías MJ, Navarro M, Díez Martínez M, Viciana P, Pérez-Martínez L, Górgolas M, Amador C, de Zárraga MA, Jarrín I, Moreno S, Jarrín I, Dalmau D, Navarro ML, González MI, Garcia F, Poveda E, Iribarren JA, Gutiérrez F, Rubio R, Vidal F, Berenguer J, González J, Muñoz-Fernández MÁ, Jarrin I, Alejos B, Moreno C, Iniesta C, Sousa LMG, Perez NS, Rava M, Muñoz-Fernández MÁ, Fernández IC, Merino E, García G, Portilla I, Agea I, Portilla J, Sánchez-Payá J, Rodríguez JC, Gimeno L, Giner L, Díez M, Carreres M, Reus S, Boix V, Torrús D, Lirola AL, García D, Díaz-Flores F, Gómez JL, del Mar Alonso M, Pelazas R, Hernández J, Alemán MR, Hernández MI, Asensi V, Valle E, Carmenado MER, Secades TSZ, Is LP, Rubio R, Pulido F, Bisbal O, Hernando A, Domínguez L, Crestelo DR, Bermejo L, Santacreu M, Iribarren JA, Arrizabalaga J, Aramburu MJ, Camino X, Rodríguez-Arrondo F, von Wichmann MÁ, Tomé LP, Goenaga MÁ, Bustinduy MJ, Azkune H, Ibarguren M, Lizardi A, Kortajarena X, Oyaga MPC, Igartua MU, Gutiérrez F, Masiá M, Padilla S, Navarro A, Montolio F, Robledano C, Colomé JG, Adsuar A, Pascual R, Fernández M, García E, García JA, Barber X, Muga R, Sanvisens A, Fuster D, Berenguer J, de Quirós JCLB, Gutiérrez I, Ramírez M, Padilla B, Gijón P, Aldamiz-Echevarría T, Tejerina F, Parras FJ, Balsalobre P, Diez C, Latorre LP, Fanciulli C, Vidal F, Peraire J, Viladés C, Veloso S, Vargas M, Olona M, Rull A, Rodríguez-Gallego E, Alba V, Castellanos AJ, López-Dupla M, Alonso MM, Aldeguer JL, Juliá MB, Pitarch MT, Hernández IC, Muñoz EC, Tovar SC, Lletí MS, Navarro JF, González-Garcia J, Arnalich F, Arribas JR, de la Serna JIB, Castro JM, Escosa L, Herranz P, Hontañón V, García-Bujalance S, López-Hortelano MG, González-Baeza A, Martín-Carbonero ML, Mayoral M, Mellado MJ, Micán RE, Montejano R, Montes ML, Moreno V, Pérez-Valero I, Rodés B, Sainz T, Sendagorta E, Alcáriz NS, Valencia E, Blanco JR, Oteo JA, Ibarra V, Metola L, Sanz M, Pérez-Martínez L, Arazo P, Sampériz G, Dalmau D, Jaén A, Sanmartí M, Cairó M, Martinez-Lacasa J, Velli P, Font R, Xercavins M, Alonso N, Marcotegui MR, Repáraz J, de Alda MGR, de León Cano MT, de Galarreta BPR, Amengual MJ, Navarro G, Garcia MC, Isbert SC, Vilasaro MN, de los Santos I, Sanz JS, Aparicio AS, Cepeda CS, Fraile LGF, Gayo EM, Moreno S, Osorio JLC, Nuñez FD, Zamora AM, Elías MJP, Gutiérrez C, Madrid N, del Campo Terrón S, Villar SS, Gallego MJV, Sanz JM, Urroz UA, Velasco T, Bernal E, Sanchez AC, García AA, Urbieta JB, Perez AM, Alcaraz MJ, del Carmen Villalba M, García F, Quero JH, Medina LM, Alvarez M, Chueca N, García DV, Martinez-Montes C, Beltran CG, de Salazar Gonzalerz A, Lopez AF, Utrilla MR, Del Romero J, Rodríguez C, Puerta T, Carrió JC, Vera M, Ballesteros J, Ayerdi O, Antela A, Losada E, Riera M, Peñaranda M, Leyes M, Ribas MA, Campins AA, Vidal C, Fanjul F, Murillas J, Homar F, Santos J, Ayerbe CG, Viciana I, Palacios R, López CP, Gonzalez-Domenec CM, Viciana P, Espinosa N, López-Cortés LF, Podzamczer D, Imaz A, Tiraboschi J, Silva A, Saumoy M, Prieto P, Ribera E, Curran A, Sierra JO, Stachowski JP, del Arco A, de la torre J, Prada JL, de Lomas Guerrero JMG, Martínez OJ, Vera FJ, Martínez L, García J, Alcaraz B, Jimeno A, Iglesias AC, Souto BP, de Cea AM, Muñoz J, Zubero MZ, Baraia-Etxaburu JM, Ugarte SI, Beneitez OLF, de Munain JL, López MMC, de la Peña M, Lopez M, Azkarreta IL, Galera C, Albendin H, Pérez A, Iborra A, Moreno A, Merlos MA, Vidal A, Meca M, Amador C, Pasquau F, Ena J, Benito C, Fenoll V, Anguita CG, Rabasa JTA, Suárez-García I, Malmierca E, González-Ruano P, Rodrigo DM, Seco MPR, Mohamed-Balghata MO, Vidal MAG, de Zarraga MA, Pérez VE, Molina MJT, García JV, Moreno JPS, Górgolas M, Cabello A, Álvarez B, Prieto L, Moreno JS, Caso AA, Gutiérrez CH, Mena MN, Puerto MJG, Vilalta RF, Ribera AF, Román AR, Juárez AR, López PL, Sánchez IM, Casas MF, Espejo AC, Jiménez MC, Perea RT, Pineda JA, Mayo PR, Sanchez JM, Gutierrez NM, Real LM, Gomez AC, Fuertes MF, Gonzalez-Serna A, Poveda E, Pérez A, Crespo M, Morano L, Miralles C, Ocampo A, Pousada G. Effectiveness of the combination elvitegravir/cobicistat/tenofovir/emtricitabine (EVG/COB/TFV/FTC) plus darunavir among treatment-experienced patients in clinical practice: a multicentre cohort study. AIDS Res Ther 2020; 17:45. [PMID: 32690099 PMCID: PMC7372769 DOI: 10.1186/s12981-020-00302-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and tolerability of the combination elvitegravir/cobicistat/tenofovir/emtricitabine plus darunavir (EVG/COB/TFV/FTC + DRV) in treatment-experienced patients from the cohort of the Spanish HIV/AIDS Research Network (CoRIS). METHODS Treatment-experienced patients starting treatment with EVG/COB/TFV/FTC + DRV during the years 2014-2018 and with more than 24 weeks of follow-up were included. TFV could be administered either as tenofovir disoproxil fumarate or tenofovir alafenamide. We evaluated virological response, defined as viral load (VL) < 50 copies/ml and < 200 copies/ml at 24 and 48 weeks after starting this regimen, stratified by baseline VL (< 50 or ≥ 50 copies/ml at the start of the regimen). RESULTS We included 39 patients (12.8% women). At baseline, 10 (25.6%) patients had VL < 50 copies/ml and 29 (74.4%) had ≥ 50 copies/ml. Among patients with baseline VL < 50 copies/ml, 85.7% and 80.0% had VL < 50 copies/ml at 24 and 48 weeks, respectively, and 100% had VL < 200 copies/ml at 24 and 48 weeks. Among patients with baseline VL ≥ 50 copies/ml, 42.3% and 40.9% had VL < 50 copies/ml and 69.2% and 68.2% had VL < 200 copies/ml at 24 and 48 weeks. During the first 48 weeks, no patients changed their treatment due to toxicity, and 4 patients (all with baseline VL ≥ 50 copies/ml) changed due to virological failure. CONCLUSIONS EVG/COB/TFV/FTC + DRV was well tolerated and effective in treatment-experienced patients with undetectable viral load as a simplification strategy, allowing once-daily, two-pill regimen with three antiretroviral drug classes. Effectiveness was low in patients with detectable viral loads.
