BACKGROUND Patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing cardiac surgery have higher morbidity and decreased survival. Recent data revealed that surgical ablation (SA) is performed in only 39% of these patients, with variability among surgeons. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of clinical presentation and surgeon experience when making the decision to treat AF concomitantly...

We examined the effect of 28 days of overload on mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) signaling in young adult (Y; 6-month old) and aged (O; 30-month old) Fischer 344 x Brown Norway rats subjected to bilateral synergist ablation (SA) of two thirds of the gastrocnemius muscle or sham surgery (CON). Although plantaris (PLA) muscle hypertrophy was at...

this study was conducted to assess the incidence of abnormalities of ventricular depolarization (late potentials) in children with sinus rhythm after open heart surgery and their relation to spontaneous ventricular tachycardia. open heart surgery, particularly operations involving ventriculotomy, may predispose patients to the development of ventricular tachycardia (vt) or ventricular fibrillat...

Acupuncture and related techniques have been shown to be effective treatments for acute and chronic anxiety. We hypothesized that auricular acupressure (AA) may relieve preoperative anxiety without undesirable side effects and might also decrease bispectral index (BIS) values before surgery. Forty-three women undergoing elective American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade I and II gynecol...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the risk of septic arthritis (SA) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treated with anti-tumour necrosis factor (TNF) therapy. METHODS Using data from the British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register, a prospective observational study, the authors compared the risk of SA between 11 881 anti-TNF-treated and 3673 non-biological disease-modifying antirheumatic...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the postoperative pain scores and morphine requirements between spinal anesthesia (SA) with hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% and general anesthesia (GA) with 1 Minimal alveolar concentration minimal alveolar concentration (MAC) of isoflurane in 50% N2O and O2 after elective lower abdominal surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this randomized clinical tr...

Spinal anaesthesia (SA) is widely used in day surgery because it is easy and cheap. But how cheap is SA really, when compared to modern general anaesthesia with short-acting agents? The aim of this study was to compare SA to three modes of general anaesthesia in terms of the total costs of anaesthesia during outpatient knee arthroscopy (KA). There were 173 patients scheduled for elective KA ran...

N Ferreira BSc, MBChB, FC Orth(SA), MMed(Orth), PhD LC Marais MBChB, FCS Orth(SA), MMed(Ortho), PhD C Aldous BSc, BSc(Hons), MSc, PhD 1 Tumour, Sepsis and Reconstruction Unit, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Grey’s Hospital, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal 2 Medical Research Scientist, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of Kw...

Salicylic acid (SA), which is central to defense mechanisms in plants and the principal metabolite of aspirin, occurs naturally in man with higher levels of SA and its urinary metabolite salicyluric acid (SU) in vegetarians overlapping with levels in patients on low-dose aspirin regimens. SA is widely distributed in animal blood. Fasting for major colorectal surgery did not cause disappearance ...

BACKGROUND Role of endoscopic sphincterotomy (ES) in high risk patients with choledocholithiasis is established but its role in good risk patients is unclear. DESIGN A prospective randomized trial of endoscopic sphincterotomy followed by surgery (ES + S) versus surgery alone (SA) in good risk patients with choledocholithiasis. SETTING A tertiary level referral hospital in north India; July ...