OBJECTIVE Perioperative inadvertent hypothermia (PIH) (core body temperature to < 36 °C) is a common event during surgery. PIH may result from multiple factors. Elderly urology patients are at greater risk than other patients for hypothermia. PIH may cause adverse postoperative cardiac clinical manifestations. Our study aimed to determine the effects of postoperative alteration of core body tem...

OBJECTIVE To study the associations between physically demanding work and occupational exposure to chemicals and hypertensive disorders during pregnancy within a large birth cohort study, the Generation R Study. METHODS Associations between occupational characteristics and hypertensive disorders during pregnancy were studied in 4465 pregnant woman participating in a population-based prospecti...

In this paper we present a study on visual perception, awareness and self-control, based on the visual exploration of the classical Brentano-Müller Lyer illusion and of some of its variants. The study has been realized with the help of self-made software designed to analyze eye-tracker recordings. In the case of subjects that have a certain familiarity with visual illusions, although not with a...

Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is common problem, but its treatment still remains challenging. Tranexamic acid has been used to treat or prevent excessive bleeding loss in various medical conditions. There have been some reports of the effect of oral and topical tranexamic acid for treatment of pigmented disorder. Herein we report on a case of female patient who showed improvement of PIH a...

The early prediction of pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) is based on the demonstration of increased sympathetic activity in early part of pregnancy. However, the mechanisms that increase sympathetic activity in PIH have not yet been fully elucidated. Therefore, in the present study we have investigated the link of albumin-globulin ratio (AGR) to sympathovagal imbalance in PIH patients. Spec...

Copper(ii) complexes of peptides modelling the sequence of the 17-22 residues of rat amylin have been studied by potentiometric, UV-Vis, CD and ESR spectroscopic methods. The peptides were synthesized in N-terminally free forms, NH2-VRSSNN-NH2, NH2-VRSSAA-NH2, NH2-VRAANN-NH2, NH2-VRSS-NH2, NH2-SSNN-NH2, NH2-SSNA-NH2 and NH2-AANN-NH2, providing a possibility for the comparison of the metal bindi...

BACKGROUND The risk of post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) is increased during freckles and lentigines treatment in Asians. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness and safety of using 595-nm long pulsed dye laser (LPDL), 755-nm LP Alexandrite laser, 532-nm QS Nd:YAG laser and 532-nm LP potassium-titanyl-phosphate (KTP) laser for the treatment of freckles or lentigines in Asian patients...

This study presents new models on the origin, speed and mode of the wave-of-advance leading to the definitive occupation of Europe's outskirts by Anatomically Modern Humans, during the Gravettian, between c. 37 and 30 ka ago. These models provide the estimation for possible demic dispersal routes for AMH at a stable spread rate of c. 0.7 km/year, with the likely origin in Central Europe at the ...