Continuous chest compressions with asynchronous ventilation improve survival in a neonatal swine model of asphyxial cardiac arrest.

Background: Guidelines for neonatal resuscitation recommend a 3:1 compression to ventilation ratio. However, this recommendation is based on expert opinion and consensus rather than strong scientific evidence. Our primary aim was to assess whether continuous chest compressions with asynchronous ventilations would increase return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rate and survival compared to the 3:1 chest compression to ventilation ratio.

The Role of TAMIS (Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery) in the Management of Advanced Rectal Cancer - One Shared Story of Three Exceptional Cases.

: The current gold standard for contemporary treatment of rectal cancer is total mesorectal excision (TME), achieving excellent local disease control and low recurrence rates. However, TME may be associated with postoperative mortality and quality of life deterioration. Therefore, the need to develop less radical treatment strategies has emerged.

Acupuncture-induced haemothorax: a rare iatrogenic complication of acupuncture.

This paper reports a rare iatrogenic complication of acupuncture-induced haemothorax and comments on the importance and need for special education of physicians and physiotherapists in order to apply safe and effective acupuncture treatment. A 37-year-old healthy woman had a session of acupuncture treatments for neck and right upper thoracic non-specific musculoskeletal pain, after which she gradually developed dyspnoea and chest discomfort. After some delay while trying other treatment, she was eventually transferred to the emergency department where a chest X-ray revealed a right pneumothorax and fluid collection.

Association study of genetic variants in miRNAs in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: preliminary results.

Background: Aberrant expression and structural alteration of miRNAs are considered to participate in inflammation and cancer development. It has been suggested that common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in miRNAs are associated with susceptibility to several human diseases.

Methods: In the present preliminary study we evaluated the associations of two SNPs (rs2910164 and rs11614913 in miR-146a and miR-196a2, respectively) with the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in a Greek population.

The role of variations within microRNA in inflammatory bowel disease.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that are implicated in gene expression regulation at both a transcriptional and at a translational level. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms may occur in miRNA biogenesis pathway genes, primary miRNA, pre-miRNA, or a mature miRNA sequence. Such polymorphisms may be functional with respect to biogenesis and actions of mature miRNA.

Endocrine correlates of male breast cancer risk: a case-control study in Athens, Greece.

We studied the relation of certain endocrine-related variables among 23 cases of male breast cancer and 76 apparently healthy male controls. There were significant inverse associations with smoking (P = 0.03), birth order (P = 0.

Richter hernia of the stomach.

A case report is presented of Richter hernia of the stomach, after en bloc excision of multiple organs for sarcoma of the left upper quadrant of the abdomen. To our knowledge this is the first case reported in the literature. The conditions for the development of this hernia are : (1) the freeing of the greater curvature of the stomach (following removal of the spleen and tail of the pancreas); and (2) fascial dehiscence following a left thoracoabdominal incision involving rib resection.

The effect of intradermal administration of Corynebacterium parvum on the immune response to hepatitis Bs antigen.

The immunopotentiating effect of the intradermal administration of a course of four doses (0.25 ml) of a standard suspension of killed C. parvum (2 mg/ml) was studied in a group of 10 asymptomatic chronic hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) carriers, as well as in 11 persons with antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) and six without HBsAg or anti-HBs.