Blood molybdenum level as a marker of cancer risk on BRCA1 carriers.

Objective: To investigate whether Molybdenum blood level is a marker of cancer risk on BRCA1 carriers.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted among 989 initially unaffected women with a BRCA1 mutation. Blood samples were collected to measure molybdenum levels, and participants were followed for an average of 7.

A 12-Year Experimental Design to Test the Recovery of Butterfly Biodiversity in an Urban Ecosystem: Lessons from the Parc Urbain des Papillons.

Urbanization is one of the main threats to biodiversity. However, some urban green spaces could act as refuges for urban fauna if the composition of the flora were less horticultural and if a less intensive management strategy is adopted. Among the taxa, butterflies are experiencing a strong decline from European to regional scales.

Atrial Fibrillation: An Update for Home Healthcare Clinicians.

Atrial fibrillation is a common cardiac arrhythmia in which the atria of the heart do not beat synchronously with the ventricles. It affects 2.7 to 6.

[Scrotal abscess with inguinal lymph node swelling in an 86-year-old man].

History And Admission Findings: An 86-year-old patient presented to our clinic with increasing redness and swelling of the right scrotum and inguinal lymphadenopathy. Five and a half years before admission carcinoma of the bladder (pT1,G2) had been diagnosed and was treated with several transurethral endoscopic resections as well as repeated instillations of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) into the bladder.

Investigations: Orchiectomy on the right side was performed.

[Prognostic value of symptoms in patients treated surgically for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to remind, that the presence of symptoms in patients qualified to surgical treatment for NSCLC can be considered as an unfavorable prognostic factor.

Material And Method: The study group consisted of 231 patients discharged from the Clinic between 1988 and 1991 after surgical treatment for NSCLC. Information about complaints and symptoms were based on archival records.

[Endoscopic parathyroidectomy. Surgical technique in primary hyperparathyroidism].

We report our experience and technique of endoscopic removal of parathyroid adenomas in case of primary hyperparathyroidism. Scintigraphy, MRI scan and cervical ultrasound enable exact diagnosis and therefore exact localisation and placement of the three 5 mm trocars for endoscopic operation. The placement of the optic and the function trocars depends on the localisation of the adenoma.

Investigation of bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of treosulfan capsules in patients with relapsed ovarian cancer.

Purpose: Treosulfan (L-threitol-1,4-bis-methanesulfonate, Ovastat) is a prodrug of a bifunctional alkylating agent with activity in ovarian carcinoma and other solid tumors. In a pharmacologic study of the bioavailability of treosulfan in a capsule formulation, patients with relapsed ovarian carcinoma were treated with alternating doses of oral and intravenous (i.v.

[Early and late results of surgical treatment in patients with primary mediastinal germ cell tumors].

A group of 37 patients--20 (54%) men and 17 (46%) women--aged 2-65, mean 31.6 years, was treated between 1978 and 1995 for different kinds of primary mediastinal germ cell tumours. In 14 (37.

[Repeated paracentesis and total parietal pleurectomy in treatment of patients with primary pneumothorax--late results].

Out of 235 patients discharged from the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Silesian Medical Academy, after treatment of primary spontaneous pneumothorax between 1981 and 1993, 232 (98.7%) answered our questionnaire and so were included in the study. Mean follow-up time was 10.

[Repeated paracentesis and total pleurectomy in treatment of patients with primary pneumothorax--early results].

A group of 235 patients were treated between 1981 and 1993 for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. Immediate recovery was obtained in 150 (75%) out of 8 in whom drainage had been applied, and in a total of 79 who had been operated. Fifty of the remaining 52 patients with the first episode of pneumothorax, had repeated paracentesis with no complete lung expansion prior to operation, and 2 were referred to pleural cavity drainage.