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  1. Article ; Online: Early vs Delayed Transurethral Surgery in Acute Urinary Retention: Does Timing Make a Difference?

    Frendl, Daniel M / Chou, Wesley H / Chen, Ya-Wen / Chang, David C / Kim, Michelle M

    The Journal of urology

    2023  Volume 210, Issue 3, Page(s) 492–499

    Abstract: Purpose: Our goal was to compare outcomes of early vs delayed transurethral surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia after an episode of acute urinary retention compared to men without preoperative acute retention.: Materials and methods: We ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: Our goal was to compare outcomes of early vs delayed transurethral surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia after an episode of acute urinary retention compared to men without preoperative acute retention.
    Materials and methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis using data from the New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System from 2002-2016. We identified men ≥40 years old who underwent primary ambulatory transurethral resection or photoselective vaporization of the prostate, assessing surgical failure as time to reoperation or recatheterization. We categorized presurgical acute urinary retention by number of episodes: none (reference), 1, or ≥2 precatheterizations, and time from first retention episode to surgery: none (reference), 0-6 months, and >6 months. We used Fine-Gray competing-risk models to predict surgical failure at 10 years, with presurgical acute retention as the primary predictor, adjusted for age, race, insurance, Charlson Comorbidity Index score, preoperative urinary infection, and procedure type, with death as the competing risk.
    Results: Among 17,474 patients undergoing transurethral surgery, 10% had preoperative acute retention with a median time to surgery of 2.4 months (IQR: 1-18). Among men with preoperative retention, 37% had ≥6 months of delay to surgery. The 10-year cumulative treatment failure rate was 17.2% among catheter naïve men vs 34.0% with ≥2 precatheterizations and 32.9% with ≥6 months delay to surgery. Delays from catheterization to surgery were associated with higher rates of treatment failure (<6 months SHR 1.49,
    Conclusions: Preoperative acute urinary retention and delay to surgery once catheterized are associated with poorer long-term postoperative outcomes after surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Humans ; Adult ; Urinary Retention/surgery ; Urinary Retention/complications ; Prostatic Hyperplasia/complications ; Prostatic Hyperplasia/surgery ; Transurethral Resection of Prostate/methods ; Retrospective Studies ; Treatment Outcome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-30
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3176-8
    ISSN 1527-3792 ; 0022-5347
    ISSN (online) 1527-3792
    ISSN 0022-5347
    DOI 10.1097/JU.0000000000003559
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  2. Article ; Online: The Association of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors With Delirium in Critically Ill Adults: A Secondary Analysis of the Bringing to Light the Risk Factors and Incidence of Neuropsychologic Dysfunction in ICU Survivors ICU Study.

    Austin, C Adrian / Yi, Joe / Lin, Feng-Chang / Pandharipande, Pratik / Ely, E Wesley / Busby-Whitehead, Jan / Carson, Shannon S

    Critical care explorations

    2022  Volume 4, Issue 7, Page(s) e0740

    Abstract: Objectives: To assess the association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and delirium in the subsequent 24 hours after drug administration in critically ill adults.: Design: Retrospective cohort study utilizing the Bringing to ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: To assess the association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and delirium in the subsequent 24 hours after drug administration in critically ill adults.
    Design: Retrospective cohort study utilizing the Bringing to Light the Risk Factors and Incidence of Neuropsychologic Dysfunction in ICU Survivors dataset.
    Setting: Two large U.S. ICUs.
    Patients: Critically ill adults admitted to a medical or surgery ICU between March 2007 and May 2010 with respiratory failure or shock.
    Interventions: Our primary outcome was the occurrence rate of delirium or coma during each day in the ICU. Our exposure variable was SSRI administration on the prior day in the ICU. As a secondary question, we assessed the association of SSRI administration and delirium the same day of SSRI administration in the ICU.
    Measurements and main results: We analyzed 821 patients. The median age was 61.2 years old (interquartile range, 50.9-70.7), and 401 (48.8%) were female. A total of 233 patients (28.4%) received prescribed SSRIs at least once during their ICU admission. Delirium was present in 606 (74%) of the patients at some point during hospitalization in the ICU. Coma was present in 532 (64.8%) of the patients at some point during hospitalization in the ICU. After adjusting for multiple potential confounding factors, we found that SSRI administration in the ICU was associated with lower odds of delirium/coma (odds ratio [OR], 0.75; 95% CI, 0.57-1.00) the next day. An SSRI administered on the same day reduced the odds of delirium/coma as well (OR, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.50-0.87).
    Conclusions: SSRI administration is associated with decreased risk of delirium/coma in 24 hours and on the same day of administration in critically ill patients in a medical or surgical ICU.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-07-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2639-8028
    ISSN (online) 2639-8028
    DOI 10.1097/CCE.0000000000000740
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  3. Article ; Online: Optical phased array neural probes for beam-steering in brain tissue.

