BACKGROUND Cell therapy for myocardial infarction (MI) may be limited by poor cell survival and lack of transdifferentiation. We report a novel technique of implanting whole autologous myocardial tissue from preserved myocardial regions into infarcted regions. METHODS AND RESULTS Fourteen rats were used to optimize cardiomyotissue size with peritoneal wall implantation (300 μm identified as o...

The incidence of PTMC has been increasing in the recent years. This study aimed to investigate the diagnostic value of US-FNA in thyroid nodules ≤1 cm and whether the presence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) in thyroid could influence the accuracy. The patients who accepted US-FNA at FUSCC from December 2012 to November 2015 and followed our criteria were enrolled in this study. We extracted th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of the waiting time for elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) on the primary success rate. SETTING University hospital in The Netherlands. PATIENTS A cohort of 817 consecutive patients awaiting elective PTCA. Scheduled PTCA was performed in all 817 patients, involving 1237 coronary lesions. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES The relation betwee...

Abstract Background 200 million adults all over the world undergo noncardiac surgery each year, of which more than 10 develop MACE within 30 days surgery. Cardiovascular complications represent majority causes mortality and morbidity (incidence from 0.5% to 30%), especially myocardial infarct atrial fibrillation. Ecocardiographic patterns increasing size reduction ejection fraction (EF) related...

The 5' regions of genes xynB and xynC, coding for a xylanase and arabinofuranosidase respectively, are identical and are reiterated four times within the Pseudomonas fluorescens subsp. cellulosa genome. To isolate further copies of the reiterated xynB/C 5' region, a genomic library of Ps. fluorescens subsp. cellulosa DNA was screened with a probe constructed from the conserved region of xynB. D...

OBJECTIVE To examine patients' use of and satisfaction with the nurse-staffed Telephone Health Advisory Service (THAS) and physician after-hours care in a rostered Family Health Organization, as well as physicians' satisfaction with both types of services. DESIGN Cross-sectional telephone survey. SETTING A Family Health Organization in Hamilton, Ont. PARTICIPANTS Nineteen family physician...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare workers (HCWs) in low incidence countries with contact to patients with tuberculosis (TB) are considered a high-risk group for latent TB infection (LTBI) and therefore are routinely screened for LTBI. The German Occupational TB Network data is analyzed in order to estimate the prevalence and incidence of LTBI and to evaluate putative risk factors for a positive IGRA and ...

While public service professionals may rely on stereotypes and social categories in exercising who gets what, when how clientelist citizen-state interactions, it remains unclear whether negative judgments similarly pervade settings where citizens help produce–rather than consume–public services. We propose that judge volunteers as incompetent based (1) a lack of the skills necessary to solve sp...