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Chemotherapy for dogs with lymph node metastasis from histiocytic sarcomas
Authors: Moore AS , Taylor DP , Reppas G , Frimberger AE 
Published: January 2017

BackgroundHistiocytic sarcomas (HS) frequently metastasise, most commonly to visceral sites, but also to regional lymph nodes. Nodal metastases are associated with a poorer prognosis. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate prognostic factors, including the effect of adjuvant chemotherapy, on survival in dogs with nodal, but not systemic, metastases from HS.MethodsRetrospective case series of 12 dogs with histologically diagnosed HS metastatic to lymph nodes treated with surgery with and without adjuvant chemotherapy.ResultsAll dogs had histological evidence of metastasis to lymph nodes, with no clinical evidence for metastasis to viscera. Eight dogs that received chemotherapy had a median estimated survival of 219 days (range 77–1638 days); 1‐ and 2‐year estimated survival rates were 37.7%. Median survival time for 4 dogs with nodal metastases that did not receive chemotherapy was 57 days (range 39–136 days) with none alive 1 year after surgeryConclusionSurvival for dogs with only regional nodal metastases from HS appeared to be improved by adjuvant chemotherapy.
Clinical management ofBrucella suisinfection in dogs and implications for public health
Authors: James DR , Golovsky G , Thornton JM , Goodchild L , Havlicek M , Martin P , Krockenberger MB , Marriott DJE , Ahuja V , Malik R , Mor SM 
Published: January 2017

BackgroundBrucellosis caused byBrucella suisis a notifiable disease that has recently emerged in dogs in New South Wales (NSW). Given the potential for zoonotic transmission, euthanasia of affected dogs is recommended, but this action is not mandatory. We report the clinical management of three dogs that underwent treatment at their owners’ request.Case reportsA 14‐month‐old spayed female crossbreed originally obtained from an urban animal shelter underwent extensive investigations in 2011–12 for lameness and back pain, culminating in decompressive laminectomy. Diagnosis of multifocal discospondylitis and spinal empyema was made, withB. suiscultured from surgical biopsy specimens. The dog responded to long‐term treatment using rifampicin and doxycycline. A second case ofB. suisinfection was diagnosed in January 2016 in a 3‐year‐old crossbreed pig‐hunting dog with unilateral testicular enlargement. Following serological diagnosis the dog was given preliminary therapy using rifampicin and doxycycline, the affected testis was resected and the patient given a further month of combination therapy. In March 2016 a 7‐year‐old crossbreed pig‐hunting dog with brucellosis was handled similarly, although both testes were removed.ConclusionBrucellosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of back pain, discospondylitis, lameness, abortion, prostatic abscessation and testicular/epididymal enlargement in dogs, especially if there is exposure to feral pigs or consumption of uncooked feral pig meat. Euthanasia is the only guarantee of reducing the public health risk to zero. However, where treatment is desired by the owner, combination therapy using rifampicin and doxycycline appears to be effective, when combined with surgical resection of infected tissues. Further monitoring of dogs during and after treatment is required to document cure.
Post‐viraemic detection of bovine ephemeral fever virus by use of autogenous lymphoid tissue‐derived bovine primary cell cultures
Authors: Barigye R , Davis S , Hunt R , Hunt N , Walsh S , Elliott N , Dyrting K , Weir R , Melville LF 
Published: January 2017

