Dallas, Texas Background: There is a paucity of evidence within the plastic surgery literature concerning risk stratification and management of patients with respect to thromboembolic disease. A retrospective chart review was conducted to examine whether the Davison-Caprini risk-assessment model could stratify patients undergoing excisional body contouring surgery, allowing prophylaxis to be ma...

OBJECTIVES Validate a retrospective venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk scoring method, which was developed at the University of Michigan Health System and based on the Caprini risk assessment model, and assess the confounding effects of VTE prophylaxis. BACKGROUND Assessing patients for risk of VTE is essential to initiating appropriate prophylaxis and reducing the mortality and morbidity asso...

Houston and Dallas, Texas Background: To ensure that patients receive appropriate thromboembolic prophylaxis, other specialties have begun using risk stratification models. Because these models do not include plastic surgery patients, research must be directed toward exploring the risk associated with these operations. A systematic review of the literature was performed to address these issues....

OBJECTIVE To determine the number of hospitalized patients at risk for developing venous thromboembolism (VTE) / deep vein thrombosis (DVT), identifying the most common risk factor and to document the use of thromboprophylaxis. STUDY DESIGN Observational and cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Chandka Medical College Hospital, Larkana, from October to December 2011. METHODO...

We present a measurement of the differential shapes exclusive B→D*ℓν¯ℓ (B=B−,B¯0 and ℓ=e, μ) decays with hadronic tag-side reconstruction for full 711 fb−1 Belle dataset. extract Caprini-Lellouch-Neubert (CLN) Boyd-Grinstein-Lebed (BGL) form factor parameters use an external input absolute branching fractions to determine Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element find |Vcb|CLN=(40.2±0.9)×10−3 |V...

The fish yields of most Nigeria inland waters are generally on the decline for causes that may range from inadequate management of the fisheries to degradation of the water bodies. Sustainable exploitation requires knowledge of the ichthyofaunal composition in the water bodies. We did a survey of fish species in Anambra river basin for 22 months. Fish samples were collected using four different...