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In the treatment of lower limbs venous ulcers, compression through elastic dressings has become the usual practice, even if reviews of the greater or lower efficacy of some particular kinds of dressings compared to others, in relation to their cost, too, have been not performed. A systematic review [...]
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Patients under warfarin anticoagulation treatment in general interrupt anticoagulation and are treated with low-molecular-weight heparins in perioperative periods. Some researchers have measured the levels of heparin anti-Xa in the period immediately preceding surgery in 80 patients in whom [...]
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Neurosurgeons’ present tendency is to adopt a policy of watchful waiting in case of disk herniation which has not caused paresis yet. Some researchers have performed a randomized study of discectomy vs conservative therapies and an observational study on subjects refusing randomization. In the [...]
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The introduction of endovascular surgery allowed to make surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) also in otherwise inoperable patients according to traditional open surgery. In this analysis of patients operated at the Massachusetts General Hospital 873 patients (averagely 76 years of [...]