Does inconsistency in filling in the bottom of the spine bone map affect reported spine bone mineral density?
When there is a noticeable defect in the bottom of the spine bone map, filling this defect in consistently eliminates a significant source of variability in analysis of spine BMDs and might allow us to achieve smaller LSCs.
The usage of mupirocin for nasal decontamination before open-heart surgery reduces the incidence of the sternal wound infection, and does not seem to affect the frequency of cutaneous infections of the lower limbs nor pneumonia after this surgery.