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Diabetes Metab Syndr 2021 Mar 31;15(3):783-793. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Group, Department of General Surgery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

Background And Aims: This review aims to systematically map global evidence on foot-care knowledge and practices in relation to diabetes mellitus (DM) and identify areas that need further research.

Methods: Database searches were undertaken using Google Scholar, Medline (PubMed), Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost), and Medline (EBSCOhost). Studies were initially sought by title and focused on knowledge of diabetic foot ulcer burden. Read More

Sleep Med Rev 2021 Mar 13;57:101466. Epub 2021 Mar 13.

Department of Neurology, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria. Electronic address:

We sought to gain a better understanding of the relationship between epilepsy and sleep quality and daytime sleepiness by performing a literature search of PubMed for case-control studies that compared patients with epilepsy to controls and reported the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and/or the Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS). Study-specific mean differences in the PSQI and ESS between cases and controls were extracted from the publications and pooled using random-effects meta-analysis. Twenty-five studies (2964 cases, 5232 controls) were included. Read More

Cancer Treat Res Commun 2021 Mar 31;27:100363. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Background: The uterus is one of the most dynamic organs in the human body, and this dynamic homeostasis is supported by endometrial stem/progenitor cells (ES/PCs), which are heterogeneous in their phenotype and degree of differentiation. ES/PCs are generally localized in the endometrial stroma, the site of origin for adenosarcoma and endometrial stromal sarcoma (ESS). Subsets of ESSs and adenosarcomas harbor SUZ12 or DICER1 gene alterations, two genes with roles in embryonic stem cell biology. Read More

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2021 Apr 3;260:203-207. Epub 2021 Apr 3.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel.

Objective: The objective of this study was to compare surgical and short-term postoperative outcomes of transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) versus conventional vaginal (CV) uterosacral ligament suspension (USLS) surgery.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study was conducted on 135 patients who underwent hysterectomy with USLS via CV (n = 70) or via vNOTES (n = 65). Patients' baseline characteristics, surgical characteristics, and surgical outcomes were retrieved. Read More

J Neurol Sci 2021 Mar 27;424:117430. Epub 2021 Mar 27.

Rehabilitation Department, Mons. L. Novarese, Moncrivello, Vercelli, Italy.

The prevalence of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is higher than in the general population and its management can be particularly challenging due to a number of reasons including high recurrence rates, lack of MS-specific treatment guidelines and uncertainties about pain pathophysiology. Aim of this cross-sectional, multicentre survey was to gather information on the current treatment modalities and options of MS-related TN across 23 Italian MS centres. Initial medical management (carbamazepine or oxcarbazepine) of MS-related TN was fairly homogeneous throughout Italian centres. Read More