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Kanagasabapathy D, Blosser RJ, Maupin KA, Hong JM, Alvarez M, Ghosh J, Mohamad SF, Aguilar-Perez A, Srour EF, Kacena MA, Bruzzaniti A. Megakaryocytes promote osteoclastogenesis in aging. Aging (Albany NY) 2020; 12:15121-15133. [PMID: 32634116 PMCID: PMC7425434 DOI: 10.18632/aging.103595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/13/2020] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Megakaryocytes (MKs) support bone formation by stimulating osteoblasts (OBs) and inhibiting osteoclasts (OCs). Aging results in higher bone resorption, leading to bone loss. Whereas previous studies showed the effects of aging on MK-mediated bone formation, the effects of aging on MK-mediated OC formation is poorly understood. Here we examined the effect of thrombopoietin (TPO) and MK-derived conditioned media (CM) from young (3-4 months) and aged (22-25 months) mice on OC precursors. Our findings showed that aging significantly increased OC formation in vitro. Moreover, the expression of the TPO receptor, Mpl, and circulating TPO levels were elevated in the bone marrow cavity. We previously showed that MKs from young mice secrete factors that inhibit OC differentiation. However, rather than inhibiting OC development, we found that MKs from aged mice promote OC formation. Interestingly, these age-related changes in MK functionality were only observed using female MKs, potentially implicating the sex steroid, estrogen, in signaling. Further, RANKL expression was highly elevated in aged MKs suggesting MK-derived RANKL signaling may promote osteoclastogenesis in aging. Taken together, these data suggest that modulation in TPO-Mpl expression in bone marrow and age-related changes in the MK secretome promote osteoclastogenesis to impact skeletal aging.
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- Deepa Kanagasabapathy
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Comprehensive Care, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Comprehensive Care, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Comprehensive Care, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA
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Richard C, Alvarez M, Carneiro JP, Hanna B, Prost L, Saini A, Scarpine V, Shemyakin A. Measurements of a 2.1 MeV H - beam with an Allison scanner. Rev Sci Instrum 2020; 91:073301. [PMID: 32752855 DOI: 10.1063/5.0004502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Accepted: 06/10/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Transverse 2D phase space distributions of a 2.1 MeV, 5 mA H- beam are measured at the Proton Improvement Plan II Injector Test accelerator at Fermilab with an Allison scanner. This paper describes the design, calibration, and performance of the scanner along with the main results from beam measurements. Analyses of the recorded phase portraits are performed primarily in action-phase coordinates. The stability of the action under linear optics makes it easier to compare measurements taken under different beamline conditions. The amplitude of a single measured point ("pixel") is proportional to the phase density in the corresponding portion of the beam. When the Twiss parameters are calculated using only the high-phase density part of the beam, the pixel amplitude in the beam core is found to be decreasing approximately exponentially with action and to be phase-independent. Outside of the core, the amplitudes decrease with action at a slower rate than in the core. This "tail" comprises 10%-30% of the beam, with 0.1% of the total measured intensity extending beyond action 10-20 times larger than the rms emittance. The transition from the core to the tail is accompanied by the appearance of two "branches" that are separated in phase and extend beyond the core. A set of selected measurements shows that there is no measurable emittance dilution along the beamline; the beam parameters are practically constant over a 0.5 ms pulse; and scraping in various parts of the beamline is an effective way to decrease the transverse tails by removing the branches.
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- C Richard
- Physics and Astronomy Department, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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- Accelerator Division, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois 60510, USA
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Dirico M, Bedi V, Alvarez M, Finley Iv J. MANAGEMENT OF INTERMEDIATE RISK PULMONARY EMBOLI WITH THE PRESENCE OF A RIGHT VENTRICULAR THROMBUS. Chest 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2020.05.450] [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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Tronconi A, Carnero G, Mysuta M, Bozza A, Peltzer M, Labin B, Gavilan L, Ramirez D, Alvarez M, Gonzalez JL, Galizio N. P506Brugada Syndrome: is the addition of the electrocardiographic risk markers the clue? Europace 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/europace/euaa162.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
Risk stratification in Brugada Syndrome (BS) remains a clinical challenge. Several electrocardiografic (ECG) risk markers had been described, as a spontaneous type 1 Brugada pattern (ST1B), maximal time interval between the peak and the end of the t wave in precordial leads (Tpe Max), the presence of an S Wave on DI, a PR interval (PRi) ≥ 200ms and fragmented QRS (f-QRS).
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Evaluate the association of ECG risk markers with sudden cardiac death (SCD) or appropriate shocks (A-Sh) by implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) in patients (p) with BS.
Methods
From a registry of 97 p with BS with a median follow up of 2.3 years (Q1 0.7-Q3 7.8), 12 lead ECG were recorded in every p. QT peak interval (QTp) was measured between the QRS onset and the peak of the T wave. Tpe was calculated between the difference of QT and QTp in precordial leads (V1 to V6). TpeMax was defined as the most prolonged Tpe. If an S-DI was present, duration and amplitude was measured. PRi was measured on DII. Baseline characteristics: Age 44 ± 13 years, male 74 (76%), secondary prevention 2 (3%), malignant syncope 10 (10%), inducible electrophysiology study 22/43 (51%), SCD on first grade family < 35 years 12 (12%) and ICD 34 (35%). A-Sh and SCD were compared among p with ST1B vs no ST1B, TpeMax≥100 vs <100ms, S-DI ≥0.4 vs <0.4ms, S-D ≥0.1 vs <0.1mV, PRi≥200 vs <200ms and presence of f-QRS ≥ 2 spike ≥ 2 leads. Variables that were associated with A-Sh or SCD were combined. For variables with significant difference sensibility (Sen) and specificity (Spe) was calculated.
Results
During follow up 6 p presented A-Sh and no p SCD. Results are described in the Table.
Conclusion
In our study population, there was a significant higher incidence of A-Sh in p with ST1B, Tpe Max ≥ 100ms and S-DI ≥ 0.1mV. We found that the presence of one ECG risk marker had a high sensibility to predict A-Sh. The presence of the 3 ECG risk markers highly increased specificity to predict A-Sh. Further trials should be carried out to asses if ECG risk markers would allow us to differentiate which asymptomatic patients could benefit from electrophysiological study for risk stratification (high sensibility - One ECG Risk marker) or would benefit from ICD implantation (high specificity - 3 ECG Risk markers).
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- A Tronconi
- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Favaloro Foundation University Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Ramirez P, Orihuela C, Alvarez M, Ayala M. P634 Right atrial mechanics determined by speckle tracking strain as a more physiologic correlation in pulmonary hypertension. Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging 2020. [DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jez319.318] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introduction
Right atrial dilation has also been established as a marker of adverse outcomes in pulmonary hypertension (PH), while right atrial mechanics remain relatively understudied.
Purpose
Transthoracic echocardiography is a practical and widely used tool for risk stratification in PH. We hypothesized that right atrial (RA) strain components [RA reservoir function (ƐR), peak RA contraction (ƐCT) and RA conduit function (ƐCD)] correlates better with strong prognostic parameters as 3D right ventricle ejection fraction (3D RV EF), 6 minutes walking test, systolic pulmonary artery pressure (SPAP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP).
Methods
19 patients with diagnostic PH, type 2 patients were excluded. RA strain was analyzed and determined a correlation with right ventricle function and pulmonary variables.
