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The role of the side-to-side isoperistaltic strictureplasty in patients with extensive Crohn’s disease: indications and results
No full textCattell's 16 PF and PSY inventory: relationship between personality traits and behavioral responses in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
No full textBonaguidi F, Michelassi C, Trivella MG, Carpeggiani C, Pruneti CA, Cesana G, L'Abbate A
Cattell's 16 PF and PSY inventory: relationship between personality traits and behavioral responses in patients with acute myocardial infarction. [Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't]
Psychol Rep 1996 Apr; 78(2):691-702.
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between personality and behavioral responses in patients with acute myocardial infarction. In a first step, a new instrument (PSY Inventory) for assessment of six behavioral characteristics (Sense of Responsibility, Energy and Competitiveness, Obsessive Behavior, Anger and Hostility, Stress-related Disturbances, Time Urgency) was developed by using factor analysis on intercorrelations of responses from 524 subjects of the general population. Internal consistency reliability for each of the PSY subscales was estimated by Cronbach alpha coefficients. In a second step, the PSY Inventory was administered with the Cattell 16 PF Questionnaire to 838 patients affected by acute myocardial infarction. Significant correlations although relatively low in magnitude for PSY Inventory subscales and certain scales of the Cattell 16 PF were found. With factor analysis on 22 variables (including the six PSY Inventory subscales and the 16 scales of the Cattell 16 PF), five second-order factors were identified, namely, Extraversion, Neurotic Anxiety, Superego Strength, Pathemia, and Neurotic Hostility. While a Pathemia Factor (characterized by sensitivity, imagination, and self-sufficiency) was factorially independent of scales of the PSY Inventory, Extraversion, Neurotic Anxiety, Superego Strength, and Neurotic Hostility Factors were composed of the PSY Inventory scales and Cattell 16 PF scales combined. These relationships would reflect the concordance of internal constructs for behavioral measures of the PSY Inventory and those of personality traits of the 16 PF Questionnaire in patients with acute myocardial infarction
Compressible direct numerical simulation of low-pressure turbines: part II - effect of inflow disturbances
No full textChromosome 5 allele loss in human gastric, ampullary and pancreatic carcinomas
No full textChromosome 5 allele loss is a genetic alteration occurring during the multistep
progression of colon carcinogenesis. To determine whether a similar genetic
alteration occurs in other gastrointestinal malignancies, the authors have
analyzed DNA extracted from freshly frozen normal and neoplastic tissue from
nineteen patients who underwent radical resections for gastric, ampullary and
pancreatic adenocarcinomas at the University of Chicago. Loss of heterozygosity
for alleles on the long arm of chromosome 5 was detected in tumor DNA compared to
normal tissue DNA from the same patient using restriction fragment length
polymorphisms (RFLPs). Eleven patients were informative using the restriction
endonuclease TaqI to generate RFLPs for chromosome 5 probes C11 P11 and pTP5E.
Loss of heterozygosity was found in one of eight informative gastric carcinomas
(12.5%) and in one of two informative ampullary carcinomas. The only informative
pancreatic adenocarcinoma was heterozygous. It is concluded that chromosome 5
allele loss occurs in a variety of gastrointestinal malignancies and suggest that
common genetic origins may underlie these different tumors
Religiosity associated with prolonged survival in liver transplant recipients
No full textWe tested the hypothesis that religiosity (ie, seeking God's help, having faith
in God, trusting in God, and trying to perceive God's will in the disease) is
associated with improved survival in patients with end-stage liver disease who
have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation. We studied a group of 179
candidates for liver transplantation who responded to a questionnaire on
religiosity during the pretransplant psychological evaluation and underwent
transplantation between 2004 and 2007. The demographic data, educational level,
employment status, clinical data, and results of the questionnaire were compared
with the survival of patients during follow-up, regardless of the cause of any
deaths. Factorial analysis of responses to the questionnaire revealed 3 main
factors: searching for God (active), waiting for God (passive), and fatalism. The
consistency of the matrix was very high (consistency index = 0.92). Eighteen
patients died during follow-up (median time = 21 months). In multivariate
analysis, only the searching for God factor [hazard ratio (HR) = 2.95, 95%
confidence interval (CI) = 1.05-8.32, χ(2) = 4.205, P = 0.040] and the
posttransplant length of stay in the intensive care unit (HR = 1.05, 95% CI =
1.01-1.08, χ(2) = 8.506, P = 0.035) were independently associated with survival,
even after adjustments for the waiting for God factor, fatalism, age, sex,
marital status, employment, educational level, viral etiology, Child-Pugh score,
serum creatinine level, time from the questionnaire to transplantation, donor
age, and intraoperative bleeding. Patients who did not present the searching for
God factor were younger than those who did, but they had shorter survival times
(P = 0.037) and a 3-fold increased relative risk of dying (HR = 3.01, 95% CI =
1.07-8.45). In conclusion, religiosity is associated with prolonged survival in
patients undergoing liver transplantation
Comparison of sequential scintigraphy, rapid sequence pyelography and renography in the screening of renography in the screening of renovascular hypertension
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Bullet emboli to the systemic and venous circulation.
No full textThe rarity of bullet emboli leads to frequent delays in diagnosis and inadequate early management. Our recent experience with this entity is described, and 153 cases reported in the English-language literature are reviewed and summarized. The majority of cases occurs as a consequence of civilian violence among men in their 20s and 30s. Most bullet emboli follow the direction of blood flow, although 15% of venous bullets cause embolization in a retrograde manner. One in 10 arterial emboli follow a right-heart or venous injury. Arterial bullets are symptomatic in 80% of cases, venous bullets in only one third. The choice of surgical management must be individualized according to the symptoms caused by the bullet and its location in the vascular system. In general, arterial bullet emboli are removed because of symptoms or findings of acute peripheral ischemia. Arterial and venous emboli not causing symptoms should be removed according to the risk of possible displacement and further embolization. Selective intraoperative angiograms and phlebograms can precisely localize the migrating bullet and permit appropriate placement of incisions before removal
Assessment of sequential scintigraphy, rapid sequence pyelography and renovascular hypertension
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