BackgroundThe potential tissue replication sites and specific cell types that support in vivo virus survival beyond the acute phase of bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) infection have not been fully defined in cattle. To clarify the knowledge gap, tissue specimens were tested after collection from an adult steer necropsied 1 week after acute BEF.Case reportSignificant necropsy findings included fibrinoproliferative synovitis in the stifle joints and fibrin clot‐laden fluid in serous body cavities. Moderate numbers of infiltrating neutrophils were demonstrated in sections of the prefemoral lymph nodes and haemal node, and lymphoid hyperplasia in the spleen, haemal node and prefemoral lymph nodes. Viral RNA was detected by qRT‐PCR in fresh spleen, haemal node, prefemoral lymph node, synovial fluid and in several spleen‐derived cell cultures. BEFV was isolated from autogenously derived splenic primary cell cultures 6 days after cessation of viraemia, and characteristic bullet‐shaped virions were confirmed by electron microscopy of an ultrathin haemal node section. In sections of the spleen, haemal node and other tissues, immunohistochemistry demonstrated BEFV antigens that were intracellularly associated with probable histiocytic cells.Conclusion
BEFV has preferential tropism for bovine lymphoid tissues and the spleen and haemal node may be potential sites for post‐viraemic virus replication.
UNRAVELLING THE ENIGMA OF BACKHOUSE'SWISTERIA: A TWISTED TALE OF TWO TWINERS
Authors: Compton James A. 
Published: January 2017

SummaryIn this paper the plant described by James Backhouse in Australia and sent by him to England as a species ofWisteriaNutt. is revealed to be a member of the Australasian genusCalleryaEndl. The plant named in memory of Backhouse, however, is shown to be a dark flowered cultivar of the North AmericanWisteria frutescens(L.) Poir. described asW. frutescensvar.backhousianaAndré.
Neonicotinoids override a parasite exposure impact on hibernation success of a key bumblebee pollinator
Authors: FAUSER ALINE , SANDROCK CHRISTOPH , NEUMANN PETER , SADD BEN M. 
Published: January 2017

1. Seasonal adaptations enabling the bridging of periodic challenging abiotic conditions are taxonomically widespread. However, sensitivity to other environmental stresses can be heightened during these periods.2. Several temperate insects with over‐wintering strategies play key ecosystem and economic roles, including wild bee pollinators. For example, hibernation survival in temperate bumblebees is crucial, as only new queens of future social colonies over‐winter. These bees are also faced with other abiotic and biotic stressors, some of which have been linked to recent pollinator declines, such as exposure to pesticides and parasites.3. Using a fully crossed experiment, the influence of dietary exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides (thiamethoxam and clothianidin) and/or the prevalent bumblebee parasite Crithidia bombi on hibernation survival and hibernation weight change of Bombus terrestris bumblebee queens was investigated.4. Both neonicotinoid and C. bombi exposures reduced hibernation success individually, but no additive or synergistic effects between the stressors were found. Further, effects were asynchronous, with early neonicotinoid effects on hibernation mortality overriding later parasite effects under combined exposures. Neonicotinoid exposure also increased hibernation weight loss of surviving queens.5. Diapause periods, employed by numerous temperate organisms, are likely to be especially vulnerable to environmental stresses, besides the seasonal challenge for which these periods are an adaptation. Thus, diapause requires inclusion during the consideration of the impacts of such stresses. Accordingly, it is demonstrated here that naturally relevant exposures of pesticides and parasites have important detrimental effects on bumblebees during a critical hibernation period, with potential consequences for populations of these key wild pollinators.
Examination of cultural competence in service providers in an early intervention programme for psychosis in Montreal, Quebec: Perspectives of service users and treatment providers
Authors: Venkataraman Shruthi , Jordan Gerald , Pope Megan A , Iyer Srividya N 
Published: January 2017

AimTo better understand cultural competence in early intervention for psychosis, we compared service users’ and service providers’ perceptions of the importance of providers being culturally competent and attentive to aspects of culture.MethodsAt a Canadian early intervention programme, a validated scale was adapted to assess service user (N = 51) and provider (N = 30) perceptions of service providers’ cultural competence and the importance accorded thereto.ResultsAnalyses of variance revealed that the importance of service providers being culturally competent was rated highest by service providers, followed by visible minority service users, followed by white service users. Providers rated themselves as being more interested in knowing about service users’ culture than service users perceived them to be.ConclusionsService users accorded less import to service providers’ cultural competence than providers themselves, owing possibly to varied socialization. A mismatch in users’ and providers’ views on providers’ efforts to know their users’ cultures may influence mental healthcare outcomes.
Reality of nerve sparing and surgical margins in surgeons’ early experience with robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy in Japan
Authors: Tatsugami Katsunori , Yoshioka Kunihiko , Shiroki Ryoichi , Eto Masatoshi , Yoshino Yasushi , Tozawa Keiichi , Fukasawa Satoshi , Fujisawa Masato , Takenaka Atsushi , Nasu Yasutomo , Kashiwagi Akira , Gotoh Momokazu , Terachi Toshiro ,   the Japanese Society of Endourology
Published: January 2017