Results
Morphology correlation was poor with all the variables as SPAP, 6 Minutes walking test, BNP, only RA/LA index has a good correlation with BNP (R = 0.76, P = 0.0004). Right atrial mechanics with strain has good correlation: ƐR correlates with BNP (R= -0.70, P = 0.001) and with SPAP (R= -0.68, P = 0.001). ƐCD correlates with BNP (R=-0.75;P = 0,0002) and with SPAP (R=-0.68, P = 0.001). ƐCT has no correlation with E/e, 3D RV EF, SPAP, pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), 6 minutes walking test neither BNP. Right atrial deformation sum correlations with 3D RV EF (R= -0.70, P = 0.001), with SPAP (R= -0.72, P = 0.0005), with PVR (R= -0.68, P = 0.001) and with BNP (R=-0.71, P = 0.001).
Conclusion
Right atrium morphological characteristics have poor correlation with variables that evaluate right ventricle function and with variables that predicts outcomes, as BNP, in this patients population. Only RA/LA index as morphology parameter has good correlation with BNP level. Meanwhile right atrial mechanics analyzed by strain has strong correlation with other variables of severity at PH. Right atrial deformation sum has better correlation than other strain parameters in our study.
Abstract P634 Figure. RIGHT ATRIAL DEFORMATION SUM CORRELATION
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- P Ramirez
- National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico
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Zapata I, Alvarez M, Hidalgo R, Pajares B, Garcia-Anaya MJ, Toledo MD, Trigo JM, Lupiañez-Perez Y, Medina JA, Jaime Gomez-Millan J. Causes of death in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy and systemic therapy. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:1241. [PMID: 31864338 PMCID: PMC6925882 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-6427-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2019] [Accepted: 12/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND To investigate the incidence of non-cancer mortalities and prognostic factors associated with competitive causes of death in a homogeneous cohort of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy and systemic treatment. METHODS This study included 284 patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy and systemic treatment between 2005 and 2017. The cumulative incidence of death associated with tumour, second tumours, treatment, side effects and comorbidity was calculated. A Fine and Gray regression model was used to investigate factors associated with cancer and competitive mortality. RESULTS The cumulative incidence of tumoral death at 5 and 10 years were 35 and 47% respectively, whereas the cumulative incidence of competitive mortality were 10 and 12% respectively. In the multivariate analysis, age and comorbidity were independent factors for non-cancer mortality. Patients with a high risk of non-cancer mortality presented a cumulative incidence of 17.3% at 5 years and 18.4% at 10 years. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrated a high incidence of competing mortality in older patients with comorbidities. Non-cancer deaths should be considered when selecting patients for combination therapies and in the study design ofclinical trials.
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- I Zapata
- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Laboratorio de biología molecular del cancer, centro de investigaciones medico-sanitarias (CIMES), Universidad de Málaga, Malaga, Spain.,Instituto de investigación biomédica de Malaga, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain.,Pathology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Servicio central de Informatica, Universidad de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n, 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Medical Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n, 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain
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- Radiation Oncology Department, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain. .,Instituto de investigación biomédica de Malaga, Campus Teatinos s/n., 29010, Malaga, Spain.
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Abascal M, Giulianelli S, Alvarez M, Sequeira G, Vanzulli S, Elia A, Pataccini G, Lombes M, Lanari C. Progesterone receptor isoform ratio dictates antiprogestins/progestins effects on metastatic breast cancer models. Ann Oncol 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdz240.083] [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: 11/12/2022] Open
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Maupin KA, Himes ER, Plett AP, Chua HL, Singh P, Ghosh J, Mohamad SF, Abeysekera I, Fisher A, Sampson C, Hong JM, Childress P, Alvarez M, Srour EF, Bruzzaniti A, Pelus LM, Orschell CM, Kacena MA. Aging negatively impacts the ability of megakaryocytes to stimulate osteoblast proliferation and bone mass. Bone 2019; 127:452-459. [PMID: 31299382 PMCID: PMC6708771 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2019.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2019] [Revised: 06/15/2019] [Accepted: 07/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Osteoblast number and activity decreases with aging, contributing to the age-associated decline of bone mass, but the mechanisms underlying changes in osteoblast activity are not well understood. Here, we show that the age-associated bone loss critically depends on impairment of the ability of megakaryocytes (MKs) to support osteoblast proliferation. Co-culture of osteoblast precursors with young MKs is known to increase osteoblast proliferation and bone formation. However, co-culture of osteoblast precursors with aged MKs resulted in significantly fewer osteoblasts compared to co-culture with young MKs, and this was associated with the downregulation of transforming growth factor beta. In addition, the ability of MKs to increase bone mass was attenuated during aging as transplantation of GATA1low/low hematopoietic donor cells (which have elevated MKs/MK precursors) from young mice resulted in an increase in bone mass of recipient mice compared to transplantation of young wild-type donor cells, whereas transplantation of GATA1low/low donor cells from old mice failed to enhance bone mass in recipient mice compared to transplantation of old wild-type donor cells. These findings suggest that the preservation or restoration of the MK-mediated induction of osteoblast proliferation during aging may hold the potential to prevent age-associated bone loss and resulting fractures.
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA
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- Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA
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- Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indiana, USA
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Gomez L, Arias J, Diaz D, Alvarez M, Alvarado J, Caicedo M. CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS WITH CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS OF INFLUENZA PNEUMONIA AT THE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FUNDACIÓN SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ. Chest 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2019.02.075] [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: 12/01/2022] Open
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Sousa T, Ribeiro R, Teixeira Z, Cruz R, Alvarez M. Life span disparities between rural and urban residents in the Portuguese district of Coimbra. Eur J Public Health 2019. [DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz034.084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- T Sousa
- Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- ESTeSC - Coimbra Health School, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Portugal
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- Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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Vaqué D, Lara E, Arrieta JM, Holding J, Sà EL, Hendriks IE, Coello-Camba A, Alvarez M, Agustí S, Wassmann PF, Duarte CM. Warming and CO 2 Enhance Arctic Heterotrophic Microbial Activity. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:494. [PMID: 30949141 PMCID: PMC6436474 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Ocean acidification and warming are two main consequences of climate change that can directly affect biological and ecosystem processes in marine habitats. The Arctic Ocean is the region of the world experiencing climate change at the steepest rate compared with other latitudes. Since marine planktonic microorganisms play a key role in the biogeochemical cycles in the ocean it is crucial to simultaneously evaluate the effect of warming and increasing CO2 on marine microbial communities. In 20 L experimental microcosms filled with water from a high-Arctic fjord (Svalbard), we examined changes in phototrophic and heterotrophic microbial abundances and processes [bacterial production (BP) and mortality], and viral activity (lytic and lysogenic) in relation to warming and elevated CO2. The summer microbial plankton community living at 1.4°C in situ temperature, was exposed to increased CO2 concentrations (135–2,318 μatm) in three controlled temperature treatments (1, 6, and 10°C) at the UNIS installations in Longyearbyen (Svalbard), in summer 2010. Results showed that chlorophyll a concentration decreased at increasing temperatures, while BP significantly increased with pCO2 at 6 and 10°C. Lytic viral production was not affected by changes in pCO2 and temperature, while lysogeny increased significantly at increasing levels of pCO2, especially at 10°C (R2 = 0.858, p = 0.02). Moreover, protistan grazing rates showed a positive interaction between pCO2 and temperature. The averaged percentage of bacteria grazed per day was higher (19.56 ± 2.77% d-1) than the averaged percentage of lysed bacteria by virus (7.18 ± 1.50% d-1) for all treatments. Furthermore, the relationship among microbial abundances and processes showed that BP was significantly related to phototrophic pico/nanoflagellate abundance in the 1°C and the 6°C treatments, and BP triggered viral activity, mainly lysogeny at 6 and 10°C, while bacterial mortality rates was significantly related to bacterial abundances at 6°C. Consequently, our experimental results suggested that future increases in water temperature and pCO2 in Arctic waters will produce a decrease of phytoplankton biomass, enhancement of BP and changes in the carbon fluxes within the microbial food web. All these heterotrophic processes will contribute to weakening the CO2 sink capacity of the Arctic plankton community.
