evaluation of endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the years 2003 2008

... adherence' is defined by the patient missing one or more follow-up visits or refusing a re-intervention AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; EVAR, endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair; SD, standard ... rupture occurred in 22% of all patients (N = 38) The AAA rupture was fatal in 34% of these patients (N = 13) and non-fatal in 66% of these patients (N = 25) Interestingly, in 50% of the patients ... http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/317 use of terfenadine and astemizole in The Netherlands Pharm World Sci 1993, 15:212-218 Dillavou ED, Muluk SC, Makaroun MS: A decade of change in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in the United...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... induction of anesthesia Group B patients received their IABP in the operating room if fulfilling definitions stated above There was no failure of percutaneous placement of the IABP, while using the ... analysis and took part in the writing process QZB also took part in the correction of the manuscript according to the reviewers suggestions JYS and WLM had helped in gathering patient information and ... stability maintaining a CI greater than L/min/m2, with only minimal pharmacological inotropic support The same definition was used for termination of postoperative IABP for Group B Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... concomitant sepsis could increase these specific inflammatory mediators within the AAA wall further weakening the aortic wall, increasing the risk of expansion and rupture There is a documented ... noted in the left lung with extensive hilar lymphadenopathy Page of Figure CT aortogram demonstrating a rapid increase in the size of the AAA measuring 7.0 cm in the anteroposterior diameter There ... abdominal aorta, if there is no contiguous focus of infection [6] The expansion and change in fat around the AAA found on the repeat CT aortogram suggested inflammation or an impending leak In the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 02:21

... northern part of the Alborz Mountains and extend from Astara in the west of Gilan Province to Giledarreh in the east of Golestan province, and are about 800 km in length and 20 to 70 km in width (Fig ... analysis indicated that simultaneously with the increase in the total timber production during the studied period, the squared timber production in percentage declined (Fig 5a), but the percentage of ... first 10 years of study were approximately close to each other while in the second 10 years of study they were quite different from the first period Data analysis indicates that the percentages of squared...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... However, the role of biomarkers in the evaluation of patients in the ICU setting remains largely unexplored Because hemodynamic monitoring is a frequent theme in the evaluation of patients in the ... useful in that they may allow invasive monitoring to be avoided in some patients with heart failure inotropic agents (including norepinephrine [noradrenaline], phenylephrine, vasopressin, dopamine, ... shock, and to examine the role of NT-proBNP with other biomarkers in estimating prognosis in the ICU Cardiac hemodynamics (including cardiac index) were calculated using the thermodilution technique...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... variance in the hatchery, the larvae that were stocked into the James River tended to fully represent the genetic diversity of their parents through the point of stocking Data from the current ... EVALUATION OF AMERICAN SHAD testing Just as was done for the individual river collection Arich analyses, Pot1993 was not included in testing of Arich due to its small sample size The inbreeding ... supplementation along the Atlantic coast has a history dating back as far as the 1860s, and the proliferation of these hatcheries from the 1870s to the 1900s was due to the prevailing view of the period:...

Ngày tải lên: 04/09/2015, 12:43

... achieving haemostasis Duration of the operation was measured from the time of incision to the completion of skin suture The drainage Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Cardiothoracic ... then other methods were adopted as necessary The main outcome measured was time to achieve haemostasis at the suture line Haemostasis was defined as the time when the abdominal or inguinal wound ... infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) were randomized in the same center Mean age was 72.8 ± 6.1 years (range: 63-80 years) in the TachoSil® Group (Group I) and 72.6 ± 4.5 years (range: 67-82 years) ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... uvulo-palato-pharyngoplasty It also appears that clinicians are recognising OSA in their patients with increasing frequency In the USA there was a 12-fold increase in the annual number of patients diagnosed with sleep ... apnoea, episodes of apnoea occur during sleep as a result of airway obstruction at the level of the pharynx [4] The preponderance of evidence indicates that the pharynx is abnormal in size and/or ... revealed a history of disturbed sleep with multiple awakenings, snoring and feeling unrefreshed in the morning She would fall asleep frequently during the day A provisional diagnosis of Obstructive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:22

... change the outcomes The number of joints involved was as follows: joints were involved in 70% of the patients and joints were involved in 30% of the patients Bilateral involvement was seen in 79% of ... stimulating the facet joint capsule Surprisingly, they53 also showed that the introduction of physiologic saline into the zygapophysial joint reduced the stimulation pathway from the intervertebral ... intraarticular injections has been the inflammation of the joint This report consists of the 2-year results of the comparativeness of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks with or without steroids evaluated in...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:07

