Stent implantation into atherosclerotic coronary arteries releases particulate debris and soluble substances that contribute to impaired microvascular perfusion. Here we addressed the potential for microvascular obstruction in patients with stenotic native right coronary arteries (nRCA) compared with saphenous vein grafts on right coronary arteries (SVG-RCA). We enrolled symptomatic, male patie...

BACKGROUND Tuberculous lymphadenitis (TBLN) is the most common form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The cytomorphological features of lymph node smears have reduced specificity for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The diagnosis of TBLN with direct smear microscopy lacks sensitivity due to the limited number of bacilli in lymph node aspirate. Therefore, we aimed to assess whether the concentration...

BACKGROUND The clinical diagnosis of pertussis is not easy in early infancy since clinical manifestations can overlap with several different diseases. Many cases are often misclassified and underdiagnosed. We conducted a retrospective study on infants to assess how often physicians suspected pertussis and the actual frequency of Bordetella pertussis infections. METHODS We analyzed all infants...

Adult mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) obtainable from autologous bone marrow aspirates have generated tremendous interest in the medical and scientific communities in the last two decades and are currently being investigated by a of interested physicians for use in point-of-care stem cell therapies due to their great potential to differentiate into multiple cell lineages such as bone, cartilage, ...

Introduction: Hyaline Membrane Disease (HMD) remains a major cause of neonatal death and morbidity in infants less than 37 weeks gestation. HMD is an important RDS newborns. To evaluate whether the Gastric Aspirate Shake Test Preterm babies can predict likelihood Disease. Methods: The for prediction was evaluated 81 preterm newborns at NICU Nursery, Patan Hospital. Over 0.5 ml gastric aspirate ...

Cutaneous involvement is an unusual complication in brucellosis that has been reported to range between 0.4% and 17%. We here introduce a 40-year-old shepherd, who presented with two ulcerative abscesses in his lower left leg. Cultivation of the abscess aspirate was positive for Brucella abortus. The first titer of his serological test was 1/160, which subsequently rose to 1/640. In countries l...

PURPOSE Staging of the clinically N(0) neck in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) using ultrasound-guided, fine needle aspiration cytology (USgFNAC) has a false-negative rate of approximately 20% that might be caused by inaccurate cytology. Molecular analysis of aspirate residues might reduce the false-negative rate, and we therefore set up a quantitative reverse transc...

BACKGROUND Patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) have an increased risk for periprocedural complications and adverse cardiac events after percutaneous coronary intervention. We addressed the potential for coronary microvascular obstruction and restenosis in patients with and without DM undergoing stenting for saphenous vein bypass graft (SVG) stenosis under protection with a distal occlusion/asp...

Phospholipid analyses in tracheal, hypopharyngeal or gastric aspirates of premature infants have been performed in order to predict or to establish the diagnosis of hyaline membrane disease (HMD) [1, 2, 3, 4, 7]. The predictive value of solely measuring the lecithin/spingomyelin ratio (L/S) in these fluids is controversial. Few studies have included the detection of phosphatidylglycerol (PG), a...