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J Hussey

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PubMed1989

Endoballoon rupture and stenting for pelviureteric junction obstruction: technique and early results.

Endoballoon rupture and stenting was performed on 31 patients with pelviureteric junction obstruction. A percutaneous antegrade approach was used in 20 patients, a retrograde technique in 11. Clinical and renographic improvement was seen in 21 patients. Four patients later underwent nephrectomy, all of whom had a GFR of less than 20% in the affected kidney. Endoballoon rupture is technically undemanding, easier and less invasive than endopyelotomy. In patients with adequate renal function it provides a suitable alternative to pyeloplasty.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1977

Prediction of renal allograft rejection by direct lymphocyte blastogenesis assay.

In an effort to better predict renal allograft rejection, lymphocyte blastogenesis (DLBA) was determined in 65 patients after transplants. Of 47 clinically diagnosed rejection episodes 45 had an associated DLBA peak which preceded the clinical diagnosis by an average of 4 days; 11 recipients had DLBA peaks not associated with rejection episodes. Of 14 recipients with multiple DLBA peaks during postoperative periods of nonfunction, none did well. The blastogenesis assay was not a reliable enough predictor of graft rejection to be used as an indication for early elevation of corticosteroid dosage.

Graft Rejection↗
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National school teachers' knowledge of asthma and its management.

Asthma is the most common chronic medical condition that school teachers may encounter among their pupils. However management of asthma in schools and the role school teachers adopt in this condition has only recently been explored. The aim of this study was to determine teachers' knowledge of asthma and its management. A postal questionnaire was circulated to 199 school teachers from 46 schools in Dublin City. A 74 per cent response rate was obtained. The number of children with asthma as identified by teachers was 7.8 per cent which suggests that asthma may be unrecognised in a number of pupils. Knowledge on signs and symptoms of asthma, provoking factors of asthma and the nature of the disease was generally satisfactory. However, knowledge on asthma medications, the purpose of inhalers and teachers' understanding of the treatment and management of asthma was considered poor. Knowledge on exercise-induced asthma was limited. There is a need to provide school teachers with education on asthma and its management. School policies on asthma also need to be developed with particular reference to action necessary in the event of an acute severe attack of asthma.

Adult↗
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Peripheral cues and involvement level: influences on acceptance of a mammography message.

The elaboration likelihood model (ELM) suggests that some communication elements are processed differently depending on a receiver's involvement with the message topic. We hypothesized that women with high levels of breast cancer involvement would be more influenced by a mammography message's arguments than by the message's peripheral cues and, conversely, that women with low levels of involvement would be more influenced by a mammography message's peripheral cues than by the message's arguments. We exposed 89 low-income African American women aged 40 to 65 years to two repetitions of a mammography promotion public service announcement embedded as a commercial within a television talk show. We used a 2 (involvement level) x 2 (argument strength) x 2 (peripheral cue favorability) factorial posttest-only design. The analysis detected a significant main effect for involvement and an interaction between peripheral cue favorability and involvement. High-involvement women reported stronger intentions than did low-involvement women to seek additional mammography information, regardless of argument strength or cue favorability. Low-involvement women reported stronger intentions to seek more mammography information only when exposed to the favorable cue condition. The analysis detected no effect for argument strength in high- or low-involvement women. The ELM appears useful for designing mammography messages. As many women may have low involvement with breast cancer, mammography promotion messages that include favorable peripheral cues may be more likely to impact mammography information seeking than argument-based-only messages.

Adult↗