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These results highlight the importance of addressing stigma as a way to foster healthcare seeking and minimize its impact on physical, mental health, and wellbeing.These results highlight the importance of addressing stigma as a way to foster healthcare seeking and minimize its impact on physical, mental health, and wellbeing.Sclerosing epithelioid fibrosarcoma (SEF) is a rare, aggressive soft-tissue tumor, commonly occurring in upper and lower extremities, the limb girdle, and the head and neck, which shows morphologic and molecular overlap with low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma. For SEF in soft tissues, 100 case reports have been published. To our knowledge, the present case is the first to be reported in English literature for a primary SEF of the stomach with a rare FUS-CREM fusion. We report a case of gastric SEF in a 35-year-old female who presented with nonspecific symptoms, including night sweat, cough, and iron deficiency anemia for the past few months. Further workup showed, on computed tomography, a large, heterogeneously enhancing and centrally necrotic left upper quadrant mass, which measured approximately 8.4 cm. A laparoscopic partial gastrectomy with distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy was performed. Histological examination and immunohistochemical staining suggested the diagnosis of primary gastric SEF, which was later confirmed by sarcoma fusion panel showing FUS-CREM fusion. In this article, we report this first case of SEF in the stomach with a rare FUS-CREM fusion, which has been previously reported only once in SEFs of soft tissue. To determine if image fusion will reduce contrast volume, radiation dose, and fluoroscopy and procedure times in standard and complex (fenestrated/branched) endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). A search of the PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases was performed in December 2019 to identify articles describing results of standard and complex EVAR procedures using image fusion compared with a control group. Study selection, data extraction, and assessment of the methodological quality of the included publications were performed by 2 reviewers working independently. Primary outcomes of the pooled analysis were contrast volume, fluoroscopy time, radiation dose, and procedure time. Eleven articles were identified comprising 1547 patients. Data on 140 patients satisfying the study inclusion criteria were added from the authors' center. Mean differences (MDs) are presented with the 95% confidence interval (CI). For standard EVAR, contrast volume and procedure time showed a significant reduction with an MD of dose was not significantly affected by the use of fusion imaging in either standard or complex EVAR.Extranodal NK/T cell lymphomas (ENKTCLs) are aggressive Epstein-Barr virus-associated T/NK neoplasms that predominantly affect Asians. To explore the causative somatic events, we conducted a comprehensive genetic analysis of 19 ENKTCL patients by whole-genome (N = 2), whole-exome (N = 16), and targeted sequencing (N = 15). Commonly deregulated gene pathways in ENKTCLs included epigenetic modifiers (58%, 11/19) followed by human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) and related genes including HLA-A, B2M, TAP1, CD274, and PDCD1LG2 (32%, 6/19), and JAK-STAT pathway (26%, 5/19). Conspicuously, loss-of-function mutations in HLA-A were recurrently identified in ENKTCLs (16%, 3/19). HLA protein expression was examined by immunohistochemistry in 16 patients and lower expression was associated with advanced stages at presentation (p = .007). In conclusion, the defective antigen presenting pathway is common and related to disease progression, suggesting immune escape as a pathogenic mechanism of ENKTCLs.Many interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are characterized by chronic progressive fibrosis. The antifibrotic agents may prevent disease progression of these diseases. Nintedanib is a triple tyrosine kinase inhibitor and has an antifibrotic effect. The proven beneficial effects of nintedanib in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated ILD, nintedanib was intended for use in many other fibrotic lung diseases consistent with the concept described below. With this trial, the concept and definition of progressive fibrosing ILD (PF-ILD) were created, a type of fibrosing diseases that progresses with fibrosis measured in forced vital capacity and high-resolution CT findings and worsening of respiratory symptoms at a certain rate or faster. PF-ILDs are composed of idiopathic interstial pneumonias such as non-specific interstitial pneumonia and unclassifiable interstitial pneumonia and inhalation lung diseases such as chronic hypersensitivity pneumonia and connective tissue disease-associated ILD such as rheumatoid arthritis-related ILD and SSc-related ILD and sarcoidosis and so on. Nintedanib significantly reduced the annual rate of decline in forced vital capacity over 52 weeks compared with placebo. Nintedanib received marketing approval in the United States and Japan for the treatment of PF-ILDs. This review summarizes the new concept of PF-ILDs and effectiveness of nintedanib to PF-ILDs and discussion points to be solved in the future when using nintedanib for PF-ILDs. This was a prospective, cross-sectional, comparative study that included 70 women with PCOS and 58 non PCOS controls. PCOS patients were diagnosed according to the Rotterdam criteria. Age, body mass index (BMI), number of menstrual cycles per year, and the Ferriman-Gallwey Score were determined for each woman. Serum levels of kisspeptin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), luteinizing hormone (LH), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), estradiol, total testosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate DHEA-S), AMH, fasting glucose and insulin were determined. Women with PCOS were younger (  < .001), with higher BMI (  = .027) and glucose values (  < .001); while displaying less number of menstrual cycles per year (  < .001). Although serum kisspeptin levels were similar in both groups, age was negatively ( = -0.33,  = .00018) and serum AMH levels were positively correlated (  = 0.25,  = .0039) with the serum kisspeptin levels in women with the PCOS. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/monocrotaline.html After adjusting for age, serum kisspeptin levels were comparable in both groups (  > .