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Comparison of surgical results on obese patients undergoing hysterectomy by robot-assisted laparoscopy or laparotomy.
University hospital.
All women (n=114) with a BMI ≥30 kg/m(2) who underwent a simple hysterectomy as the main surgical procedure bet...
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PMID: 21854364
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A minimally toxic nonmyeloablative regimen was developed for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) to treat patients with advanced hematologic malignancies who are older or have comorbid conditions.
To describe outcomes of patients 60 years or older afte...
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PMID: 22045765
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Transplantation (92)8 2011
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We examined 10 stable kidney transplant patients (mean estimated glomerular filtration rate 51±10 mL/min/1.73 m(2)) who received cinacalcet daily for persistent hyperparathyroidism. Urine specimens were collected at baseline and every 2 hr for a total study period of 6 hr after ingestion of 30 mg c...
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PMID: 21876476
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Smoking is a major risk factor for both cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Computed tomography (CT)-based lung cancer screening may provide an opportunity to detect additional individuals with COPD at an early stage.
To determine whether low-dose...
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PMID: 22028353
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MMW Fortschritte der Medizin (153)41 2011
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We present the results from those patients included in the EPIBAND study who did not initiate HCV treatment for different reasons.
A total of 195 patients were evaluated (average age 39 ± 6.6 years, 86.7% male and 96.9% Spanish nationality). The reasons why this population did not i...
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PMID: 21750854
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We identified 433 dippers and 230 subjects with a nocturnal non-dipping pattern. Nocturnal SBP dipping was independently of office SBP associated with decreased PWV (p = 0.008), lower ACR (p = 0.001) and NT-proBNP (p = 0.001) and increased GFR (p<0.001).
We conclude that diurnal BP v...
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PMID: 21546328
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Abstract. From September 2005 to March 2007, 238 individuals being vaccinated for the first time with the yellow fever (YF) -17DD vaccine were enrolled in a cohort established in Recife, Brazil. A prospective study indicated that, after immunization, anti-YF immunoglobulin M (IgM) an...
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PMID: 21976581
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We conducted a prospective cohort study of 496 adults starting antiretroviral treatment (ART) to determine the impact of neuropsychiatric symptoms and socioeconomic status on adherence and mortality. Almost 60% had good adherence based upon pharmacy records. Poor adherence was associated with being...
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PMID: 21976587
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These results suggest that regular consumption of milk-based probiotics could be associated with lower risk of preeclampsia in primiparous women....
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PMID: 21821542
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Adverse socioeconomic conditions, at both the individual and the neighborhood level, increase the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) death, but little is known regarding whether CRC survival varies geographically and the extent to which area-level socioeconomic deprivation affects this geographic variat...
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PMID: 21836166
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We conducted a nationwide, population-based prospective cohort study of all female residents in Denmark diagnosed with stage I-III invasive breast carcinoma who were reported to the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group registry between 1996 and 2003 (n = 18 769). Women were followed for a median...
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PMID: 21813413
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Although there has been a study aimed at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation of pneumonia in children at a low magnetic field (0.2T), there is no study which assessed the efficacy of MRI, particularly with fast imaging sequences at 1.5T, for evaluating pneumonia in children.
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PMID: 21816896
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Wasting is common in hemodialysis patients and often is accompanied by cardiovascular disease and inflammation. The cardiovascular risk profile meaningfully changes with the progression of kidney disease, and little is known about the impact of wasting on specific clinical outcomes. This study examin...
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PMID: 21820222
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It is unclear if advance directives (living wills) are associated with end-of-life expenditures and treatments.
To examine regional variation in the associations between treatment-limiting advance directive use, end-of-life Medicare expenditures, and use of palliative...
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PMID: 21972306
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Researchers have suggested that maternal hypertensive disorders during pregnancy affect fetal growth. The authors examined the associations between systolic and diastolic blood pressures in different trimesters of pregnancy and both repeatedly measured fetal growth characteristics an...
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PMID: 21859836
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We conducted a large population-based study involving asymptomatic adults in Taiwan, a population with prevalent upper gastrointestinal lesions, to confirm this claim....
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PMID: 21810951
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The reported prevalence of hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) in cirrhotic patients is heterogeneous. Although the prevalence of chronic liver diseases is high in Egypt, however, scanty data is available about HPS.
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PMID: 21922852
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We compared the results of BMBs and FDG-PET for the diagnosis of BM involvement in a large pediatric group with HL....
