background: in an attempt to reduce the risk of developing lymphedema following breast cancer surgery, some researchers suggested that by identifying and preserving the lymphatic plexus which drains ipsilateral arm we can minimize the risk of lymphedema. the procedure is known as axillary reverse mapping (arm). in the current study, we investigated the oncological safety of this technique. meth...

objectives: aim of this study is to investigate the initial effect of taping technique on wrist extension and grip strength and pain of individuals with tennis elbow. methods: fifteen patients (10 men and 5 women with 42.53 years) on their dominant arm participated in this study. outcome measures were wrist extension and grip strength and pain taken before and immediately after application of t...

Purpose: Shoulder/arm morbidity is a known complication of breast cancer surgery and radiotherapy (RT), but the consequences of choosing one RT technology over another for shoulder/arm morbidity are not clearly defined. In this work, we examine early breast cancer patients to compare the incidence of shoulder/arm morbidity, including breast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) of the arm, between c...

INTRODUCTION The 48-week interim analysis of the MODAT study showed that confirmed virologic failure (CVF) was more frequent in patients simplifying to ATV/r monotherapy compared to maintaining ATV/r-based triple therapy. The DSMB recommended stopping study enrollment but continuing follow-up of enrolled patients. We present the 96-week efficacy analysis. MATERIAL AND METHODS Multicentre, ran...

Sudha Ramasamy, Karthikesh.R, Manikandan.P, Padma Thiagarajan School of Electrical Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India. School of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore, India E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract The aim of this work is to transfer liquid contents from one micro cell to another using two stepper motors and a peristaltic pump. There are two objectives here. One...