BACKGROUND Many veterans have dual Veterans Administration (VA) and Medicare healthcare coverage. We compared 3-year overall and cancer event-free survival (EFS) among patients with nonmetastatic colon cancer who obtained substantial portions of their care in both systems and those whose care was obtained predominantly in the VA or in the Medicare fee-for-service system. METHODS We conducted ...

purpose: to assess the efficacy of polyhexamethylene biguanide (phmb) in treating acanthamoeba keratitis (ak) and also to identify related factors affecting final visual outcome in ak patients treated with phmb methods: in these interventional case series study, 27 eyes of 25 patients with ak received phmb 0.02% and divided into two groups according to the final visual acuity (va) va equal to o...

The incidences of arterial dissection of the vertebral artery (VA) of aortic origin and VA of subclavian artery origin were determined. The origins of the left and right VAs were confirmed by angiography in 860 and 717 patients, respectively. Left VA of aortic origin was found in 21 patients (6 females and 15 males) but no right VA of aortic origin was found. Left VA of left subclavian artery o...

Copyright: © 2013 Rino Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abnormal vitamin metabolism after gastric surgery for gastric cancer has been reported over the past 20 years. Castle factor def...

Three new blue-emitting compounds of 5P-VA, 5P-VTPA, and 5P-DVTPA for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) based on hexaphenylbenzene moiety were demonstrated. Physical properties by the change of the substitution groups of the synthesized materials were systematically examined. Photoluminescence spectrum of the synthesized materials showed maximum emitting wavelengths of about 400 to 447 nm in ...

3001.1 Pur pose. The pur pose of this chap ter is to pro tect per sons, build ings and the con tents thereof from haz ards aris ing from the use of el e va tors, dumb wait ers, ma te rial lifts, es ca la tors and mov ing walks by es tab lish ing min i mum re quire ments reg u lat ing the de sign, con struc tion, al ter ation, op er a tion and main te nance of el e va tors, dumb wait ers, ma te ...

I n this issue of iJACC, Disertori et al. (1) present a meta-analysis of the association between myocardial scar detected by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and ventricular arrhythmia (VA) risk. The study included 2,850 patients from 19 different studies and 423 arrhythmic events over a median 2.8 years of follow-up. The authors defined a composite arrhyt...