No Medical Indication

No indication for DSA without prior ultrasound.

Circumcision: Case Against Surgery Without Medical Indication

Circumcision is the most frequently performed operation in the world. This circumstance is due to the fact that it is mostly performed for cultural and religious reasons in many countries. The controversies on whether or not it should be performed without a sound medical indication are immense, as is the spectrum of different opinions what actually constitutes such an indication, even in countr...

No indication of Coxiella burnetii infection in Norwegian farmed ruminants

BACKGROUND Infection with Coxiella burnetii, the cause of Q-fever, has never been detected in Norwegian animals. Recognising the increasing prevalence of the infection in neighbouring countries, the aim of the study was to perform a survey of Norwegian farmed ruminants for the prevalence of C. burnetii infection. RESULTS Milk and blood samples from more than 3450 Norwegian dairy cattle herds,...

Therapeutic angiogenesis: new indication for endothelial NO synthase gene transfer.

Evidence continues to accumulate on the importance of NO in angiogenesis.1–7 A number of angiogenic substances, including vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), stimulate production of NO in endothelial cells.8,9 In vivo biosynthesis of NO is essential for angiogenesis induced by tissue ischemia.3 Angiogenesis is severely impaired in ischemic hindlimb of endothelial NO synthase (eNOS)defici...

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