BACKGROUND Thrombolysis is a common treatment for acute leg ischaemia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different thrombolytic treatment strategies, and risk factors for complications. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of prospective databases from two vascular centres. One centre used a higher dose of heparin and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). RESULTS Som...

Studies of the leucopenic effects of nitrous oxide were made in rodents, with and without surgical wounds. The animals were exposed to one of the following atmospheres: (1) air; (2) 25 per cent nitrous oxide; (3) 60 per cent (rats) or 40 per cent (mice) nitrous oxide; the oxygen percentage was maintained at 21 per cent in each case. A leucopenic effect and suppression of the normal leucocytosis...

The assessment of visual function in a series of 130 consecutive patients of perforating eye injuries, revealed that visual acuity of 6/12 or better was regained in 63 per cent, between 6/60 and 6/18 in 9-2 per cent, less than 6/60 in 15-3 per cent, and enucleation was necessary in 9-2 per cent. In 3 per cent, the eyes were retained as blind, symptomfree, and cosmetically satisfactory organs. T...

(1) An indirect fluorescence test for the detection of anti-gonococcal antibody is described. (2) Positive results at a serum dilution of 1 in 16 or above were obtained with sera from 20 per cent. of males and 61 per cent. of females with bacteriologically proven gonorrhoea. 3-8 per cent. of presumed false positive results were given by sera from patients presumed not to have gonorrhoea. (3) In...

This paper investigates whether there is a correlation between a poor Visual Attention Span (VAS) and the child’s optometric status. Convergence excess impacts most upon a male achieving a VAS-3 more than 75 per cent of the time. Fifty per cent of females with eye-teaming problems are unlikely to achieve a VAS-3 more than 25 per cent of the time. Overall children with an optometric diagnosis we...

PURPOSE Activating mutations in platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha (PDGFRA) have been reported in approximately 5% to 10% of patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). Imatinib efficiently inhibits the juxtamembrane PDGFRA mutations, whereas many tyrosine kinase domain activation loop PDGFRA mutations confer primary resistance to imatinib. In this study, we compared the ef...

DeMatteo RP, Fong Y, Kemeny N, Blumgart LH, Saltz LB: Lack of evidence for increased operative morbidity after hepatectomy with perioperative use of bevacizumab: A matched case-control study. Ann Surg Oncol 2007; 14:759–65 33. Reddy SK, Morse MA, Hurwitz HI, Bendell JC, Gan TJ, Hill SE, Clary BM: Addition of bevacizumab to irinotecanand oxaliplatin-based preoperative chemotherapy regimens does ...

purpose :   nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. the main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness and to increase sports performance. the present study aims to assess the nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice among the selected athletes. methods:   athletes from five different private colleges situated i...

purpose nutrition is an important component of any physical fitness program. the main dietary goal for active individuals is to obtain adequate nutrition to optimize health fitness and to increase sports performance. the present study aims to assess the nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice among the selected athletes. methods athletes from five different private colleges situated in salem...

To investigate the structural and genetic basis of the T cell response to defined peptide/major histocompatibility (MHC) class II complexes in humans, we established a large panel of T cell clones (61) from donors of different HLA-DR haplotypes and reactive with a tetanus toxin-derived peptide (tt830-844) recognized in association with most DR molecules (universal peptide). By using a bacterial...