INN or brand name drug prescriptions: a multilevel, cross-sectional study in general practice.

Purpose: The prescription in International Nonproprietary Names (INN) is a legal obligation for all physicians in France since January 2015. The objective of this study was to analyze the frequency and main factors of INN drug prescribing in general practice.

Methods: Multicenter cross-sectional study conducted with 11 interns acting as observers of 23 GP trainers between November 2015 and January 2016.

Radical resection of invasive endometriosis with bowel or bladder involvement--long-term results.

Objective: With the present study we wanted to evaluate the effect of a radical resection of bowel and bladder endometriosis with respect to relief of pain symptoms and long-term effects.

Study Design: Retrospectively we analyzed 23 patients undergoing bowel or bladder resection for infiltrating endometriosis between 1995 and 2004. Chart review was performed and data were analyzed with respect to pain symptoms, fertility, type of surgery, operative morbidity and mortality.

Moderate increase in intraabdominal pressure attenuates gastric mucosal oxygen saturation in patients undergoing laparoscopy.

Background: Perioperative disturbances of microvascular blood flow and oxygenation in the intestinal tract have been hypothesized to play an important role in development of the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. Herein, increased intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) has been identified as a key factor in the initiation of the pathophysiologic cascade. The authors hypothesized that increasing the IAP by intraperitoneal insufflation of carbon dioxide attenuates microvascular oxygen saturation in gastric mucosa.

Differential expression of angiopoietins 1 and 2 and their receptor Tie-2 in human endometrium.

Angiogenesis, the growth of new capillaries from pre-existing blood vessels, is a physiological process involved in both normal menstrual cycling and implantation of the embryo. So far, very little is known about the expression of angiopoietins, growth factors involved in angiogenesis, in human endometrium. Both angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1) and angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) are ligands for the endothelial cell-specific receptor tyrosine kinase Tie-2.