…bowl. Local anaesthesia and vasoconstriction: lidocaine 4 % with oxymetazoline 0.5 % (or xylometazoline) on cotton pledgets. Cautery: silver nitrate sticks; electrocautery as a second choice…

…with patients with primary hypertension matched for age, sex and blood pressure, affected patients have more frequent stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction and atrial fibrillation, as…

…In diabetes, carotid plaque prevalence correlates linearly with diabetes and carotid atherosclerosis tends to be more advanced than in people without diabetes. Carotid disease is…

…evaluated. The findings were as follows: The absence of a pupillary reflex demonstrated a sensitivity of 72.2% for predicting an unfavorable neurological outcome, indicating…

…as it does not represent a true conduction block but rather a delay in the propagation of electrical impulses from the atria to the ventricles…