481 research outputs found

    sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231206750 – Supplemental material for Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System

    No full text
    Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231206750 for Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System by Ganeev Singh, Laura Corlin, Paul R. Beninger, Peter J. Neumann, Marcia M. Boumil, Shreya Mehta and Deeb N. Salem in Medical Decision Making</p

    sj-pdf-2-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231206750 – Supplemental material for Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System

    No full text
    Supplemental material, sj-pdf-2-mdm-10.1177_0272989X231206750 for Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System by Ganeev Singh, Laura Corlin, Paul R. Beninger, Peter J. Neumann, Marcia M. Boumil, Shreya Mehta and Deeb N. Salem in Medical Decision Making</p

    Respiratory muscle aids to avert respiratory failure and tracheostomy: a new patient management paradigm

    No full text
    An April 2010 consensus of clinicians from 22 centers in 18 countries reported 1,623 spinal muscular atrophy type 1, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis noninvasive intermittent positive pressure ventilatory support users, of whom 760 developed continuous dependence that prolonged their survival by more than 3,000 patient-years without tracheostomies. Four of the centers routinely extubated unweanable patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, so that none of their more than 250 such patients has undergone tracheotomy. This article describes the manner in which this is accomplished; that is, the use of noninvasive inspiratory and expiratory muscle aids to prevent ventilatory failure and to permit the extubation and tracheostomy tube decannulation of patients with no autonomous ability to breathe (ie, who are “unweanable” from ventilator support). Noninvasive airway pressure aids can provide up to continuous ventilatory support for patients with little or no vital capacity and can provide for effective cough flows for patients with severely dysfunctional expiratory muscles.Peer reviewe

    Selected topics in interventional radiology: a compendium of student honors papers on the Interventional radiology elective

    No full text
    This book is a collaborative effort with medical students from the Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, previously Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. The students contributed chapters written as honors papers,while on their Interventional Radiology elective. This publication is not meant to completely cover the ever expanding realm of interventional radiology but includes topics of interest to the students while on their elective. It has been rewarding to work with these amazing students, many of whom have elected to practice diagnostic and interventional radiology. This work was supported by a small grant from the Rutgers Library to create affordable books. As it is self published please overlook minor flaws. The newest area of interventional radiology, interventional oncology, will be covered in subsequent chapters as they are written. As with other dynamic fields of medicine some material becomes outdated soon after it is written. As this is an electronic publication we will strive to update chapters as required.Central venous access in interventional radiology / Daniel Haddad, Mary-Katherine Lynch Image -guided percutaneous needle biopsy / Ross Cadman Image -guided percutaneous abscess drainage of abdominal and pelvic abscess / Zaeem Billah, Dhaval Mehta Interventional radiology approaches for the treatment of refractory ascites / Travis R. Quinoa Radial artery access in interventional radiology / Lauren A. Huntress Segmental arterial mediolysis / Julian Sison Hemodialysis vascular access, complications, and interventional treatment / Pierre Saad Non-operative management of splenic injury / Ulyana Trytko Management of splenic artery aneurysm with coil embolization / Henal Patel The use of arterial embolization in pelvic trauma / Henal Patel, Rima Patel Management of massive hemoptysis with bronchial artery embolization / Shreya Amin Minimally invasive approach to treating renal angiomyolipoma / Adam Zybulewski Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations / Ripal Patel, Michael Chevinsky Radiologic and endoscopic percutaneous gastrostomy: a review of the literature / Fernando D. Arias Treatment of benign bile duct strictures by balloon dilitation and stent placement / Jason Feinman Transjugular liver biopsy / Oluwatoyin Dada Point shear/wave liver elastography / Eric Wei Renal artery stenosis: medical management vs. percutaneous revascularization / Adjoa Boateng, Gregg Khodorov Minimally invasive treatment of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma / Jaclyn N. Portelli Tremont Vena cava filters and the treatment of pulmonary embolism / Anushree Doshi Interventional treatment of pulmonary embolism / Matthew Deek Percutaneous access for nephrostomy and nephro-lithotomy / Prasann Vachhani Portal vein embolization and hepatic hypertrophy / Kristin Maletsky THe role of interventional radiology in upper GI and colonic hemorrhage contemporary management and outcomes / Slavamir Sokalaw Small intestinal bleeding / Oren Johnson Gastrointestinal hemorrhage aorto-enteric fistula / Hansol Kim Management of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis / Vikram Rajpurohit Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt / Na Eun Kim Review and analysis of balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO ) vs. transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunt (TIPS) procedures as a treatment for gastric varices / Iqra Farooqi , Kiersten Frenchu The value of multi-detector helical CT (MDCT) scans in evaluating acute gastro-intestinal bleeding"September 2020

