High-resolution non-contrast free-breathing coronary cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography for detection of coronary artery disease: validation against invasive coronary angiography.

Background: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the single most common cause of death worldwide. Recent technological developments with coronary cardiovascular magnetic resonance angiography (CCMRA) allow high-resolution free-breathing imaging of the coronary arteries at submillimeter resolution without contrast in a predictable scan time of ~ 10 min. The objective of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of high-resolution CCMRA for CAD detection against the gold standard of invasive coronary angiography (ICA).

Does Hyaluronan improve pain or function following Arthroscopic Subacromial decompression (ASD) surgery of Shoulder? Results of a level 1 RCT.

Background: Sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronan) can be used as a synovial fluid substitute following arthroscopic surgery. In this study, we examined its effect on pain and function following arthroscopic subacromial arthroscopic decompression (ASAD).

Methodology: A prospective, randomized, and single-blinded design was used (13/LO0427) to compare the effect of a single postprocedure subacromial instillation of 10 ml hyaluronan, against 10 ml saline control.

Urinary tract infections: new insights into a common problem.

This review discusses recent advances in the understanding of how the common pathogen, uropathogenic Escherichia coli, interacts with the host to lead to infection.

Thyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone competing to maintain calcium levels in the presence of vitamin D deficiency.

Weight loss and bone disease in the elderly are very often attributed to malignancy. Rarely, benign treatable conditions may be overlooked. Thyrotoxicosis, a benign treatable condition, needs to be excluded in such patients.

First steps of the journey:job evaluation for agenda for change.

(JE) is probably the first Agenda for Change (AfC) activity that trusts will undertake: the starting point of a long journey to modernise pay and grading locally.

Balloon pulmonary valvuloplasty in carcinoid syndrome.

Half of all patients with carcinoid syndrome develop cardiac involvement. Patients who have cardiac involvement have a significantly worse prognosis than those without, and death can occur directly as a result of cardiac involvement. A case of carcinoid syndrome in a 38 year old woman with lesions in the liver, who presented with right sided valvar abnormalities, a dilated right ventricle, and right ventricular pressure overload, is presented.