Platelet function in obese children and adolescents.

Unlabelled: Platelet hyperaggregability contributes to thromboembolic events of obesity in adulthood. In obese children hyperaggregability was described in platelet rich plasma. We investigated platelet aggregation in children with obesity and lipometabolic disorders in whole blood.

Cardiac resynchronization in a child with dilated cardiomyopathy and borderline QRS duration: speckle tracking guided lead placement.

Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is proved to prevent heart transplantation in some patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and mechanical dyssynchrony. We report of the benefit of CRT accomplished by atrial synchronized single-site left ventricular pacing in an 8-year-old boy with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, normal atrioventricular conduction, borderline QRS complex duration (120 ms), and marked mechanical left ventricular dyssynchrony proved by echocardiographic speckle tracking.

Adenine nucleotides inhibit recombinant N-type calcium channels via G protein-coupled mechanisms in HEK 293 cells; involvement of the P2Y13 receptor-type.

1. N-type Ca(2+) channel modulation by an endogenous P2Y receptor was investigated by the whole-cell patch-clamp method in HEK 293 cells transfected with the functional rabbit N-type calcium channel. 2.

The influence of surveillance methods on surgical wound infection rates in a tertiary care spinal surgery service.

Study Design: A 1-year prospective study of the influence of surveillance methods on the surgical wound infection rates in a tertiary care spinal surgery unit.

Objectives: To assess the effect of postdischarge surveillance, the diagnostic indications for surgery, and the type of procedure on the surgical wound infection rates.

Summary Of Background Data: Use of the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system for surgical wound infection resulted in infection rates above the published values for procedures performed by the Spinal Surgical Service.

HUBNET: Wide Area Network utilization of Local Area Network medical reference and communication resources.

The State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and its associated teaching sites have developed and partially implemented a regional Wide Area Network (WAN) in Buffalo and Western New York. The school wishes to use this WAN to deliver reference and communication resources to students, residents and faculty. The richest pool of easy to use reference and communication resources are PC software programs that are intended for individual workstations or at best, client-server, Local Area Network (LAN) implementation.