BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Urinary retention is a common condition in the post-anesthetic care unit (PACU). Vesical overdistension and consequent damage of the detrusor muscle of the urinary bladder represent situations that can be prevented. The ultrasound allows the reliable measurement of the urinary volume, determining the prevalence of postoperative vesical distension. The objective of the ...

Abstract In many observational studies, the interest is in effect of treatment on bad, aberrant outcomes rather than average outcome. For such settings, traditional approach to define a dichotomous outcome indicating aberration from continuous score and use Mantel–Haenszel test with matched data. example, studies determinants poor child growth World Health Organization’s definition stunting bei...

Introduction: Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer progression. However, there are few studies in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5), catalyzes monomethylation and symmetric demethylation residues on histone nonhistone proteins participates tumor This study aimed to investigate the mechanism PRMT5-induced lipid MCL. Method: Lymph node, bone marro...

BACKGROUND Controversy surrounds prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer screening, especially among elderly men aged 75 and older. This study examines whether patient age results in differential use of PSA testing and if organizational attributes such as communication, stress, decision making, and practice history of change predict PSA testing among men aged 75 and older. ...

Mantel N, McPherson K, Peto J, Smith PG: Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials requiring prolonged observation of each patient.

Semiaquatic flies (Diptera, Nematocera) are an ecologically important and species rich group of insects within the boreal and arctic biomes. Community structure, species richness and abundance of semiaquatic flies were studied in three habitat types (aapa mires, springs and headwater streams), totaling 19 study sites, within the subalpine ecoregion of northern boreal Finland. Concordance of sem...

OBJECTIVE Thrombin-activatable fibrinolysis inhibitor (TAFI) reduces the breakdown of fibrin clots through its action as an indirect inhibitor of plasmin. Studies in TAFI-deficient mice have implicated a potential role for TAFI in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) disease. The role of TAFI inhibition on AAA formation in adult ApoE-/- mice is unknown. The aim of this paper was to investigate the e...

Accounting for interactions with environmental factors in association studies may improve the power to detect genetic effects and may help identifying important environmental effect modifiers. The power of unphased genotype-versus haplotype-based methods in regions with high linkage disequilibrium (LD), as measured by D', for analyzing gene x environment (gene x sex) interactions was compared u...

In the incomplete markets model with numeraire asset and a single consumption good we show that, even with homothetic preferences, on compact sets of prices Continuity, Walras’ identity and Homogeneity characterize the properties of market excess demand. This result is proved by an extension of Mantel (1976) to the case of incomplete markets. Journal of Economic Literature Class. No. : D 52, C ...