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The transversus abdominis plane block provides effective postoperative analgesia in patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2008-12-01)
BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing total abdominal hysterectomy suffer significant postoperative pain. The transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is a recently described approach to providing analgesia to the anterior abdominal ...
Highly sensitive b cell analysis predicts response to rituximab therapy in rheumatoid arthritis
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008-10-01)
Objective. In rheumatoid arthritis (RA), B cell depletion occurs in all patients treated with rituximab, but the clinical responses to rituximab are variable. A highly sensitive assay was used to test the hypothesis that ...