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Transmesocolic Approach for Left Sided Laparoscopic Pyeloplasty
Authors: Bhuiyan N I , Islam Md Hasibul , Rana Md Masud , Al Mamun Md Abdullah , Arafat Md Ali 
Published: January 2025

Introduction: Laparoscopic pyeloplasty (LP) has emerged as a feasible and reliable treatment option for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO), with a success rate equivalent to that of the classic open procedure. In addition, LP offers benefits associated with minimally invasive techniques, including less pain, shorter hospitalization, and better cosmesis. A variety of modifications have been suggested to ease technical difficulties associated with LP.One suggestion is to use the transmesocolic (TMC) approach. It is an alternative ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) approach that has been shown to reduce operative time compared to the standard laterocolic (LC) approach.It offers a direct path to the left UPJ through the mesocolon with less tissue dissection and bowel manipulation.
Materials and Methods: From July 2014 to December 2019 total 35 patients of left side disease have undergone this surgery in our institution. Perioperative results and follow-up data were analysed.
Results: Total number of cases 35. Male 21, female 14 among them 27 were child. Operation time 120 minutes to 150 minutes. Hospital stay 2-3 days. Post-operative analgesia with single dose Inj.Pethedine. Antigrade DJ stenting done in all cases. D J stent removed after 4 weeks of surgery. All cases followed up one year. No Per operative & post-operative complication.
Conclusion: Direct exposure of the ureteropelvic junction via the mesocolon saves time during the colon mobilization procedure. The approach is safe and feasible even for surgeons with limited experience, and has success rates similar to those of the conventional laterocolic approach.
Bangladesh J. Urol. 2023; 26(1): 28-32
Comparison Between Transmesocolic Approach and Laterocolic Approach for Left Sided Needlescopic Pyeloplasty in Children
Authors: Naser Md Fazal , Haider Mominul , Afroz Roksana , Arif Taslim , Munir Serajum , Shaheed Saika 
Published: January 2025

Background:Transmesocolic (TMC) approachis an alternative approach to ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) that has been shown to reduce operative time compared to the standard laterocolic (LC) approach during laparoscopic pyeloplasty. It offers a direct path to the left UPJ through the mesocolon with less tissue dissection and bowel manipulation. In this study we evaluated the outcome of transmesocolic (TMC) laparoscopic pyeloplasty compared with conventional laterocolic procedure.
Materials and Methods: We started laparoscopic pyeloplasty for ureteropelvic junction obstruction in 2015. Since then, 56 patients of left side disease have undergone this surgery in our institution. To access the left ureteropelvic junction, we used the conventional latero-colic (LC) approach in 33 patients, while the transmesocolic (TMC) approach was used in the remaining 23 patients, and perioperative results and follow-up data were then compared.
Results: The mean operative time using the transmesocolic approach was significantly shorter than the conventional laterocolic approach (97 vs. 160 min, p=0.022). Furthermore, there was no complication or open conversion. In early postoperative period, 1 (3.03%) patient in laterocolic approach group developed ileus. Postoperative pain, mean hospital stay was similar in both groups. All patients were symptom-free after 1 year of follow-up, and radiologic success rates for each group were 90 and 88%, respectively.
Conclusion: Direct exposure of the ureteropelvic junction via the mesocolon saves time during the colon mobilization procedure. The approach is safe and feasible and has success rates similar to those of the conventional laterocolic approach.
Bangladesh J. Urol. 2023; 26(1): 40-43
‘Young Film Friends’: Gendering Children’s Film Culture in Interwar Film Periodicals
Authors: Stead Lisa 
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores child-friendly film periodicals produced in interwar Britain, such as Boy’s Cinema and The Boys’ and Girls’ Cinema Clubs Annual. Unlike their adult-focused counterparts, which more explicitly addressed a female readership by modelling themselves on women’s magazines, children’s film periodicals sought to appeal to both sexes with gender specific annuals like Boy’s Cinema and Girl’s Cinema. In comparing archival examples of such materials drawn from centres like the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, the chapter illuminates some of the key distinctions in the way male and female children were addressed by film periodicals produced exclusively for them. It considers how young viewers were trained to read not only film narrative but film culture through a gendered lens by engaging with the multimedia format of the children’s film periodical.
‘We are left to seed another year’: Nature and Neglect in Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
Authors: Anderson Devon 
Published: January 2025