ObjectiveTo analyze nerve sparing performance at an early stage of robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy, and the correlation between the surgeons’ experience and the risk of a positive surgical margin in patients treated with robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy.MethodsPatients’ records from January 2009 to March 2013 were retrospectively reviewed, and 3469 patients with localized prostate cancer were identified at 45 institutions. Individual surgeon's experience with nerve sparing was recorded as the number of nerve sparing cases among total robot‐assisted radical prostatectomies beginning with the first case during which nerve sparing was carried out. Patients were selected by propensity score matching for nerve sparing, and predictive factors of positive surgical margins were analyzed in patients with and without positive surgical margins.ResultsA total of 152 surgeons were studied, and the median number of robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy cases for all surgeons was 21 (range 1–511). In all, 54 surgeons (35.5%) undertook nerve sparing during their first robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy case. For 2388 patients selected with (1194) and without (1194) nerve sparing, predictive factors for positive surgical margin were high initial prostate‐specific antigen level (P < 0.0001), high biopsy Gleason score (P = 0.0379), presence of neoadjuvant hormone therapy (P = 0.0002) and surgeon's experience with >100 cases (P = 0.0058). Thus, nerve sparing was not associated with positive surgical margins.ConclusionThe surgeon's experience influences the occurrence of positive surgical margins, although a considerable number of surgeons carried out nerve sparing during their early robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy cases. Surgeons should consider their own experience and prostate cancer characteristics before carrying out a nerve sparing robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy.
‘Unladylike Commotion’: Early feminism and nursing's role in gender/trans dialogue
Authors: Fowler Marsha D. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractFrom nursing's history comes the impetus and grounding for our current voice in gender/trans dialogue. Modern nursing struggled its way into being against restrictive, unjust, and oppressive social structures. Many of the obstructions and constraints that nurses and nursing leaders faced were shared by the general populace of women, and yet nurses were different from other women. Nurses worked outside the home, caring for strangers, including unrelated men, in a period when women were otherwise confined to the home. Nurses fought for women's suffrage, for child labor laws, for the welfare of factory workers, for garment workers, for unionization, for vaccination, for housing reform, for the humane treatment of mentally ill persons, for access to birth control, for the amelioration of a panoramic terrain of terrible social injustices, and for the control of nursing education, registration, and practice. For 150 years, nursing has been intrinsically, practically, and politically feminist. The hard‐fought gains would eventually position nursing in tension with emerging trans issues. And yet, its history is exactly what situates nursing for fruitful participation in the developing trans discourse and to address issues of transinvisibility and unjust social and health structures that impede dignified and respectful health care.
Maternal Preeclampsia and Odds of Childhood Cancers in Offspring: A California Statewide Case–Control Study
Authors: Xu Xiaoqing , Ritz Beate , Cockburn Myles , Lombardi Christina , Heck Julia E. 
Published: January 2017

