Patient satisfaction and quality of life in breast reconstruction: assessment of outcomes of immediate, delayed, and nonreconstruction.

Objectives: This study was conducted aiming to assess the quality of life and satisfaction of women who had mastectomy treated with and without breast reconstruction.

Results: A total of 81 women who had mastectomy were included, of whom 53 (65.4%) underwent breast reconstruction.

Fast methods for simultaneous determination of arginine, ascorbic acid and aspartic acid by capillary electrophoresis.

Arginine (ARG), ascorbic acid (ASC) and aspartic acid (ASP) are very popular and widely consumed active ingredients used for fatigue treatment or improvement of physical performance. For this reason, these compounds are usually available in the same pharmaceutical formulation. In the current paper, we describe for the first-time methods for simultaneous determination of ARG, ASC and ASP using capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (CE-CD) and with UV spectrophotometric detection (CE-UV).

A sub-minute electrophoretic method for simultaneous determination of naphazoline and zinc.

This paper reports for the first time, a method for simultaneous determination of naphazoline (NPZ) and zinc (Zn) using an analytical separation technique (capillary electrophoresis with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection -CE-CD). A single run is possible every 55s (sampling rate=65h). The separation by CE-CD was achieved on a fused silica capillary (50cm length - 10cm effective, 50μm i.

Correlation between nutritional markers and appetite self-assessments in hemodialysis patients.

Objective: Protein-energy malnutrition is among the comorbidities that most strongly affect the prognosis of patients with chronic kidney disease. Anorexia, defined as a loss of desire to eat, is one cause of such malnutrition. Tools that evaluate appetite and the correlation between appetite and nutritional parameters require further study.

Evaluation of parathyroid function and mineral metabolism in psychiatric patients using lithium salts.

Objective: To evaluate parathyroid function and mineral metabolism in psychiatric patients users of lithium salts.

Materials And Methods: We measured the serum levels of calcium, ionized calcium, inorganic phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, albumin, parathyroid hormone (PTH), urea, creatinine, 25-hydroxy-vitamin D and lithium of 35 patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder in use of lithium carbonate (LC) for at least one year (Lithium Group - LG) and 35 healthy subjects (Control Group - CG).

Results: The LG and CG were matched by sex and age.