This chapter considers Jesmyn Ward’s use of nature imagery in Salvage the Bones to call attention to the slower violences that undergird (un)natural disasters. The novel is set mostly in the days before Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in southern Mississippi, and as the storm builds, the markers of poverty, race-based inequality, and systemic neglect accrue, and these structural inequities interweave with and intensify the danger of the storm. Against the sudden violence of the hurricane, Ward depicts a natural environment suffused with ‘slow violence’, Rob Nixon’s term for the accumulation of negative impacts that industrial development and socioeconomic disparities under global capitalism have wrought upon the nonhuman world. Amid her descriptions of the flourishing plants and animals in the novel’s rural setting, Ward makes visible the lasting effects of extractive capitalism, segregation, poverty, and neglect on the nonhuman world. Ward thus engages with an ambivalence that typifies many Black writers’ relationships to nature, which can be a source of beauty and refuge as well as a dangerous site of violence. Ward preserves this ambivalence by making nature’s generative powers contingent upon the systemic violences that condition and contextualise her characters’ lives. Ultimately, she forestalls a redemptive reading of the nonhuman world by depicting an (un)natural environment that is as much a testament to a long history of social disenfranchisement and slow violence as it is a site community, love, and survival.
Fauna, Flora and Illustrated Verse in Mary Howitt’s Environmental Children’s Poetry
Authors: Hughes Linda K. 
Published: January 2025

Mary Howitt an important new media innovator from the 1820s to the 1840s, both in her material forms and in her content, especially with respect to her ecopoetry in Sketches of Natural History, a multimodal volume for children published in 1834. Among her other achievements, Mary Howitt co-authored poems with her husband William Howitt that challenged definitions of the Romantic poet-creator and wrote an innovative autobiography of childhood (My Own Story, 1844). A decade earlier, Howitt published a ground-breaking children’s poetry volume entitled Sketches of Natural History (1834), an early example of environmental writing. Pairing animal and plant illustrations with poetry, Sketches of Natural History anticipated ecopoetics today in representing fauna, flora, and humans as co-equal earthly inhabitants, even in “The Water-Rat.” This volume’s illustrated verse, crucial to teaching natural history and inspiring interest, clearly built upon Howitt’s own experience as a prolific contributor to illustrated literary annuals in the 1820s and ’30s. The combination of poetry and wood-cut illustration in Sketches produced a new kind of children’s literature focused on cultivating joy rather than on inculcating religious dogma.
‘It’s rather distinguished to be as ordinary as I am.’ Woolf’s Working Women Writers
Authors: Randall Bryony 
Published: January 2025

This chapter explores the depiction of working woman writers in Woolf’s early oeuvre. Her short fictions ‘[The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn]’ (composed August 1906) and ‘Memoirs of a Novelist’ (composed 1909) depict several such characters, and in these early and little-examined pieces – unpublished in Woolf’s lifetime – we detect Woolf testing out her developing sense of herself as a working woman writer. Elements of each figure also appear in Woolf’s most fully-developed female professional writer, Miss Allan in The Voyage Out (1915), whose description of herself as so ‘ordinary’ as to be ‘distinguished’ encapsulates much of the tension that Woolf detects within the figure of the working woman writer. Emerging from the author’s ongoing research on Woolf’s short fiction, this chapter draws on recent scholarship on Woolf’s attachment to her own ‘amateurism’ as a writer, and the associated sense that women’s writing domesticates, or reveals the domesticity inherent in, the profession of writing. The young Woolf appears both attracted to and – it is clear from these early texts – repelled by the ordinariness of the women writers she depicts. We thus find in this nexus of characters a novel route into exploring Woolf’s evolving feminist critique of capitalist structures which reward the distinguished individual, while silently relying on the ordinary multitude.
People, Politics and Populism in International Criminal Law
Authors: Bikundo Edwin 
Published: January 2025

