Which criteria should be used to select patients for the Fontan operation?

Reconsideration of Criteria for the Fontan Operation

Background The outcome of the Fontan operation largely depends on patient selection because this procedure is a physiological correction. Among the several selection criteria for the Fontan operation, the importance of adequate size of the pulmonary artery remains controversial. To clarify whether or not pulmonary artery size is indispensable as one of the selection criteria for the Fontan oper...

Which treatment option should be used?

Which criteria should be used to define type 2 diabetes remission after bariatric surgery?

BACKGROUND Comparison of diabetes remission rates after bariatric surgery using two different models of criteria. METHODS Retrospective analysis of data from 110 patients with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity who underwent bariatric surgery, preoperatively and at 18-month follow-up. Comparison of two models of remission: 1) 2009 consensus statement criteria; 2) simple criteria using ADA's H...

What criteria should be used to assess troponin assays?

E. Smith has pointed out that the use of cryocrit in the investigation of cryoglobulinemia has analytical and clinical limitations, an observation with which we concur in general. The emphasis of our case study, however, was not to make a judgment on which technique should be used, but rather to focus on the importance of including cryoglobulin analysis in the differential and to address the ne...

Which Graphical Approaches should be Used to Represent Medical Knowledge?

Medical knowledge is growing both in quantity and complexity. Although sources of medical knowledge have been digitalized, the way the knowledge they contain is presented to users has not changed and is still highly text-based. However, it has been shown that this information could be presented more efficiently using graphical approaches, such as graphical languages and information visualizatio...