The stop-flow arm equilibrium pressure in preoperative patients: Stressed volume and correlations with echocardiography.

Background: The distending intravascular pressure at no flow conditions reflects the stressed volume. While this haemodynamic variable is recognised as clinically important, there is a paucity of reports of its range and responsiveness to volume expansion in patients without cardiovascular disease and no reports of correlations to echocardiographic assessments of left ventricular filling.

Methods: Twenty-seven awake (13 male), spontaneously breathing patients without any history of cardiopulmonary, vascular or renal disease were studied prior to induction of anaesthesia.

[Hypofractionated radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer (first experience)].

This paper presents a study of 74 prostate cancer patients divided into 2 groups (study group and comparison group). The comparison group patients (n=50) were treated with radiation therapy in standard fractionated mode, while study group patients (n=24) underwent hypofractionated radiation therapy (STD 7.5 Gy; TTD 37.

Plasma miR-19b and miR-183 as Potential Biomarkers of Lung Cancer.

Lung cancer is a complex disease that often manifests at the point when treatment is not effective. Introduction of blood-based complementary diagnostics using molecular markers may enhance early detection of this disease and help reduce the burden of lung cancer. Here we evaluated the diagnostic potential of seven plasma miRNA biomarkers (miR-21, -19b, -126, -25, -205, -183, -125b) by quantitative reverse transcription PCR.

Stereotactic radiosurgery and hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for management of vestibular schwannomas: initial experience with 17 cases.

Background: Nowadays radiation treatment of patients with vestibular schwannomas (VSs) applied either as stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) or stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) represents a real alternative to surgical tumor resection.

Methods: During 2010-2011, 17 consecutive patients (19-75 years old) with a VS underwent treatment with SRS or SRT in our center. Microsurgery was initially offered in all cases but was declined for various reasons.