    Sacher, Wesley D / Chen, Fu-Der / Moradi-Chameh, Homeira / Liu, Xinyu / Felts Almog, Ilan / Lordello, Thomas / Chang, Michael / Naderian, Azadeh / Fowler, Trevor M / Segev, Eran / Xue, Tianyuan / Mahallati, Sara / Valiante, Taufik A / Moreaux, Laurent C / Poon, Joyce K S / Roukes, Michael L

    Optics letters

    2022  Volume 47, Issue 5, Page(s) 1073–1076

    Abstract: Implantable silicon neural probes with integrated nanophotonic waveguides can deliver patterned dynamic illumination into brain tissue at depth. Here, we introduce neural probes with integrated optical phased arrays and demonstrate optical beam steering ... ...

    Abstract Implantable silicon neural probes with integrated nanophotonic waveguides can deliver patterned dynamic illumination into brain tissue at depth. Here, we introduce neural probes with integrated optical phased arrays and demonstrate optical beam steering in vitro. Beam formation in brain tissue is simulated and characterized. The probes are used for optogenetic stimulation and calcium imaging.
    MeSH term(s) Brain/diagnostic imaging ; Optogenetics ; Silicon
    Chemical Substances Silicon (Z4152N8IUI)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-02-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1539-4794
    ISSN (online) 1539-4794
    DOI 10.1364/OL.441609
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  4. Article ; Online: Quantification of Neurite Degeneration with Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency in an

    Clements, Rachel T / Fuller, Lauren E / Kraemer, Kyle R / Radomski, Samantha A / Hunter-Chang, Sarah / Hall, Wesley C / Kalantar, Alborz A / Kraemer, Bradley R

    eNeuro

    2022  Volume 9, Issue 2

    Abstract: ... by conducting an experiment revealing the effects of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) on neurite degeneration ...

    Abstract Neurite degeneration is associated with early stages of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease (PD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. One method that is commonly used to analyze neurite degeneration involves calculation of a Degeneration Index (DI) following utilization of the Analyze Particles tool of ImageJ to detect neurite fragments in micrographs of cultured cells. However, DI analyses are prone to several types of measurement error, can be time consuming to perform, and are limited in application. Here, we describe an improved method for performing DI analyses. Accuracy of measurements was enhanced through modification of selection criteria for detecting neurite fragments, removal of image artifacts and non-neurite materials from images, and optimization of image contrast. Such enhancements were implemented into an ImageJ macro that enables rapid and fully automated DI analysis of multiple images. The macro features operations for automated removal of cell bodies from micrographs, thus expanding the application of DI analyses to use in experiments involving dissociated cultures. We present experimental findings supporting that, compared with the conventional method, the enhanced analysis method yields measurements with increased accuracy and requires significantly less time to perform. Furthermore, we demonstrate the utility of the method to investigate neurite degeneration in a cell culture model of PD by conducting an experiment revealing the effects of c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) on neurite degeneration induced by oxidative stress in human mesencephalic cells. This improved analysis method may be used to gain novel insight into factors underlying neurite degeneration and the progression of neurodegenerative disorders.
    MeSH term(s) Cells, Cultured ; Humans ; Mesencephalon ; Neurites ; Neurodegenerative Diseases ; Parkinson Disease
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2800598-3
    ISSN 2373-2822 ; 2373-2822
    ISSN (online) 2373-2822
    ISSN 2373-2822
    DOI 10.1523/ENEURO.0327-21.2022
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  5. Article ; Online: In situ structures of rotavirus polymerase in action and mechanism of mRNA transcription and release

