Publications by authors named "A J Beuren"
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- Nutrition significantly impacts cancer care by supporting patients through treatment and recovery phases.
- Malnutrition and muscle loss from cancer and its treatments can worsen symptoms and delay recovery, making nutritional support essential.
- Personalized dietary recommendations, guided by registered dietitians, are crucial for optimizing health outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors.
Purpose: To identify the effects of prophylactic, non-pharmacological measures on the progression of dysphagia in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing radiotherapy.
Research Strategies: The search was performed in Medline (via PubMed), Scopus, and Embase databases, as well as in the gray literature.
Selection Criteria: Randomized clinical trials were included, with adult patients (≥ 18 years old) and diagnosed with head and neck cancer, treated with radiotherapy (with or without surgery and chemotherapy), and submitted to non-pharmacological protocols for the prevention of dysphagia.
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- The study evaluated the effectiveness of cervical ultrasonography and parathyroid scintigraphy in locating abnormal parathyroid glands in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) before surgery.
- Ultrasonography was found to detect enlarged glands in 87% of patients and had a higher accuracy in predicting surgical findings compared to scintigraphy, which detected them in 79% of cases.
- The researchers concluded that cervical ultrasonography should be the preferred tool for preoperative localization of affected glands in PHPT due to its better predictive value, especially for solitary adenomas.
Aortoventriculoplasty (AVP) is an established operative procedure for the enlargement of different types of severe left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Between 1974 and 1985 75 aortoventriculoplasties were carried out in 72 patients ranging from 5 to 34 years of age. Three patients had to be reoperated upon due to significant right ventricular outflow tract obstruction, outgrown prosthesis, and dissecting aortic aneurysm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFForty two children and two young adults who were long term survivors of either intracardiac or extracardiac valve replacement with glutaraldehyde porcine valves form the basis of this report. The follow-up period varied from 6 months to 9 years. Ten of eleven intracardiac valves developed some dysfunction--the eleventh patient died from other causes.
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