HDL-cholesterol levels were determined by a heparin-Ca precipitation method in 89 survivors of cerebral infarction (CI) (75 males, 14 females) and 14 patients with transient ischemic attacks (TIA) (8 males, 6 females). The mean values of HDL-cholesterol concentration and HDL:LDL-cholesterol ratio for both sexes of CI patients were significantly lower than those of the healthy controls (37 males...

BACKGROUND Access-related problems are one of the major causes of morbidity in elderly patients with chronic kidney disease. The aim of this study was to assess potential risks and benefits in elderly patients comparing forearm arteriovenous fistula (AVF) and perforating vein AVF below the elbow for primary vascular access. METHODS A retrospective comparison of elderly patients (65.7 ± 9.3 ye...

Akin to two people not speaking a common language (Fig. 1.1.1), ophthalmologists are unable to unambiguously communicate with each other if the terms they use to describe an eye injury are not standardized. If the terms used do not have straightforward definitions, practitioners cannot understand each other when discussing an ocular trauma case, nor can research be conducted, and its results pu...

The features that art assumes throughout the Renaissance are not only due to their practices and speeches but to a whole era of changes. We have taken the concepts of "dispositif" and "subjectivation" from the perspective of Michel Foucault because they are the theoretical support that will allow us to study, through a sociological approach, this process as a dynamic that includes a whole netwo...