    Optimal Bioeconomic Management Strategies for Prevention and Control of Invasive Alien Species

    No full text
    Paper removed by author. Please see the current version, available online January 8, 2007: Mehta, S.V. et al. Optimal detection and control strategies for invasive species management. Ecological Economics (2007), doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.10.024Environmental Economics and Policy,

    The immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on motor neuron disease services and mortality in Scotland

    Get PDF
    The article The immediate impact of the COVID‑19 pandemic on motor neuron disease services and mortality in Scotland, written by Stella A. Glasmacher, Juan Larraz, Arpan R. Mehta, Patrick K. A. Kearns, Michael Wong, Judith Newton, Richard Davenport, George Gorrie, Ian Morrison, Javier Carod Artal, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal and CARE-MND Consortium, was originally published online on 5 September 2020 with Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.</p

    Orthogonality relations and Cherednik identities for multivariable Baker-Akhiezer functions

    Get PDF
    We establish orthogonality relations for the Baker-Akhiezer (BA) eigenfunctions of the Macdonald difference operators. We also obtain a version of Cherednik-Macdonald-Mehta integral for these functions. As a corollary, we give a simple derivation of the norm identity and Cherednik-Macdonald-Mehta integral for Macdonald polynomials. In the appendix written by the first author, we prove a summation formula for BA functions. We also introduce more general twisted BA functions and obtain for them identities of Cherednik type. This leads to an implicit construction of new quantum integrable models of Macdonald-Ruijsenaars type. Our approach does not require Hecke algebras and therefore is applicable to deformed root systems. As an example, we consider the deformed root system R=A_n(m), which leads us to an explicit evaluation of a new integral and a sum of Cherednik-Macdonald-Mehta type

    Visual outcomes of bilateral congenital and developmental cataracts in young children in south India and causes of poor outcome.

    Get PDF
    CONTEXT: Bilateral pediatric cataracts are important cause of visual impairment in children. AIM: To study the outcome of bilateral pediatric cataract surgery in young children. SETTING AND DESIGN: Retrospective case series in a tertiary center. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Records of pediatric cataracts operated between January 2001 and December 2003, with a minimum follow-up of 3 months, were reviewed retrospectively. STATISTICAL METHODS: Independent sample t-test, Fisher's exact test, and logistic regression using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science, Chicago, USA) version 12. RESULTS: 215/257 (83.7%) patients had a minimum follow-up of 3 months. The mean age of presentation to the hospital was 53 months (range: 0-168 months). Congenital cataract was present in 107 patients (58.2%) and developmental cataract in 77 patients (41.8%). The mean age at surgery was 55.2 months (range: 1-168 months). Out of 430 eyes, 269 (62.6%) had an intraocular lens implanted. The mean duration of follow-up was 13.1 months (range: 3-38 months). Pre-operatively, 102 patients (47.3%) had visual acuity 6/18. The most common early post-operative complication was fibrinous uveitis in 57 eyes (13.3%) and the most common delayed post-operative complication was posterior capsular opacification in 118 eyes (27.4%). The most important prognostic factor for poor outcome was congenital cataract (odds ratio [OR]: 26.3; 95% confidence interval [CI], 4.4-158.5) and total cataract (OR: 4.8; 95% CI, 1.3-17). CONCLUSION: Nearly half of the eyes had visual acuity >6/18. The outcome was poorer in congenital cataracts, especially those operated after >1 year of age
    corecore