Atherosclerosis on CT Angiogram Predicts Acute Kidney Injury After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to determine the association of vascular calcification and renal artery stenosis on CT angiogram (CTA) obtained before transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with postprocedure acute kidney injury (AKI).

Materials And Methods: In this single-center retrospective cohort study, 106 pre-TAVR CTAs were evaluated by two independent blinded readers. Renal artery stenosis was visually graded as less than 50% or greater than or equal to 50% luminal narrowing.

Attitudes toward the elderly among students of health care related studies at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

Introduction: This study uses a cross-sectional approach in terms of evaluating attitudes toward the elderly among health sciences students. The aim of this study was to measure attitudes among final year pregraduate students of seven health care careers.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted with final year students of medicine (M), occupational therapy (OT), physiotherapy (P), nursing (N), psychology (Ps), social work (Sw), and dentistry (D).