Background: Interscalene nerve blocks are commonly performed for surgeries of the upper limb. Assessment methods evaluation conventional and subjective. Aims Objectives: The aim study was to evaluate perfusion index (PI) as an objective indicator assessing successful ultrasound guided interscalene block. Materials Methods: This prospective, observational included adult patients undergoing limb ...

In adult protease inhibitor (PI)-experienced patients, a lopinavir (LPV) phenotypic inhibitory quotient (PIQ) of >15 has been associated with a higher likelihood of viral suppression. The aims of this study were to develop a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model of LPV in children and to estimate the probability of achieving a PIQ of >15. HIV-infected, PI-experienced children receiving LPV were...

OBJECTIVE Pancreatitis is an infrequent complication among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). It has mainly been reported for patients with pancreatic sufficiency (PS). Previous studies involved only a small number of patients because they contained data from single centers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of pancreatitis in a large heterogeneous CF population, to determine...

Recent work by J. Prades and myself on K ! is described. The rst part describes our method to connect in a systematic fashion the short-distance evolution with long-distance matrix-element calculations taking the scheme dependence of the short-distance evolution into account correctly. In the second part I show the results we obtain for the I = 1=2 rule in the chiral limit.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the type and frequency of biochemical lipid abnormalities and physical changes in body composition associated with the use of protease inhibitor (PI)-containing antiretroviral therapy among human immunodeficiency virus-infected children treated for up to 6 years. METHODS A retrospective study of human immunodeficiency virus-infected pediatric patients enrolled in res...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Poststroke infections (PSIs) worsen the outcome in acute ischemic stroke, but the effect of preceding infection (PI) is controversial. Data on young patients are scarce. We characterized PI and PSI in young adults with first-ever stroke and studied whether they are associated with 3-month and long-term outcomes, recurrent vascular events, and death. METHODS From our dat...

Houmard, Joseph A., Christopher D. Shaw, Matthew S. Hickey, and Charles J. Tanner. Effect of short-term exercise training on insulin-stimulated PI 3-kinase activity in human skeletal muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Endocrinol. Metab. 40): E1055–E1060, 1999.—The purpose of this study was to determine if the improvement in insulin sensitivity with exercise training is associated with enhanced phosph...

Several organs are affected in visceral leishmaniasis, not only those rich in mononuclear phagocytes. Hypergammaglobulinemia occurs during visceral leishmaniasis; anti-Leishmania antibodies are not primarily important for protection but might be involved in the pathogenesis of tissue lesions. The glomerulonephritis occurring in visceral leishmaniasis has been attributed to immune complex deposi...