anthonyyazdaniml/gliner-biomed-curated-corpus huggingface dataset:
BACKGROUND: The optimal approach for ensuring both complete resection and preservation of anal function in rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) remains unknown. The aim of this study was to clarify short-term and long-term outcomes after robotic radical surgery for rectal GIST.
METHODS: A total of 13 patients who underwent robotic radical surgery for rectal GIST between December 2011 and April 2022 were included. All robotic procedures were performed using a systematic approach. A supplemental video of robotic radical surgery for rectal GIST is attached. The short-term outcome was the incidence of postoperative complications during the first 30 days after surgery. Surgical outcomes were retrieved from a prospective database. Long-term outcomes, including overall survival and recurrence-free survival, were determined in all patients.
RESULTS: Median distance from the tumor to the anal verge was 4.0 cm. Surgical margins were negative in all patients. Two patients underwent neoadjuvant imatinib therapy. All patients underwent sphincter-preserving surgery. None underwent conversion to open or laparoscopic surgery. The incidence of postoperative Clavien-Dindo grade II and grade ≥ III complications was 7.7% and 0%, respectively. The median postoperative hospital stay was 7 days. Twelve patients (92.3%) underwent stoma closure within 5 months of the initial surgery. Median follow-up time was 76 months. The 5-year overall survival and recurrence-free survival rates were both 100%. None of the patients had recurrence.
CONCLUSION: Short-term and long-term outcomes after radical robotic surgery for rectal GIST were favorable. Robotic surgery might be a useful surgical approach for rectal GIST.
The invention relates to traditional Chinese medicine compounded gecko powder for treating impotence. The traditional Chinese medicine compounded gecko powder is mainly used for solving the problem that the current drugs for treating impotence are poor in treatment effect and have side effects. The traditional Chinese medicine compounded gecko powder is prepared through the steps of preparing 1 pair of gecko, 60g of onion seeds and 60g of chive seeds, baking, and grinding into fine powder. The usage and dosage are as follows: the powder is orally taken by 10g once every day and is orally taken with yellow wine 2 hours before sleeping. The traditional Chinese medicine compounded gecko powder has the aims and advantages that the total effective rate for impotence treatment is over 95%, and the cure rate is over 80%. The traditional Chinese medicine compounded gecko powder is free from toxic and side effects.
BACKGROUND: The challenge of addressing obesity persists in healthcare, necessitating nuanced approaches and personalized strategies. This study aims to evaluate the effects of diverse therapeutic interventions on anthropometric and biochemical parameters in individuals with overweight and obesity within a real-world clinical context.
METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 192 patients (141 females, 51 males) aged 18 to 75, with a BMI ranging from 25 to 30 (14.1%) and BMI ≥ 30 (85.9%), observed over a 12-month period at our Endocrinology Unit. Treatment cohorts comprised individuals following different regimens: Mediterranean Diet (MD), with an approximate daily intake of 1500 kcal for women and 1800 kcal for men (71% patients); Ketogenic Diet (KD), utilizing the VLCKD protocol characterized by a highly hypocaloric dietary regimen < 800 kcal/day (14% patients); metformin, administered using the oral formulation (5% patients); pharmacological intervention with GLP1-RA administered via subcutaneous injection with incremental dosage (10% patients). Supply constraints limited the efficacy of Liraglutide, whereas Semaglutide was excluded from comparisons due to its unavailability for obesity without diabetes. Blood tests were conducted to assess lipid profile, glycemic profile, and anthropometric parameters, including BMI, waist circumference, and waist-to-height ratio.
RESULTS: Significant BMI changes were observed from baseline to 6 months across MD, KD, and Liraglutide groups (p < 0.05). KD exhibited notable reductions in waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio within the initial quarter (p < 0.05), with a significant triglyceride decrease after 6 months (p < 0.05), indicating its efficacy over MD. Liraglutide demonstrated a substantial reduction in HbA1c levels in the first quarter (p < 0.05). During the first three months, the ANOVA test on fasting blood glucose showed a statistically significant impact of the time variable (p < 0.05) rather than the specific treatments themselves (Liraglutide and KD), suggesting that adherence during the early stages of therapy may be more critical than treatment choice.
