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Our proposed novel hybrid deep model is used to provide the first insightful opportunity to reveal the potential hierarchical organization of time series and functional brain networks, using task-based fMRI signals of human brain.Introduction The approach to manage psoriasis in the elderly (ages ≥65 years) patients can be challenging. They often suffer from multiple comorbidities and polypharmacy with possible adverse effects and undergo a progressive functional impairment of the immune system that increases susceptibility to infections as well as to auto-reactivity. Despite the increasing aging of the general population and although several therapies are currently available for psoriasis treatment, data regarding their use and tolerability in the elderly are quite limited.Areas covered This review focuses on topical and systemic therapies that have been investigated in elderly patients in order to provide their safety profile in this population.Expert opinion Conventional systemic therapies in elderly patients should be carefully dispensed and the correct dosage individually determined, taking into account the metabolism changes, organ impairment, comorbidities, concomitant medications, and contraindications. Apremilast, due to its satisfactory safety profile and low risk of drug interactions, results as an appropriate treatment option for elderly patients. Biologics (TNF-α, IL-12/23, IL-17, and IL-23 inhibitors) come out as safe and long-term options for the management of these patients resulting not associated with a higher risk of adverse events.Three new phenolic derivatives, picraquanines A-C (1-3), along with 6 known ones 4-9 were obtained from the stems of Picrasma quassioides (D. Don) Benn. The new structures were determined by extensive spectroscopic data analysis, including IR, HRESIMS, 1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, HSQC, HMBC, 1H-1H COSY experiments. The absolute configuration of 1 was determined by comparison of its experimental and calculated ECD spectra. Furthermore, all the compounds were tested for their nitric oxide (NO) inhibitory effects against LPS-stimulated RAW 264.7 cells, however, none of them exhibited inhibitory effects (IC50 >100 μM).[Figure see text].Aim Carbapenemase-resistant Enterobacteriaceae represents a major concern in hospital setting. Materials & methods The evolutionary history of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia strains was analyzed by core genome multilocus sequence typing and Bayesian phylogenesis by whole genomes sequencing. Results A great increase carbapenem-resistant K. GSK-4362676 cell line pneumoniae causing blood stream infection was observed in the years 2015-2016. At multilocus sequence typing (MLST), they were prevalently ST512 and ST101. ST512 were core genome (cg)MLST 53, while ST101 mainly cgMLST453. The minimum-spanning tree, based on cgMLST, showed strains clustering based on the different STs. By Bayesian phylogenetic analysis, maximum clade credibility tree showed that strains were introduced in the year 2005 with the most probable location in the ICU ward. Two outbreaks by ST101 and ST512 strains with Tower T8 as the probable location were evidenced. Conclusion Molecular epidemiology is a powerful tool to track the way of transmission of resistant bacteria within the hospital setting.Aim The impact of different strategies to handle patients with data recorded under multiple Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) identifiers (IDs) is unknown. Patients and methods Six approaches to handling patients appearing under multiple CPRD IDs were defined. The impact of the approaches was illustrated using a case study describing the clinical characteristics of a population of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients. Results 5.6% of patients had more than one CPRD ID. Across all six approaches implemented, no material difference in the characteristics of nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients were observed. Conclusion While strategies which longitudinally append patient registration periods under different CPRD IDs maintain independence while using all available data, their implementation had little impact on the results of our case study.Remodeling of the coronary microcirculation is known to occur distal to a chronic coronary stenosis, but the reversibility of these changes and their functional significance on maximum myocardial perfusion before and after revascularization is unknown. Accordingly, swine instrumented with a chronic silastic stenosis on the left anterior descending coronary artery to produce hibernating myocardium underwent percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; n = 8) and were compared with animals with a persistent stenosis (n = 8), as well as sham controls (n = 6). Stenotic animals demonstrated an increased subendocardial arteriolar wall thickness-to-lumen ratio (37.8 ± 3.3 vs. 28.3 ± 1.3% in sham, P = 0.04), reduced lumen area per arteriole (597 ± 88 vs. 927 ± 113 μm2, P = 0.04), and a compensatory increase in arteriolar density (9.4 ± 1.0 vs. 5.3 ± 0.4 arterioles/mm2, P less then 0.01). As a result, vasodilated flow immediately after PCI was similar to normally perfused remote regions (5.1 ± 1.0 vs. 4.8 ± 0.9 ml·min-1umen area with a compensatory increase in arteriolar density. The present study is the first to demonstrate that subendocardial arteriolar density normalizes 1-mo after revascularization, but the lumen area of individual arterioles remains reduced. This leads to a reduction in maximal subendocardial perfusion at this time point despite initial normalization of vasodilator reserve after revascularization. This pattern of chronic microvascular structural remodeling could contribute to recurrent subendocardial ischemia in the absence of coronary restenosis during tachycardia and increases in myocardial oxygen demand.INTRODUCTION Treatment choice for urolithiasis is partially based on measuring stone density in Hounsfield Units (HU) on Non-Enhanced Computed Tomography (NECT). Inter-observer variability in these measurements could have treatment consequences. This study aims to assess the observer agreement of measuring HU and whether the use of a protocol leads to a better agreement. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively included 155 consecutive NECTs of patients with stones ≥4 mm. Five observers (two radiologists, one urologist, one urology resident, and one radiology resident) assessed all anonymized NECTs four times in randomized order. HU was measured without instruction (rounds 1;2) and subsequently using two protocols (A;B, rounds 3;4). Protocols comprised of using bone setting, using zoom, and measuring HU without the penumbra, in either three (A) or one (B) axial plane. The inter- and intra-observer agreement were evaluated using the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC). RESULTS Inter-observer agreement on HU measurement without protocol was ICC=0.