Medical and Biomedical Researches

Is it More Difficult to Cannulate the Right Internal Jugular Vein in Morbidly Obese Patients than in

June 27th, 2008
Is it More Difficult to Cannulate the Right Internal Jugular Vein in Morbidly Obese Patients than in Nonobese Patients? BACKGROUND: The placement of an internal jugular vein (IJV) catheter is considered to be more difficult in morbidly obese patients. The objective of this study was to ...

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Assessment of the Relationship Between Post-meal Satiety, Gastric Volume and Gastric Emptying After

June 27th, 2008
Assessment of the Relationship Between Post-meal Satiety, Gastric Volume and Gastric Emptying After Swedish Adjustable Gastric Banding. A Pilot Study Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess Postsurgery Gastric Function. BACKGROUND: Swedish adjustable gastric banding (SAGB) is a common weight loss procedure performed worldwide. The exact mechanism ...

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Prophylactic Closure of Trocar Orifices with an Intraperitoneal Mesh (Ventralex(R)) in Laparoscopic

June 27th, 2008
Prophylactic Closure of Trocar Orifices with an Intraperitoneal Mesh (Ventralex(R)) in Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery. Laparoscopic surgery reduces, but not eliminates, the rate of incisional hernia. It is accepted that large trocar orifices should be sutured, in order to prevent future herniation. In morbidly obese patients, the ...

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Preoperative Endoscopic Screening for Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass has a Low Yield for Anat

June 27th, 2008
Preoperative Endoscopic Screening for Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass has a Low Yield for Anatomic Findings. BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y bariatric surgery undergo screening esophagoduodenoscopy (EGD) during preoperative evaluation. The hypothesis is to examine the utility of this examination. The purpose of this study was to ...

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Empathy and Life Support Decisions in Intensive Care Units.

June 27th, 2008
Empathy and Life Support Decisions in Intensive Care Units. BACKGROUND: Although experts advocate that physicians should express empathy to support family members faced with difficult end-of-life decisions for incapacitated patients, it is unknown whether and how this occurs in practice. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether clinicians express ...

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Are Patient Safety Indicators Related to Widely Used Measures of Hospital Quality?

June 27th, 2008
Are Patient Safety Indicators Related to Widely Used Measures of Hospital Quality? CONTEXT: Patient safety indicators (PSIs) are screening tools that use administrative data to identify potential complications of care and are being increasingly used as measures of hospital safety. It is unknown whether PSIs are ...

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The Impact of Pre-existing Heart Failure on Pneumonia Prognosis: Population-based Cohort Study.

June 27th, 2008
The Impact of Pre-existing Heart Failure on Pneumonia Prognosis: Population-based Cohort Study. BACKGROUND: There are limited data describing how pre-existing heart failure affects mortality following pneumonia. OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between history and severity of heart failure and mortality among patients hospitalized for pneumonia. DESIGN: ...

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Health-related Quality of Life Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in Post-menopausal Wom

June 27th, 2008
Health-related Quality of Life Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in Post-menopausal Women. OBJECTIVES: To describe the impact of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery on health related quality of life (HRQOL) in post-menopausal women. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Women enrolled in the Heart and ...

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Sentinel Node Concept in Clinically N0 Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer.

June 27th, 2008
Sentinel Node Concept in Clinically N0 Laryngeal and Hypopharyngeal Cancer. BACKGROUND: Sentinel nodes (SNs) are the lymph nodes that directly receive lymphatic flow from a primary cancer lesion. The SN concept implies that lymphatic metastasis initially occurs at SNs. SN navigation surgery can be introduced for ...

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Simplified Technique of Radioguided Occult Lesion Localization (ROLL) Plus Sentinel Lymph Node Biops

June 27th, 2008
Simplified Technique of Radioguided Occult Lesion Localization (ROLL) Plus Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SNOLL) in Breast Carcinoma. BACKGROUND: Radioguided occult lesion localization (ROLL) is a new technique to detect nonpalpable breast tumors. We report our experience using injection of a single radiotracer to localize occult lesions ...

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Topography of Auditory Nerve Projections to the Cochlear Nucleus in Cats after Neonatal Deafness and

June 27th, 2008
Topography of Auditory Nerve Projections to the Cochlear Nucleus in Cats after Neonatal Deafness and Electrical Stimulation by a Cochlear Implant. We previously reported that auditory nerve projections from the cochlear spiral ganglion (SG) to the cochlear nucleus (CN) exhibit clear cochleotopic organization in adult cats ...

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EST and Mitochondrial DNA Sequences Support a Distinct Pacific Form of Salmon Louse, Lepeophtheirus

June 27th, 2008
EST and Mitochondrial DNA Sequences Support a Distinct Pacific Form of Salmon Louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis. Nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid sequences from approximately 15,000 salmon louse expressed sequence tags (ESTs), the complete mitochondrial genome (16,148bp) of salmon louse, and 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) and cytochrome oxidase subunit ...

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Standard Values of Maximum Tongue Pressure Taken Using Newly Developed Disposable Tongue Pressure Me

June 27th, 2008
Standard Values of Maximum Tongue Pressure Taken Using Newly Developed Disposable Tongue Pressure Measurement Device. It is clinically important to evaluate tongue function in terms of rehabilitation of swallowing and eating ability. We have developed a disposable tongue pressure measurement device designed for clinical use. In ...

