Robarts Research Institute, PO Box 5015, 100 Perth Dr, London, ON N6A 5K8, Canada. E-mail barnett@rri.on.ca Abstract Background and Purpose—Carotid endarterectomy (CE) has been shown to be beneficial in patients with symptomatic high-grade (70% to 99%) internal carotid artery stenosis. ...
Graphene and its counterparts have been widely used for the removal of contaminants from (waste)water but with limited success for the removal of pharmaceutical contaminants. Driven by this need, this study reports, for the first time, the removal of pha
In this work, we prepared a novel electrochemical sensor for the detection of tramadol based on a UiO-66-NH2 metal–organic framework (UiO-66-NH2 MOF)/third-generation poly(amidoamine) dendrimer (G3-PAMAM dendrimer) nanocomposite drop-cast onto a glassy
There is no high-grade evidence on how to treat CDI when oral therapy is not possible, for example because of ileus. In severe cases of CDI with (imminent) toxic megacolon, surgery is the only remaining effective treatment. This consists of subtotal colectomy with end-ileostomy or, more ...
More than 2 decades ago, a mentor at Indiana taught me that squishing a high-grade coronary lesion did not reduce the risk for heart attack or death. I still remember where I was when I heard that. It was that counterintuitive. The notion that the vulnerable plaque is not the one that...