CONCLUSIONS: Positive outcomes from targeted interventions, whether pharmacological or dietary should encourage the exploration of innovative, long-term strategies that include personalized treatment alternation. The absence of standardized protocols underscores the importance of careful and tailored planning in managing obesity as a chronic condition.
Milk is commonly and extensively consumed in many societies where the risk and incidence of diabetes, vascular disease (CHD, CVA, PVD) and some cancers are also high. Death is a frequent sequel of systemic vascular wall damage, resulting from exposure to high sugar levels in diabetes and also from high plasma homocyst(e)ine (tHcy) levels that affect much of the population and comprise a major risk factor for vascular disease. Diabetes is similarly widespread. Given (1) widespread and regular consumption of milk, (2) the possibility to control tHcy by treating the underlying folate (and other vitamin) insufficiency, (3) the opportunity to simply include control of neural tube defects and (4) the presumed causal link between diabetes and type A1 with type B casein consumption, the invention offers remediation by supplying a population with a modified milk or milk product including (1) fortification using cobalamin, pyridoxine, folic acid, and betaine, with (2) a substantially type A2 casein fraction only. In addition, exploitation of the immunological properties of beta-casomorphin 9 (a peptide digest fraction of A2 beta-casein) may assist in control of diabetes. Practical and convenient fortified diets include treated, selected milks and food products including derivatives of milk, also selected milks together with treated cereals.
The TCI-pump will be programmed to will be programmed to Schnider model with the target effect site concentration of 3-µg/ml. The effect-site concentration will be altered to maintain a target BIS of 50 during induction and maintenance of anesthesia.
The patient selected for this study previously received a kidney transplant under protocol 2016P002051. Unfortunately, she experienced primary graft nonfunction due to a renal vein thrombus and acute thrombotic microangiopathy and the transplanted HCV+ kidney was removed. She continued glecaprevir and pibrentasvir for the full course (8 weeks of treatment) and was cured of HCV. However, she continues on dialysis requiring ongoing, albeit low dose, immunosuppression after her failed transplant. This causes increased risk of infection and other dialysis-related morbidity. Futhermore, she is at risk of access loss due to multiple failed fistula attempts and prior dialysis catheter line thrombosis. Of note, she also failed a trial of peritoneal dialysis due to development of a large pleural effusion (a known treatment-limiting complication of peritoneal dialysis). Thus, this young patient, is at risk of losing dialysis access which could lead to death. The MGH transplant team has now decided that she could be retransplanted with alterations in peri-transplant anticoagulation and immunosuppression (eculizumab) that they are confident should decrease her risk of peri-transplant thrombosis and recurrent TMA. Thus, we desire to expedite her access to re-transplant. Through this protocol, this recipient will be given the opportunity to accept a kidney that is HCV antibody positive and nucleic acid test (NAT) negative or HCV NAT positive and will be treated with oral glecaprevir (300mg)/pibrentasvir (120mg) (G/P, MavyretTM) on day 3 (+/- 2 days) post-kidney transplant to prevent the transmission of HCV infection at the time of transplant. Our goal is to provide access to kidney transplantation as soon as possible, with a donor of any genotype of infection, with elimination of the potential HCV infection by therapy used on day 3 (+/- 2 days) in the case of HCV NAT+ transplant and surveillance and reactive therapy in the case of HCV antibody positive NAT- transplant.
Zearalenone (ZEN) poses a potential threat on human and animal health partly through the nuclear factor (NF)-κB signaling pathway. In silico study suggested that rutin effective against TLR4 and NF-κB. A wetting test was designed to evaluate the effect and underlying mechanism of rutin in alleviating ZEN-induced inflammation in animals. Twenty-four female mice were randomly divided into 4 groups: control (basal diet), ZEN group (basal diet + ZEN), rutin group (basic diet + rutin), Z + R group (basal diet + rutin + ZEN). Results showed that rutin effectively alleviated ZEN-induced inflammation and damage of liver and jejunum in mice. Rutin addition reduced the content of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in serum and liver mainly by improving the intestinal barrier function resulted from the production increase of short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). In sum, this study showed that rutin alleviated ZEN-induced liver inflammation and injury by modulating the gut microbiota, increasing the production of SCFA and improving intestinal barrier function, leading to the decrease of LPS in liver and the inhibition of MyD88 independent NF-κB signaling pathway in mice. Specifically, these findings may provide useful insights into the screening of functional natural compounds and its action mechanism to alleviate ZEN induced liver inflammation.
Chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain (CINP) is a common adverse health-related comorbidity that manifests later in life in patients with paediatric cancer. Current analgesia is ineffective, aligning closely with our lack of understanding of CINP. The aim of this study was to investigate how cisplatin induces nerve growth factor (NGF)-mediated neuroinflammation and nociceptor sensitisation. In a rat model of cisplatin-induced survivorship pain, cisplatin induced a neuroinflammatory environment in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG), demonstrated by NGF-positive macrophages infiltrating into the DRG. Cisplatin-treated CD11b- and F4/80-positive macrophages expressed more NGF compared to those treated with vehicle control. Mouse primary DRG sensory neuronal cultures demonstrated enhanced NGF-dependent TRPV1-mediated nociceptor activity after cisplatin treatment. Increased nociceptor activity was also observed when cultured mouse DRG neurons were treated with conditioned medium from cisplatin-activated macrophages. Elevated nociceptor activity was inhibited in a dose-dependent manner by an NGF-neutralising antibody. Intraperitoneal administration of the NGF-neutralising antibody reduced cisplatin-induced mechanical hypersensitivity and aberrant nociceptor intraepidermal nerve fibre density. These findings identify that a monocyte- or macrophage-driven NGF-TrkA pathway is a novel analgesic target for adult survivors of childhood cancer.
There is considerable variation from patient to patient in the amount of medication required for treatment. As with all drugs used to treat schizophrenia, dosage should be individualized according to the needs and response of each patient. Dosage adjustments, either upward or downward, should be carried out as rapidly as practicable to achieve optimum therapeutic control.

To determine the initial dosage, consideration should be given to the patient's age, severity of illness, previous response to other antipsychotic drugs, and any concomitant medication or disease state. Debilitated or geriatric patients, as well as those with a history of adverse reactions to antipsychotic drugs, may require less haloperidol. The optimal response in such patients is usually obtained with more gradual dosage adjustments and at lower dosage levels.

Parenteral medication, administered intramuscularly in doses of 2 to 5 mg, is utilized for prompt control of the acutely agitated schizophrenic patient with moderately severe to very severe symptoms. Depending on the response of the patient, subsequent doses may be given, administered as often as every hour, although 4 to 8 hour intervals may be satisfactory. The maximum dose is 20 mg/day.

Controlled trials to establish the safety and effectiveness of intramuscular administration in children have not been conducted.

Parenteral drug products should be inspected visually for particulate matter and discoloration prior to administration, whenever solution and container permit.
Approximately 8-47 % of patients with colorectal cancer will present with colonic obstruction. Left-sided colonic and rectal cancer is responsible for nearly 70% of acute colonic obstruction. Emergency colonic surgery for acute obstruction is associated with a higher mortality and morbidity rate than elective surgery. Preoperative decompression results in a less dilated bowel that is more amenable to an elective surgery. Both transanal decompression tube and stent can serve a good preoperative decompression effect and serve a good bridge to surgery. Investigators aim to compare the clinical outcomes of transanal decompression tube as a bridge to surgery with stent as a bridge to surgery for acute malignant left-sided colonic and rectal obstruction.
A composition is provided for use as a buffer in personal care and pharmaceutical formulations.  The composition comprises complex esters of boric acid and simple a-hydroxy carboxylic acids, and the corresponding basic conjugate salts of complex esters of boric acid and simple a-hydroxy carboxylic acids. The weight of boric acid and a-hydroxy acid is up to about 1.0% by weight (w/w%) of the composition. The molar ratio of boric acid to a-hydroxy acid is between about 1:1 and about 1:2. The composition may be formulated for topical application. Formulations comprising the composition include a personal lubricant, wound cream, feminine cleansing douche, moisturizing lotion, a wipe, and a cleansing wash. A method of treating the skin is also provided, the method comprising the step of topically applying onto the skin an effective amount of the composition.