Although democracy and democratic practices, in the form of both direct and indirect public participation in governance are axiomatically a cherished value of liberal democratic principles, populism is nevertheless treated with wariness because of its potential to come into conflict with other cherished values of liberal democratic principles such as human rights and the rule of law. The ‘people’ as such have a limited direct role ascribed in public international law. Therefore, populism for this chapter, references a crisis of political representation where a schism between a people and its representatives is detected, or claimed, or exploited. That so-called democratic deficit makes international criminal law practitioners on the one hand particularly vulnerable to demagogic speech challenging their legitimacy and on the other particularly tempted to counter demagoguery by asserting themselves as being more legitimate representatives of a victimised people than their oppressive rulers. This chapter consequently argues that in international criminal law the people is metaphorically explicable as an optical illusion appearing and disappearing at crucial moments in different guises. In the Kenyan case study selected, these contested guises include victims and popular mandates. The people as such are never present and yet remain politically as well as legally indispensable as a rhetorical claim to ground concrete action oriented towards justice.
Experiences of patients talking about mental illness with their children: a qualitative study
Authors: Rapa Elizabeth , Ilyas Athif , de Cassan Simone , Dalton Louise J. 
Published: January 2025

BackgroundMany adults with mental illness have dependent children; these parents must navigate decisions about whether and what to tell their children about the illness. Parents are often influenced by shame and guilt about their disorder, and a desire to protect their children from distress. Communication about parental mental illness can have important benefits for children’s psychological outcomes; professionals could be central in facilitating these conversations. This study explored parents’ experiences of talking to children about their mental illness and the role of their clinical team in this process.MethodsFifteen parents with a mental illness under NHS care in England participated in qualitative interviews. Audio recordings were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using an inductive coding approach following the principles of thematic analysis.ResultsThematic analysis identified 4 themes: 1. Factors that affect what children are told about parental mental illness, 2. Perceived benefits of talking to children about parental mental illness, 3. Experience of ‘who’ talks to children about parental mental illness, 4. Role of healthcare professionals in supporting families to talk about parental mental illness. There was wide variation in what information was shared with children, influenced by fears about how to share particular diagnoses and the impact of the information on parents themselves and their family. Participants reported that no professionals had asked them what their children knew about their mental illness or offered advice on how to have these conversations, but all would have welcomed this guidance.ConclusionImproving communication about parental mental illness requires targeted training programs for professionals and age-appropriate resources for families. This study emphasizes the critical role of fostering effective communication about parental mental illness to enhance children’s mental health and strengthen family functioning.
Genomic and algorithm-based predictive risk assessment models for benzene exposure
Authors: Jiang Minyun , Cai Na , Hu Juan , Han Lei , Xu Fanwei , Zhu Baoli , Wang Boshen 
Published: January 2025

AimIn this research, we leveraged bioinformatics and machine learning to pinpoint key risk genes associated with occupational benzene exposure and to construct genomic and algorithm-based predictive risk assessment models.Subject and methodsWe sourced GSE9569 and GSE21862 microarray data from the Gene Expression Omnibus. Utilizing R software, we performed an initial screen for differentially expressed genes (DEGs), which was followed by the enrichment analyses to elucidate the affected functions and pathways. Subsequent steps included the application of three machine learning algorithms for key gene identification, and the validation of these genes within both a cohort exposed to benzene and a benzene-exposed mice model. We then conducted a functional prediction analysis on these genes using four machine learning models, complemented by GSVA enrichment analysis.ResultsOut of the data, 40 DEGs were identified, primarily linked to cytokine signaling, lipopolysaccharide response, and chemokine pathways. NFKB1, PHACTR1, PTGS2, and PTX3 were pinpointed as significant through machine learning. Validation confirmed substantial changes in NFKB1 and PTX3 following exposure, with PTX3 emerging as paramount, suggesting its utility as a diagnostic biomarker for benzene damage.ConclusionRisk assessment models, informed by oxidative stress markers, successfully discriminated between benzene-injured patients and controls.
Dietary inflammatory index and disability among older adults in Guangzhou: a cross-sectional analysis
Authors: Liao Junbin , Cai Wenfeng , Lin Danrong , Xiao Yuanyun , Liu Yanxi , Wang Yahui , Zhong Yuquan , Xiao Fan , Fang Heng , Yao Yilu , Lin Yunfeng , Su Jiewen , Sun Siyu , Zhang Bo , Wang Yan , Zhu Wei 
Published: January 2025

