Background:Preoperative patient selection in Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein ligation for Staged hepatectomy(ALPPS)is not always reliable with currently available scores,particularly in patients with prima...
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Background:Preoperative patient selection in Associating Liver Partition and Portal vein ligation for Staged hepatectomy(ALPPS)is not always reliable with currently available scores,particularly in patients with primary liver *** study aims to(I)to determine whether comorbidities and patients characteristics are a risk factor in ALPPS and(II)to create a score predicting 90-day mortality ***:Thirteen high-volume centers participated in this retrospective multicentric study.A risk analysis based on patient characteristics,underlying disease and procedure type was performed to identify risk factors and model the Comprehensive ALPPS Preoperative Risk Assessment(CAPRA)score.A nonparametric receiver operating characteristic analysis was performed to estimate the predictive ability of our score against the Charlson Comorbidity Index(CCI),the age-adjusted CCI(aCCI),the ALPPS risk score before Stage 1(ALPPS-RS1)and Stage 2(ALPPS-RS2).The model was internally validated applying ***:A total of 451 patients were *** was 14.4%.The CAPRA score is calculated based on the following formula:(0.1×age)−(2×BSA)+1(in the presence of primary liver tumor)+1(in the presence of severe cardiovascular disease)+2(in the presence of moderate or severe diabetes)+2(in the presence of renal disease)+2(if classic ALPPS is planned).The predictive ability was 0.837 for the CAPRA score,0.443 for CCI,0.519 for aCCI,0.693 for ALPPS-RS1 and 0.807 for *** 1,000 cycles of bootstrapping the C statistic was *** accuracy plot revealed a cut-off for optimal prediction of postoperative mortality of ***:Comorbidities play an important role in ALPPS and should be carefully considered when planning the *** assessing the patient’s preoperative condition in relation to ALPPS,the CAPRA score has a very good ability to predict postoperative mortality.
Oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with more than 1300 species, represent one of the largest radiations of gall inducing insects. Many studies have documented galling species lists and richness, especially ga...
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Oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae), with more than 1300 species, represent one of the largest radiations of gall inducing insects. Many studies have documented galling species lists and richness, especially gall wasps, but few studies have been directed toward understanding how the gall-inducing species are locally distributed. In this survey, the oak gall wasps were collected from April to November (2009 and 2010) in West Azerbaijan of Iran. Among these collected galls, five species of oak gall wasps which belonged to the genus Neuroterus sp. were identified as: Neuroterus lanuginosus Giraud, N. numismalis Geoffroy, N. saliens Kollar, N. laeviusculus Schenck and N. quercus-baccarum Linnaeus. All of the galls in this survey are leaf galls. These galls were produced by the asexual reproduction and were collected in summer and fall seasons. The highest species richness was recorded in Ghabre-hossein and Vavan stations. Also, the highest density of gall formation was recorded at the southern direction. The multiple-sites similarity measures indicated that similarity in gall composition and community between collecting sites was generally between 0.57 and 0.90. The highest multiple site similarity was recorded between Vavan vs Rabat vs Dare-ghabr station. The authors showed that the very cold and humidity climate is not appropriate to Neuroterus species activity and the south direction is the best side for their survival.
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