    Ke Ding / Cristina C. Celma / Xing Zhang / Thomas Chang / Wesley Shen / Ivo Atanasov / Polly Roy / Z. Hong Zhou

    Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2019  Volume 9

    Abstract: Rotaviruses are of great medical significance because they cause gastroenteritis in children. Here the authors provide insights into the mechanism of viral mRNA transcription by determining the in situ cryo-EM structures of a working rotavirus’ RNA- ... ...

    Abstract Rotaviruses are of great medical significance because they cause gastroenteritis in children. Here the authors provide insights into the mechanism of viral mRNA transcription by determining the in situ cryo-EM structures of a working rotavirus’ RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase, which is of interest for antiviral drug design.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Publishing Group
    Document type Article ; Online
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  6. Article ; Online: In situ structures of rotavirus polymerase in action and mechanism of mRNA transcription and release

    Ke Ding / Cristina C. Celma / Xing Zhang / Thomas Chang / Wesley Shen / Ivo Atanasov / Polly Roy / Z. Hong Zhou

    Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    2019  Volume 9

    Abstract: Rotaviruses are of great medical significance because they cause gastroenteritis in children. Here the authors provide insights into the mechanism of viral mRNA transcription by determining the in situ cryo-EM structures of a working rotavirus’ RNA- ... ...

    Abstract Rotaviruses are of great medical significance because they cause gastroenteritis in children. Here the authors provide insights into the mechanism of viral mRNA transcription by determining the in situ cryo-EM structures of a working rotavirus’ RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase, which is of interest for antiviral drug design.
    Keywords Science ; Q
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Nature Portfolio
    Document type Article ; Online
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  7. Article ; Online: Effects of Specialist Palliative Care for Patients Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery for Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Shinall, Myrick C / Martin, Sara F / Karlekar, Mohana / Hoskins, Aimee / Morgan, Ellis / Kiehl, Amy / Bryant, Patsy / Orun, Onur M / Raman, Rameela / Tillman, Benjamin F / Hawkins, Alexander T / Brown, Alaina J / Bailey, Christina E / Idrees, Kamran / Chang, Sam S / Smith, Joseph A / Tan, Marcus C B / Magge, Deepa / Penson, David /
    Ely, E Wesley

    JAMA surgery

    2023  Volume 158, Issue 7, Page(s) 747–755

    Abstract: Importance: Specialist palliative care benefits patients undergoing medical treatment of cancer; however, data are lacking on whether patients undergoing surgery for cancer similarly benefit from specialist palliative care.: Objective: To determine ... ...

