BACKGROUND Atrial septal defect (ASD) accounts for 10% of all congenital heart lesions and represent the third most congenital cardiac defect seen in adults. Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is an important regulator of the sodium and volume homeostasis. This study was designed to investigate the changes in plasma ANP concentrations and three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) measurements of c...

PURPOSE To assess the rate of clinically significant angle closure in a predominantly Caucasian, clinic-based population, and consequently find out whether gonioscopy should be included in the routine ophthalmic examination. METHODS Patients aged ≥40 years with hyperopia ≥1 D were consecutively recruited in a community general ophthalmology clinic. Detailed darkroom gonioscopy was done, and p...

UNLABELLED Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a frequent syndrome characterized by intermittent hypoxemia and increased prevalence of arterial hypertension and cardiovascular morbidity. In OSA, the presence of patent foramen ovale (PFO) is associated with increased number of apneas and more severe oxygen desaturation. We hypothesized that PFO closure improves sleep-disordered breathing and, in tu...

OBJECTIVE Sternal dehiscence is commonly due to wire cutting through bone. With a biological model, we measured the rate of cutting through bone, of standard steel wire closure, peristernal steel wire, figure-of-eight closure, polyester and sternal bands sternotomy closure techniques. METHODS Polyester, figure-of-eight, peristernal and sternal band closures were tested against standard closur...

This paper deals with a question regarding tight closure in characteristic zero which we now review. Let R be a commutative ring of prime characteristic p and let I ⊆ R be an ideal. Recall that for e ≥ 0, the e-th Frobenius power of I, denoted I [p e], is the ideal of R generated by all p-th powers of elements in I. We say that f ∈ I∗, the tight closure of I, if there exists a c not in any mini...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to understand the reason for variation in the sensitivity of different methods of detecting right-to-left shunts (RLS). BACKGROUND Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is implicated in the pathogenesis of cryptogenic stroke, decompression illness, and migraine headaches. Intravenous agitated saline injections with tomographic imaging (transthoracic, transesophag...

BACKGROUND In modern obstetrics caesarean sections are commonly used and in all caesarean sections either peritoneal closure is done or not. This cases series was conducted to record outcomes in our setup. METHODS Cases of caesarean sections were followed for adhesions and non-adhesions in peritoneal closure and non-closure cases from 1't January to December 2011 at DHQ Hospital Haripur. In n...

Recently published randomized trials examining skin closure technique on postcesarean wound complications have produced conflicting results. We performed a metaanalysis of trials comparing staples and subcuticular sutures for skin closure at cesarean section (CS). Pooled outcome measures were calculated using random effects models. Primary outcomes were rates of wound dehiscence (separation) an...

The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of acute angle-closure glaucoma in Split-Dalmatia County and correlation between visual acuity and time (days) elapsed from the disease onset to hospital admission. Twenty-nine cases were retrospectively analyzed. There were 19 female patients aged 36-91 (median age 68) years and 10 male patients aged 35-88 (median age 70) years, with attacks...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate alterations of papilla dimensions after orthodontic closure of the diastema between maxillary central incisors. METHODS Sixty patients who had a visible diastema between maxillary central incisors that had been closed by orthodontic approximation were selected for this study. Various papilla dimensions were assessed on clinical photographs and stu...