Corresponding author: Soo Kyung Lee, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 896, Pyeongchon-dong, Dongan-gu, Anyang 431-070, Korea. Tel: 82-31-380-3945, Fax: 82-31-385-3244, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecom...

Introduction As the extent of forest fragmentation in­ creases worldwide, forest edges are becom­ ing an increasingly important feature in the landscape matrix (Harper et al. 2005). At forest edges, acidifying (N+S) and nitrogen (N) throughfall deposition are increased up to four times compared to the forest interior, and this edge effect decreases exponentially with increasing distance from th...

Thirty consecutive patients who had dis-location of the elbow without concomitant fracture andwho were sixteen years old or more were examined undergeneral anesthesia for stability of the joint at an averageof four days after the injury. All of the elbows showedmedial and sixteen showed both medial and lateral in-stabihity The patients were then randomly assigned tou...

Use of steroid biosynthesis inhibitors to suppress estrogen production is a logical strategy in the treatment of women with hormone-dependent breast cancer. The clinical availability of aminoglutethimide as an inhibitor of cytochrome P-450-mediated steroid hydroxylations prompted study of the precise pharmacological and biochemical effects of this drug. Pharmacokinetic studies revealed that ami...

Though angioplasty is an established technique for the management of coronary artery disease, there is still controversy about whether it needs on site surgical cover. The aims of angioplasty and coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of coronary disease are similar, namely to relieve symptoms and in certain groups to improve prognosis, at the lowest risk and morbidity. Because the de...

gical techniques in the last three years has been one of the most dramatic changes in the field of cardiology in some time. It is fair to say that although improvements and results are being published almost monthly in the cardiac surgery literature, these approaches are still in their infancy. Access to the heart through small incisions (8–10 cm) has received a lot of attention and many patien...

There have been rapid advances in medical and surgical therapy for ulcerative colitis (UC), including the widespread use of immuno­ modulators and biological agents, and routine application of restorative procto colectomy. Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch– anal anastomosis (IPAA) has become the sur­ gical treatment of choice for patients with medically refractory UC or colitis­assoc...

mortality following surgery of the collected series of Kilman et al was about 7%. In larger Background – Pulmonary aspergilloma has been treated surgically for many years single series reported by Jewkes et al and Daly et al the mortality following surgery was as but the mortality rates of larger surgical series, varying from 7% to 23%, is not high as 14% (seven of 49) and 23% (12 of 53), respe...

has come true. As Hieter and Boguski [3] have said, Introduction ‘... it refers to the development and application of global (genome-wide or system-wide) experimental We are facing a new era in molecular biology. The approaches to assess gene function by making use of complete DNA sequences of the genomes of many the information and reagents provided by structural organisms have been analysed. ...

I n this issue of CJS, Wright and colleagues 1 describe a refreshing strategy to develop standardized, comprehensive access targets for timely surgical care. This provides a timely opportunity to reflect on access to surgical care in Canada. Over a decade has elapsed since priorities for waiting lists were defined by the steering committee of the Western Canada Waiting List Project. Subsequent ...