    Abstract Importance: Specialist palliative care benefits patients undergoing medical treatment of cancer; however, data are lacking on whether patients undergoing surgery for cancer similarly benefit from specialist palliative care.
    Objective: To determine the effect of a specialist palliative care intervention on patients undergoing surgery for cure or durable control of cancer.
    Design, setting, and participants: This was a single-center randomized clinical trial conducted from March 1, 2018, to October 28, 2021. Patients scheduled for specified intra-abdominal cancer operations were recruited from an academic urban referral center in the Southeastern US.
    Intervention: Preoperative consultation with palliative care specialists and postoperative inpatient and outpatient palliative care follow-up for 90 days.
    Main outcomes and measures: The prespecified primary end point was physical and functional quality of life (QoL) at postoperative day (POD) 90, measured by the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) Trial Outcome Index (TOI), which is scored on a range of 0 to 56 with higher scores representing higher physical and functional QoL. Prespecified secondary end points included overall QoL at POD 90 measured by FACT-G, days alive at home until POD 90, and 1-year overall survival. Multivariable proportional odds logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards regression models were used to test the hypothesis that the intervention improved each of these end points relative to usual care in an intention-to-treat analysis.
    Results: A total of 235 eligible patients (median [IQR] age, 65.0 [56.8-71.1] years; 141 male [60.0%]) were randomly assigned to the intervention or usual care group in a 1:1 ratio. Specialist palliative care was received by 114 patients (97%) in the intervention group and 1 patient (1%) in the usual care group. Adjusted median scores on the FACT-G TOI measure of physical and functional QoL did not differ between groups (intervention score, 46.77; 95% CI, 44.18-49.04; usual care score, 46.23; 95% CI, 43.08-48.14; P = .46). Intervention vs usual care group odds ratio (OR) was 1.17 (95% CI, 0.77-1.80). Palliative care did not improve overall QoL measured by the FACT-G score (intervention vs usual care OR, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.75-1.58), days alive at home (OR, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.69-1.11), or 1-year overall survival (hazard ratio, 0.97; 95% CI, 0.50-1.88).
    Conclusions and relevance: This randomized clinical trial showed no evidence that early specialist palliative care improves the QoL of patients undergoing nonpalliative cancer operations.
    Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03436290.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Male ; Aged ; Palliative Care ; Quality of Life ; Neoplasms/mortality ; Abdomen ; Outcome Assessment, Health Care
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2701841-6
    ISSN 2168-6262 ; 2168-6254
    ISSN (online) 2168-6262
    ISSN 2168-6254
    DOI 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.1396
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  8. Article ; Online: CD19/BAFF-R dual-targeted CAR T cells for the treatment of mixed antigen-negative variants of acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

    Wang, Xiuli / Dong, Zhenyuan / Awuah, Dennis / Chang, Wen-Chung / Cheng, Wesley A / Vyas, Vibhuti / Cha, Soung-Chul / Anderson, Aaron J / Zhang, Tiantian / Wang, Zhe / Szymura, Szymon J / Kuang, Benjamin Z / Clark, Mary C / Aldoss, Ibrahim / Forman, Stephen J / Kwak, Larry W / Qin, Hong

    Leukemia

    2022  Volume 36, Issue 4, Page(s) 1015–1024

    Abstract: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting CD19 mediate potent antitumor effects in B-cell malignancies including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but antigen loss remains the major cause of treatment failure. To mitigate antigen escape and ... ...

    Abstract Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting CD19 mediate potent antitumor effects in B-cell malignancies including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), but antigen loss remains the major cause of treatment failure. To mitigate antigen escape and potentially improve the durability of remission, we developed a dual-targeting approach using an optimized, bispecific CAR construct that targets both CD19 and BAFF-R. CD19/BAFF-R dual CAR T cells exhibited antigen-specific cytokine release, degranulation, and cytotoxicity against both CD19-/- and BAFF-R-/- variant human ALL cells in vitro. Immunodeficient mice engrafted with mixed CD19-/- and BAFF-R-/- variant ALL cells and treated with a single dose of CD19/BAFF-R dual CAR T cells experienced complete eradication of both CD19-/- and BAFF-R-/- ALL variants, whereas mice treated with monospecific CD19 or BAFF-R CAR T cells succumbed to outgrowths of CD19-/BAFF-R+ or CD19+/BAFF-R- tumors, respectively. Further, CD19/BAFF-R dual CAR T cells showed prolonged in vivo persistence, raising the possibility that these cells may have the potential to promote durable remissions. Together, our data support clinical translation of BAFF-R/CD19 dual CAR T cells to treat ALL.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Antigens, CD19 ; Humans ; Immunotherapy, Adoptive ; Mice ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma/therapy ; Receptors, Chimeric Antigen/genetics ; T-Lymphocytes
    Chemical Substances Antigens, CD19 ; Receptors, Chimeric Antigen
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-18
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 807030-1
    ISSN 1476-5551 ; 0887-6924
    ISSN (online) 1476-5551
    ISSN 0887-6924
    DOI 10.1038/s41375-021-01477-x
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  9. Article ; Online: In situ structures of rotavirus polymerase in action and mechanism of mRNA transcription and release.

