A prospective, randomised, multicenter trial for surgical treatment of central retinal vein occlusion: results of the Radial Optic Neurotomy for Central Vein Occlusion (ROVO) study group.

Background: To compare the surgical outcomes and evaluate the effectiveness of two treatments for central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), radial optic neurotomy (RON) and intravitreal triamcinolone (IVT), in comparison to natural history.

Methods: A prospective, placebo-controlled, randomised and multi-center study. Patients with CRVO were treated in three groups - with either RON, a single intravitreal injection of 4 mg triamcinolone acetonide, or a placebo treatment.

Performance evaluation of the Sysmex XE-5000 hematology analyzer for white blood cell analysis in cerebrospinal fluid.

Context: The newest generation hematology analyzer, Sysmex XE-5000 (Sysmex Corporation, Kobe, Japan) is equipped with an improved body fluid analysis mode.

Objective: To evaluate the applicability of the XE-5000 analyzer to white blood cell (WBC) analysis in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

Design: A total of 425 routinely collected, consecutive CSF samples were included in the study.

Lower serum total testosterone is associated with lymph node metastases in a radical prostatectomy cohort study.

Background: Data on testosterone levels of patients with prostate cancer of different grade and stage are inconsistent. We retrospectively investigated serum total testosterone of a radical prostatectomy cohort to further shed light on this problem.

Patients And Methods: The preoperative level of serum total testosterone of 217 patients (mean age: 65±5.

Predictors of short-term success in smoking cessation in relation to attendance at a smoking cessation program.

Introduction: The identification of individual characteristics that predict success in smoking cessation is necessary to improve the effectiveness of smoking cessation efforts. The aim of this study was to identify the factors that predict success in smoking cessation in people who attended 2, 3, 4, or 5 sessions of a smoking cessation program.

Methods: The participants comprised 2,471 people who attended at least 2 consultations during a 5-week smoking cessation program.

Quality and reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements in two spectral-domain optical coherence tomography machines.

Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements in exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) by the Spectralis (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) and the Cirrus (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA) optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems.

Methods: Eyes with exudative age-related macular degeneration were randomly assigned to one of eight groups, each different in the sequence of examiner and OCT system. The 512 × 128 cube program of the Cirrus and the 30° × 25° volume scan containing 32 lines of the Spectralis were performed twice.

Reproducibility of segmentation error correction in age-related macular degeneration: Stratus versus Cirrus OCT.

Introduction: The accuracy of retinal thickness measurement in age-related macular degeneration by optical coherence tomography (OCT) is affected by threshold algorithm line errors. The reproducibility of error correction in Stratus and Cirrus OCT should be examined.

Methods: OCT examinations of a consecutive series of 104 patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration included in another study were reviewed.

Conversion of Stratus optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal thickness to Cirrus OCT values in age-related macular degeneration.

Aim: Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) is of increasing importance and is gradually replacing time domain OCT (TD OCT). Our aim was to determine a formula to convert Stratus OCT (TD OCT) to Cirrus OCT (SD OCT) retinal thickness.

Methods: Central retinal thickness (CRT) and retinal volume (RV) were obtained by the macular thickness program of Stratus OCT and the cube 512 × 128 program of Cirrus OCT in patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

Light chain-induced acute renal failure can be reversed by bortezomib-doxorubicin-dexamethasone in multiple myeloma: results of a phase II study.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of bortezomib-doxorubicin-dexamethasone (BDD) therapy in patients with multiple myeloma with light chain-induced acute renal failure.

Patients And Methods: Sixty-eight patients with light chain-induced acute renal failure and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) less than 50 mL/min received bortezomib (1.0 mg/m(2) on days 1, 4, 8, and 11), doxorubicin (9 mg/m(2) on days 1 and 4), and dexamethasone (40 mg on days 1, 4, 8, and 11); if well tolerated after two cycles, bortezomib could be increased to 1.

Early postpartum hysterectomy: incidence and risk factors.

Objective: To determine the incidence and risk factors of early postpartum hysterectomy at the University Hospital in Vienna.

Design: Retrospective case-control study.

Setting: General Hospital Vienna, a tertiary referral center.

Repeatability and reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements by optical coherence tomography in age-related macular degeneration.

Purpose: To evaluate the repeatability and reproducibility of retinal thickness measurements in exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using Stratus optical coherence tomography (OCT) (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA).

Design: Prospective, observational case series.

The effects of early environmental conditions on the reproductive and somatic development of juvenile guinea pigs (Cavia aperea f. porcellus).

Little is known about the effects of the early environment on the development of non-seasonally reproducing species like the domestic guinea pig (Cavia aperea f. porcellus). Although guinea pigs reproduce throughout the year, there is evidence for environmental sensitivity of their reproductive physiology.