AbstractBackgroundPreeclampsia is a major cause of adverse effects on fetal health. We examined associations between fetal exposure to preeclampsia and subsequent odds of childhood cancers.MethodsWe obtained childhood cancer cases (n = 13 669) diagnosed at 5 years old or younger between 1988 and 2012 from the California Cancer Registry and linked them to birth certificates. Controls (n = 271 383) were randomly selected from all California births and frequency matched to cases by birth year. We obtained data regarding preeclampsia during pregnancy, labour, and delivery from the medical worksheet of the electronic birth record. We used unconditional logistic regression models with stabilised inverse probability weights to estimate the effect of preeclampsia on each subtype of childhood cancer, taking into account potential confounding by pregnancy characteristics. Marginal structural models were fitted to assess the controlled direct effects of preeclampsia, independent of preterm delivery and NICU admission.ResultsAlthough a null association was observed for all cancer subtypes combined (odds ratio (OR) 1.0, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.9, 1.2), preeclampsia was found to be associated with increased odds of two histological subtypes of germ cell tumours: seminomas (OR 8.6, 95% CI 1.9, 38.4) and teratoma (OR 3.0, 95% CI 1.7, 5.4), but not yolk sac tumours in children. Odds remained elevated after adjusting for preterm delivery and NICU admission. Increases in odds were also observed for hepatoblastoma, however this association was attenuated in marginal structural models after accounting for NICU admission.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that maternal preeclampsia is associated with higher odds of some rare childhood cancers and may shed light on new aetiological factors for these cancers.
Uncovered interest parity in Central and Eastern Europe: Expectations and structural breaks
Authors: Cuestas Juan Carlos , Filipozzi Fabio , Staehr Karsten 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis paper examines the empirical validity of the hypothesis of uncovered interest parity (UIP) using data from five Central and Eastern European countries with floating exchange rates for the period 2003 to 2014. The analysis includes forward‐looking as well as static expectations and allows for different types of structural break. The variable depicting the deviation from strict UIP is stationary when expectations are forward looking, suggesting that it is not possible to reject the UIP hypothesis with a constant risk premium. The deviation from strict UIP is however typically not stationary when expectations are static, even when structural breaks are incorporated, leading to the rejection of the UIP hypothesis with a constant risk premium. The results underscore the central role of expectations for the UIP hypothesis.
‘There's something in their eyes’ – Child Health Services nurses’ experiences of identifying signs of postpartum depression in non‐Swedish‐speaking immigrant mothers
Authors: Skoog Malin , Hallström Inger , Berggren Vanja 
Published: January 2017

BackgroundDue to the current world situation, Sweden has one of the highest asylum applications within the European Union. Immigrant mothers, specifically those who have immigrated during the last ten years and do not speak the language of the new country, are found to be at particular risk of being effected by postpartum depression.AimIn this study, we elucidate Swedish Child Health Services nurses’ experiences of identifying signs of postpartum depression in non‐Swedish‐speaking immigrant mothers.MethodsLatent content analysis was used when analysing data material from 13 research interviews.ResultsBeing able to interpret a non‐Swedish‐speaking immigrant mother's mood required establishing and constant deepening of a transcultural caring relationship, the use of cultural knowledge to perceive signs of postpartum depression from observations and interactions and to rely on intuition.ConclusionThere are both challenges and key factors for success in interpreting the mood of non‐Swedish‐speaking immigrant mothers.ImplicationsThis study provides information to healthcare professionals about challenges with adapting the screening with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale to immigrant mothers not speaking the language of residence. Tacit knowledge and cultural competence among healthcare personnel are invaluable assets when interpreting mental health in this vulnerable group of mothers.
Patients’ experiences of their everyday life 14 months after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy – a qualitative follow‐up study
Authors: Leo Swenne Christine , Jangland Eva , Arakelian Erebouni 
Published: January 2017

