Glidescope Video Laryngoscopy in Patients with Severely Restricted Mouth Opening-A Pilot Study.

Background: An inter-incisor gap <3 cm is considered critical for videolaryngoscopy. It is unknown if new generation GlideScope Spectrum™ videolaryngoscopes with low-profile hyperangulated blades might facilitate safe tracheal intubation in these patients. This prospective pilot study aims to evaluate feasibility and safety of GlideScope videolaryngoscopes in severely restricted mouth opening.

Allelic variants of breast cancer susceptibility genes and in the Latvian population.

Background: Large-scale case control studies revealed a number of moderate risk - low frequency breast cancer alleles of the and genes. Some of these were reported as founder variants of Central and Eastern Europe. Based on highly similar founder variant spectra of the in Poland and Latvia, we decided to test the frequency of other common variants of moderate breast cancer risk - c.