The role of bioimpedance analysis in overweight and obese patients with acute heart failure: a pilot study.

Aims: Residual congestion at the time of hospital discharge is an important readmission risk factor, and its detection with physical examination and usual diagnostic techniques have strong limitations in overweight and obese patients. New tools like bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) could help to determine when euvolaemia is reached. The aim of this study was to investigate the usefulness of BIA in management of heart failure (HF) in overweight and obese patients.

[Outpatient specialist medical treatment (ASV)-a new treatment level in rheumatology].

Since April 2018, the new third level care model of outpatient specialist care (ASV) according to §116b of the Social Code Book V (SGBV) has been available for patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases in Germany. Not only is a multiprofessional cooperation between the disciplines involved in treating rheumatic diseases promoted but also the cooperation between specialized rheumatologists and other specialists in private practice and in hospitals is encouraged. As budget capping limiting services and number of cases do not apply in ASV, a significant improvement of patient care in rheumatology is expected due to an increase in provider capacity.

PROutine: a feasibility study assessing surveillance of electronic patient reported outcomes and adherence via smartphone app in advanced cancer.

Background: In advanced cancer, quality of life (QoL) is a major treatment goal. In order to achieve this, the identification of suffering by screening for patient-reported-outcomes (PROs, i.e.

Transforming Schools Through Minority Males' Participation: Overcoming Cultural Stereotypes and Preventing Violence.

Violent and racist behaviors are transforming schools into highly controversial sites. A key factor in this phenomenon, though not the only one, is the continued dominance of hegemonic masculinity. While researchers have considered a myriad of strategies to prevent violence, including community involvement, few have focused on the value of having male community members engage in the schools, especially males from minority backgrounds.

A direct comparison of the prevalence of advanced adenoma and cancer between surveillance and screening colonoscopies.

Background/aims: Surveillance colonoscopy is recommended after polypectomy of adenoma and surgery for colorectal cancer. The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency of advanced adenoma and cancer in colonoscopies performed for surveillance compared to screening colonoscopies.

Methods: Analysis of relative frequencies of findings in colonoscopies performed for post-adenoma surveillance (post-ad), post-cancer surveillance (post-crc), screening, and follow-up of a positive fecal occult blood test (FOBT).

Risk factors for advanced neoplasia within subcentimetric polyps: implications for diagnostic imaging.

Objective: Diagnostic imaging by CT colonography and capsule endoscopy is used to detect colonic lesions. Controversy exists regarding the work-up of subcentimetric lesions. The aim of this study was to identify risk indicators for advanced neoplasia (AN) in subcentimetric polyps.

Multilocus analysis of nucleotide variation in Drosophila madeirensis, an endemic species of the Laurisilva forest in Madeira.

Drosophila madeirensis is an endemic species of Madeira that inhabits the island Laurisilva forest. Nucleotide variation in D. madeirensis is analysed in six genomic regions and compared to that previously reported for the same regions in Drosophila subobscura, an abundant species in the Palearctic region that is closely related to D.

Risk of advanced colorectal neoplasia according to age and gender.

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the leading causes of cancer related morbidity and death. Despite the fact that the mean age at diagnosis of CRC is lower in men, screening by colonoscopy or fecal occult blood test (FOBT) is initiated at same age in both genders. The prevalence of the common CRC precursor lesion, advanced adenoma, is well documented only in the screening population.

German new onset diabetes in the young incident cohort study: DiMelli study design and first-year results.

Background: Diabetes incidence in childhood and youth is increasing worldwide, including autoimmune and non-autoimmune cases. Recent findings suggest that there is a larger than expected proportion of type 2 diabetes in youth, and potential cases of intermediate diabetes phenotypes. Most pediatric diabetes registries focus on type 1 diabetes.

Process quality and incidence of acute complications in a series of more than 230,000 outpatient colonoscopies.

Background And Study Aims: Data on process quality and complications of colonoscopies are sparse, especially for the screening setting. We describe process quality in routine care, estimate the incidence of acute complications, and identify risk indicators for substandard care and complications.

Patients And Methods: We analyzed data from 236 087 compulsory health insurance (CHI) members who underwent colonoscopies in 2006.

Epidemiology and quality control of 245 000 outpatient colonoscopies.

Introduction: Screening colonoscopy is an effective means for early detection of colorectal carcinoma. Any exhaustive evaluation of the method must take further factors into account: epidemiology of colorectal adenomas and carcinomas in the target population, acceptance by the patients, structure, process, and outcome quality, and health economics.

Methods: The internet-based colonoscopy database of the Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (ASHIP) for the year 2006 includes data on 86.

[Cancer screening for women is less frequently visited in regions with lower household income--analysis of data from health insurances in Bavaria].

Aim Of The Study: Differences in health care in Germany have rarely been analysed. Recent research, however, indicates that subjects of the lower social class participate in cancer screening less frequently.

Methods: Participation in screening for cervical cancer among women older than 20 years has been analysed using billing information of the KVB (Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung Bayern) for the period from 2002-2005.

Participation in cervical cancer screening by age and region--a cohort study with a 3 1/2 year follow-up on 2,223,135 women in Bavaria.

Objective Of The Study: Cervical cancer rates are higher in Germany than in comparable European countries. While other European countries have implemented invitation programs, Germany relied on annual free access only. Are sufficient screening participation rates achieved?

Methods: We analyzed data from 2,223,135 Bavarian women between 2002/3 and 2005/4 in a retrospective cohort, to evaluate screening participation, frequency, age dependencies and regional differences.

Chromosomal inversion polymorphism leads to extensive genetic structure: a multilocus survey in Drosophila subobscura.

The adaptive character of inversion polymorphism in Drosophila subobscura is well established. The O(ST) and O(3+4) chromosomal arrangements of this species differ by two overlapping inversions that arose independently on O(3) chromosomes. Nucleotide variation in eight gene regions distributed along inversion O(3) was analyzed in 14 O(ST) and 14 O(3+4) lines.

Nucleotide polymorphism in the RpII215 gene region of the insular species Drosophila guanche: reduced efficacy of weak selection on synonymous variation.

An approximately 6.9-kb region encompassing the RpII215 gene was sequenced for 24 individuals of the island endemic species Drosophila guanche. The comparative analysis of synonymous polymorphism and divergence in D.

Changes in the recombinational environment affect divergence in the yellow gene of Drosophila.

The complete coding region of the yellow (y) gene was sequenced in different Drosophila species. In the species of the melanogaster subgroup (D. melanogaster, D.

Nucleotide variation at the yellow gene region is not reduced in Drosophila subobscura: a study in relation to chromosomal polymorphism.

In contrast to Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans, the yellow (y) gene region of Drosophila subobscura is not located in a region with a strong reduction in recombination. In addition, this gene maps very close to the breakpoints of different inversions that segregate as polymorphic in natural populations of D. subobscura.

Divergence of the yellow gene between Drosophila melanogaster and D. subobscura: recombination rate, codon bias and synonymous substitutions.

The yellow (y) gene maps near the telomere of the X chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster but not in D. subobscura. Thus the strong reduction in the recombination rate associated with telomeric regions is not expected in D.

[The symptom hemobilia (author's transl)].

A 46-year-old woman with a histologically, immunoserologically and biochemically confirmed chronic destructive non-suppurative cholangitis in the stage of incipient primary biliary cirrhosis developed an erosive, hemorrhagic cholangitis of obscure etiology with massive life-threatening bleeding from the biliary tracts. Hemobilia could be diagnosed endoscopically and confirmed by exploratory laparotomy. Postoperatively the biliary tracts were washed out with Tachostyptan, Ugurol and Trasylol through a T drain.