Effectiveness and safety of repeated percutaneous intervention in an office-based endovascular center in maintaining hemodialysis access.

Objectives: Percutaneous dialysis access interventions are routinely used to maintain the patency of dialysis access despite the lack of data regarding their long-term effectiveness. This retrospective study was undertaken to study the effectiveness and safety of percutaneous dialysis access interventions in arm fistulas and bridge grafts in an office-based endovascular center.

Methods: Patients who had a percutaneous dialysis access intervention in their upper extremity access site, performed at a single office-based endovascular center over a nine-year period (2007-2016) were included in this study.

Office-based endovascular suite is safe for most procedures.

Objective: This study was conducted to identify the safety of endovascular procedures in the office endovascular suite and to assess patient satisfaction in this setting.

Methods: Between May 22, 2007, and December 31, 2012, 2822 patients underwent 6458 percutaneous procedures in an office-based endovascular suite. Demographics of the patients, complications, hospital transfers, and 30-day mortality were documented in a prospective manner.

Ion channels in genetic and acquired forms of epilepsy.

Genetic mutations causing dysfunction of both voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels make a major contribution to the cause of many different types of familial epilepsy. Key mechanisms comprise defective Na(+) channels of inhibitory neurons, or GABA(A) receptors affecting pre- or postsynaptic GABAergic inhibition, or a dysfunction of different types of channels at axon initial segments. Many of these ion channel mutations have been modelled in mice, which has largely contributed to the understanding of where and how the ion channel defects lead to neuronal hyperexcitability.

Optimizing your vascular practice: how to communicate with referring doctors, increase referrals, and work with cardiologists and interventional radiologists.

After the fellowship in vascular surgery is completed there is the daunting task of going into practice and succeeding. There are various tools that one can use to succeed in practice and also work closely with other specialists. The key to success is marketing and innovation.

Development and preliminary evaluation of the VPS ReplaySuite: a virtual double-headed microscope for pathology.

Background: Advances in computing and telecommunications have resulted in the availability of a range of online tools for use in pathology training and quality assurance. The majority focus on either enabling pathologists to examine and diagnose cases, or providing image archives that serve as reference material. Limited emphasis has been placed on analysing the diagnostic process used by pathologists to reach a diagnosis and using this as a resource for improving diagnostic performance.

Spectrofluorimetric analysis of 7-hydroxycoumarin binding to bovine phenol sulfotransferase.

Phenol sulfotransferases (SULT1s, EC 2.8.2.