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AIMS OF STUDY The aim of this study is to investigate whether ingestion of curcumin will prevent hepatic insulin resistance (assessed by homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)) induced by short-term oral glucocorticoid (prednisolone) administration in overweight and obese
Study design:
Prospective randomized clinical study, sixty patients will be randomly allocated to one of two groups according to a computer-generated random number table of 30 patients each to receive ultrasound-guided either TAP block (Group T) or PVB (Group P).
Study setting and location Theodor
1. Background In the case of acute cholecystitis, in which acute inflammation was manifested in patients with gallstones and was accompanied by pain and fever, cholecystectomy through surgery was the standard treatment, and the use of empirical antibiotics to treat inflammation and prevent
The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the effects of perioperative hemodynamic therapy (guided by cardiac output monitoring) on tissue oxygenation during (and after) DIEP flap breast reconstruction surgery. We hypothesize that a low-dose, perioperative dobutamine infusion combined with
The HIT-KH investigation is proposed to take place over the course of two calendar years. During year one collaborations with gyms specializing in High Intensity Resistance and Functional Training style workouts (referred to from this point forward as satellite data collection sites) as well as
BACKGROUND Gastric cancer is still one of the most frequent malignancies in Europe. In United States the estimated new cases in 2010 were 21000 (12730 male and 8270 female) with 10570 estimated deaths (6350 male and 4220 female)[7,8]. In Italy the estimated new cases in 2013 were 13200 (7900 males
1.0 Background
1.1 Definitions of chronic kidney disease
The Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (K/DOQI) of the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) defines chronic kidney disease as either kidney damage or a decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of less than 60 mL/min/1.73m2 for 3 or more
Glycosylated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), a reliable test to assess chronic glycemia and recommended both for the diagnosis and monitoring of T2DM, is neither accurate nor reliable in patients with cirrhosis. A validation study has not been performed to define its true usefulness in the setting of
Background Bipolar sealing and cutting devices such as EnSeal® G2 Tissue Sealer are surgical instruments that use electrical powered diathermic energy to seal and transect tissue. These devices have shown high efficiency in a wide variety of open and laparoscopic general and gynecological surgical
Administration of subcutaneous UFH for antithrombotic prophylaxis is standard therapy in the postoperative setting. Often, a dosage of 5000 U twice a day has been used, with a demonstrated antithrombotic efficacy and an acceptable hemorrhagic complication profile. However, recent surgery guidelines
We aim to determine the safety and explore the efficacy of human albumin as a neuroprotective (or cytoprotective) agent for the treatment of acute primary supratentorial ICH. Albumin therapy has been shown to be cytoprotective in animal studies of both ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage,