Do isoflurane and halothane impair both systolic and diastolic function in the newborn pig?
These combined systolic and diastolic effects help to explain the increased sensitivity of the newborn myocardium to volatile anaesthetics.
Full-dose, intravenous contrast-enhanced FDG PET/CT was more accurate than conventional imaging for initial breast cancer staging due to the higher detection rate of metastases and synchronous tumours, although the study had several limitations including a retrospective design, a possible selection bias and a relevant false-positive rate for the detection of axillary lymph node metastases. FDG PET/CT resulted in a change of treatment in a substantial proportion of patients.