3 results match your criteria: "Waikato Hospital Department[Affiliation]"
Safety of Paclitaxel Coated Devices: Is the Quest Completed?
Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg
January 2023
Department of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands. Electronic address:
Clinical utility of technetium-99m-labelled leukocyte scan in diagnosis of vascular infections.
J Med Imaging Radiat Oncol
June 2023
Department of Vascular Surgery, Waikato Hospital Department, Hamilton, New Zealand.
Introduction: The diagnosis of vascular graft infections and infected aneurysms via conventional methods such as computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) can often be challenging. Nuclear medicine imaging techniques can detect infection in these difficult cases. We aim to evaluate the diagnostic value of technetium-99m-labelled leukocyte scans in diagnosing vascular graft infections in our centre.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVitamin D, innate immunity and outcomes in community acquired pneumonia.
Respirology
May 2011
Respiratory Research Unit, Waikato Hospital Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Waikato, Hamilton Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Background And Objective: Vitamin D regulates the production of the antimicrobial peptides cathelicidin and beta-defensin-2, which play an important role in the innate immune response to infection. We hypothesized that vitamin D deficiency would be associated with lower levels of these peptides and worse outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with community acquired pneumonia.
Methods: Associations between mortality and serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, cathelicidin and beta-defensin-2 were investigated in a prospective cohort of 112 patients admitted with community acquired pneumonia during winter.