Foster Youth's Resilience and Wellbeing During Placement Changes.

Youth in out-of-home care are at high risk of experiencing poor health and wellbeing, due to a combination of experiences before and during out-of-home care. Notwithstanding, numerous youth in out-of-home care utilize their personal abilities and characteristics of the environment to achieve positive outcomes. Despite the importance of resilience, there is limited understanding of how it is affected by child welfare characteristics, as well as the role it plays in shaping youth's perceived health and wellbeing.

Date SMART's Impact on Aggression in System Involved Girls: Does Victimization Moderate Effects?

Aggression and victimization increase negative outcomes for legal system involved girls. While aggression is often enacted against multiple targets (e.g.

Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Previous Cardiac Revascularization: Impact on Patient Survival, Graft Survival, and Complications in Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Background: Kidney transplant physicians believe that the cardiac status of kidney transplant recipients influences posttransplant outcomes. However, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) does not include cardiac variables in its risk-adjustment model, raising the question of whether it fairly risk adjusts recipients.

Methods: This study conducted a retrospective analysis of the prospectively collected National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Transplant database to assess the impacts of pretransplant cardiac revascularization and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <55% on posttransplant outcomes in deceased donor renal transplantation.

AAV capsid prioritization in normal and steatotic human livers maintained by machine perfusion.

Therapeutic efficacy and safety of adeno-associated virus (AAV) liver gene therapy depend on capsid choice. To predict AAV capsid performance under near-clinical conditions, we established side-by-side comparison at single-cell resolution in human livers maintained by normothermic machine perfusion. AAV-LK03 transduced hepatocytes much more efficiently and specifically than AAV5, AAV8 and AAV6, which are most commonly used clinically, and AAV-NP59, which is better at transducing human hepatocytes engrafted in immune-deficient mice.

Long-term impact of immigration status on outcomes in pediatric kidney transplant recipients.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of documentation status on pediatric kidney transplant outcomes in a single-center setting, emphasizing the significance of state insurance access for undocumented patients and federal policies like Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) on patient outcomes. A cohort of 283 patients, including 48 undocumented individuals, who received their first kidney transplant as children between 1998 and 2011 was analyzed. There was no significant difference in unadjusted all-cause (P = .

Adverse Childhood Experiences and alcohol use among U.S.-born and immigrant Latinx youth: the roles of social support and stress hormones.

The biobehavioral correlates of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among Latinx youth have been strikingly understudied. The purpose of this study was to 1) examine the effects of T-ACEs (e.g.

Diagnostic Accuracy of Adrenal Iodine-131 6-Beta-Iodomethyl-19-Norcholesterol Scintigraphy for the Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the 131I-6β-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol (NP-59) adrenal scintigraphy for the subtyping diagnosis of primary aldosteronism (PA), considering as gold standard for the diagnosis of unilateral PA (UPA), either the results of the adrenal venous sampling (AVS) or the outcome after adrenalectomy.

Methods: A retrospective multicenter study was performed on PA patients from 14 Spanish tertiary hospitals who underwent NP-59 scintigraphy with an available subtyping diagnosis. Patients were classified as UPA if biochemical cure was achieved after adrenalectomy or/and if an AVS lateralization index > 4 with ACTH stimulation or >2 without ACTH stimulation was observed.

Steroid Avoidance After Adult Living Donor Liver Transplant: A Cohort Analysis.

Unlabelled: Although steroid avoidance (SA) has been studied in deceased donor liver transplant, little is known about SA in living donor liver transplant (LDLT). We report the characteristics and outcomes, including the incidence of early acute rejection (AR) and complications of steroid use, in 2 cohorts of LDLT recipients.

Methods: Routine steroid maintenance (SM) after LDLT was stopped in December 2017.

Infant Obesity Prevention Programs for Underrepresented Mothers in a Home Visiting Program: A Qualitative and Community-Engaged Needs Assessment.

A qualitative, community-engaged assessment was conducted to identify needs and priorities for infant obesity prevention programs among mothers participating in home visiting programs. Thirty-two stakeholders (i.e.

National Practice Patterns in Malignant Peritoneal Mesothelioma: Updates in Management and Survival.

Background: Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare malignancy with a historically poor prognosis. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has emerged as an effective therapy for patients with peritoneal malignancies. A contemporary analysis of trends in management of and survival from MPM is warranted.

Clinical Efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Hemodialysis Patients.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health problem. Patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis are at a higher risk of infection and mortality than the general population. Worldwide, a vaccination campaign has been developed that has been shown to reduce severe infections and deaths in the general population.

Therapeutic Living Donor Nephrectomy for Proximal Ureteral Pathology: A Longitudinal Case Series.

Objective: To raise awareness that patients with proximal ureteral stricture who elect for nephrectomy can consider donating the kidney. We present a series of patients undergoing therapeutic living donor nephrectomy (TLDN), a scenario in which a patient undergoing nephrectomy for an underlying medical problem donates the kidney to a person with end-stage renal disease. This practice is underutilized, and only a single TLDN with proximal ureteral stricture has been previously described.

A social interaction learning model approach to understand adverse childhood experiences and drug use among Latinx youth.

Latinx youth, members of an ethnic minority group growing faster than the national growth rate, are at increased risk of experiencing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) but it remains unclear how ACEs relate to externalizing behaviors, such as substance use and behaviors leading to injury and violence, in this population. In a sample of 100 Latinx youth, the current study examined how ACEs related to drug use and behaviors leading to injury and violence. Exposure to ACEs was associated with increased drug use, and that association was significantly moderated by behaviors leading to injury and violence for Latina adolescents.

The Peer Victimization in College Survey: Construction and validation.

Colleges and universities are increasingly concerned about respect for diversity and tolerance of individual differences on their campuses. Nevertheless, no comprehensive measure of peer victimization has been developed and validated for use with college student populations. The Peer Victimization in College Survey (PVIC) is the first such measure.

Expression of Stromal Progesterone Receptor and Differential Methylation Patterns in the Endometrium May Correlate with Response to Progesterone Therapy in Endometrial Complex Atypical Hyperplasia.

Progesterone therapy is a viable treatment for complex atypical hyperplasia (CAH) and endometrial adenocarcinoma, though reliable molecular determinants of response are not available. To explore if analysis of pre-therapy endometrial biopsies could yield biomarkers of response to progesterone, patients with CAH or adenocarcinoma undergoing treatment with progestins were included in this cross-sectional study. Immunohistochemistry for progesterone receptor (PR) was performed.

An exploratory, large-scale study of pain and quality of life outcomes in cancer patients with moderate or severe pain, and variables predicting improvement.

Background: There have been few large-scale, real world studies in Spain to assess change in pain and quality of life (QOL) outcomes in cancer patients with moderate to severe pain. This study aimed to assess changes on both outcomes after 3 months of usual care and to investigate factors associated with change in QoL.

Patients And Methods: Large, multi-centre, observational study in patients with lung, head and neck, colorectal or breast cancer experiencing a first episode of moderate to severe pain while attending one of the participating centres.