The study described an automated digital microfluidic platform, used to test the functional components of thrombophilia panel on small volumes of plasma with high fidelity, low cost, faster turnover compared with traditional microtiter plate method.
New research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found a correlation between flying following hip or knee arthroplasty and an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). This is the first study to identify such a risk as previous studies found no additional risk from perioperative air travel in patients following lower limb arthroplasty (LLA).
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of a heart valve to include a size small enough to be used in newborn pediatric patients to treat heart defects. Specifically, the agency approved the Masters Series Mechanical Heart Valve with Hemodynamic Plus (HP) Sewing Cuff to include the 15-mm valve size, making it the smallest mechanical heart valve approved in the world.
In this study, researchers examined more than 200,000 Medicare patients who had common surgical procedures shows that, compared to the general population, they underwent far fewer minimally invasive operations, whose benefits include lower rates of complications and readmissions, along with shorter hospital stays. The study was published in Surgical Endoscopy.
The eye primordium arises as a lateral outgrowth of the forebrain, with a transient fissure on the inferior side of the optic cup providing an entry point for developing blood vessels. Incomplete closure of the inferior ocular fissure results in coloboma, a disease characterized by gaps in the inferior eye and recognized as a significant cause of pediatric blindness.
In this study, researchers assessed that Austere and isolated have been used extensively as test beds for spaceflight to probe hazards, train crews, develop clinical protocols and countermeasures for prospective space missions. Future space exploration missions will take humans far beyond low Earth orbit and require complete crew autonomy. The ability to provide anaesthesia will be important given the expected risk of severe medical events requiring surgery.
Researchers examined that anesthesia operates in the brain, but the standard protocol among anesthesiologists when monitoring and dosing patients during surgery is to rely on indirect signs of arousal like movement, and changes in heart rate and blood pressure. The key has been to develop a theoretical and analytical understanding of electroencephalogram (EEG) brain wave measurements of patients under general anesthesia.
The study is conducted to evaluate pain and determine the efficacy of misoprostol, for postmenopausal women before diagnostic hysteroscopy. And the results obtained are misoprostol does not reduce pain or provide benefits before diagnostic hysteroscopy
In this study, Circadian clocks regulate the behaviour of all living things. They have now taken a closer look at the clock's anatomical structures and molecular processes in the honeybee. Chronobiology is the discipline that examines these and other questions about the circadian clocks of all living organisms from protozoans to humans. The study published in the journal Open Biology of the Royal Society.
A new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology suggests that older adults with heart disease who regularly exercise, even a little bit, may live longer than they would without any physical activity.
According to study, researchers invented Groundbreaking discoveries regarding the onset of cholera are paving the way for a future, fast-acting antidote for cholera epidemics. The study was published in the journal PLOS Pathogens and ACS Infectious Disease.
Researchers describes that young patients with type 1 diabetes from ethnic minorities are more like than their white peers to have markers of a poor prognosis, which in turn may explain their worse longer-term outcomes. The study was published in Diabetes Care.