BACKGROUND The standard treatment for acute aortic dissection is either surgical or medical therapy, depending on the morphologic features of the lesion and any associated complications. Irrespective of the form of treatment, the associated mortality and morbidity are considerable. METHODS We studied the placement of endovascular stent-grafts across the primary entry tear for the management o...

According to the latest update from the National Cancer Institute (February 1988), "the age adjusted mortality rate for all cancers combined except lung cancer has been declining since 1950 for all individual age groups except 85 and above."['] That represents a 13-percent decrease overall, 44 000 deaths below expected, and a 0.1-percent increase in the over-85 group (unless otherwise noted, al...

This paper extends a heterogeneous agent overlapping generations model by implementing bequests 2 both altruistic and accidental 2 and measures the degrees of time preference and parental altruism through the calibration of the model to the U.S. economy. In this model, a parent household and its adult child households behave consistently and strategically to determine their optimal consumption,...

Objective: To analyze the cases of eclampsia in a referral hospital, like GGS Medical College, Faridkot, with special focus on booked/unbooked/referred, age, parity and antenatal care. Also fetomaternal outcome was seen in all the cases. Materials and methods: All the cases of eclampsia referred from nearby rural areas, civil hospitals and CHCs sent here for specialist care were studied in this...

We reviewed the correlation between malignant cells in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (positive cytology) and pathologic findings at autopsy. The purpose was to discover: (1) the incidence of negative CSF cytology in patients with CNS malignancy, (2) the incidence of false-positive cytology, and (3) the relationship between a true-positive cytology and the distribution of malignant tumor at autopsy....

PURPOSE Whether addition of cilostazol is superior to increasing dose of clopidogrel in patients with hyporesponsiveness to chronic clopidogrel therapy is unknown. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 73 patients with hyporesponsiveness to clopidogrel on standard dual antiplatelet therapy for more than 2 weeks. Clopidogrel hyporesponsiveness was defined as percent inhibition of P2Y12 reaction uni...

Introduction Stand establishment is the first step in producing a good wheat crop, and most producers intend to obtain a uniform stand of wheat. However, intentions are not always the same as reality when it comes to wheat establishment. A study conducted in the early 1990s by the OSU Small Grains Extension Program compared producer perception of wheat seeding accuracy with actual field measure...

We sought to determine the duration of nosocomially acquired Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) oropharyngeal colonization following hospitalization for acute respiratory failure (ARF). We selected 24 inpatients recovering from ARF who had positive oropharyngeal cultures for GNB. Follow-up cultures were obtained at the time of hospital discharge, and 2 and 4 weeks afterwards. The prevalence of GNB col...