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- Dolors Vaqué
- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro Oceanográfico de Canarias (IEO), Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Global Change Research Group, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Esporles, Spain.,Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Departament de Biologia Marina i Oceanografia, Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
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- Global Change Research Group, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Esporles, Spain
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- Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Global Change Research Group, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Esporles, Spain.,Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway
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- Global Change Research Group, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB) Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Esporles, Spain.,Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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Kostaki EG, Flampouris A, Karamitros T, Chueca N, Alvarez M, Casas P, Alejos B, Hatzakis A, Garcia F, Paraskevis D. Spatiotemporal Characteristics of the Largest HIV-1 CRF02_AG Outbreak in Spain: Evidence for Onward Transmissions. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:370. [PMID: 30915040 PMCID: PMC6421502 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Accepted: 02/12/2019] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Background and Aim: The circulating recombinant form 02_AG (CRF02_AG) is the predominant clade among the human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) non-Bs with a prevalence of 5.97% (95% Confidence Interval-CI: 5.41–6.57%) across Spain. Our aim was to estimate the levels of regional clustering for CRF02_AG and the spatiotemporal characteristics of the largest CRF02_AG subepidemic in Spain. Methods: We studied 396 CRF02_AG sequences obtained from HIV-1 diagnosed patients during 2000–2014 from 10 autonomous communities of Spain. Phylogenetic analysis was performed on the 391 CRF02_AG sequences along with all globally sampled CRF02_AG sequences (N = 3,302) as references. Phylodynamic and phylogeographic analysis was performed to the largest CRF02_AG monophyletic cluster by a Bayesian method in BEAST v1.8.0 and by reconstructing ancestral states using the criterion of parsimony in Mesquite v3.4, respectively. Results: The HIV-1 CRF02_AG prevalence differed across Spanish autonomous communities we sampled from (p < 0.001). Phylogenetic analysis revealed that 52.7% of the CRF02_AG sequences formed 56 monophyletic clusters, with a range of 2–79 sequences. The CRF02_AG regional dispersal differed across Spain (p = 0.003), as suggested by monophyletic clustering. For the largest monophyletic cluster (subepidemic) (N = 79), 49.4% of the clustered sequences originated from Madrid, while most sequences (51.9%) had been obtained from men having sex with men (MSM). Molecular clock analysis suggested that the origin (tMRCA) of the CRF02_AG subepidemic was in 2002 (median estimate; 95% Highest Posterior Density-HPD interval: 1999–2004). Additionally, we found significant clustering within the CRF02_AG subepidemic according to the ethnic origin. Conclusion: CRF02_AG has been introduced as a result of multiple introductions in Spain, following regional dispersal in several cases. We showed that CRF02_AG transmissions were mostly due to regional dispersal in Spain. The hot-spot for the largest CRF02_AG regional subepidemic in Spain was in Madrid associated with MSM transmission risk group. The existence of subepidemics suggest that several spillovers occurred from Madrid to other areas. CRF02_AG sequences from Hispanics were clustered in a separate subclade suggesting no linkage between the local and Hispanic subepidemics.
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- Evangelia-Georgia Kostaki
- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.,Public Health Laboratories, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Ibs, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Ibs, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Ibs, Granada, Spain
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- Centro Nacional de Epidemiología, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Ibs, Granada, Spain
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- Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Alvarez M, Casas P, de Salazar A, Chueca N, Guerrero-Beltran C, Rodríguez C, Imaz A, Espinosa N, García-Bujalance S, Pérez-Elías MJ, García-Alvarez M, Iribarren JA, Santos J, Dalmau D, Aguilera A, Vinuesa D, Gutiérrez F, Piérola B, Molina JM, Peraire J, Portilla I, Gómez-Sirvent JL, Olalla J, Galera C, Blanco JR, Riera M, García-Fraile L, Navarro G, Curran A, Poveda E, García F, Moreno S, Jarrín I, Dalmau D, Navarro ML, González MI, Blanco JL, Garcia F, Rubio R, Iribarren JA, Gutiérrez F, Vidal F, Berenguer J, González J, Alejos B, Hernando V, Moreno C, Iniesta C, Sousa LMG, Perez NS, Muñoz-Fernández MÁ, García-Merino IM, Fernández IC, Rico CG, de la Fuente JG, Concejo PP. Surveillance of transmitted drug resistance to integrase inhibitors in Spain: implications for clinical practice. J Antimicrob Chemother 2019; 74:1693-1700. [DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkz067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2018] [Revised: 01/17/2019] [Accepted: 01/24/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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- Marta Alvarez
- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de VIH e ITS, Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge-IDIBELL, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Donostia, Instituto BioDonostia, Donostia, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Mutua Terrasa, Terrasa, Spain
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- Servicio y Departamento de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago y Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario, Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario de Elche & Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitari de Tarragona Joan XXIII, IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Alicante, Alicante, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario San Pedro, Logroño, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Parc Taulí, Sabadell, Spain
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- Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Vall d´Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Group of Virology and Pathogenesis, Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (IIS Galicia Sur)-Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Vigo, SERGAS-UVigo, Spain
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- Unidad de Microbiología Clínica, Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, Granada, Instituto de Investigacion Ibs., Granada, Spain
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Escudero P, Yeste J, Pascual-Izarra C, Villa R, Alvarez M. Color tunable pressure sensors based on polymer nanostructured membranes for optofluidic applications. Sci Rep 2019; 9:3259. [PMID: 30824807 PMCID: PMC6397196 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40267-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2018] [Accepted: 02/11/2019] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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We demonstrate an integrated optical pressure sensing platform for multiplexed optofluidics applications. The sensing platform consists in an array of elastomeric on-side nanostructured membranes -effectively 2D photonic crystal- which present colour shifts in response to mechanical stress that alter their nanostructure characteristical dimensions, pitch or orientation. The photonic membranes are prepared by a simple and cost-effective method based on the infiltration of a 2D colloidal photonic crystal (CPC) with PDMS and their integration with a microfluidic system. We explore the changes in the white light diffraction produced by the nanostructured membranes when varying the pneumatic pressure in the microfluidics channels as a way to achieve a power-free array of pressure sensors that change their reflective colour depending on the bending produced on each sensor. The structural characterization of these membranes was performed by SEM, while the optical properties and the pressure-colour relation were evaluated via UV-Vis reflection spectrometry. Maximum sensitivities of 0.17 kPa-1 is obtained when measuring at Littrow configuration (θin = -θout), and close to the border of the membranes. The reflected colour change with pressure is as well monitorized by using a smartphone camera.
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- P Escudero
- Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.,PhD in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.,CIBER de Bioengineria, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona, Spain
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- Instituto de Microelectronica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain.
