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Background Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) usually have fever and respiratory tract complaints; however, many report gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/nutlin-3a.html The frequency of GI symptoms ranges from 16% to 61%. Although COVID-19 morbidity and mortality are related to pulmonary disease, poor outcomes have been linked to GI symptoms. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the outcomes of COVID-19 patients who presented with GI symptoms. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study at Isra University Hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan, from April 2020 to October 2020. Results In total, 395 polymerase chain reaction-positive individuals were included. No differences in age or comorbidities were found. Of the 84 patients who needed intensive care unit admission, 17 had GI symptoms (P= 0.357). Moreover, GI symptoms were reported in 9/42 patients who required mechanical ventilation (P = 0.674) and 35/184 patients who required non-invasive ventilation (P = 0.029). GI symptoms were reported in 47/206 patients discharged on room air (without supplemental oxygen) (P= 0.549), 11/77 who died (P = 0.025), 2/11 who were referred elsewhere due to financial issues (P = 0.999), 7/32 who left against medical advice (P = 0.764), and 28/69 who were discharged requiring oxygen at home (P = 0.001). Conclusions Patients with GI symptoms had reduced odds of mortality, and increased odds of discharge requiring supplemental oxygen.A solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas is an uncommon neoplasm, characterized by a well-encapsulated mass, with low malignant potential. It occurs predominantly in young females. We present a case of SPT of the pancreas which presented with sinistral portal hypertension. Despite characteristic radiological findings due to its rarity, it may be missed to more common conditions like peptic ulcer disease. Delayed diagnosis can lead to complications like portal hypertension. To the best of our knowledge, in existing medical literature, SPT of the pancreas in males has rarely been described. In our case, we found that the tumor was causing extrahepatic portal hypertension which is also a very unique presentation of this tumor. Due to its vague clinical manifestations, definitive diagnosis is often a challenge hence requiring prompt investigations.Immune-mediated adverse events are commonly seen with immune checkpoint inhibitors like nivolumab. Oncology specialists usually have to screen patients for risk factors for autoimmune diseases, since immune checkpoint inhibitors can potentially exacerbate these events. Some of the immune-mediated side effects include polyneuropathies, colitis, and cutaneous adverse effects. Non-specific maculopapular rash, pruritus, lichenoid reactions, eczema, and vitiligo are the most common dermatologic side effects. It is thought that these adverse events are due to the blocking of the programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) pathway and are mediated by the cytotoxic T cells. Psoriasis has been previously reported as a side effect in a few case reports and most commonly presented as an exacerbation of preexisting psoriasis. However, de novo psoriasis occurrence as a result of nivolumab is a rare entity, especially in a non-melanoma patient. Here, we present a case of renal cell carcinoma treated with immunotherapy with nivolumab, who developed de novo psoriasis with palmoplantar involvement.Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B Streptococcus or GBS)is an exceptionally rare causative organism of a ruptured renal abscess. We report a case of this normally commensal organism causing a large ruptured renal abscess in a 17-year-old postpartum female. Although S. agalactiae is known to cause postpartum neonatal morbidity and mortality, it has rarely caused invasive infections in the last 20 years in adults. While this diagnosis often presents with nonspecific findings that can easily be overlooked during the postpartum period, the patient responded well to the established treatment of broad-spectrum antibiotics and a percutaneous drain.Malignant cells adapt to the hostile tumor microenvironment by escaping from, or actively suppressing, anticancer immune responses. In the past, we reported that reduced synthesis of active vitamin B6 (due to downregulation of pyridoxal kinase) or overactivation of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase confers resistance to chemotherapy with cisplatin. Recently, we found that these prognostically adverse alterations in oncometabolism also correlate with the rarefaction of immune effectors in the tumor bed.Although previous studies suggest that cancer cachexia is a poor prognostic factor for immune checkpoint inhibitor monotherapy, the impact of cancer cachexia on chemoimmunotherapy is unclear. We investigated the impact of cancer cachexia on the therapeutic outcomes of chemoimmunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We retrospectively analyzed patients' medical records with NSCLC who received chemoimmunotherapy in 12 institutions in Japan between January and November 2019. We defined cancer cachexia as weight loss exceeding 5% of the total body weight or a body mass index of less then 20 kg/m2 and weight loss of more than 2% of the total body weight within 6 months before chemoimmunotherapy initiation, with laboratory results exceeding reference values. This study enrolled 235 patients with NSCLC, among whom 196 were eligible for analysis, and 50 (25.5%) met the criteria for cachexia diagnosis. Patients with cancer cachexia had a significantly higher frequency of a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression of ≥ 50% (48%, p = .01) and shorter progression-free survival (PFS; log-rank test p = .04) than patients without cachexia. There was no significant difference in overall survival (OS) between the cachexia and no-cachexia groups (log-rank test p = .14). In the PD-L1 ≥ 50% population, there was no significant difference in PFS and OS (log-rank test p = .19 and p = .79, respectively) between patients with NSCLC in the cachexia or no-cachexia groups. Cancer cachexia might be a poor prognostic factor in patients with NSCLC receiving chemoimmunotherapy.Pulmonary sarcomatoid carcinoma (PSC) is an uncommon subtype of lung cancer, and immune checkpoint blockade promises in clinical benefit. However, virtually nothing is known about the expression of common immune checkpoints in PSC. Here, we performed immunohistochemistry (IHC) to detect nine immune-related proteins in 97 PSC patients. Based on the univariable Cox regression, random forests were used to establish risk models for OS and DFS. Moreover, we used the GSEA, CIBERSORT, and ImmuCellAI to analyze the enriched pathways and microenvironment. Univariable analysis revealed that CD4 (P = 0.008), programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1; P = 0.003), galectin-9 (Gal-9) on tumor cells (TCs; P = 0.021) were independent for DFS, while CD4 (P = 0.020), PD-1 (P = 0.004), Gal-9 (P = 0.033), and HLA on TILs (P = 0.031) were significant for OS. Meanwhile, the expression level of CD8 played a marginable role in DFS (P = 0.061), limited by the number of patients. The combination of Gal-9 on TC with CD4 and PD-1 on TILs demonstrated the most accurate prediction for DFS (AUC 0.
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