ObjectiveThis study aims to evaluate factors linked to the degree of disability among older adults and explore the relationship between the dietary inflammatory index (DII) and the degree of disability among older adults in southern China.MethodsConducted in two districts of Guangzhou, China, this cross-sectional study included 262 older adults with mild-to-severe disabilities. Disability levels were assessed using the “Assessment Standard for Long-term Care Disability” from the Medical Insurance Bureau, including Activities of Daily Living (ADL), Cognitive Ability, and Sensory Perception and Communication Skills (SPCS). Dietary data were collected via Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) and used to calculate the DII and intake of nutrients (e.g., Protein, Carbohydrate and Fat). A multivariable ordinal logistic regression model was employed to analyze the influence of various factors and the DII on the degree of disability among older adults. Restricted cubic spline and sensitivity analyses were used to assess the association between DII and the degree of disability of the older adult population.ResultsInactivity (never exercising, OR = 8.48, 95% CI = 2.30–31.31) and reduced activity (formerly exercising, OR = 4.85, 95% CI = 1.39–16.96), stroke (OR = 2.78, 95% CI = 1.61–4.80), and dementia (OR = 2.69, 95% CI = 1.26–5.78) were significantly associated with increased disability. After adjusting for confounding factors, a higher DII was linked to a greater degree of disability, with the highest DII quartile showing a notably higher risk (OR = 2.61, 95% CI = 1.21–5.61) compared to the lowest quartile.ConclusionLack of exercise, previous exercise, stroke, and dementia are correlated with increased disability among older adults. Additionally, a higher DII is associated with a more severe degree of disability.
Sequential transcriptome profiling: comparative analysis of normal and canine lymphoma preceding detailed T-cell and B-cell subtype comparison
Authors: Kim Yeji , Kim Jihyun , Song Yunji , Jang Keunhwan , Kim Se Eun , Kim Ha-Jung 
Published: January 2025

IntroductionAs the lifespan of companion animals extends, the incidence of tumor also increases. Among these tumors, lymphoma is reported as the most prevalent hematopoietic tumor with a 80-90% prevalence rate. Ongoing research spans multiple domains, aiming to uncover novel therapeutic targets, including small molecular weight inhibitors, antibody treatments, and subtype-specific selective agents.MethodsTranscriptional profiling was performed on canine lymphoma samples to identify genes and functional pathways associated with pathogenesis, treatment response, and prognosis. Additionally, genes with potential relevance to the clinical characteristics of T-cell lymphoma (TCL), which is characterized by a low treatment response and poor prognosis, were identified through a comparative analysis of different lymphoma subtypes.ResultsWithin the canine lymphoma group, HERC5 showed consistent upregulation, a gene similarly implicated in human acute myeloid leukemia but previously no reports exist. Additionally, noteworthy genes, including IKZF2, CCL4, SAA1, and CD40, exhibited differential expression in the TCL group compared to the B-cell lymphoma (BCL) group.DiscussionThe upregulation of HERC5 may impact on canine lymphoma pathogenicity. Furthermore, the upregulation of IKZF2, CCL4, and SAA1, along with the downregulation of CD40, may contribute to adverse clinical characteristics of TCL in dogs.
Association of preoperative ultrasonographic parameters of the contralateral kidney with long-term serum creatinine in cats treated for unilateral ureteral obstruction
Authors: Pulido Vega Diego , Ficheroulle Jérémie , Manassero Mathieu , Mortier Jeremy , Maurey Christelle 
Published: January 2025

