BACKGROUND As an important means to tackle the worldwide shortage of liver grafts, adult-adult living donor liver transplantation (A-ALDLT) is the most massive operation a healthy person could undergo, so donor safety is of prime importance. However, most previous research focused on recipients, while complications in donors have not been fully described or investigated. MATERIAL AND METHODS To...

CONTEXT Metabolife 356, a multicomponent dietary supplement containing ephedra and caffeine (DSEC) in addition to several other components, is the top-selling dietary weight loss supplement. Given its common use, anecdotal reports of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular adverse events, and paucity of safety data, further research with this DSEC was warranted. OBJECTIVE To determine the impact o...

Aim: To do a dosimetric comparison between VMAT (Volumetric modulated arc radiotherapy) and 3DCRT (3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy) plans in pediatric abdominal neuroblastoma. Methods: 15 patients with high risk abdominal neuroblastoma, treated between January 2012 and December 2015, with 3DCRT were reviewed. For comparison purpose, VMAT plans were also made on the planning CT scans. Volum...

AIMS Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure are conditions that often coexist. Consequently, many patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) present with AF. We evaluated the effectiveness of internal cardioversion of AF in patients with an ICD. METHODS Retrospectively, we included 27 consecutive ICD patients with persistent AF who underwent internal cardioversion using...

background: left ventricular (lv) twist is due to oppositely directed apical and basal rotation and has been proposed as a sensitive marker of lv function. we sought to assess the impact of chronic pure mitral regurgitation (mr) on the torsional mechanics of the left human ventricle using tissue doppler imaging. methods: nineteen severe mr patients with a normal lv ejection fraction and 16 non-...

Left ventricular and left atrial volume, left ventricular ejection fraction, and left ventricular muscle mass were determined preoperatively and postoperatively in 13 patients who underwent surgical closure of ventricular septal defects in the first two years of life. Left ventricular end-diastolic volume and systolic output averaged 255 ± 19% (± SEM) and 240 ± 19% of normal, respectively, befo...

patients and methods in 382 subjects admitted in the emergency department (ed), we evaluated maximal (volmax) and minimal (volmin) la volumes and la emptying fraction (la-ef), from rt-3d images, with a semiautomated border detection program. a follow-up was performed in order to evaluate all-cause mortality and new hospital admission for cardiovascular events. objectives aims of this study were...

The developing lens is a powerful system for investigating the molecular basis of inductive tissue interactions and for studying cataract, the leading cause of blindness. The formation of tightly controlled cell-cell adhesions and cell-matrix junctions between lens epithelial (LE) cells, between lens fiber (LF) cells, and between these two cell populations enables the vertebrate lens to adopt a...

Cataract surgery is the most common elective operation performed worldwide (1, 2). The development of new technologies and new surgical techniques and materials lead to less invasive and day care procedures. This in turn encouraged an evolution on the ophthalmic anesthetic strategies, rendering general anesthesia largely unnecessary, so that local techniques have become preferred for cataract s...