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We have read the debate on peritoneal closure by Cheong et al. with interest (Cheong et al., 2001). The authors state that the long term benefits and hazards of non-closure of the peritoneum are unknown, and expect adhesion related problems. Among the various outcome measures concerning long-term morbidity, adhesion formation/reformation is probably one of the most important ones. The presence ...

during the last two decades conventional therapy has improved the prognosis of thalassemia. however, despite such improvement it still remains a progressive disease with treatment-related complications such as hepatitis, liver fibrosis, and cardiac disease. bone marrow transplantation (bmt) can prevent or delay progression of the aforementioned complications. the importance of clinical research...

for anemia in chronic kidney disease: problems and solutions. A position statement from Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO). Kidney Int 2008; 74: 1237–1240 11. Locatelli F, Del Vecchio L, Casartelli D. Darbepoetin alfa and chronic kidney disease. N Engl J Med 2010; 362: 654–655 12. Szczech LA, Barnhart HX, Inrig JK et al. Secondary analysis of the CHOIR trial epoetin-alpha dose an...

Galaxy cluster gas mass fraction versus redshift data (Allen et al. 2004) and Hubble parameter versus redshift data (Simon et al. 2005) are used to jointly constrain dark energy models. These constraints favor the Einstein cosmological constant limit of dark energy but do not strongly rule out slowly-evolving dark energy. Subject headings: cosmology: cosmological parameters — cosmology: observa...

This paper begins a series studying D-modules on the Feigin-Frenkel semi-infinite flag variety from the perspective of the Beilinson-Drinfeld factorization (or chiral) theory. Here we calculate Whittaker-twisted cohomology groups of Zastava spaces, which are certain finite-dimensional subvarieties of the affine Grassmannian. We show that such cohomology groups realize the nilradical of a Borel ...

Two groups of participants attempted eight examples of each of four different problem types formed by combining insight versus non-insight and verbal versus spatial factors. The groups were given different verbalization instructions viz., Silent (N=40) or Direct Concurrent (N=40). There were significant differences between insight and non-insight tasks and between spatial and verbal tasks in te...

the surface sediment samples were analyzed for grain size carbonates (caco3) and organic carbon (oc) to obtain a preliminary view of its environmental conditions near point calimere along the southeast coast of vedaranyam, india. the total concentrations of major elements namely, si, al, fe, ca, mg, na, k and p in the surface sediments of vedaranyam coast are estimated. the element/al ratios al...

of the NEPHRIC trial (n = 129 patients), which shows a smaller incidence of contrast-induced nephropathy by using iso-osmolar contrast media [2]. However, we also have not changed our routine daily clinical approach in 2008 by using the low-osmolar contrast media, because the published results were conflicting in the last 2 years. In our paper, we emphasized these conflicting results concerning...