    Ding, Ke / Celma, Cristina C / Zhang, Xing / Chang, Thomas / Shen, Wesley / Atanasov, Ivo / Roy, Polly / Zhou, Z Hong

    Nature communications

    2019  Volume 10, Issue 1, Page(s) 2216

    Abstract: ... polymerases and telomerases, our results show the function of N- and C-terminal domains of RdRp: the former ...

    Abstract Transcribing and replicating a double-stranded genome require protein modules to unwind, transcribe/replicate nucleic acid substrates, and release products. Here we present in situ cryo-electron microscopy structures of rotavirus dsRNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) in two states pertaining to transcription. In addition to the previously discovered universal "hand-shaped" polymerase core domain shared by DNA polymerases and telomerases, our results show the function of N- and C-terminal domains of RdRp: the former opens the genome duplex to isolate the template strand; the latter splits the emerging template-transcript hybrid, guides genome reannealing to form a transcription bubble, and opens a capsid shell protein (CSP) to release the transcript. These two "helicase" domains also extensively interact with CSP, which has a switchable N-terminal helix that, like cellular transcriptional factors, either inhibits or promotes RdRp activity. The in situ structures of RdRp, CSP, and RNA in action inform mechanisms of not only transcription, but also replication.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Capsid Proteins/metabolism ; Capsid Proteins/ultrastructure ; Cell Line ; Chlorocebus aethiops ; Cryoelectron Microscopy ; DNA Replication/physiology ; Models, Molecular ; Protein Domains/genetics ; RNA, Double-Stranded/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/metabolism ; RNA, Messenger/ultrastructure ; RNA, Viral/metabolism ; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/genetics ; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/metabolism ; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/ultrastructure ; Rotavirus/physiology ; Rotavirus/ultrastructure ; Transcription, Genetic/physiology ; Virus Replication/physiology
    Chemical Substances Capsid Proteins ; RNA, Double-Stranded ; RNA, Messenger ; RNA, Viral ; RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase (EC 2.7.7.48)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-05-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2553671-0
    ISSN 2041-1723 ; 2041-1723
    ISSN (online) 2041-1723
    ISSN 2041-1723
    DOI 10.1038/s41467-019-10236-7
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  10. Article ; Online: Proceedings of the 17th International Meeting on Fully 3D Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine.

    Huang, Chuan / Vaska, Paul / Gao, Yongfeng / Chang, Shaojie / Holmes, Thomas Wesley / Pourmorteza, Amir / Liang, Jerome

    ArXiv

    2024  

    Abstract: Contained within this volume are the scholarly contributions presented in both oral and poster formats at Fully3D 2023: The 17th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. This conference ... ...

    Abstract Contained within this volume are the scholarly contributions presented in both oral and poster formats at Fully3D 2023: The 17th International Meeting on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine. This conference convened from July 16-21, 2023, at Stony Brook University in New York. For ease of reference, all papers are organized alphabetically according to the last names of the primary authors. Our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all participants who took the time to submit, present, and revise their work for inclusion in these proceedings. Collectively, we would also like to express our profound gratitude to our generous sponsors, detailed in subsequent pages, who have played an instrumental role in offering awards and facilitating the various conference activities. Additionally, our thanks extend to the diligent reporter who collated invaluable feedback from attendees, which can be found in the pages that follow. September 7, 2023 Fully3D 2023 Co-Chairs: Jerome Liang, Paul Vaska, and Chuan Huang.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-31
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Preprint
    ISSN 2331-8422
    ISSN (online) 2331-8422
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