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In Vitro Assembly of [Fe(4)S (4)] Cluster in High Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein from Acidithiobacill

June 27th, 2008
In Vitro Assembly of [Fe(4)S (4)] Cluster in High Potential Iron-Sulfur Protein from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. High-potential iron-sulfur protein (HiPIP) has been proposed to be involved in the iron respiratory electron transport chain in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, which contains an [Fe(4)S(4)] cluster. We report here the assembly of ...

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Flow Cytometry as a Rapid Test for Detection of Penicillin Resistance Directly in Bacterial Cells in

June 27th, 2008
Flow Cytometry as a Rapid Test for Detection of Penicillin Resistance Directly in Bacterial Cells in Enterococcus faecalis and Staphylococcus aureus. We studied the usefulness of flow cytometry for detection of penicillin resistance in E. faecalis and S. aureus by direct binding of commercially available fluorescent ...

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Generation and Comparison of Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Bacillus licheniformis.

June 27th, 2008
Generation and Comparison of Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Bacillus licheniformis. The environmental bacterium Bacillus licheniformis was transformed with two different shuttle-vectors (pCSS810 and pGFPratiometric) containing insect luciferase and green fluorescent protein genes, respectively. The cells were treated with various antimicrobial agents and the emitted bioluminescence and fluorescence ...

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Percutaneous Management of Biliary Strictures After Pediatric Liver Transplantation.

June 27th, 2008
Percutaneous Management of Biliary Strictures After Pediatric Liver Transplantation. We analyze our experience with the management of biliary strictures (BSs) in 27 pediatric patients who underwent liver transplantation with the diagnosis of BS. Mean recipient age was 38 months (range, 2.5-182 months). In all patients percutaneous ...

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Spontaneous Subclavian Artery Dissection Causing Ischemia of the Arm: Diagnosis and Endovascular Man

June 27th, 2008
Spontaneous Subclavian Artery Dissection Causing Ischemia of the Arm: Diagnosis and Endovascular Management. Spontaneous subclavian artery dissections are rare, with very few cases described in the literature. We report an unusual case of a 62-year-old female who presented with ischemia of the left arm secondary to ...

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Uterine Artery Embolization for Ureteric Obstruction Secondary to Fibroids.

June 27th, 2008
Uterine Artery Embolization for Ureteric Obstruction Secondary to Fibroids. This case series examines the safety and efficacy of uterine artery embolization (UAE) in the treatment of obstructive nephropathy caused by large fibroids. Between 2004 and 2007, 10 patients referred with symptomatic uterine fibroids that were found ...

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High-Flow Renal Arteriovenous Fistula Treated with the Amplatzer Vascular Plug: Implementation of an

June 27th, 2008
High-Flow Renal Arteriovenous Fistula Treated with the Amplatzer Vascular Plug: Implementation of an Arterial and Venous Approach. We present a 28-year-old man with a large symptomatic arteriovenous fistula (AVF) treated with embolization using the Amplatzer vascular plug (AVP). Although embolization may be considered the first-line therapy ...

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Acute Care Surgeon South American Model.

June 27th, 2008
Acute Care Surgeon South American Model. BACKGROUND: In the World Health Organization book by Murray and Lopez (The Global Burden of Disease), the authors make the point that there are major regional differences across the world for death from injury. In the European market economies, injuries ...

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Scenario Modeling Potential Eco-Efficiency Gains from a Transition to Organic Agriculture: Life Cycl

June 27th, 2008
Scenario Modeling Potential Eco-Efficiency Gains from a Transition to Organic Agriculture: Life Cycle Perspectives on Canadian Canola, Corn, Soy, and Wheat Production. We used Life Cycle Assessment to scenario model the potential reductions in cumulative energy demand (both fossil and renewable) and global warming, acidifying, and ...

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Use of Standardized Visual Assessments of Riparian and Stream Condition to Manage Riparian Bird Habi

June 27th, 2008
Use of Standardized Visual Assessments of Riparian and Stream Condition to Manage Riparian Bird Habitat in Eastern Oregon. The importance of riparian vegetation to support stream function and provide riparian bird habitat in semiarid landscapes suggests that standardized assessment tools that include vegetation criteria to evaluate ...

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Modified Pitanguy Technique for Intraoperative Symmetrical Localization of Nipple-Areola Complex.

June 27th, 2008
Modified Pitanguy Technique for Intraoperative Symmetrical Localization of Nipple-Areola Complex. A symmetrical result at the end of a breast reduction is important for patient satisfaction. It can be made challenging by existing asymmetries in the patient\'s body. Preoperative markings serve only as a guideline to the ...

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Is screening for urinary porphobilinogen useful among patients with acute polyneuropathy or encephal

June 27th, 2008
Is screening for urinary porphobilinogen useful among patients with acute polyneuropathy or encephalopathy? Acute porphyrias are a group of inherited metabolic disorders representing overproduction syndromes with the formation of neurotoxic haem precursors. Clinical manifestations consist of acute attacks, which include abdominal pain, dysautonomia, mental symptoms, polyneuropathy ...

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