http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2013 None of the authors have identifie From the Department of Interve Texas Medical Branch, 301 Univ Department of Radiology (R.G.D.) North Carolina; Department of Rad New York, New York; Department Medical Group, Sacramento, Ca Department of Radiology (M.S.S.), Massachusetts; Department of R Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ventional Radiology (G.B.), Meir M...

BACKGROUND To analyze occupational exposures to blood-borne pathogens among workers of a 130-bed hospital of surgical profile in the Małopolska province. MATERIAL AND METHODS All cases of occupational exposure recorded in the hospital in the years 1998-2013 were analyzed, taking into account exposure rates (no. of incidents / no. of exposed workers x100%) and the frequency, circumstances, pro...

conclusion this study demonstrated that repeating the tfna procedure in pulmonary lesions improves the diagnostic yield without an increase in the rate of pneumothorax. objectives we aimed to investigate whether repeating ct-guided transthoracic fine needle aspiration (tfna) increases diagnostic yield and complication rate. patients and methods patients underwent tfna and the final diagnoses ac...

background: the aim of this study was to estimate the frequency and rate of the first 50 common types of invasive procedures in iran. methods: data about the number of all invasive procedures and each type of procedure that were conducted in iran in 2010 were collected using the main insurance organizations database. these numbers were sorted in an excel database, and the first 50 invasive proc...

the opportunistic mould aspergillus is a ubiquitous fungus. diseases caused by aspergillus species are most commonly caused by aspergillus fumigatus. the spectrum of disease caused by aspergillus is dependent on the health of the immune system. the ranges of illnesses individuals acquire are aspergilloma, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, invasive aspergillosis, sinusitis, otomycosis, oc...

conclusions if the indications and contraindications of minimally invasive thyroidectomy are taken into account, it seems to be a safe procedure and regarding the benefits of this procedure, it's recommended that surgeons pay more attention to this newly developed technique. introduction since 1996 with improvement of endoscopic instrumentation several novel minimally invasive techniques have b...

certain potato cultivars such as native potato species (nps) from the andes are known to have resistances to different pests and diseases. some accessions are also interesting from a nutritional and culinary perspective. a collection of 35 nps and 11 old spanish accessions were analysed for streptomyces scabies, rhizoctonia solani and globodera rostochiensis, as well as dry matter, reducing sug...

background: application noninvasive ventilation in the patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) reduced mortality. this case-control study was designed to compare efficiency and outcome of non-invasive (niv) versus invasive positive pressure ventilation (ippv) in respiratory failure due to copd methods: the patients were assigned to niv or ippv intermittantly.t...

In the fall of 2008, light was shed on the practice of syringe re-use occurring in western Canada (Government of Alberta, 2009). In this situation, syringes had been re-used between patients to administer sedating medication through patient intravenous (IV) lines (Government of Alberta, 2009). Later it was reported that other incidents of syringe re-use had occurred in Canada (CBC News-Edmonton...