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a cosmetic free from stickiness when used, giving favorable touch, and useful as a hair styling foam, hair spray, or the like by including a specific water-soluble solid silicone. SOLUTION: This cosmetic is obtained by including pref. 0.01-5 wt.%, more pref. 0.1-3 wt.% of a water-soluble solid silicone having a melting point of >=40 deg.C (pref. 42-48 deg.C). This cosmetic is useful as a hair cosmetic such as hair cream, hair gel or hair wax, or as a skin cosmetic such as skin lotion or skin cream.
Topically applied podofilox may be absorbed systemically (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY section). Toxicity reported following systemic administration of podofilox in investigational use for cancer treatment included: nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, bone marrow depression, and oral ulcers. Following 5 to 10 daily intravenous doses of 0.5 to 1 mg/kg/day, significant hematological toxicity occurred but was reversible. Other toxicities occurred at lower doses. Toxicity reported following systemic administration of podophyllum resin included: nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhea, peripheral neuropathy, altered mental status, lethargy, coma, tachypnea, respiratory failure, leukocytosis, pancytosis, hematuria, renal failure, and seizures. Treatment of topical overdosage should include washing the skin free of any remaining drug and symptomatic and supportive therapy.
Roxadustat is an oral inhibitor of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) prolyl hydroxylase, which increases endogenous erythropoiesis. WADA has included roxadustat and other HIF stabilizers on its list of prohibited substances. We describe here the case of an elite athlete (female, 31 years old, 168 cm and 53 kg) with an adverse analytical finding (AAF) with concentration of roxadustat in her urine at 0.289 ng/mL in the A sample and 0.529 ng/mL in the B sample (83% higher than A). A stability study was carried out, showing total stability of roxadustat at this concentration in urine exposed to light for 50 h, so photoisomerization degradation cannot explain the difference in concentration. Her urine had been completely negative in a control test carried out three days previously, while roxadustat had been shown to be present in urine for at least 20 days after administration of pharmacologically effective doses to an athlete. Hair concentration was 0.39 and 0.35 pg/mg in the segments corresponding to the presumed period of intake, with few adjacent segments also positive (0.29-0.33 pg/mg), likely explained by cosmetic treatments. Concentrations found in a patient treated with a pharmacologically active dose (between 100 and 120 mg 3 days a week) were more than 100 times higher (between 41 and 57 pg/mg). Numerous supplements and pharmaceuticals taken by the athlete were analyzed. Only collagen powder showed the presence of roxadustat, at a very low but highly variable concentration (100 pg/g-1000 pg/g). A female volunteer (58 years old, 169 cm and 65 kg), taking this powder at the same doses as the athlete (10 g of powder 5 times for 6 days) presented 7 roxadustat-positive urine samples (although lower than those observed in the athlete) out of 34 sampled over 7 days, the difference in powder sampling location, age, weight, height, pharmacokinetic parameters variability and level of sporting activity between the athlete and the volunteer probably explaining the difference in concentrations observed. All these results could be consistent with an AAF due to contamination by dietary supplements, which are becoming increasingly common due to the current exposome of athletes in our society.
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Paroxetine should be administered as a single daily dose with or without food, usually in the morning. The recommended and initial dosage is 20 mg/day. In clinical trials the effectiveness of paroxetine was demonstrated in patients dosed in a range of 20 to 60 mg/day. While the safety of paroxetine has been evaluated in patients with social anxiety disorder at doses up to 60 mg/day, available information does not suggest any additional benefit for doses above 20 mg/day (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Clinical Trials).

###  Maintenance Therapy

There is no body of evidence available to answer the question of how long the patient treated with paroxetine should remain on it. Although the efficacy of paroxetine beyond 12 weeks of dosing has not been demonstrated in controlled clinical trials, social anxiety disorder is recognized as a chronic condition, and it is reasonable to consider continuation of treatment for a responding patient. Dosage adjustments should be made to maintain the patient on the lowest effective dosage, and patients should be periodically reassessed to determine the need for continued treatment.