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Kandolf Sekulovic L, Guo J, Agarwala S, Hauschild A, McArthur G, Cinat G, Wainstein A, Caglevic C, Lorigan P, Gogas H, Alvarez M, Duncombe R, Lebbe C, Peris K, Rutkowski P, Stratigos A, Forsea AM, De La Cruz Merino L, Kukushkina M, Dummer R, Hoeller C, Gorry C, Bastholt L, Herceg D, Neyns B, Vieira R, Arenberger P, Bylaite-Bucinskiene M, Babovic N, Banjin M, Putnik K, Todorovic V, Kirov K, Ocvirk J, Zhukavets A, Ymeri A, Stojkovski I, Garbe C. Access to innovative medicines for metastatic melanoma worldwide: Melanoma World Society and European Association of Dermato-oncology survey in 34 countries. Eur J Cancer 2018; 104:201-209. [PMID: 30388700 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2018.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2018] [Accepted: 09/12/2018] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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According to data from recent studies from Europe, a large percentage of patients have restricted access to innovative medicines for metastatic melanoma. Melanoma World Society and European Association of Dermato-oncology conducted a Web-based survey on access to first-line recommended treatments for metastatic melanoma by current guidelines (National Comprehensive Center Network, European Society for Medical Oncology [ESMO] and European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/European Association of Dermato-oncology/European dermatology Forum) among melanoma experts from 27 European countries, USA, China, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico from September 1st, 2017 to July 1st, 2018. Data on licencing and reimbursement of medicines and the number of patient treated were correlated with the data on health expenditure per capita (HEPC), Mackenbach score of health policy performance, health technology assessment (HTA), ASCO and ESMO Magnitude of clinical benefit scale (ESMO MCBS) scores of clinical benefit and market price of medicines. Regression analysis for evaluation of correlation between the parameters was carried out using SPSS software. The estimated number of patients without access in surveyed countries was 13768. The recommended BRAFi + MEKi combination and anti-PD1 immunotherapy were fully reimbursed/covered in 19 of 34 (55.8%) and 17 of 34 (50%) countries, and combination anti-CTLA4+anti-PD1 in was fully covered in 6 of 34 (17.6%) countries. Median delay in reimbursement was 991 days, and it was in significant correlation with ESMO MCBS (p = 0.02), median market price (p = 0.001), HEPC and Mackenbach scores (p < 0.01). Price negotiations or managed entry agreements (MEAs) with national authorities were necessary for reimbursement. In conclusion, great discrepancy exists in metastatic melanoma treatment globally. Access to innovative medicines is in correlation with economic parameters as well as with healthcare system performance parameters. Patient-oriented drug development, market access and reimbursement pathways must be urgently found.
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- L Kandolf Sekulovic
- Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia.
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- Department of Urology and Melanoma, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing, PR China
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- St. Luke's University Hospital and Temple University, Bethlehem, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Divisions of Research and Cancer Medicine, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
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- Médica Oncóloga Instituto de Oncología Angel Roffo, Universidad de Buenos Aires Fundación CIDEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Institute of Post-graduation, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais (FCM-MG) - Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil
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- Medical Oncology Service, Oncology Department, Clinica Alemana Santiago, Faculty of Medicine Clinica Alemana-Universidad Del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
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- Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- 1(st)Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko Hospital and 1st Department of Dermatology-Venereology, Andreas Sygros Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Medico en Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia, Mexico City Area, Mexico
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- Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- APHP Dermatology Department, University Paris 7 Diderot, INSERM U976, PARIS, France
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- Institute of Dermatology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
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- Maria Sklodowska-Curie Institute - Oncology Center, Warsaw, Poland
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- 1(st)Department of Internal Medicine, Laiko Hospital and 1st Department of Dermatology-Venereology, Andreas Sygros Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Elias University Hospital Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Clinical Oncology, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain
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- UniversitätsSpital Zürich-Skin Cancer Center, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, Old Stone Building, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
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- Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Denmark
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- Department of Oncology, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Medical Oncology, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Dermatology, Medical Faculty, University of Coimbra, Portugal
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- Department of Dermatovenereology, Charles University 3rd Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Kralovske Vinohrady, Prague, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Department of Oncology, University Hospital Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Clinic for Oncology and Radiotherapy, Podgorica, Montenegro
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- Clinic of Oncodermatology, National Cancer Center, Sofia, Bulgaria
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- Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Belarusian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (BelMAPE), Minsk, Belarus
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- University Hospital Mother Theresa, Tirana, Albania
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- University Clinic of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Skopje, Macedonia
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- Centre for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany
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Vivancos A, Aranda Aguilar E, Benavides M, Elez Fernandez E, Toledano M, Alvarez M, Diaz Rubio E, Gómez-España A, Garcia-Barberan V, Chica-Parrao M. Evaluation of the sensitivity of RAS mutation detection of the Idylla platform in comparison to the OncoBEAM RAS CRC assay. Ann Oncol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdy281.096] [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: 11/13/2022] Open
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Gonzalez-Foruria I, Martinez F, Rodriguez-Purata J, Rodriguez D, Rodriguez I, Alvarez M, Nicolau J, Coroleu B, Barri P, Polyzos N. Progesterone variation on the day of oocyte triggering: a prospective study with repeated measurements within the same patient. Is the progesterone elevation “story” still valid? Fertil Steril 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2018.07.936] [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: 10/28/2022]
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Colagrossi L, Hermans LE, Salpini R, Di Carlo D, Pas SD, Alvarez M, Ben-Ari Z, Boland G, Bruzzone B, Coppola N, Seguin-Devaux C, Dyda T, Garcia F, Kaiser R, Köse S, Krarup H, Lazarevic I, Lunar MM, Maylin S, Micheli V, Mor O, Paraschiv S, Paraskevis D, Poljak M, Puchhammer-Stöckl E, Simon F, Stanojevic M, Stene-Johansen K, Tihic N, Trimoulet P, Verheyen J, Vince A, Lepej SZ, Weis N, Yalcinkaya T, Boucher CAB, Wensing AMJ, Perno CF, Svicher V. Immune-escape mutations and stop-codons in HBsAg develop in a large proportion of patients with chronic HBV infection exposed to anti-HBV drugs in Europe. BMC Infect Dis 2018; 18:251. [PMID: 29859062 PMCID: PMC5984771 DOI: 10.1186/s12879-018-3161-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 05/23/2018] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Background HBsAg immune-escape mutations can favor HBV-transmission also in vaccinated individuals, promote immunosuppression-driven HBV-reactivation, and increase fitness of drug-resistant strains. Stop-codons can enhance HBV oncogenic-properties. Furthermore, as a consequence of the overlapping structure of HBV genome, some immune-escape mutations or stop-codons in HBsAg can derive from drug-resistance mutations in RT. This study is aimed at gaining insight in prevalence and characteristics of immune-associated escape mutations, and stop-codons in HBsAg in chronically HBV-infected patients experiencing nucleos(t)ide analogues (NA) in Europe. Methods This study analyzed 828 chronically HBV-infected European patients exposed to ≥ 1 NA, with detectable HBV-DNA and with an available HBsAg-sequence. The immune-associated escape mutations and the NA-induced immune-escape mutations sI195M, sI196S, and sE164D (resulting from drug-resistance mutation rtM204 V, rtM204I, and rtV173L) were retrieved from literature and examined. Mutations were defined as an aminoacid substitution with respect to a genotype A or D reference sequence. Results At least one immune-associated escape mutation was detected in 22.1% of patients with rising temporal-trend. By multivariable-analysis, genotype-D correlated with higher selection of ≥ 1 immune-associated escape mutation (OR[95%CI]:2.20[1.32–3.67], P = 0.002). In genotype-D, the presence of ≥ 1 immune-associated escape mutations was significantly higher in drug-exposed patients with drug-resistant strains than with wild-type virus (29.5% vs 20.3% P = 0.012). Result confirmed by analysing drug-naïve patients (29.5% vs 21.2%, P = 0.032). Strong correlation was observed between sP120T and rtM204I/V (P < 0.001), and their co-presence determined an increased HBV-DNA. At least one NA-induced immune-escape mutation occurred in 28.6% of patients, and their selection correlated with genotype-A (OR[95%CI]:2.03[1.32–3.10],P = 0.001). Finally, stop-codons are present in 8.4% of patients also at HBsAg-positions 172 and 182, described to enhance viral oncogenic-properties. Conclusions Immune-escape mutations and stop-codons develop in a large fraction of NA-exposed patients from Europe. This may represent a potential threat for horizontal and vertical HBV transmission also to vaccinated persons, and fuel drug-resistance emergence. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12879-018-3161-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- Luna Colagrossi
- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Liver Disease Centre, Sheba Medical Centre, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Malattie Infettive, Seconda Università degli studi di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Hospital of Infectious Diseases, Warsaw, Poland
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Hospital San Cecilio, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria ibs.GRANADA, Hospitales Universitarios de Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Virology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Izmir Tepecik Education and Research Hospital, Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Izmir, Turkey
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- Section of Molecular Diagnostics, Clinical Biochemistry, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Service de Microbiologie, University Paris Diderot, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
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- National HIV Reference Laboratory, Central Virology Laboratory, Ministry of Health, Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
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- Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Matei Bals", Bucharest, Romania
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- National Retrovirus Reference Centre, Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Faculty of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Service de Microbiologie, University Paris Diderot, Hôpital Saint Louis, Paris, France
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- Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute of Microbiology, Polyclinic for Laboratory Diagnostics, University Clinical Centre Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Virology Laboratory, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Université "Victor Segalen", Bordeaux, France
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- Institute of Virology, University-Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- University of Zagreb School of Medicine and University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia
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- University of Zagreb School of Medicine and University Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Viroscience, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Virology, Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier, 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.