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PMID: 21825262
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This study aimed to assess the prevalence and natural course (incidence, persistence, remission, and relapse) of insomnia comorbid with cancer during an 18-month period.
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PMID: 21825267
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The authors prospectively examined the association between the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet score, overall, animal-based, and vegetable-based low-carbohydrate-diet scores, and major plant food groups and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer in 86,621 women in the Nurses' Health St...
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PMID: 21832271
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Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is considered a rare, dreaded possible complication of acute pericarditis. Nevertheless, there is a lack of prospective studies that have evaluated the specific risk according to different etiologies. The aim of this study is to evaluate the risk of CP after acute peric...
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PMID: 21844077
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We initiated the EUROSCA natural history study, a multicentric longitudinal cohort study of 526 patients with SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, or SCA6. We report the results of the 1- and 2-year follow-up visits....
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PMID: 21832228
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Prospective studies on the role of psychosocial factors in heart failure development are virtually nonexistent. The authors aimed to address the effect of psychosocial factors on the risk of heart failure hospitalization in men and women free of cardiovascular disease. In 1991-1993, the 8,670 partici...
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PMID: 21821541
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Canada is a country with large populations of immigrants and refugees. These populations face unique health challenges and barriers to accessing health care services. Amendments to the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act in 2002 have resulted in an increase in refugees with complex medica...
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PMID: 21913581
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We analyzed prospective cohort data to identify the factors associated with health decline among new immigrants....
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PMID: 21913582
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Access to services for international migrants living in Canada is especially important during the postpartum period when additional health services and support are key to maternal and infant health. Recent studies found refugee claimant women to have a high number of postpartum health and social conc...
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PMID: 21913584
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Inhalational induction with Halothane is commonly used for anaesthesia in children. Its drawbacks include bradycardia and hypotension. Intravenous propofol has recently challenged this position.
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PMID: 21913547
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Several epidemiological studies have established an association between chronic kidney disease (CKD), based on estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and risk of stroke. However, sex-specific evidence for the relationship between CKD and risk of stroke and its subtypes is still limited.
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PMID: 21852604
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We enrolled all 132 patients undergoing hypercoagulability testing with positive LA results and in whom APC-R (with factor V-deficient plasma) was performed during a 2.5-year period. Among 121 patients without factor V Leiden, 24.0% had acquired APC-R; retrospective and prospective (mean follow-up,...
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PMID: 21846908
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We conducted a prospective cohort study of people tested for ATP release defects to assess bleeding symptoms. Reduced release, with 1 or more agonists, was more common among patients with bleeding disorders than among healthy control subjects (P...
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PMID: 21846909
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We devised and evaluated a strategy to select gram-negative rods and coccobacilli (GNRCB) for which sequencing might be necessary before routine identification methods had been exhausted. The prospectively applied selection criteria were primarily based on the isolate's display of unusual or discord...
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PMID: 21846913
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The aim of the present study was to evaluate the smoking relapse rate among smokers who had become abstinent during admission for acute coronary syndromes. The association between smoking relapse and mortality was also analyzed. A cohort of 1,294 consecutive active smokers who had in...
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PMID: 21741609
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We could not identify any clinical difference between INT and RY after total gastrectomy 60 months after surgery. The safer and simpler RY method may be a more suitable reconstruction method than INT after total gastrectomy.
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PMID: 21871978
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This study aimed to compare the outcomes of single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) versus conventional 4-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC).
From November 2009 to August 2010, 51 patients with symptomatic gallstone or gallbladder polyps were randomize...
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PMID: 21871979
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Complex hepatobiliary surgical procedures for benign and malignant conditions are regularly performed at tertiary academic referral centers with excellent outcomes, but whether similar surgical outcomes are achievable in community hospitals is not well documented.
Eig...
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PMID: 21871981
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Ultralow anterior resection for mid and distal rectal cancers has been reported routinely performed using either a laparoscopic ultralow anterior resection (LAR) or laparoscopic pull-through with coloanal anastomosis (LPT). This study evaluated the postoperative and functional outcom...
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PMID: 21871983
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often associated with changes of the structure and the function of the right ventricle (RV). Therefore, the assessment of right ventricular function and myocardial mass (MM) is clinically important for the evaluation of the severity of COPD, which may p...
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PMID: 21852436
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To compare obstetric and perinatal outcomes in women with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and relate these to maternal risk factors.
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PMID: 21843303
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To study prospectively the impact of initiating insulin glargine in suboptimally controlled insulin-naïve patients with Type 2 diabetes on health-related quality of life in relation to glycaemic control.