BackgroundPatients with peritoneal carcinomatosis treated with cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy have a long recovery process.AimTo describe patients’ experiences of their everyday lives after cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy.MethodA follow‐up study with a qualitative, descriptive design. Data were collected by individual, in‐depth telephone interviews with 16 patients who had been treated for peritoneal carcinomatosis 14 months earlier at a university hospital in Sweden. The interviews were performed between May and June 2013 and analysed using systematic text condensation.ResultsFive themes were identified: (i) finding one's new self and relating to the new situation; (ii) the disease making its presence felt through bodily complications or mental fatigue; (iii) worrying about the return of the disease and passing it on to one's children; (iv) experiencing difficulties contacting various care facilities, not having a clear plan for ongoing rehabilitation; and (v) the need for online support through the Internet and counselling for both patients and their family members.ConclusionsDespite bodily complications, mental fatigue and worries about the return of the disease, the patient's everyday life was focused on finding his/her new self and adapting to the new circumstances. Difficulties in contacting care facilities and the lack of an ongoing medical and nursing rehabilitation plan called for a need for network support for patients and their families.Clinical relevanceAfter advanced surgery, patients require a continuous medical and nursing rehabilitation plan, and a platform of support such as meetings via social media and Internet which would connect former patients and their families with future patients and their family members. A contact nurse with specific expertise should design an individual rehabilitation plan and continuously identify the individual needs for long‐term support.
Consociationalism and Identity in Ethnically Divided Societies: Northern Ireland and Malaysia
Authors: Jarrett Henry 
Published: January 2017

AbstractThis article tests the hypothesis that ethnic identities in divided societies lose their significance after the implementation of consociational power‐sharing arrangements. It analyses and compares the cases of Northern Ireland and Malaysia, as both have a substantially different experience of liberal consociationalism. In Northern Ireland, power sharing is strictly enforced through the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement of 1998, whilst in Malaysia it is exercised more informally within the Barisan Nasional coalition, which has governed the state since independence in 1957. Malaysia, therefore, has a considerably longer history of consociationalism than Northern Ireland. It is thought that if a mitigation of the salience of ethnic identities is taking place, ethnic political parties would become less prevalent. This article argues that these parties remain highly significant and, therefore, a shared identity is not being realized in either case. This conclusion does not, however, demonstrate a shortcoming of consociational theory but instead shows that managing conflict in divided societies is not the same as removing it altogether.
Broad‐spectrum health improvements with one year of soccer training in inactive mildly hypertensive middle‐aged women
Authors: Krustrup P. , Skoradal M.‐B. , Randers M. B. , Weihe P. , Uth J. , Mortensen J. , Mohr M. 
Published: January 2017

The study tested the hypothesis that long‐term soccer training has positive impact on cardiovascular profile, body composition, bone health, and physical capacity in inactive, pre‐menopausal women with mild hypertension. The study applied a randomized controlled design in which physically inactive middle‐aged women were separated into a soccer training group (n=19; SOC) and a control group (n=12; CON). SOC performed 128±29 (±SD) one‐h small‐sided soccer training sessions over one year. Blood pressure, body composition, blood lipid profile, and fitness level were determined pre‐ and post‐intervention. Over one year, mean arterial pressure decreased more in SOC than in CON (−5±7 vs +4±5 mmHg; P<.05). Total‐body fat mass decreased more (P<.05) in SOC than in CON (−2.5±2.5 vs +0.6±3.2 kg; P<.05), while the change scores for lean body mass were not significantly different in SOC (2.6±2.7 kg) compared to CON (1.1±1.9 kg, P=.09). Over one year, change scores in whole‐body bone mineral density (0.004±0.032 vs −0.019±0.026 g·cm2) as well as bone mineral content (30±70 vs −39±113 g) were positive in SOC compared to CON (P<.05). Post‐intervention plasma triglycerides decreased more (−0.1±0.7 vs +0.2±0.2 mmol·L−1) and HDL cholesterol increased more (0.2±0.7 vs −0.2±0.2 mmol·L−1) in SOC than in CON (P<.05). Yo‐Yo intermittent endurance level 1 (122±105 vs 2±21%) and 20‐m sprint performance (6±6 vs −1±2%) increased more (P<.05) in SOC than in CON. In conclusion, long‐term soccer training resulted in broad‐spectrum improvements in the health profile of untrained, pre‐menopausal women with mild hypertension, including cardiovascular, metabolic, and musculo‐skeletal benefits.