Pentoxifylline: Evidence strong enough for renoprotection?

Diabetic nephropathy: evidence for renoprotection and practice.

Patients with diabetic renal disease have a very bad prognosis. Hyperfiltration, related to poor metabolic control, occurs early on in the disease process. There is also an increase in albumin excretion which can be readily reversed by eVective glycaemic control at clinical diagnosis (fig 1). A phase is then entered during which most patients are normoalbuminuric. However, after approximately 1...

Is the evidence behind platelet-rich plasma therapies strong enough?

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is obtained from a patient’s own peripheral blood, after centrifuging it, and has growth factors.[1] There are clinical studies indicating that PRP therapy may enhance muscle or tendon healing, and it accelerates the tissue regeneration after musculoskeletal injuries such as strain or contusion, during sports activities.[1,2] The application of these products is docum...

Superstrong Is Strong Enough

A supersimple theory eliminates hyperimaginaries. In particular, in a supersimple theory Lascar strong type is the same as strong type, and every strong type has a canonical base in C . It follows that the Amalgamation Theorem (Independence Theorem) holds for types over algebraically closed sets.

Action on ralph not strong enough.

Your editorial on the troubles at the UKCC was most welcome (September 14). As someone who relies on Nursing Standard for news and information on current affairs in nursing it is my opinion that your coverage of events has been most restrained.

Game Logic is Strong Enough for Parity Games