IntroductionPrediction of renal recovery after surgical management of feline unilateral ureteral obstruction (UO) is crucial to guide therapeutic decisions, but predictors of this outcome are still lacking. Despite the functional importance of the contralateral kidney, there is currently no precise description of its ultrasonographic (US) features. In addition, US parameters of both the renal collecting system and the renal parenchyma have been identified in human medicine as prognostic factors in the case of UO but have not been described in veterinary medicine. The aim of this study was to evaluate an association between preoperative structural US renal parameters and long-term International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) stage after successful renal decompression with subcutaneous ureteral bypass (SUB) device in cats with unilateral UO.MethodsThis retrospective study included 60 cats with unilateral UO and evaluated preoperative US parameters of both kidneys, including measurements of parenchymal and pelvic areas as well as a renal score. Cats were divided according to their serum creatinine at 3 months postoperatively into group A (IRIS stages I and II) and group B (IRIS stages III and IV).ResultsA higher US chronic kidney disease (US-CKD) score of the kidney contralateral to the UO was associated with long-term IRIS stages III and IV. It also appeared as a fair discriminator of long-term IRIS stage IV, with an area under the curve of 0.74. The optimal cutoff value for accurately identifying cats with long-term IRIS stage IV was a US-CKD score &gt; 7, with a specificity of 98%, a sensitivity of 25%, and a positive likelihood ratio of 12.75. No preoperative US parameters regarding the obstructed kidney, including parenchymal and pelvic areas, were significantly associated with long-term creatinine.ConclusionUltrasonographic scoring of contralateral chronic kidney disease abnormalities is associated with IRIS stage following treatment of feline unilateral UO with a SUB device and serves as a specific indicator of cats presenting with long-term IRIS stage IV.
Floristic Account of Apocynaceae (Gentianales) in Tunisia: New Additions to National and North African Flora with Nomenclatural Updates and Taxonomic Notes
Authors: El Mokni Ridha , Iamonico Duilio 
Published: January 2025

A taxonomic revision of the family Apocynaceae (Gentianales) from Tunisia is presented. Field surveys carried out during the last two decades allowed us to identify new records at the national level, i.e., Asclepias curassavica, Carissa macrocarpa, Cascabela thevetia, and Cryptostegia grandiflora (the latter three are new to the non-native Mediterranean and North African woody vascular flora). The genus Asclepias is new at a national level, whereas Carissa, Cascabela, and Cryptostegia are recorded here for the first time in the Mediterranean basin. Information is provided about nomenclature (accepted names, main synonyms, and types), morphology, chromosome number, chorology, occurrence in Tunisia, habitat, phenology, and taxonomic annotations, and original photos are prepared. Diagnostic keys relating to generic and species ranks are also given. Using typificitions, the identity of the Linnaean names Cynanchum erectum and C. monspeliensis, Pourret’s Vinca difformis, and Roxburgh’s Nerium grandiflorum is discussed.
Criocirurgia como opção terapêutica no Nevo Sebáceo de Jadassohn: um relato de caso
Authors: Magalhães Daniela Covre , Amin Gabriela Athayde , Bittencourt Maraya de Jesus Semblano , Goés Heliana Freitas de Oliveira , Lima Caren dos Santos , Carvalho Lorena Silva de , Viana Clara Coutinho , Costa Victoria Oliveira da 
Published: January 2025

Fundamentos: O nevo sebáceo, também conhecido como nevo organoide ou nevo de Jadassohn, é caracterizado como um hamartoma congênito raro, não hereditário, resultante da hiperplasia dos elementos epiteliais, sebáceos, foliculares e apócrinos da pele. Relato de caso: Paciente, 14 anos, masculino, desde o nascimento apresenta mácula avermelhada no mento sem sintomas associados, que evoluiu com espessamento local e aspecto verrucoso. Realizou-se biópsia, cujo histopatológico evidenciou nevo sebáceo de Jadassohn. Optou-se pela criocirurgia como tratamento, evoluindo com melhora progressiva da lesão. Discussão: Este nevo é um hamartoma congênito da epiderme, derme e anexos. O tratamento cirúrgico não é viável em alguns casos. E a criocirurgia é opção terapêutica eficaz e satisfatória, com resultados cosméticos aceitáveis, especialmente em adolescentes jovens que desejam evitar intervenções mais invasivas.