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Egea M, Garcia-Urra F, Bellver JA, Alvarez M, Waweru C, Quesada A. P924Economic impact associated with complications of cardiac implantable electronic devices in spain. Europace 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/europace/euy015.525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- M Egea
- Medtronic Ibérica S.A, Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital General de Castellón, Castellon, Spain
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- Medtronic Ibérica S.A, Health Economics & Outcomes Research, Madrid, Spain
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- Medtronic plc, Minneapolis, United States of America
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- University General Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Janjua NZ, Islam N, Wong J, Yoshida EM, Ramji A, Samji H, Butt Z, Chong M, Alvarez M, Cook D, Tyndall M, Krajden M. A162 SHIFT IN DISPARITIES IN HCV TREATMENT FROM INTERFERON TO DAA ERA: A POPULATION BASED COHORT STUDY. J Can Assoc Gastroenterol 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jcag/gwy008.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- N Z Janjua
- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Gastrointestinal Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Gunturiz Beltran C, Bertomeu Gonzalez V, Moreno Arribas J, Perez L, Martinez Ferrer JB, Alzueta J, Arcocha MF, Arenal A, Vinolas X, Alvarez M, Anguera I, Porro R, Castillo Castillo J, Bellver A, Mont L. P874Analysis of efficacy of event discrimination algorithm added to standard programming strategies based on cycle length and detection intervals in implantable defibrillator. Europace 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/europace/euy015.477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- University Hospital San Juan de Alicante, Cardiology, Alicante, Spain
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- University Hospital Complex A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain
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- University Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
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- University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital San Pedro de Alcantara, Caceres, Spain
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- Hospital General de Castellón, Castellon, Spain
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- Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Gunturiz Beltran C, Bertomeu Gonzalez V, Moreno Arribas J, Perez L, Martinez Ferrer JB, Alzueta J, Arcocha MF, Arenal A, Vinolas X, Alvarez M, Anguera I, Porro R, Castillo Castillo J, Bellver A, Mont L. P1228Individual discriminators contribution to the reduction of inappropriate therapies in implantable defibrillators. Europace 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/europace/euy015.709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- University Hospital San Juan de Alicante, Cardiology, Alicante, Spain
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- University Hospital Complex A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain
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- University Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
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- University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital San Pedro de Alcantara, Caceres, Spain
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- Hospital General de Castellón, Castellon, Spain
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- Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Alvarez M. Can EMG help elucidate other possible cause of gait impairment in PD? Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.11.218] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Andersen J, Rauch J, Sestito D, De Souza E, Miller N, Cheesman N, Alvarez M. Session Rating of Perceived Exertion (sRPE), workload, and volume load relationships during off-season resistance training in NCAA division II baseball players: An exploratory analysis. Phys Ther Sport 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ptsp.2017.08.056] [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: 11/24/2022]
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Ortega Ferrusola C, Anel-López L, Ortiz-Rodriguez JM, Martin Muñoz P, Alvarez M, de Paz P, Masot J, Redondo E, Balao da Silva C, Morrell JM, Rodriguez Martinez H, Tapia JA, Gil MC, Anel L, Peña FJ. Stallion spermatozoa surviving freezing and thawing experience membrane depolarization and increased intracellular Na . Andrology 2017; 5:1174-1182. [PMID: 28973824 DOI: 10.1111/andr.12419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2017] [Revised: 07/03/2017] [Accepted: 07/25/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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In order to gain insight of the modifications that freezing and thawing cause to the surviving population of spermatozoa, changes in the potential of the plasma membrane (Em) and intracellular Na+ content of stallion spermatozoa were investigated using flow cytometry. Moreover, caspase 3 activity was also investigated and the functionality of the Na+ -K+ ATPase pump was investigated before and after freezing and thawing. Cryopreservation caused a significant (p < 0.001) increase in the subpopulation of spermatozoa with depolarized sperm membranes, concomitantly with an increase (p < 0.05) in intracellular Na+ . These changes occurred in relation to activation of caspase 3 (p < 0.001). Cryopreservation reduced the activity of the Na-K+ pump and inhibition of the Na+ -K+ ATPase pump with ouabain-induced caspase 3 activation. It is concluded that inactivation of Na+ -K+ ATPase occurs during cryopreservation, an inhibition that could play a role explaining the accelerated senescence of the surviving population of spermatozoa.
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- C Ortega Ferrusola
- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of León, León, Spain
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of León, León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of León, León, Spain
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- Department of Molecular Biology, University of León, León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Portalagre Polytechnic Institute, Superior Agriculture School of Elvas, Elvas, Portugal
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- Division of Reproduction, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of León, León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Veterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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Janjua NZ, Islam N, Wong J, Yoshida EM, Ramji A, Samji H, Butt ZA, Chong M, Cook D, Alvarez M, Darvishian M, Tyndall M, Krajden M. Shift in disparities in hepatitis C treatment from interferon to DAA era: A population-based cohort study. J Viral Hepat 2017; 24:624-630. [PMID: 28130810 DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2016] [Accepted: 12/22/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We evaluated the shift in the characteristics of people who received interferon-based hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments and those who received recently introduced direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort includes 1.5 million individuals tested for HCV or HIV, or reported cases of hepatitis B and active tuberculosis in BC from 1990 to 2013 linked to medical visits, hospitalization, cancer, prescription drugs and mortality data. This analysis included all patients who filled at least one prescription for HCV treatment until 31 July 2015. HCV treatments were classified as older interferon-based treatments including pegylated interferon/ribavirin (PegIFN/RBV) with/without boceprevir or telaprevir, DAAs with RBV or PegIFN/RBV, and newer interferon-free DAAs. Of 11 886 people treated for HCV between 2000 and 2015, 1164 (9.8%) received interferon-free DAAs (ledipasvir/sofosbuvir: n=1075; 92.4%), while 452 (3.8%) received a combination of DAAs and RBV or PegIFN/RBV. Compared to those receiving interferon-based treatment, people with HIV co-infection (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 2.96, 95% CI: 2.31-3.81), cirrhosis (aOR: 1.77, 95% CI: 1.45-2.15), decompensated cirrhosis (aOR: 1.72, 95% CI: 1.31-2.28), diabetes (aOR: 1.30, 95% CI: 1.10-1.54), a history of injection drug use (aOR: 1.34, 95% CI: 1.09-1.65) and opioid substitution therapy (aOR: 1.30, 95% CI: 1.01-1.67) were more likely to receive interferon-free DAAs. Socio-economically marginalized individuals were significantly less likely (most deprived vs most privileged: aOR: 0.71, 95% CI: 0.58-0.87) to receive DAAs. In conclusion, there is a shift in prescription of new HCV treatments to previously excluded groups (eg HIV-co-infected), although gaps remain for the socio-economically marginalized populations.
