Does arterial stiffness predict risk for long-term recurrence in patients with type 2 diabetes admitted for acute coronary event?
AS estimation in patients with DM2 after STEMI discriminate patients at higher risk for 3-year recurrence, and maybe valuable for distinguishing patients likely to require a more rigorous therapeutic intervention.
We did not detect any measurable benefit of laparoscopic compared with conventional portoenterostomy for subsequent liver transplantation. Thus, prevention of adhesion formation and facilitating subsequent liver transplantation are not rationales for laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy.