Aortic pulse pressure is associated with the localization of coronary artery disease based on coronary flow lateralization.

Background: Aortic pulse pressure (APP) is related to arterial stiffness and associated with the presence and extent of coronary artery disease (CAD). Besides, the left coronary artery (LCA) has a predominantly diastolic flow while the right coronary artery (RCA) receives systolic and diastolic flow. Thus, we hypothesized that increased systolic-diastolic pressure difference had a greater atherogenic effect on the RCA than on the LCA.

Endonuclease-resistant DNA: a novel histochemical marker for cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical carcinoma.

The diagnosis of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) has low interobserver reproducibility. The pathogenesis of human papillomavirus (HPV) from infection to high-grade CIN is well understood. In benign lesions, HPV-DNA is often packaged into virions, whereas malignant transformation disrupts virion assembly.

Clinical usefulness of haptoglobin levels to evaluate hemolysis in recently transfused patients.

Introduction. Haptoglobin binds the globin portion of free hemoglobin. Serum haptoglobin measurement is used as a laboratory marker for the diagnosis of hemolytic anemia.

Breast arterial calcifications on mammograms do not predict coronary heart disease at coronary angiography.

Purpose: To examine, in women who underwent cardiac catheterization, whether breast arterial calcifications (BACs) seen at screening mammography correlate with coronary heart disease (CHD) seen at coronary angiography.

Materials And Methods: In an institutional review board-approved, HIPAA-compliant study, 172 women (mean age, 64.29 years +/- 11.

Improving access to breast health services with an interdisciplinary model of care.

This article reports a hospital's experience confronting a community crisis, stemming from local and national breast health access issues, and evaluates the subsequent effectiveness of the initiative to improve breast care service. An interdisciplinary Breast Care Facility was developed adjacent to a Community Hospital. Patients receiving breast cancer screening during the year prior to the Breast Center opening (2002) were compared with patients in subsequent years (2003-2005).

Increased breast calcifications in women with ESRD on dialysis: implications for breast cancer screening.

Background: Different appearances of breast calcification on mammography can differentiate benign from malignant disease. An increased incidence of breast calcifications in dialysis patients is established, but data for morphological characteristics in renal patients, incidence of benign and malignant calcifications, and clinical consequences are limited. In this study, we compare mammograms and the workup of abnormal calcifications of women on hemodialysis with that of women with normal renal function.

Blooms of the cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula in coastal Queensland, Australia: disparate sites, common factors.

During the last decade there has been a significant rise in observations of blooms of the toxic cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula along the east coast of Queensland, Australia. Whether the increase in cyanobacterial abundance is a biological indicator of widespread water quality degradation or also a function of other environmental change is unknown. A bioassay approach was used to assesses the potential for runoff from various land uses to stimulate productivity of L.