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BACKGROUND Parents' prenatal mental representations (i.e., thoughts and expectations) of their future child and relationship to that child have been associated with parenting and parent-child relationships after birth. OBJECTIVE To explore how prenatal care providers contribute to parents' mental representations of the baby they are expecting. METHODS Routine prenatal ultrasounds of 22 pregnant women recruited through prenatal care were observed. Detailed notes were taken using an adaptation of the "Observation of Routine Screen Form" (Boukydis, 2006). Data collection included interaction among parents and providers relevant to the relational, rather than medical, aspect of the exam (e.g., comments on the "personality" of the fetus, speculation about how the future baby will be like and unlike parents). Principles of grounded theory informed thematic analysis of the data. FINDINGS Providers varied widely in their recognition of the relational aspect of prenatal ultrasound and their interactive style. Through informal interactions during ultrasounds, providers alternately inhibited, amplified, and shaped parents' mental representations of their baby. KEY CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The manner in which providers narrate and interpret images has implications for parents' prenatal mental representations of the baby. Given the importance of prenatal representations for future parenting and parent-child relationships, providers should attend to and facilitate parents' efforts to develop their own mental representations and establish feelings of connection to the baby. BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent obesity increased in recent decades, and caregivers face an increasing number of obese pediatric surgical patients. Some clinical and pharmacogenetic data suggest that obese patients have altered pain sensitivity and analgesic requirements. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/merbarone.html OBJECTIVE To test the primary hypothesis that increased BMI in pediatric patients is associated with increased pain during the initial 48 postoperative hours. Secondarily, we tested whether BMI is associated with increased opioid consumption during the same period. DESIGN Retrospective single-center cohort study. SETTING Pediatric surgical wards in a tertiary medical center. PATIENTS A total of 808 opioid naïve patients aged 8 to 18 years having elective non-cardiac surgery with hospital stay of at least 48 h in the Cleveland Clinic between 2010 and 2015. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS Using U.S. Centers for Disease Control definitions for childhood weight classifications, we retrospectively evaluated the association between body mass index (BMI) percentile and time-weighted average pain scores and opioid consumption. We used multivariable linear regression to test for an association with postoperative pain scores, and multivariable gamma regression to test for an association with postoperative opioid consumption (in mg morphine equivalents Kg-1). RESULTS BMI was not associated with postoperative pain after general, orthopedic, or neuro-spinal surgeries. Pain increased by 0.07 [98.75% CI (0.01, 0.13), Padj less then 0.05] points per 5 percentile increase in BMI after neuro-cranial surgery. Higher BMI was associated with a decrease in postoperative opioid consumption (mean change [95% CI] -2.12% [-3.12%, -1.10%] in morphine equivalents Kg-1 per 5 percentile increase in BMI, P less then 0.001). CONCLUSION We found no clinically important increase in pain scores or opioid consumption in association with higher BMI in patients 8 to 18 years of age recovering from elective non-cardiac surgery. Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders including a wide range of infectious, inflammatory, autoimmune, etc. disorders. Inflammatory bowel and celiac disease are non-fatal but overwhelming GI associated disorders. IBD and celiac's complications, besides the great suffering, disturb the normal life of the patients and make them involved in mental and physical problems. The emerging role of genetic content is deniable for GI inflammatory disorders incidence, and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) function is the recent topic for its association. Analyzing of absolute lncRNAs interference in GI inflammatory appearance remains in infancy, and more studies are requested. Here, we concisely performed a systematic review in the last knowledge up to 2020 to identify all of the significant lncRNAs associated with the initiation and progression of GI inflammatory diseases. Accordingly, this assay attempted to refer to the expression of lncRNAs changing from the normal state, discovery of genetic mechanisms, and main effectors that would trigger associated IBD and celiac expression and immune responses would be effective for therapeutic approaches. It could be useful for prognostic and diagnostic purposes of GI associated inflammatory disorders. Twenty-seven derivatives (40-66) were generated by pharmacophore fusing of sulfonylacetanilide-diarylpyrimidine (1) with rilpivirine or biphenyl-diarylpyrimidines. They displayed up to single-digit nanomolar activity against wild-type (WT) virus and various drug-resistant mutant strains in HIV-1-infected MT-4 cells, thereby targeting the reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme. Compound 51 displayed exceptionally potent activity against WT virus (EC50 = 6 nM) and several mutant strains (L100I, EC50 = 8 nM, K103N, EC50 = 6 nM, Y181C, EC50 = 26 nM, Y188L, EC50 = 122 nM, E138K, EC50 = 26 nM). The structure-activity relationships of the newly obtained pyrimidine sulfonylacetanilides were also elucidated. Molecular docking analysis explained the activity and provided a structural insight for follow-up research. With population ageing, cancer treatments in elder patients is becoming a true public health care issue. There is an authentic dilemma between patient's frailty, residual life expectancy and the toll that take anticancer treatments. Since elder patients are almost always excluded from clinical trials, it is hard to get robust scientific data on the tolerability of oncologic treatments and to set in place recommendations. Cervix cancer is traditionally diagnosed in younger women but it has a 2nd incidence peak between 60 and 70 years old. Cervix cancer in elder patients is a subject to many questions in terms of screening and is a therapeutic challenge. This article reviews literature data on these different aspects, from screening to surgery, from radiotherapy to brachytherapy, from chemotherapy to supportive care, from immunotherapy to geriatric assessment. We tried to show how modern therapeutic innovations may benefit elder patients. Expected benefits in terms of efficacy and toxicity may overcome the long-lasting tendency to undertreatment in elder patients and improve their quality of life after cancer treatment.