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Adenomas, serrated adenomas and hyperplastic polyps are polypoid lesion in the colorectum. At the present moment, all polyps should be resected endoscopically, although only adenomas and serrated adenomas, but not hyperplastic polyps have the potential to develop colorectal cancer. Some studies have investigated the value of the narrow-band imaging (NBI) on histological prediction of the polyp. This method is conducted in real time during colonoscopy, which leads to simplification of diagnostic procedures. For instance, it would be conceivable to resect diminutive polyps and discard them without further assessment by a pathologist. One problem in this context is a correct differentiation between hyperplastic polyps and serrated adenomas. These two polyp entities are known to show similar optical features. However, while serrated adenomas are premalignant lesions hyperplastic polyps have benign histology and never develop into cancer. It is therefore important to sufficiently distinguish hyperplastic polyps from serrated lesions. In this study the investigators want to investigate whether the use of NBI would be capable to get accuracy of optical polyp predictions by more than 90% using the WASP (Workgroup serrAted polypS and Polyposis) classification. NBI is a light filter tool which can be activated by pressing a button at the endoscope. The use of NBI leads to an endoscopic picture which appears blue and enables endoscopists to better assess surface structures and vascular patterns. All polyps will be resected and send to pathology for further microscopic assessment. After completing the trial the investigators aim to compare accuracy of the optical diagnosis.
This study is being done to see if outcomes for both a premature infant's parents and the infant born prematurely who have spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be improved through parent cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) sessions.
The SEEG implantation is performed on purely clinical criteria for preoperative diagnosis. Magnetoencephalography and EEG are purely passive techniques that do not involve any additional risk. This project is a continuation of an existing project in which it was demonstrated the feasibility of simultaneous SEEG and MEG/EEG recordings.
Transfusions are one of the most overused treatments in modern medicine, and saving blood is one important issue all around the world. Cardiac surgery makes up a large percentage of the overall blood components consumption in surgery. Acute normovolemic hemo-dilution (ANH) is a well-known strategy which has been used for years without the support of high quality evidence based medicine to improve post-cardiopulmonary bypass coagulation and reduce red blood cells (RBC) transfusion. We designed a multicenter randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of ANH in reducing the number of cardiac surgery patients receiving RBC transfusions during hospital stay. We will randomize 2000 patients to have sufficient power to demonstrate a 20% relative and 7% absolute risk reduction in the number of patients' RBC transfusion. If the results of the study will confirm our hypothesis, this will have a great impact on blood management in cardiac operating room.
Goal: The goal of this study is to validate blood tests, which can detect antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR) after renal transplantation. These cell based assays measure CD154-expressing alloantigen-specific B-cells and their subsets in peripheral blood of adult renal transplant recipients. Thirty recipients will be enrolled at two transplant centers, 10 each with ABMR, T-cell mediated rejection (TCMR), and no rejection. Each subject will be sample twice, before and after rejection. Donor-specific anti-HLA antibodies will also be measured with single antigen beads.
Postoperative pain continues to be untreated despite the application of multimodal analgesia, medication and new analgesic techniques. Traditional opioid pain treatment has many side effects, while invasive methods, such as epidural catheter, have high costs and difficulties during application. Lidocaine is a local anesthetic and its administration with intravenous routes has analgesic, antihyperalgic and antiinflammatory action. It increases the motility of the intestine and has antiemetic properties. The advantage of this method is the low cost of the preparation and its easy application. The intravenous administration of lidocaine for postoperative analgesia is recently used and not sufficiently researched technique .
This will be a prospective single-arm before-and-after clinical trial in which raw corn starch (RCS) will be first applied on patients with unoperated insulinoma. Nutritional intervention with supplementation of RCS will be initiated in 20 patients with suspected insulinoma to improve their hypoglycemia before the surgery. Duration of nutritional intervention, fasting blood glucose, lipid profile, weight change, BMI and other metabolic indices will be recorded and compared before and after the intervention.
From patient charts we will review patients who had undergone cesarean section within the last 6 months and identify those who received a The Hayman uterine compression suture for uterine atony. We will also select patients who delivered a baby without recieving a Hayman suture to create a control group. Patietns will be grouped as Hayman Group if they recevied a Hayman suture during C/S and control group if thay had not recevied a Hayman suture. We will then check patient charts for post-cesarean outpatient clinic visit and select those who received ovarian reserve evaluation via hormones and antral follicle count during the visits. Finally, we are planning to investigate any correlation between Hayman suture and ovarian dysfunction.
True-false-true occurred during wire penetration in coronary CTO procedure. Subintimal stenting influences vascular response. Intravenous ultrasound confirmed wire position in the procedure. Then stenting procedure was performed. Optical coherence tomography was used for exploring long-term vascular response and healing profile after successful coronary stenting in CTO lesions.
To study the efficacy of magnesium sulphate as adjuvant to levobupivacaine in transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block in patient undergoing abdominal cancer surgery.