BACKGROUND Preoperative assessment of functional capacity is necessary to direct decisions regarding cardiac evaluation and may help identify patients at high risk for perioperative complications. Patient self-triage regarding functional capacity could be useful for discerning which patients benefit from a clinician evaluation at a Preoperative Evaluation Center prior to the day of surgery. We ...

[Purpose] To evaluate treatments with interferential current, hot pack, ultrasound therapy, stretching, strengthening and range-of-motion exercises, comparing between the right and left shoulders in terms of pain and functional capacity in patients with frozen shoulder. This was a retrospective study. [Subjects and Methods] Sixty-four patients (34 right side, 30 left side) were treated with int...

AIM To assess whether levothyroxine treatment improves functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure (New York Heart Association class i-iii) and subclinical hypothyroidism. METHODS One hundred and sixty-three outpatients with stable chronic heart failure followed up for at least 6 months were enrolled. A physical examination was performed, and laboratory tests including thyroid ...

BACKGROUND Low back pain is an important public health problem that is associated with poor quality of life and disability. Among the electrophysical treatments, interferential current (IFC) has not been studied in patients with low back pain in a high-quality randomised controlled trial examining not only pain, but pain mechanisms and function. METHODS/DESIGN A three-arm randomised controlle...

a "super-set" fashion. One set of exercises for one body part was performed followed by a different exercise for the same area and this pairing was repeated on five occasions i.e. five super-sets per body part. The exercises were performed on a Universal Multigym, with which all four subjects were familiar and each subject did the same series of exercises. It is difficult to derive a formula to...

The exam lasts 120 minutes, and there is a total of 120 points. The maximal number of points for each question is indicated in parentheses. Your answers must be in English. Be sure to always justify your answers. Algorithms can be specified in high-level pseudocode or as a verbal description. You do not need to give every last detail, but the main aspects need to be there. Big-O notation is acc...

The exam lasts 120 minutes, and there is a total of 120 points. The maximal number of points for each question is indicated in parentheses. Your answers may be in English or in German. Be sure to always justify your answers. Algorithms can be specified in high-level pseudocode or as a verbal description, unless otherwise mentioned. You do not need to give every last detail, but the main aspects...

Xanthine oxidase (XO)-derived oxygen radicals are thought to play an important role in the intestinal injury resulting from ischemia and reperfusion. In vitro data shows enhanced XO activity in the presence of histamine. Histamine is known to be released during intestinal ischemia and reperfusion. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between histamine and XO in vivo in int...

We induced photochemical damage in small parts of the retinas of anesthetized macaques after light exposures of varying intensity, lasting between 10 min and 12 hr. Damage was assessed both with funduscopy and densitometry at several periods after exposure. Damage was most extensive 2 days post-exposure, with similar thresholds for both methods. Reciprocity between exposure time and irradiance ...

The sedative and selected cardiopulmonary effects of acepromazine alone or in combination with methadone, morphine, or tramadol were compared in sheep. Six ewes were randomly assigned to treatments: A (0.05 mg/kg acepromazine), AM (A plus 0.5 mg/kg methadone), AMO (A plus 0.5 mg/kg morphine), and AT (A plus 5 mg/kg tramadol). Parameters were assessed before sedative drug administration (baselin...