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- N Z Janjua
- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Gunturiz Beltran C, Bertomeu-Gonzalez V, Moreno-Arribas J, Perez L, Martinez-Ferrer J, Alzueta J, Arcocha M, Arenal A, Vinolas X, Alvarez M, Anguera I, Porro R, Castillo-Castillo J, Cordero A, Bertomeu-Martinez V. 3875Discriminators algorithm integrated into implantable defibrillator: diagnostic capacity analysis and impact in the reduction of inappropriate therapies. Eur Heart J 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehx504.3875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- University Hospital San Juan de Alicante, Cardiology, Alicante, Spain
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- University Hospital Complex A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain
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- University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain
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- University Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
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- Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves, Granada, Spain
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- University Hospital of Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital San Pedro de Alcantara, Caceres, Spain
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- University Hospital San Juan de Alicante, Cardiology, Alicante, Spain
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Pradat P, Pugliese P, Poizot-Martin I, Valantin MA, Cuzin L, Reynes J, Billaud E, Huleux T, Bani-Sadr F, Rey D, Frésard A, Jacomet C, Duvivier C, Cheret A, Hustache-Mathieu L, Hoen B, Cabié A, Cotte L, Chidiac C, Ferry T, Ader F, Biron F, Boibieux A, Miailhes P, Perpoint T, Schlienger I, Lippmann J, Braun E, Koffi J, Longuet C, Guéripel V, Augustin-Normand C, Brochier C, Degroodt S, Pugliese P, Ceppi C, Cua E, Cottalorda J, Courjon J, Dellamonica P, Demonchy E, De Monte A, Durant J, Etienne C, Ferrando S, Fuzibet J, Garraffo R, Joulie A, Risso K, Mondain V, Naqvi A, Oran N, Perbost I, Pillet S, Prouvost-Keller B, Wehrlen-Pugliese S, Rosenthal E, Sausse S, Rio V, Roger P, Brégigeon S, Faucher O, Obry-Roguet V, Orticoni M, Soavi M, Geneau de Lamarlière P, Laroche H, Ressiot E, Carta M, Ducassou M, Jacquet I, Gallie S, Galinier A, Ritleng A, Ivanova A, Blanco-Betancourt C, Lions C, Debreux C, Obry-Roguet V, Poizot-Martin I, Agher R, Katlama C, Valantin M, Duvivier C, Lortholary O, Lanternier F, Charlier C, Rouzaud C, Aguilar C, Henry B, Lebeaux D, Cessot G, Gergely A, Consigny P, Touam F, Louisin C, Alvarez M, Biezunski N, Cuzin L, Debard A, Delobel P, Delpierre C, Fourcade C, Marchou B, Martin-Blondel G, Porte M, Mularczyk M, Garipuy D, Saune K, Lepain I, Marcel M, Puntis E, Atoui N, Casanova M, Faucherre V, Jacquet J, Le Moing V, Makinson A, Merle De Boever C, Montoya-Ferrer A, Psomas C, Reynes J, Raffi F, Allavena C, Billaud E, Biron C, Bonnet B, Bouchez S, Boutoille D, Brunet C, Jovelin T, Hall N, Bernaud C, Morineau P, Reliquet V, Aubry O, Point P, Besnier M, Larmet L, Hüe H, Pineau S, André-Garnier E, Rodallec A, Choisy P, Vandame S, Huleux T, Ajana F, Alcaraz I, Baclet V, Huleux T, Melliez H, Viget N, Valette M, Aissi E, Allienne C, Meybeck A, Riff B, Bani-Sadr F, Rouger C, Berger J, N'Guyen Y, Lambert D, Kmiec I, Hentzien M, Lebrun D, Migault C, Rey D, Batard M, Bernard-Henry C, Cheneau C, de Mautort E, Fischer P, Partisani M, Priester M, Lucht F, Frésard A, Botelho-Nevers E, Gagneux-Brunon A, Cazorla C, Guglielminotti C, Daoud F, Lutz M, Jacomet C, Laurichesse H, Lesens O, Vidal M, Mrozek N, Corbin V, Aumeran C, Baud O, Casanova S, Coban D, Hustache-Mathieu L, Thiebaut-Drobacheff M, Foltzer A, Gendrin V, Bozon F, Chirouze C, Abel S, Cabié A, Césaire R, Santos GD, Fagour L, Najioullah F, Ouka M, Pierre-François S, Pircher M, Rozé B, Hoen B, Ouissa R, Lamaury I. Direct-acting antiviral treatment against hepatitis C virus infection in HIV-Infected patients - "En route for eradication"? J Infect 2017; 75:234-241. [PMID: 28579302 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2017.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2016] [Revised: 03/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/11/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Direct-Acting Antivirals (DAAs) opened a new era in HCV treatment. We report the impact of HCV treatment in French HIV-HCV coinfected patients. METHODS All HIV-HCV patients from the Dat'AIDS cohort followed between 2012 and 2015 were included. HCV status was defined yearly as naive, spontaneous cure, sustained virological response (SVR12), failure or reinfection. RESULTS Among 32,945 HIV-infected patients, 15.2% were positive for anti-HCV antibodies. From 2012 to 2015, HCV incidence rate increased from 0.35%PY to 0.69%PY in MSM, while median incidence was 0.08%PY in other patients. Median reinfection rate was 2.56%PY in MSM and 0.22%PY in other patients. HCV treatment initiation rate rose from 8.2% in 2012 to 29.6% (48.0% in pre-treated patients vs 22.6% in naïve patients). SVR12 rate increased from 68.7% to 95.2%. By the end of 2015, 62.7% of the patients were cured either spontaneously or following SVR. CONCLUSIONS HCV treatment dramatically increased in HIV-HCV patients in France from 2012 to 2015 resulting in HCV cure in nearly two-thirds of the patients in this cohort. Combined with a declining HCV prevalence, the prevalence of active HCV infection among HIV patients will drastically decrease in the forthcoming years.
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- Pierre Pradat
- Center for Clinical Research, Department of Hepatology, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice, Hôpital l'Archet, Nice, France
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- Immuno-hematology Clinic, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite, Marseille, France; Aix-Marseille University, Inserm U912 (SESSTIM), Marseille, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, INSERM, Institut Pierre Louis d'épidémiologie et de Santé Publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Paris, France
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- CHU Toulouse, COREVIH, Toulouse, France; Université de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France; INSERM, UMR, 1027, Toulouse, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, UMI 233 INSERM U1175, CHU de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hotel Dieu Hospital, Nantes, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Travel Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Gustave-Dron, Tourcoing, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology, Hôpital Robert Debré, CHU, Reims, France; Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Faculté de médecine, EA-4684/SFR CAP-SANTE, Reims, France
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- HIV Infection Care Centre, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU, Saint-Etienne, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Centre d'Infectiologie Necker-Pasteur, IHU Imagine, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA7327, Paris, France
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- Department of Internal Medicine, CHU, Bicètre, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA7327, Paris, France
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- Faculté de Médecine Hyacinthe Bastaraud, Université des Antilles, and Service de Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Dermatologie et Médecine Interne, and Inserm CIC 1424, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Pointe-à-Pitre, Pointe-à-Pitre, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, CHU de Martinique, Fort-de-France, France; Université des Antilles EA4537 and INSERM CIC1424, Fort-de-France, France
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Croix-Rousse Hospital, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; INSERM U1052, Lyon, France.
