BackgroundThis meta-analysis was performed to evaluate the effect of Seprafilm® on postoperative small bowel obstruction.MethodsA literature search conducted in PubMed and EMBASE databases through August 2020. The pooled risk ratios as well corresponding 95% confidence intervals were calculated using RevMan 5.3 software.ResultsA total 9 clinical control trials involving 4,351 patients (2,123 gr...

We obtained 22 sessile serrated adenomas (SSAs) and 19 hyperplastic polyps (HPs) and performed immunolabeling for cytokeratins (CKs) 7 and 20, CDX2, beta-catenin, and p53 to determine the role of these markers in aiding distinction of lesions with neoplastic potential. Patients with SSAs more frequently had a prior or coexistent tubular adenoma (P = .004) that was right-sided (P = .00001) and l...

Citation: Aziz W (2014) Evolution of Neuro-Endovascular Surgery from Serendipity and Sagacity to Evidence Based Medicine, History and Future Directions. J Neurol Stroke 1(1): 00001. DOI: 10.15406/jnsk.2014.01.00001 The most common disorders affecting the cerebral circulation are strokes. Stroke is one of the leading causes of permanent disability, and is the third largest cause of death in west...

Background: In 1988, the aspirin component of the Physicians’ Health Study, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 22071 apparently healthy men was terminated early, due principally to a statistically extreme (P .00001) 44% reduction in the risk of a first myocardial infarction (MI). The Cardio-Renal Drugs Advisory Committee recommended that the US Food and Drug Administration ...

My interest in this general subject started in 1981 when I had a telephone call from Iceland from a doctor there who had worked with me in the Aberdeen Diabetic Clinic for 1.5 years. Since returning to Iceland, where he was responsible for the Diabetic Service he had completed a meticulous survey of all the insulin-dependent patients in the population of just under 0.25 million people. On analy...

Thirty-four antinuclear antibody (ANA) positive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) sera were tested for antibodies to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) simultaneously using Farr, haemagglutination, Crithidia luciliae (CL) kinetoplast fluorescence and human metaphase chromosome fluorescence assays. Significant correlation (p less than 0 x 05) was found between the Farr and CL assays, with the two fluo...

We analyzed data from 68 consecutive patients with congestive cardiomyopathy to evaluate the prognostic significance of quantitative morphologic findings in left ventricular myocardium as compared with the prognostic significance of left ventricular hemodynamics. Left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy specimens were obtained from all patients during diagnostic heart catheterization. Myocardial ...