Opioids are among the oldest therapies in our armamentarium, and clinicians recognize their universal utility to limit human distress from pain. Opioids enjoy widespread use as potent analgesics, even though they are abused because of their psychoactive properties. Although the therapeutic and toxic doses are difficult to predict because of the development of tolerance with chronic use, the pri...

Incisional hernias of the abdominal wall occur in up to 11% of all other postoperative patients and in as many as 23% of patients with postoperative wound infections. Trocar site hernias after laparoscopic surgery are reported in up to 6% of patients. Parastomal hernia formation occurs in 28% of ileostomies and 48% of colostomies. Morbidity depends on the location and contents of the hernia, as...

Triorthogonal codes are a class of quantum error correcting used in magic state distillation protocols. We classify all triorthogonal with $n+k \le 38$, where $n$ is the number physical qubits and $k$ logical code. find $38$ distinguished subspaces show that every code $n+k\le 38$ descends from one these through elementary operations such as puncturing deleting qubits. Specifically, we associat...

The purpose of this issue of Hazard is to provide an overview of injury deaths in Victoria based on the Victorian Coroner’s Facilitation System. Although these data are not timely, they highlight outstanding causes and identify trends and changes over time to an extent unavailable from other current sources. It updates Hazard 11, June 1992 and provides an insight into the depth of timely data s...

Background: A thorough understanding of the Rheumatic Heart disease is important to aid in the management of patients with RHD. We hereby thus study various presentations, distributions, clinical profile of various types of valvular involvement in patients with RHD, complications of RHD such as heart failure, arrhythmias, chamber dilation, thromboembolic manifestation, pulmonary hypertension et...

Toshiaki Shimizu* and Naokuni Takeda Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchu, Tokyo 183, Japan Department of Biomedical Science, COSMO Research Institute, Gongendo, Satte, Saitama, 340-01, Japan Z. Naturforsch. 53c, 927-931 (1998); received May 14/June 12, 1998 Melatonin, Mamestra brassicae, Testis, HPLC-ECD, Metabolic Path...

In the title compound, [Pb(NO(3))(C(38)H(38)N(10))][Pb(C(38)H(38)N(10))(H(2)O)(0.5)](NO(3))(3)·2H(2)O, both Pb(II) ions are coordinated in a distorted trigonal-prismatic environment by a hexa-dentate N,N,N',N'-tetra-kis-[(1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)meth-yl]cyclo-hex-ane-1,2-diamine ligand. A nitrate and a half-occupancy water ligand form long coordination bonds to the Pb(II) ions capping the trigonal...