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To study the effect of a nerve block of the infrapatellar nerve with local infiltration with lidocaine or saline on chronic anterior knee pain after tibial nailing.Secondairy objectives:- to measure knee pain on a VAS for eight different activities…
Does salpingectomy during a hysterectomy cause POF? Secundary: what is the incidence of premalignant changes within Fallopian tubes of women without a hereditary high risk to develop serous carcinoma?
- To determine the effects of the pacing site on prevention of AF episodes - To examine the relation between the pacing site, reduction of AF episodes, quality of life, heart failure, number of cardioversions, frequency and duration of hospital…
Primary objective(s): Is to determine the effect of botulinum toxin injections on postoperative pain and discomfort after an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair.Secondary: To determine whether postoperative immobilization of the rotator cuff, after…
1. To compare the induction of a procoagulant state between patients undergoing PVI using the PVAC catheter, the cryoballoon catheter or the cooled tip catheter.2. To compare the incidence of CE on diffusion weighted MRI between the three groups of…
The aim of this clinical study is to investigate whether RIPC induced cardioprotection is associated with an increased amount of mitochondrial HK (mtHK) in the heart.
Our primary objective is the effect of taurine on morbidity and consequent mortality.
To identify the influence of two different biocompatible-coated extracorporeal circuits on the perfused boundary region of the sublingual microvasculature as measured by the GlycoCheck Sidestream Darkfield Imaging camera.
This pilot is meaned to obtain:- experience and understanding in the presence of new embolic load in the brain by means of DW-MRI- Understanding in the number of patients in which probably the post-operative DW-MRI can not be done according to…
The primary objective of this study is to define differences in the inflammatory response, coagulation, and fibrinolysis in CABG patients with either MECC or conventional CPB.
1 Primary Objective To investigate the effects of 15* liver ischemia versus 30* liver ischemia on liver injury and liver function.To investigate the effect of liver manipulation during mobilisation for a right hemihepatectomy, that can be used as a…
Our primary goal is to compare the effects of a positive pressure mechanical ventilation with spontaneous breathing on systemic cytokine release in patients with normal pulmonary function. Secondly, the possible effects of surgery on the ventilation…
The objective of this study is to prove that chronic post-sternotomy pain is not a local painproblem, but part of a general painsyndrom.Our hypothesis is twofold:1. The investigated painsymptoms are of more frequently occurrence in the pain-sample…
To investigate the feasibility and safety of a diet containing 30% caloric and 70% protein restriction given during five days in healthy kidney donors planned to undergo a live kidney donation as well as persons awaiting bariatric surgery.…
To determine the add-on value of bi-atrial pacing in combination with standardised Sotalol treatment for the prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF).
To define the exact effect of LSG with and without concomitant HH repair on the prevalence of GERD and GERD-related symptoms in obese patients who are intraoperatively diagnosed with a small HH. Furthermore, to examine the effect of LSG on the…
The objective of the proposed study is to evaluate if results as are written above, are to be extrapolated on high risk patients who underwent vascular surgery. In this group of patients, there is a substantial risk of 15-20% to die in the first…
The primary aim of this study was to compare bloodless surgery using vascular clamps and a tourniquet with respect to the development of an anatomical or hemodynamic significant stenosis in patients with a brachiocephalic or radiocephalic AVF.
To compare the effects of a preoperative PA program in addition to usual care versus usual care only on the change in SB from baseline (T0) to the end of the preoperative (intervention) period (T1) in patients with TAD.
The primary objective is to determine the impact of listening to music prior and during receiving electric stimuli on pain enduranceSecondary objectives are to measure how subjective anxiety, HRV, sAA and sCortisol are involved in the management of…