Cerebral oxygenation in 45-degree trendelenburg position for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a single-center, open, controlled pilot study.

Background: Within the last decade, robotically-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) has become the standard for treating localized prostate cancer, causing a revival of the 45° Trendelenburg position. In this pilot study we investigated effects of Trendelenburg position on hemodynamics and cerebral oxygenation in patients undergoing RALP.

Methods: We enrolled 58 patients undergoing RALP and 22 patients undergoing robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) (control group) in our study.

Does mean heart dose sufficiently reflect coronary artery exposure in left-sided breast cancer radiotherapy? : Influence of respiratory gating.

Purpose: With extensive use of systemic treatment, the issue of cardiac mortality after breast cancer radiation (RT) is still important. The aim of our analysis was to clarify whether the dose to one surrogate parameter (e. g.

[W.D.H.A. Syndrome due to occult neuroendocrine malignancy with concomitant liver metastases].

In June 1999, a 62-year-old man is hospitalised to evaluate the sonographic suspicion of liver metastases. The biopsy of the liver shows a malignant neuroendocrine tumour. Further diagnostic investigation including gastroscopy, colonoscopy, enteroclysis, thoracal and abdominal CT and somatostatin-receptor-scintigraphy does not localise the primary tumour.

The incidence of hyperthyroidism in Austria from 1987 to 1995 before and after an increase in salt iodization in 1990.

Between 1963 and 1990, Austria had iodized salt prophylaxis of endemic goitre with 10 mg KI (7.5 mg I) per kg. This was obviously insufficient, as urinary iodine excretion ranged from 42 to 78 microg I per g of creatinine and goitre in adults remained in the endemic range of 15%-30%.