BACKGROUND Bleeding is a recognized complication of native percutaneous renal biopsy. This study aimed to describe the incidence of major bleeding after biopsy in a single centre over a 15-year period and examine factors associated with major bleeding. METHODS We identified consecutive adult patients undergoing ultrasound-guided native renal biopsy in the Glasgow Renal and Transplant Unit fro...

BACKGROUND Patients with major bleeding who subsequently develop clinically apparent venous thromboembolism (VTE) present a particularly difficult therapeutic dilemma. METHODS RIETE is a prospective registry of consecutive patients with symptomatic, objectively confirmed, acute VTE. We retrospectively studied those who had experienced recent major bleeding (<30 days prior to VTE) to assess th...

BACKGROUND Consecutive use of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) is increasing. However, little is known about factors that predict the bleeding during consecutive use. The objective of this study was to analyse the possible factors which may predict the bleeding pattern during the first year of use of a second LNG-IUS. METHODS Fertile-aged women (n = 204) who had used...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the oral hygiene status of patients with fixed orthodontic appliances. METHODS AND MATERIALS The following indices were used to evaluate the oral hygiene status of patients in orthodontic treatment: gingival bleeding index (GBI), plaque index (PI), and ortho-plaque index (OPI). A self-administrated questionnaire was prepared covering oral hygiene prac...

OBJECTIVE An accurate tool with good discriminative for bleeding would be useful to clinicians for improved management of all their patients. Bleeding risk models have been published but not externally validated in independent clinical data set. We chose the National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) score to validate within a large, multisite communit...

Background and Objective: It is widely accepted that there is an association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and periodontitis. However, whether the periodontal status of the COPD patients is worse than that of the non-COPD subjects is seldom assessed. The findings currently available are inconsistent, some even contradictory. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to c...

Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the jaws and is more prevalent in obesity. Local and systemic oxidative stress may be an early link between periodontal disease and obesity. The primary aim of this study was to detect whether increased periodontal disease susceptibility in obese individuals is associated with local and systemic oxidative stress. Accordingly; we analyzed ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency gingival bleeding (GB) and associated drug-withdrawal in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients using oral anti-coagulants (OAC).&#x0D; Materials Methods: 457 with AF receiving OAC were screened. periodontal parameters 32 spontaneous GB compared without who matched for age, sex treatment protocol.&#x0D; Results: detected (7.0%) 13 these...