OBJECTIVE To examine oral nutritional intake in the perioperative phase in elderly hip fracture patients treated according to a well-defined multi-modal rehabilitation program, including unselected oral nutritional supplementation, and to identify independent risk factors for insufficient nutritional intake. DESIGN Prospective, descriptive. SETTING A specialised hip fracture unit at the dep...

posed to have tlie right to exercise his discretion as regards fasting for a certain number of days, but it is no less than gross cruelty to experimentalise with dogs to ascertain how long they can live without sustenance. Such experiments, however, have been lately carried out in Paris, where Dr. Laborde laid a report before the Paris Zoological Society on the results of two cases carried on u...

introduction for decades, acetabular fractures were treated conservatively. judet et al. in 1960s established the operative treatment of these fractures by continuous improvement of pre-operative evaluation and classification of fractures. several studies demonstrated that accurate fracture reduction decreases the incidence of post-traumatic arthritis and improves functional outcome. conclusion...

a 32-year-old female patient with previous bentall operation and mitral valve repair surgery due to severe aortic insufficiency, mitral valve insufficiency, and ascending aortic aneurysm was admitted to our hospital with serious dyspnea, fatigue, and mild chest pain. two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated a markedly dilated basal aorta and cardiac chambers. thoracic computed tomography s...

context hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is a fatal disease. chronic hepatitis b virus (hbv) and/or hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection is the major cause of hcc. high viral replication rate and related hepatic/systematic inflammation are the major risk factors in hcc recurrence after hepatectomy or liver transplantation. evidence acquisition some of the carcinogenesis-related hbv mutations are als...

OBJECTIVE Haematological and biochemical measurements are performed routinely before surgery to exclude organ malfunction and blood cell and coagulation abnormalities. We aimed to test routinely obtained laboratory data as factors predicting operative risk. METHODS Between 1996 and 2003, 2198 patients underwent aortic valve replacement (AVR) (908 of them with concomitant CABG) in our institut...

introduction: tonsillectomy is the one of the most common types of surgery in children, and is often accompanied by post-operative pain and discomfort. methods of pain control such as use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids), narcotics, and local anesthetics have been used, but each have their own particular side effects. in this study we investigated the effect of ketamine on post...