Effects of combined epidural analgesia with total intravenous anesthesia on risky patients underwent major abdominal surgery.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of combined epidural analgesia with total intravenous anaesthesia and only total intravenous anaesthesia on the different clinical parameters.

Methods: Sixty high risk patients undergoing a major abdominal surgical procedure were included in this prospective, double blind, randomized study. Induction of anaesthesia was performed with IV remifentanil 0.

The relationship between malnutrition subgroups and volume parameters in pre-dialysis patients.

There are two types of malnutrition in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF); type 1 and type 2. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between malnutrition and inflammation and also the relationship between malnutrition and volume status. Ninety-four pre-dialysis CRF patients were included in the study.

[The predictive value of plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels on outcome in children with pulmonary hypertension undergoing congenital heart surgery].

Background And Objectives: In children undergoing congenital heart surgery, plasma brain natriuretic peptide levels may have a role in development of low cardiac output syndrome that is defined as a combination of clinical findings and interventions to augment cardiac output in children with pulmonary hypertension.

Methods: In a prospective observational study, fifty-one children undergoing congenital heart surgery with preoperative echocardiographic study showing pulmonary hypertension were enrolled. The plasma brain natriuretic peptide levels were collected before operation, 12, 24 and 48h after operation.

Levosimendan improves renal outcome in cardiac surgery: a randomized trial.

Objective: The effect of levosimendan on renal function in patients with low ejection fraction undergoing mitral valve surgery was investigated.

Design: A prospective, double-blinded, randomized clinical trial.

Setting: Tertiary teaching and research hospital.