ObjectiveTo evaluate long-term patency rates of a novel percutaneous threefold balloon dilatation protocol in benign anastomotic biliary strictures.MethodsPatients with a benign biliary stricture after hepatobiliary surgery or liver transplantation, untreatable with endoscopy, underwent a percutaneous treatment cycle consisting of a 20-min balloon ...
ObjectiveTo evaluate long-term patency rates of a novel percutaneous threefold balloon dilatation protocol in benign anastomotic biliary strictures.MethodsPatients with a benign biliary stricture after hepatobiliary surgery or liver transplantation, untreatable with endoscopy, underwent a percutaneous treatment cycle consisting of a 20-min balloon ...
ObjectiveTo evaluate long-term patency rates of a novel percutaneous threefold balloon dilatation protocol in benign anastomotic biliary strictures.MethodsPatients with a benign biliary stricture after hepatobiliary surgery or liver transplantation, untreatable with endoscopy, underwent a percutaneous treatment cycle consisting of a 20-min balloon ...
Background: Children living with foster families in a resource-limited setting such as Ethiopia are at risk of developmental problems. It is not yet clear whether intensive home-based developmental stimulation assisted by play can reduce these problems. The main objective of this study was to examine the effects of play-assisted intervention integr...
Recent systematic reviews point to the scarcity of single implants followed up longer than 5 years, and the incidence of biologic/technical complications is underreported. This prospective follow-up study documents 8-to 10-year clinical outcomes of immediately restored single implants in extraction sockets (immediate implant treatment [IIT]) and he...
Nearly 100 loci have been identified for pulmonary function, almost exclusively in studies of European ancestry populations. We extend previous research by meta-analyzing genomewide association studies of 1000 Genomes imputed variants in relation to pulmonary function in a multiethnic population of 90,715 individuals of European (N = 60,552), Afric...
Objectives: The outcome of radioiodine therapy in hyperthyroid cats is suspected to be influenced by multiple factors. The degree of activity of the thyroid gland, represented by uptake of sodium pertechnetate or tracer activities of radioiodine by the thyroid gland on thyroid scintigraphy, has been suggested in the literature as one of those. Thyr...