... coenzymes in the electron transport chain for respiration of microorganisms The major type of quinone contained in each microorganism depends on the features of the microorganism (Collins’ and ... knowledge or skills Thus, the quinone profiling has high affinity with analysts Moreover, quinone composition used in quinone profiling can achieve a qualitative evaluation of the biomass and biological ... was at the outlet point, the height of which was fixed during the observation period The water treatment apparatus was set just in front of the weir, and water levels in the paddy field and the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... through the coordinated use of a range of CORFO programs It combines training activities, innovation, infrastructure, technical assistance, and business and finance networking In 2001, the PTI financed ... whether they were currently participating in the program; (iii) whether they had participated in it in the past and, if so, in what year; (iv) the monetary value of the incentive; and (v) how they ... ongoing impact evaluations of different programs and other policy interventions Impact Evaluation of SME Programs in LAC The country studies included in this report add to the accumulating body of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... “other” HCUP category (no further information provided in the data dictionary) b Other category includes court and law enforcement, and routine, including “other” HCUP category (no further information ... mitigating this growth in the cost of adhesiolysis may be the continuing trend in the US toward minimally invasive and laparoscopic approaches, which may lessen the occurrence of postoperative adhesions ... Laparoscopic lysis of peritoneal adhesions 54.59 Other lysis of peritoneal adhesions 56.81 Lysis of intraluminal adhesions of ureter 57.12 Lysis of intraluminal adhesions with incision into bladder...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... packet of that request, and then these BS grants are placed into the corresponding individual BS grant buffer of SS i according to their order in the request Let the number of the BS grants in the ... schemes in IEEE 802.16 In Section 3, we provide the analytical model including the details of the capacity allocation and the uplink scheduling The analysis of the queueing model follows in Section ... Queueing System Analysis The individual polling slot for each SS in a polling cycle and the independent uplink scheduling for the individual SSs together imply that the statistical behavior of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... kind of connection available Indeed, most of the traffic in the Internet is TCP, furthermore, the CBR traffic usually used for UDP does not model at all the reality The choice of measuring the RTT ... 3-hop topology using MeshDV-CL The first line of Table summarizes the numeric output In the second set of tests, we turned on all the remaining nodes of the test bed and restarted the 3600 packets ... rely on the existence of these routes The core of the enhanced DV module is an IPv6 implementation of the DSDV [12] routing protocol, improved in order to collaborate with the other modules of MeshDV...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... depending on the anatomical location measured and the dimensions of the renal medulla were not able to be clearly defined due to the unclear borders of renal sinuses in the transverse plane, the ... to influence from the hypotensive effect from xylazine (used in this study) Otherwise, xylazine might minimally influence the RI in our study population, so that the mean RI was similar to others ... be avoided, since feline kidneys are extremely mobile In the dorsal plane, the correct measurement of renal width is problematic, because of the abundance of connective tissues in the renal hillus...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... age at the beginning of treatment was 56 years, the mean Karnofsky performance status 92% In the majority of cases the sarcomas were located in the lower extremities or the retroperitoneum The most ... control of the procedures CB was responsible for the evaluation of the patients' records, collection of the data, letters to the patients and the referring doctors, and the entry of the data to the ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MN was responsible for the design of the evaluation, checking the data, statistical evaluation, and writing of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Regardless of technique, however, the fundamental principle of neuroma surgery involves excising the injured nerve segment proximally to the level of grossly normal fascicles Yet the zone of injury of ... over the glenoid fossa and any remaining bony prominences using 4-0 polyglactin (Vicryl suture, Ethicon), and the skin incision was closed in a running subcuticular fashion using 4-0 polyglactin ... done in targeted reinnervation procedures, thereby making the “15 mm proximal” group in our study, in reality, 20 mm from the distal end of the neuroma The extent of retrograde degeneration of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... from clinical trials in order to define the activity and safety profile of this drug and its role in the treatment of GIST patients When these data are available, an interesting clinical evaluation ... with imatinib and everolimus In general our report confirms the effect of nilotinib in GIST treatment, and no further preclinical studies of nilotinib as a single agent or combined with imatinib ... line were reported by Chang et al with the evaluation of treatment response in the GIST 882 cell line by the reduction of phospho-AKT and phospho-S6 after imatinib and everolimus [26] In a clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... diameter of the aneurysm Clinical examination and imaging are essential to detect AAA The sensitivity of abdominal palpation [9] increases significantly with the diameter of the AAA In a pooled ... characteristic of arterio-venous shunting and/or aneurysm rupture [3] The typical clinical findings are abdominal, lumbar or flank pain, pulsatile abdominal mass with continuous abdominal bruit or ... rupture, either into the retroperitoneum or into the abdominal cavity Direct rupture into a nearby organ, such as the duodenum or the venous system, or the infra-renal vena cava, renal vein or the primary...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21