OBJECTIVE To evaluate human oocyte ability to undergo fertilization and subsequent preimplantation embryonic development in relation to a wide panel of follicular fluid (FF) arachidonic acid derivatives (AAD) and linoleic acid derivatives (LAD) of prospectively selected patients undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). METHODOLOGY Study was designed as a two center (a university cl...

Purpose: The purpose of this retrospective study was to compare the ability indirect 128-row multidetector CT (MDCT) venography and doppler sonography detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after knee or hip arthroplasty. Methods Materials: Replacement surgery performed on a total ten sixty-eight joints in 52 patients. evaluation presence DVT is degraded by beam hardening artifact; therefore, Axial ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to review the literature concerning upper extremity deep venous thrombosis (UEDVT) diagnosed by color Doppler duplex sonography (CDDS) in cancer patients with indwelling central venous catheters (CVCs). METHODS From computerized databases (MEDLINE and Ovid), relevant publications regarding CDDS of the upper limb veins in cancer patients with CVCs were r...

METHODS: During a 24-month study, out of 756 patients with acute ischemic stroke 33 (4.4%) were scheduled for early CEA. Endarterectomy procedures were distinguished according to the time between the onset of stroke and operation as emergency (within 8 hours), early CEA (1-18 days). Patients with impaired consciousness or an infarct larger than 2.5 cm on computed tomographic (CT) or magnetic re...

PURPOSE To describe and evaluate an application of sonography, transorbital color Doppler flow imaging of the carotid siphon and major intracranial arteries, and to compare it with transtemporal color Doppler flow imaging. METHODS The carotid siphon and major arteries at the base of the brain of 50 healthy volunteers were screened using the transorbital color Doppler flow sonography. These ar...