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    Radiation-induced distal ileal obstruction complicating ileostomy closure

    Radiation enteropathy is a recognized complication in patients who undergo neoadjuvant radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer. Routine formation of defunctioning loop ileostomy in these patients may m...

    Z. Zakaria, D. Toomey, J. Deasy in Techniques in Coloproctology (2014)

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    Correction of anaemia through the use of darbepoetin alfa improves chemotherapeutic outcome in a murine model of Lewis lung carcinoma

    Darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp®, Amgen) is a novel erythropoiesis-stimulating protein with a serum half-life longer than recombinant human erythropoietin (Epo), used in the treatment of cancer-associated anaemia. Anae...

    A M Shannon, D J Bouchier-Hayes, C M Condron, D Toomey in British Journal of Cancer (2005)

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    Development of a wireless network programme

    D. Toomey, M. Aremu, M. Doyle, K. Ryder, K. C. Conlon in Irish Journal of Medical Science (2005)

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    Neutrophil bactericidal function is defective in patients with recurrent urinary tract infections

    Urinary tract infection (UTI), most frequently caused by Escherichia coli, is one of the most common bacterial infections in humans. It is a host inflammatory response to bacterial invasion in which large numbers...

    C. Condron, D. Toomey, R. G. Casey, M. Shaffii, T. Creagh in Urological Research (2003)

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    Potentiation of the therapeutic index of interleukin-2 immunotherapy by combination with taurine in a syngeneic murine tumour model

    Administration of interleukin-2 (IL-2) is limited by the induction of the vascular leak syndrome (VLS).

    N. Finnegan, D. Toomey, C. Condron, H. P. Redmond in Irish Journal of Medical Science (2002)