[Patients' opinions about day cataract surgery in a general hospital].

Objective: To evaluate the patient satisfaction as a performance indicator of quality of health care delivery in outpatient cataract surgery.

Patients And Methods: We performed a prospective study using a questionnaire containing 14 items (preoperative work-up, administrative formalities, local anesthesia..

Time-dependent effects of insulin on lipid synthesis in cultured fetal rat hepatocytes: a comparison between lipogenesis and glycogenesis.

The lipogenic effect of insulin was studied in 18-day-old fetal rat hepatocytes after 2 to 3 days of culture in the presence of glucocorticoids when an acute stimulatory effect of insulin on glycogenesis was present. The rate of [1-14C]-acetate incorporation into lipids measured for 4 hours was much higher than with [U-14C]-glucose (30 v 3.8 nmol/h/mg protein).

Closed versus open mitral commissurotomy in pure noncalcific mitral stenosis: hemodynamic studies before and after operation.

Controversy persists regarding whether the efficacy of closed instrumental mitral commissurotomy compares well enough with that of open commissurotomy to warrant its continued use. The purpose of this study was to compare the results of operation as determined by catheterization studies in 63 patients with pure, severe, and noncalcified mitral stenosis. The patients were randomly assigned to one of two groups: thirty-two patients were operated on by the closed technique (group I) and 31 by the open technique (group II).

Compared roles of glucose, galactose and fructose as glycogen precursors during the acute response to insulin in cultured rat foetal hepatocytes.

1. The efficiency of the contribution of hexoses to basal- and stimulated-glycogenesis, when studied in cultured 18 day-old rat foetal hepatocytes in the presence of glucose, was as follows: galactose greater than glucose greater than fructose. 2.