Resumption of work after acute coronary syndrome or coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

Background: Return to work is an important indicator of recovery after acute cardiac events. This study aimed to determine rates of work resumption and identify predictors of non-return to work and delayed resumption of work.

Methods: 401 currently employed patients consecutively admitted after acute coronary syndrome or to undergo coronary artery bypass graft surgery were recruited.

Stimulation of lateral hypothalamic AMPA receptors may induce feeding in rats.

Glutamate or its ionotropic receptor (iGluR) agonists, N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxale propionate (AMPA), and kainate (KA) elicit feeding when microinjected into the lateral hypothalamus (LH) of satiated rats. In the present study we investigated the contributions of AMPA and KA receptors (AMPARs and KARs) to feeding initiation. Intense feeding was elicited by LH injection of RS-AMPA (1 and 10 nmol) but not by the isolated, inactive R-AMPA enantiomer (1 and 10 nmol).

Diagnosis and treatment of voiding dysfunction caused by urethral obstruction after anti-incontinence surgery.

Voiding dysfunction after surgical treatment of stress incontinence may occur as a result of urethral obstruction secondary to hyperelevation of the bladder neck. The diagnosis of urethral obstruction after anti-incontinence surgery is often based upon patient symptomatology and physical examination without confirmation by urodynamic, endoscopic or other diagnostic studies. Urethrolysis seems effective in treating urethral obstruction and voiding dysfunction after surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence.