BACKGROUND & AIMS Advanced techniques have been developed to overcome difficult cannulation cases in endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Pancreatic duct guidewire placement method (PGW) is performed in difficult cannulation cases; it is possible that it places patients at risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP). The mechanism of PEP is still unclear, but pancreatic duct pressure...

Infection with HIV is an occupational risk to health care workers, especially doctors, during treatment of patients. HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is effective in preventing potential HIV infection following accidental exposure. The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of HIV post-exposure prophylaxis among resident doctors at the University of Benin ...

BACKGROUND Adequate knowledge and practices on post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for HIV among health care providers are crucial for HIV prevention. However there is limited data on PEP knowledge and practice from developing countries where the burden of HIV infection continues to increase. We assessed the knowledge of clinical medical students on PEP, their practices in response to occupational ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the cost-effectiveness, relative to other health-related interventions in the U.S., of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) following potential HIV exposure through sexual contact with a partner who may or may not be infected, and to compare the relative cost-effectiveness of dual- and triple-combination PEP. METHODS Standard techniques of cost-utility analysis were used to as...

El profesorado de ciencias se enfrenta a aulas multiculturales, en las que coexisten la epistemología y epistemologías tradicionales comunidades pertenecen los estudiantes. Nuestro objetivo es apoyar al hora establecer una relación incluyente entre dichas epistemologías, través un conjunto prácticas interculturales enseñanza (PIEC). Para diseñar PIEC retomamos el puente epistemológico (PEp) des...

The aim of the study was to determine the acute effects of positive expiratory pressure (PEP) on breathing pattern, operational volumes and shortening velocity of respiratory muscles on patients with Parkinson's disease. It was evaluated 15 patients and healthy controls, by optoelectronic plethysmography, using PEP in three different levels (10, 15 and 20cmH2O). Breathing pattern changed in bot...

BACKGROUND Skin lesions in pregnant women could be caused by physiologic or pathologic changes. Polymorphic eruption of pregnancy (PEP), which manifests as various types of skin lesions, is the most common pregnancy dermatosis. Thus, PEP could mimic other skin diseases related to unfavorable maternal and fetal outcomes. MAIN OBSERVATIONS Two PEP patients with targetoid lesions are presented h...

BACKGROUND PostExposure Prophylaxis (PEP) is widely used after exposures to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to reduce the risk of infection in the healthcare setting. Few data are available on the safety and tolerability of Anti Retro Viral drugs (ARV) among Health Care Workers (HCWs) who are prescribed prophylaxis. OBJECTIVE To collect information about the safety and compliance of taking...

BACKGROUND Positive-expiratory-pressure (PEP) therapy uses positive airway pressure generated by a either a fixed-orifice resistor or a threshold resistor. We hypothesized that tubing diameter and length, and the diameter of the PEP bottle's air-escape orifice would impact the PEP pressure delivered to the airway and determine whether the PEP bottle acts as a threshold resistor or a fixed-orifi...

The uptake of [3H]peplomycin-Cu(II) ([3H]PEP-Cu(II)) into various tumor cell lines was studied. The time course of [3H]PEP-Cu(II) uptake into AH66, AH66F, Ehrlich and P388 cells was biphasic. The first phase of uptake was completed within 5 minutes. The second, slower phase, of uptake into AH66, AH66F and Ehrlich cells increased linearly with incubation time, but that into P388 cells reached a ...