ABPM (ambulatory blood pressure monitoring) has been considered to be a useful tool for the diagnosis and management of arterial hypertension and is a better predictor of future cardiovascular events as compared with conventional office-based BP measurements. Despite its potential values, ABPM is not yet widely used in many clinical offices mainly because of lack of knowledge and unavailability...

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Background: Women’s College Hospital, Toronto, Canada, offers specialized ambulatory surgical procedures. Patients often travel great distances to undergo surgery. Most patients receiving ambulatory surgery have a low rate of postoperative events necessitating clinic visits. However, regular follow-up is still considered important in the early postoperative phase. Increasingly, telemedicine is ...

BACKGROUND Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Canada, offers specialized ambulatory surgical procedures. Patients often travel great distances to undergo surgery. Most patients receiving ambulatory surgery have a low rate of postoperative events necessitating clinic visits. However, regular follow-up is still considered important in the early postoperative phase. Increasingly, telemedicine is u...

Hypertension is highly prevalent in chronic kidney disease (CKD), particularly in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving hemodialysis. The identification and treatment of hypertension in CKD has to face peculiar problems because of the marked alterations in 24-hour blood pressure (BP) profile, in particular of a reduced BP dipping at night, and the high prevalence of specific hy...

Introduction: Incontinence and/or pelvic organ prolapse symptoms are prevalent in women in Australia, and the estimated healthcare cost is considerable. Internationally accepted best practice evidence supports a trial of conservative physiotherapy treatment with a physiotherapist trained in the management of pelvic floor dysfunction before surgical options should be considered. Existing referra...

BACKGROUND Case cancellation (CC) has significant impact on the efficiency of operating room (OR) management, which can be mitigated by taking preventive measures. In this study, using the data of the West China Hospital (WCH), we identified the effect of contributing factors and recommended hospital interventions to facilitate CC prevention. METHOD We conducted a retrospective review of 11,3...

Heart rate turbulence (HRT) is the return of heart rate to equilibrium after a premature ventricular contraction (PVC). It consists of a brief speed up period in heart rate, followed by a slow decrease back to the baseline rate. The concept of HRT was introduced to the medical community by Schmidt et al in 1999. While studying PVC characteristics researchers had noticed that heart rate seemed t...

Background: Histone deacetylation of tumor suppressor genes such as estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) can induce cancer, which is reversible by epi-drugs such as valproic acid (VPA). The previous result indicated that tamoxifen (TAM) induced apoptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study was designed to assess the apoptotic and antiproliferative effects of VPA and TAM and also the ef...