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PMID: 21843305
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Therapy-induced calcifications in glioblastoma are rarely recognized. They may represent regressive changes in the tumor tissue, but their occurrence and possible predictive or prognostic value have not been systematically assessed. The observation of hyperintense lesions on precontrast T1-weighted m...
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PMID: 21807668
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We evaluated 123 pairs of questionnaires. Disagreement in grade of anorexia, vomiting and diarrhoea was found in 24, 7 and 13% of paired questionnaires, respectively (κ = 0.63, 0.83 and 0.71, respectively). Although 'good' to 'very good' agreement was found, the potential for only 'fair' agreement...
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PMID: 21848625
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African American ethnicity is a well-described negative predictor of treatment outcome for chronic hepatitis C (CHC); however, less is known about the influence of Hispanic and Asian ethnicity. The aim of this subanalysis of the Weight-based Dosing of PegINterferon α-2b and Ribavirin (WIN-R) study w...
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PMID: 21836471
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Object Brain tumors in infants are often large, high grade, and vascular, making complete resection difficult and placing children at risk for neurological complications and excessive blood loss. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy may reduce tumor vascularity and volume, which can facilitate r...
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PMID: 21882915
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The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a hand-held preoperative compact imager (POCI) camera with conventional lymphoscintigraphy using a γ-camera for sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection in breast cancer.
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PMID: 21849400
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Preclinical studies have indicated that somatostatin receptor (sst)-expressing tumors demonstrate higher uptake of radiolabeled sst antagonists than of sst agonists. In this study, we evaluated whether imaging with sst antagonists was feasible in patients.
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PMID: 21852357
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Currently, there are no Food and Drug Administration-approved devices available that can provide long-term mechanical circulatory support to smaller children with severe heart failure as a bridge to heart transplant (HT). In recent years, the Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric ventricular...
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PMID: 21884857
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We hypothesized that the increased prevalence of CVD among Indian Asians would be reflected by their having a greater burden of subclinical carotid artery atherosclerosis compared with European whites.
We studied 2,288 healthy subjects and 148 patients with known CVD from the London...
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PMID: 21884861
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We analyzed 133,971 HF admissions from 431 hospitals between January 2005 and January 2010 comparing patients with and without diabetes.
There were 54,352 (41%) patients hospitalized with HF with a history or newly diagnosed diabetes. After adjustment, patients with diabetes were as...
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PMID: 21884864
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We realized a substudy of the COPPS trial to assess the efficacy and safety of colchicine for the prevention of postoperative pericardial and pleural effusions.
The COPPS is a multicenter, double-blind, randomized trial, where 360 consecutive patients (mean age 65.7 ± 12.3 years, 66...
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PMID: 21884871
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We sought to evaluate the prognostic performance of the CHADS(2) score for prediction of ischemic stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) in subjects with coronary heart disease (CHD) without atrial fibrillation (AF).
In 916 nonanticoagulated outpatients with stable CHD and no AF by b...
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PMID: 21884876
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It is thought that pain cognitions determine coping behavior and success in adapting to labor. The aim of this study was to examine whether pain cognitions assessed by the labor pain coping and cognition list (LPCCL) predict the request for pain relief during the first stage of labor and which pain c...
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PMID: 21824042
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To investigate associations between serum bisphenol A (BPA) concentrations and follicular response to exogenous ovary stimulation.
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PMID: 21813122
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We examined the relationship between retinal microvascular signs and subsequent vascular events in a prospective cohort of 652 acute ischemic stroke patients admitted to a tertiary hospital in Singapore from 2005 to 2007....
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PMID: 21849643
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To determine whether adding REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) to the dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) diagnostic criteria improves classification accuracy of autopsy-confirmed DLB.
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PMID: 21849645
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To determine the frequency and consequences of neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) in patients with a first event suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS) treated with interferon β-1b (IFNβ-1b).
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PMID: 21849647
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To examine whether prior statin use affects outcome and intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) rates in stroke patients receiving IV thrombolysis (IVT).
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PMID: 21849650
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We need more high quality prospective evidence on the determinants of these behaviours....
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PMID: 21836173
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Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine (13)3 2011
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To compare venous pressure and haemoglobin oxygen saturation measured from a catheter in the superior vena cava (SVC) with a catheter inserted via the femoral vein, and to assess the agreement of these measurements. To assess the effect of intra-abdominal pressure and intrathoracic p...
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PMID: 21880001
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