A best evidence topic in cardiac surgery was written according to a structured protocol. The question addressed was whether bilateral internal thoracic artery (BITA) coronary bypass increases the risk for mediastinitis. Using the reported search 140 papers were identified. Twenty-four papers represented the best evidence on the subject and the author, journal, date and country of publication, p...

Introduction There is still a paucity of studies exploring the impacts teenage employment on mental health and development. In many developing countries, youths participate intensively in labor force. The involvement adolescent world work would promote development responsibility prepare young person to function more effectively adult roles. Objectives purposes present study were examine separat...

Ecologists working with stable isotopes have to deal complex datasets including temporal and spatial replication, which makes the analysis representation of patterns change challenging, especially at high resolution. Due lack a commonly accepted conceptual framework in isotope ecology, graphical dynamics value organism or community scale remained past often descriptive qualitative, impeding qua...

PURPOSE To compare the prevalence of visual field loss, the sensitivity distribution, and the size and depth of glaucomatous visual field defects using the standard full threshold (FT) and the Swedish interactive threshold algorithm (SITA) standard (SS) procedures in patients with early or suspected glaucoma. METHODS Automated perimetry findings were retrospectively evaluated in 53 patients (...

Curcumin has gained immense importance for its vast therapeutic and prophylactic applications. Contrary to this, our study reveals that it regulates the defense pathways of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to enhance its pathogenicity. In a murine model of typhoid fever, we observed higher bacterial load in Peyer's patches, mesenteric lymph node, spleen and liver, when i...

PURPOSE To investigate the accuracy and precision of threshold estimates returned by two Bayesian perimetric strategies, staircase-QUEST or SQ (a Swedish interactive threshold algorithm [SITA]-like strategy) and ZEST (zippy estimation by sequential testing), and to compare these measures with those of the full-threshold (FT) algorithm. METHODS A computerized visual field simulation model was ...

Purpose The number of subjects needed to establish the normative limits for visual field (VF) testing is not known. Using bootstrap resampling, we determined whether the ground truth mean, distribution limits, and standard deviation (SD) could be approximated using different set size (x) levels, in order to provide guidance for the number of healthy subjects required to obtain robust VF normati...