The present invention pertains to the field of medicine and relates to a prophylactic medical product having a high anti-bacterial activity. This product may be used in the prevention and treatment of disorders in the human gastro-intestinal tract and comprises a carrier as well as a dry substrate for a preparation of a micro-organism culture. The carrier may represent from 1 to 80 parts by weight of the product, the balance consisting of the dry substrate. This product uses as a carrier vegetal lacto-fermented components such as cereal cuts or cellulose preparations, for example micro-crystalline cellulose or carbomethylcellulose. This product also comprises as a culture of micro-organisms one or more cultures of lactic-acid bacteria (of the Lactobacillus and/or Streptococcus genus) and/or one or more other cultures useful for the microflora of the human gastro-intestinal tract (of the Bifidobacterium and/or Escherichia coli and/or Bacillus subtilis genus). The product of the present invention exhibits a high anti-microbial activity and has an extended application scope.
FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: invention relates to application of heparin- protein that (a) is deprived of proteinase activity; (b) it is localized in peripheral neutrophil leukocytes and (c) it is a chemotaxic agent for monocytes. Heparin-binding protein is used for preparing medicinal agent for prophylaxis or treatment of sepsis, gram-negative sepsis, septic shock or disseminated intravascular coagulation. Invention allows to use heparin-binding protein after sepsis symptoms display, i. e. in processes developing after endotoxemia. EFFECT: valuable medicinal properties of protein. 13 cl, 4 dwg, 6 ex
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a medicine having HIV inhibitory activity, thus useful for preventing HIV infection and as a related therapeutic agent, containing a dipeptide compound having 3-amino-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoic acid structure as active ingredient. SOLUTION: This medicine contains, as active ingredient, a compound of formula I (R<1> is an aryl which may bear substituent(s) selected from 1-4C alkyls and the like, etc.; R<2> is a 1-6C alkyl, etc.), e.g. 3-(2-methylbenzoyl)amino-2- hydroxy-4-phenylbutanoyl-4-chloro-L-proline t-butyramide. The compound of formula I is obtained by the following process: a compound of formula II is reacted with a compound of formula III by e.g. azide method to form a compound of formula IV, and the protective group for the amino group in the compound of formula IV is eliminated to form a compound of formula V which, in turn, is reacted with a reactive derivative from a carboxylic acid.
Distribution: When each drug is administered intravenously, the steady-state volume of distribution is 1.1 to 2.1 L/kg (mean 1.5, ±0.3 SD, n=13) for lidocaine and is 0.7 to 4.4 L/kg (mean 2.6, ±1.3 SD, n=13) for prilocaine. The larger distribution volume for prilocaine produces the lower plasma concentrations of prilocaine observed when equal amounts of prilocaine and lidocaine are administered. At concentrations produced by application of lidocaine and prilocaine cream, lidocaine is approximately 70% bound to plasma proteins, primarily alpha-1-acid glycoprotein. At much higher plasma concentrations (1 to 4 μg/mL of free base) the plasma protein binding of lidocaine is concentration dependent. Prilocaine is 55% bound to plasma proteins. Both lidocaine and prilocaine cross the placental and blood brain barrier, presumably by passive diffusion. 

Metabolism: It is not known if lidocaine or prilocaine are metabolized in the skin. Lidocaine is metabolized rapidly by the liver to a number of metabolites including monoethylglycinexylidide (MEGX) and glycinexylidide (GX), both of which have pharmacologic activity similar to, but less potent than that of lidocaine. The metabolite, 2,6-xylidine, has unknown pharmacologic activity. Following intravenous administration, MEGX and GX concentrations in serum range from 11 to 36% and from 5 to 11% of lidocaine concentrations, respectively. Prilocaine is metabolized in both the liver and kidneys by amidases to various metabolites including ortho-toluidine and N-n-propylalanine. It is not metabolized by plasma esterases. The ortho-toluidine metabolite has been shown to be carcinogenic in several animal models (see Carcinogenesis subsection of PRECAUTIONS). In addition, ortho-toluidine can produce methemoglobinemia following systemic doses of prilocaine approximating 8 mg/kg (see ADVERSE REACTIONS). Very young patients, patients with glucose-6-phosphate dehydro- genase deficiencies and patients taking oxidizing drugs such as antimalarials and sulfonamides are more susceptible to methemoglobinemia (seeMethemoglobinemia subsection of WARNINGS).