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Villanova O, Dubois D, Sapin F, Lang S, Debard A, Lelièvre L, Alvarez M, Marchou B, Delobel P, Martin-Blondel G. Amélioration des modalités de prélèvement des hémocultures aéro-anaérobies au sein d’un service de maladies infectieuses. Med Mal Infect 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.medmal.2017.03.373] [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: 11/29/2022]
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Islam N, Krajden M, Gilbert M, Gustafson P, Yu A, Kuo M, Chong M, Alvarez M, Wong J, Tyndall MW, Janjua NZ. Role of primary T-cell immunodeficiency and hepatitis B coinfection on spontaneous clearance of hepatitis C: The BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort. J Viral Hepat 2017; 24:421-429. [PMID: 27885757 DOI: 10.1111/jvh.12650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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T-cell host immune response against hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been suggested to play an important role in determining HCV infection outcome. However, data from human studies are not available. This study examined the effect of primary T-cell deficiency along with other factors on the spontaneous clearance of HCV in a large population-based cohort in British Columbia, Canada. The BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort includes all individuals tested for HCV in BC in 1990-2013 linked with data on their medical visits, hospitalizations and prescription drugs. HCV-positive individuals with at least one valid HCV PCR test on/after HCV diagnosis (n=46 783) were included in this study. To examine factors associated with the spontaneous clearance of HCV, multivariable logistic regression was fitted on the full sample, and Cox proportional hazards model on the HCV seroconverters. Spontaneous clearance was observed in 25.1% (n=11 737) of those tested for HCV. After adjusting for potential confounders, the odds of spontaneous clearance of HCV was lower in people with primary T-cell immunodeficiency (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 0.55, 95% CI: 0.32-0.94), and higher in females (aOR: 1.61, 95% CI: 1.54-1.68) and in those coinfected with HBV (aOR: 2.31, 95% CI: 1.93-2.77). Similar results were observed in HCV seroconverters except HBV coinfection was not significant. In conclusion, primary T-cell immunodeficiency is associated with a lower spontaneous clearance of HCV while female sex and coinfection with HBV are associated with a higher spontaneous clearance.
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- N Islam
- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Ontario HIV Treatment Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Johnson DA, Colton MD, Alvarez M, Laden F, Redline S, Adamkiewicz G. 0833 SLEEP PATTERNS IN GREEN VS CONVENTIONAL MULTIFAMILY LOW-INCOME HOUSING. Sleep 2017. [DOI: 10.1093/sleepj/zsx050.832] [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: 11/14/2022] Open
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Olivos DJ, Alvarez M, Cheng YH, Hooker RA, Ciovacco WA, Bethel M, McGough H, Yim C, Chitteti BR, Eleniste PP, Horowitz MC, Srour EF, Bruzzaniti A, Fuchs RK, Kacena MA. Lnk Deficiency Leads to TPO-Mediated Osteoclastogenesis and Increased Bone Mass Phenotype. J Cell Biochem 2017; 118:2231-2240. [PMID: 28067429 DOI: 10.1002/jcb.25874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2016] [Accepted: 01/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The Lnk adapter protein negatively regulates the signaling of thrombopoietin (TPO), the main megakaryocyte (MK) growth factor. Lnk-deficient (-/-) mice have increased TPO signaling and increased MK number. Interestingly, several mouse models exist in which increased MK number leads to a high bone mass phenotype. Here we report the bone phenotype of these mice. MicroCT and static histomorphometric analyses at 20 weeks showed the distal femur of Lnk-/- mice to have significantly higher bone volume fraction and trabecular number compared to wild-type (WT) mice. Notably, despite a significant increase in the number of osteoclasts (OC), and decreased bone formation rate in Lnk-/- mice compared to WT mice, Lnk-/- mice demonstrated a 2.5-fold greater BV/TV suggesting impaired OC function in vivo. Additionally, Lnk-/- mouse femurs exhibited non-significant increases in mid-shaft cross-sectional area, yet increased periosteal BFR compared to WT femurs was observed. Lnk-/- femurs also had non-significant increases in polar moment of inertia and decreased cortical bone area and thickness, resulting in reduced bone stiffness, modulus, and strength compared to WT femurs. Of note, Lnk is expressed by OC lineage cells and when Lnk-/- OC progenitors are cultured in the presence of TPO, significantly more OC are observed than in WT cultures. Lnk is also expressed in osteoblast (OB) cells and in vitro reduced alkaline phosphatase activity was observed in Lnk-/- cultures. These data suggest that both direct effects on OB and OC as well as indirect effects of MK in regulating OB contributes to the observed high bone mass. J. Cell. Biochem. 118: 2231-2240, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- David J Olivos
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.,Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biomedical and Applied Sciences, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.,Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.,Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Biomedical and Applied Sciences, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.,Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Fernández-Caballero JA, Alvarez M, Chueca N, Pérez AB, García F. The cobas® HCV GT is a new tool that accurately identifies Hepatitis C virus genotypes for clinical practice. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0175564. [PMID: 28410425 PMCID: PMC5391928 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Objective We aimed to evaluate the correct assignment of HCV genotype/subtypes 1a and 1b by cobas® HCV genotyping (GT) assay (Roche Molecular Diagnostics) compared with nonstructural protein 5B (NS5B) sequencing. Patients and methods Clinical samples from 153 patients submitted for HCV genotyping were studied. After genotyping with the cobas® HCV GT, sequencing of a 387 bp fragment in the NS5B gene and phylogenetic analysis was employed to compare genotyping results. Major discrepancies were defined as differences in the assigned genotype by cobas® HCV GT and NS5B sequencing (including genotype 1 subtypes 1a and 1b misclassification). Results Overall agreement between the cobas® HCV GT and NS5B sequencing was 98%; all the 1a, 1b, 2, 3 and 4 genotypes identified by cobas® HCV GT were concordant with NS5B sequencing. Three samples tested “indetermined” by cobas® HCV GT assay and were genotyped as 1a, 3a, and 4d by NS5B sequencing. Conclussion These results indicate that the cobas® HCV GT assay correctly identifies HCV genotypes, and points out the importance of additional methods based on DNA sequencing for resolving indeterminate results.
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- J. A. Fernández-Caballero
- Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Granada-Hospital PTS, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS, Granada, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Granada-Hospital PTS, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS, Granada, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Granada-Hospital PTS, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS, Granada, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Granada-Hospital PTS, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS, Granada, Spain
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- Servicio de Microbiología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Granada-Hospital PTS, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria IBS, Granada, Spain
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Ortega-Ferrusola C, Anel-López L, Martín-Muñoz P, Ortíz-Rodríguez JM, Gil MC, Alvarez M, de Paz P, Ezquerra LJ, Masot AJ, Redondo E, Anel L, Peña FJ. Computational flow cytometry reveals that cryopreservation induces spermptosis but subpopulations of spermatozoa may experience capacitation-like changes. Reproduction 2016; 153:293-304. [PMID: 27965398 DOI: 10.1530/rep-16-0539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 11/02/2016] [Accepted: 12/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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The reduced lifespan of cryopreserved spermatozoa in the mare reproductive tract has been attributed to both capacitative and apoptotic changes. However, there is a lack of studies investigating both phenomena simultaneously. In order to improve our knowledge in this particular point, we studied in raw and frozen-thawed samples apoptotic and capacitative markers using a wide battery of test based in flow cytometry. Apoptotic markers evaluated were caspase 3 activity, externalization of phosphatidylserine (PS), and mitochondrial membrane potential. Markers of changes resembling capacitation were membrane fluidity, tyrosine phosphorylation, and intracellular sodium. Conventional and computational flow cytometry using nonlinear dimensionally reduction techniques (t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE)) and automatic classification of cellular expression by nonlinear stochastic embedding (ACCENSE) were used. Most of the changes induced by cryopreservation were apoptotic, with increase in caspase 3 activation (P < 0.01), PS translocation to the outer membrane (P < 0.001), loss of mitochondrial membrane potential (P < 0.05), and increase in intracellular Na+ (P < 0.01). Average values of markers of capacitative changes were not affected by cryopreservation; however, the analysis of the phenotype of individual spermatozoa using computational flow cytometry revealed the presence of subpopulations of spermatozoa experiencing capacitative changes. For the first time advanced computational techniques were applied to the analysis of spermatozoa, and these techniques were able to disclose relevant information of the ejaculate that remained hidden using conventional flow cytometry.
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery
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- Department of Molecular BiologyUniversity of León, León, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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- Reproduction and Obstetrics Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery
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- Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine SpermatologyVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
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