Pain perception and expectation related to interradicular mini-implants insertion: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: The aim of this systematic review was to compare the expectation and perception of pain reported by patients before and after the installation of interradicular mini-implants.

Materials And Methods: Electronic search was performed in six databases. Inclusion criteria were randomized controlled trials (RCTs) or non-randomized controlled clinical trials (nRCTs); studies using mini-implants in the interradicular region; assessment of pain intensity by visual analogue or numerical scale.

Supplementations of industrial multichamber parenteral nutrition bags in critically ill children: Safety of the practice.

Background: Parenteral nutrition (PN) is sometimes required in critically ill children because of contraindication or intolerance to full enteral nutrition. European guidelines recommend favoring multichamber bag PN (MCB PN), when possible, for quality purposes and ease of use. The prescribers may adjust the MCB PN through supplementations to better fulfill patient needs.

Team approach to polypharmacy evaluation and reduction: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Polypharmacy in older adults can be associated with negative outcomes including falls, impaired cognition, reduced quality of life, and general and functional decline. It is not clear to what extent these are reversible if the number of medications is reduced. Primary care does not have a systematic approach for reducing inappropriate polypharmacy, and there are few, if any, approaches that account for the patient's priorities and preferences.

Disappearing Acts: Anguish, Isolation, and the Re-imagining of the Mentally Ill in Global Psychopharmaceutical Advertising (1953-2005).

The visualization of mental illness has attracted substantial attention from scholars in recent decades. Due to the invisible nature of mental disorders, this work has stressed the importance of representations in shaping perceptions of mental illness. In the second half of the 20 century, advertisements for psychopharmaceutical medications became important avenues through which mental illness was made visible.

Methods to control anticancer chemotherapy preparations ranked by risk analysis.

The observed increase in cancer led to a continuous rise in anticancer drug preparations in Hospital Centres. The quality and security of these preparations are essential to ensure the efficacy and to limit the risk of iatrogenic toxicity. Several methods have been described to secure the process of preparation (i.

The influence of structure and composition of a reverse SDS microemulsion on enzymatic activities and electrical conductivities.

The activity of the enzyme horse radish peroxidase (HRP) is studied in a series of reverse microemulsions composed of dodecane, aqueous buffer, sodium dodecylsufate (SDS) and alcohols of the homologous series 1-butanol to 1-octanol. The HRP catalyzed reaction is the oxidation of a classical water soluble substrate, the 2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt (ABTS) by hydrogen peroxide. In parallel electrical conductivity measurements are performed on the same solutions.

Insulin-loaded W/O/W multiple emulsions: comparison of the performances of systems prepared with medium-chain-triglycerides and fish oil.

Insulin-loaded W/O/W multiple emulsions (ME) composed of medium-chain triglycerides have been shown to decrease the blood glucose level after oral administration to diabetic rats. Fish oil (very long-chain triglycerides) could be an alternative to medium-chain triglycerides because its chronic consumption has beneficial therapeutic effects. The aim of this work was twofold: to obtain stable fish oil containing ME, based on a formulation optimized in a previous work with low medium-chain triglycerides content, and to compare their characteristics to those of ME composed of medium-chain triglycerides.

[The long-term effects of dual-chamber stimulation in 8 patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and symptoms refractory to medical therapy].

Background: The issue of DDD pacing as a therapeutic option for patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is still under debate. Moreover, some authors stress the concept of the placebo effect of electrical therapy in this particular setting.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 8 symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy despite medical therapy, who underwent DDD pacemaker implantation as an adjunctive therapeutic strategy.

Charcoal suspension for tumor labelling modifies macrophage activity in mice.

We have previously developed a charcoal suspension for injection into human breast cancers in order to facilitate their location during surgery. We observed that charcoal particles were ingested by intra and peritumoral macrophages, some of which carried the particles at some distance from the injection site. We studied the influence of the formulation parameters of the charcoal suspension for intratumoral injection on in vitro and in vivo activation and in vivo mobilization of mouse peritoneal macrophages after intra-peritoneal injection of 2 mL of each preparation.

Effects of tail alkyl chain length (n), head group structure and junction (Z) on amphiphilic properties of 1-Z-R-D,L-xylitol compounds (R = CnH2n+1).

In the family of 1-Z-R-D,L-xylitol, we have determined the main amphiphilic properties of esters (Z = OCO) as a function of alkyl chain length (R = CnH2n+1, n = 4-17). A classical decrease of critical micelle concentration with the increase in the alkyl chain has been found. With water, esters displayed lamellar phases at temperatures of 25 degrees C or higher.

Antidepressant effects of the sleep/wake cycle phase advance. Preliminary report.

Five patients with endogenous depression were asked to participate in a phase-advance procedure consisting in advancing by 5 h the time schedule of the major external synchronizers such as light/dark, sleep/wake, meal time and social activity cycles. Clinical and biological parameters were observed throughout this 2-week process which followed one night of partial sleep deprivation. All patients improved with partial sleep deprivation and four of the five showed continuing remission during the phase-advance process.