CONCLUSIONS: Pediatric nephrologists in medium-sized programs had the highest volume of clinical work and administrative support for transplant/dialysis/fellowship programs was often insufficient in many programs. These findings may inform strategies to support pediatric nephrology programs and enhance the care they provide.

The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, Second Edition (Y-BOCS-II) is an evidence-based clinician-rated measure for assessing the presence and severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms. The Spanish version of the Y-BOCS-II has not yet been validated. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Spanish Y-BOCS-II (Spanish-Y-BOCS-II) in adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) who are of Hispanic/Latino ancestry. The Spanish-Y-BOCS-II was administered to 1805 adults with...

Trained immunity is defined as an enhanced state of the innate system which leads to an improved immune response against related or non-related pathogens. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, a live attenuated Mycobacterium bovis strain, is currently one of the main inductors of trained immunity. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the protective effects of heat-inactivated M. bovis (HIMB) against Plasmodium berghei and Borrelia burgdorferi and characterize the immunological...

CONCLUSION: A total of 11 cases, including ours, have appropriate S-100 immunochemical reactivity to confirm malignant transformation. Due to the limited number of reported cases of MPNST arising from VS without prior irradiation, information regarding pathogenesis and pathological diagnosis is scarce. We provide valuable additions to the literature, including next-generation sequencing data, to identify potentially targetable genetic changes and help elucidate the pathogenesis of MPNST.

This report describes the case of a 79-year-old man admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and treated with long-acting nebulized bronchodilators, arformoterol and revefenacin. This article aimed to assess the use of long-acting nebulized bronchodilators in an older adult with acute respiratory failure. The institutional setting was a 500-bed academic medical center in the southern US. Arformoterol is a...