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Leicester General Hospital
Healthcare•Leicester, United Kingdom•
About: Leicester General Hospital is a healthcare organization based out in Leicester, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Transplantation. The organization has 2481 authors who have published 3034 publications receiving 107437 citations.
Topics: Population, Transplantation, Diabetes mellitus, Kidney, Kidney disease
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TL;DR: The majority of elderly who harmed themselves had high suicide intent and 69% were depressed and to gain relief from an unbearable state of mind was a frequently recorded motive for these patients.
Abstract: Data was collected on seventy-six older people who presented to a specialist self-harm team. Data included: diagnosis, suicide intent, motives for self-harm, social contacts and life events and difficulties. The majority of elderly who harmed themselves had high suicide intent and 69% were depressed. Patients were frequently living alone with an isolated life-style and poor physical health. Depressed self-harm subjects had higher suicide intent scores than non-depressed and to gain relief from an unbearable state of mind was a frequently recorded motive for these patients. Other motives for self-harm appear to be similar between depressed and non-depressed self-harmers. It is important that older people who self-harm receive an appropriate assessment of both risk and need by an experienced mental-health professional skilled at recognising depression in later life. The need for adequate recognition and management of depression in older people in primary care is also highlighted.
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TL;DR: An overview of the background and results of the established method of pancreas preservation for DBD, namely, cold static storage, and the use of the two-layer method is described, and pulsatile machine perfusion and normothermic perfusion are reviewed, which have shown promise in the preservation of DCD kidney grafts.
Abstract: One of the main factors limiting potential uptake of pancreas transplantation, particularly in the United Kingdom, is the shortage of grafts. There has therefore been a recent expansion, particularly in the United Kingdom, in the utilization of grafts from donation after cardiac death (DCD) donors. These grafts are subjected to a greater ischemic insult and are arguably at higher risk of poor functional outcome. Although conventional preservation techniques may be adequate for donation after brain death (DBD) and low-risk DCD pancreases, as the number of DCD pancreas transplants increase and the threshold for rejecting organs decreases, the importance of optimal preservation techniques is going to increase. Over recent years, there have been significant advances in preservation techniques for DCD kidneys, improving the outcome of these marginal grafts. However, the use of such techniques for pancreas preservation is extremely limited and mainly historical. This overview describes the background and results of the established method of pancreas preservation for DBD, namely, cold static storage, and describes the use of the two-layer method. It also reviews pulsatile machine perfusion and normothermic perfusion for pancreas preservation techniques, which have shown promise in the preservation of DCD kidney grafts. The use of these techniques in pancreas preservation is predominantly historical but warrants reevaluation as to the feasibility of applying these techniques to DCD pancreas grafts not only for preservation but also for viability assessment. Further areas for development of pancreas preservation are discussed.
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TL;DR: The level of knowledge achieved by patients who have read a simple information sheet on gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy is determined, and the levels of information required by patients and solicitors specializing in clinical negligence are determined.
Abstract: Objective To determine the level of knowledge achieved by patients who have read a simple information sheet on gastroscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy, and to determine the levels of information required by patients and solicitors specializing in clinical negligence.Design Self-administered questionn
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TL;DR: This study undertook a study of diagnostic accuracy CRC using FIT, FCP and urinary volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms.
Abstract: Aim
Faecal markers, such as the faecal immunochemical test for haemoglobin (FIT) and faecal calprotectin (FCP), have been increasingly used to exclude colorectal cancer (CRC) and colonic inflammation. However, in those with lower gastrointestinal symptoms there are considerable numbers who have cancer but have a negative FIT test (i.e. false negative), which has impeded its use in clinical practice. We undertook a study of diagnostic accuracy CRC using FIT, FCP and urinary volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms.
Method
One thousand and sixteen symptomatic patients with suspected CRC referred by family physicians were recruited prospectively in accordance with national referring protocol. A total of 562 patients who completed colonic investigations, in addition to providing stool for FIT and FCP as well as urine samples for urinary VOC measurements, were included in the final outcome measures.
Results
The sensitivity and specificity for CRC using FIT was 0.80 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.66–0.93] and 0.93 (CI 0.91–0.95), respectively. For urinary VOCs, the sensitivity and specificity for CRC was 0.63 (CI 0.46–0.79) and 0.63 (CI 0.59–0.67), respectively. However, for those who were FIT‐negative CRC (i.e. false negatives), the addition of urinary VOCs resulted in a sensitivity of 0.97 (CI 0.90–1.0) and specificity of 0.72 (CI 0.68–0.76).
Conclusions
When applied to the FIT‐negative group, urinary VOCs improve CRC detection (sensitivity rises from 0.80 to 0.97), thus showing promise as a second‐stage test to complement FIT in the detection of CRC.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the availability of suitable vein, maturation rates, patency and complication rates of autogeneous elbow fistulas in diabetics and non-diabetics at a single centre where an autogeneous vein only policy is employed.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Janet Treasure | 114 | 831 | 44104 |
John P. Neoptolemos | 112 | 648 | 52928 |
Paul Moayyedi | 104 | 531 | 36144 |
Alex J. Sutton | 95 | 307 | 47411 |
Traolach S. Brugha | 95 | 215 | 81818 |
Kamlesh Khunti | 91 | 1030 | 37429 |
Melanie J. Davies | 89 | 814 | 36939 |
Kenneth J. O'Byrne | 87 | 629 | 39193 |
Martin Roland | 86 | 410 | 31220 |
Keith R. Abrams | 86 | 355 | 30980 |
Charles D. Pusey | 83 | 422 | 30154 |
Hans W. Hoek | 82 | 263 | 81606 |
Richard Poulsom | 80 | 242 | 20567 |
Alex J. Mitchell | 79 | 251 | 24227 |
David C. Wheeler | 77 | 328 | 25238 |