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Classifying Polypharmacy According to Pharmacotherapeutic and Clinical Risks in Older Adults: A Latent Class Analysis in Quebec, Canada
The simplistic definition of polypharmacy, often designated as the concomitant use of five medications or more, does not distinguish appropriate from inappropriate polypharmacy. Classifying polypharmacy accord...
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Open AccessDevelopment and validation of a Brief Diet Quality Assessment Tool in the French-speaking adults from Quebec
The objective of this study was to develop and validate a short, self-administered questionnaire to assess diet quality in clinical settings, using the Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) as reference.
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Fruit and vegetable intake and the association with glucose parameters: a cross-sectional analysis of the Let’s Prevent Diabetes Study
Dietary recommendations for the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus include the message to consume 400 g fruit and vegetables per day. Measurement of habitual diet is inherently difficult, yet errors due to...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Development of a New Canadian Operational Air Quality Forecast Model
Development and implementation of the next generation of Canada’s operational air quality (AQ) forecast model is underway at Environment Canada (EC). The goal of this project is the replacement in 2008 of the ...
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The Aeronautical Sector: Recent Tendencies
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Comparison of Glutathione S-Transferase and Alanyl Aminopeptidase as Viability Markers in a Porcine NHBD Model
A critical shortage in the kidney donor pool has led to a renewed interest in non-heart beating donors (NHBDs). As warm ischaemic tissue injury is a characteristic of NHBD, it is therefore crucial to screen s...
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Verzögerte Diagnose einer Odontoidfraktur nach Schleudertrauma der Halswirbelsäule
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Early results of a non-heartbeating donor (NHBD) programme with machine perfusion
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne restarted their non-heartbeating donor (NHBD) programme in September 1998 using machine perfusion, due to early poor results with conventional cold storage (45 % graft su...
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Does a visual analogue colour chart carried by the retrieval team help in assessment of the fat content of donor livers?
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Active TGF-β 1 Expression in kidney transplantation: a comparative study of Cyclosporin-A (CyA) and tacrolimus (FK506)
Chronic rejection is a major cause of graft dysfunction following kidney transplantation. This fibroproliferative disease may be promoted by overproduction of transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β). Previous st...
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The impact of cytomegalovirus serology for 7-year graft survival in cadaveric kidney transplantation – the Newcastle experience
To analyse the contribution of cytomegalovirus (CMV) serology to long-term graft survival in cadaveric kidney transplantation, 404 transplants from a single centre were divided into four subgroups with respec...
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“En bloc” paediatric renal donors into adult recipients – the Newcastle technique
Whilst debate still continues about the best use of kidneys from small donors, the techniques used have been varied because of the high vascular thromboses rates and ureteric leak rates. The method described ...
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Expansion of donor pool: lack of function predictors
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Long-term adult renal graft outcome after ureteric drainage into an augmented bladder or ileal conduit
Patients with an augmented or diverted urinary system are considered higher risk recipients in view of increased technical problems and infective complications. We studied the long-term renal graft function a...
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Differential effects of cyclosporin A and tacrolimus on the production of TGF-β: implications for the development of obliterative bronchiolitis after lung transplantation
The development of obliterative bronchiolitis is a common cause for failure of lung allografts. Fibrinogenesis can occur for a number of different reasons but some groups have suggested that cyclosporin A (Cs...
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Tacrolimus and cyclosporine efficacy in high-risk kidney transplantation
The efficacy and safety of tacrolimus- and cyclosporine-based immunosuppressive regimens were compared in a prospectively defined subgroup of kidney transplant recipients from the European, open, multicentre...
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Conversion of renal transplant recipients from cyclosporin to low-dose tacrolimus for refractory rejection
Twenty-five patients with refractory rejection following renal transplantation were converted from cyclosporin to tacrolimus in an attempt to salvage the allografts. All patients had received two or three pul...
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Biliary reconstruction with or without an internal biliary stent in orthotopic liver transplantation: a prospective randomised trial
Choledochocholedochostomy (CCD) with a 7 fr/8 fr Cotton Leung internal biliary stent removed at endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) 3 months following orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) was the te...
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Comparison of the efficacy of University of Wisconsin solution and Newcastle organ perfusion fluid in the preservation of livers for transplantation
University of Wisconsin solution (UW) is now used widely for the preservation of livers for transplantation. However, the use of commercial solutions has added considerably to the cost. We were able to produc...
