P S Basnyat’s research while affiliated with Royal Columbian Hospital and other places

... La ruptura del aneurisma de aorta abdominal es la complicación mas frecuente y por otro lado mas grave que puede presentar este tipo de patología en una población de edad con una no despreciable incidencia y prevalencia 1,2 . Estos indicadores se han visto implementados, por una parte por un diagnóstico más fácil y preciso de esta patología que han incrementado las posibilidades del conocimiento de su existencia y que por otro lado por el envejecimiento de la población, ha aumentado la posibilidad de aparición y desarrollo del mismo, que aunque se desconozcan sus causas 3 , parece evidente desde el punto de vista etiopatogénico, existe una alteración morfológica con perfil patológico del vaso generalmente con cambios en la estructura y composición del componente de la pared, con debilitamiento de la misma 4 y que conlleva un riesgo de ruptura, donde hay que considerar que este conducto vascular es el vehículo portador y de distribución de la sangre y que circula desde el punto de vista hemodinámico a oleadas de acuerdo al impulso hemático dependiendo del sístole y diástole cardiaca y que también se realiza con presión del líquido tisular vehiculizado con diferentes cifras de acuerdo a la situación hemodinámica de cada paciente 5,6 . ...

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DETERMINACIÓN DEL PESO PREDICTIVO DE PARÁMETROS MORFOLÓGICOS Y MORFOMÉTRICOS EN LA VALORACIÓN DE LA RUPTURA DEL ANEURISMA DE AORTA ABDOMINAL DETERMINATION OF THE PREDICTIVE WEIGHT OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND MORPHOMETRIC PARAMETERS IN THE ASSESSMENT OF ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM RUPTURE Correspondencia

... It can be classified anatomically as supra-renal, juxta-renal or infrarenal in relation to the renal arteries, with infra-renal AAA being the most common. Rupture of a AAA is associated with a mortality rate of between 65% and 85% resulting in up to 8,000 deaths annually in the UK with approximately half of the deaths attributed to rupture occurring before the patient reaches hospital (Basnyat et al., 1999;Ashton et al., 2002). ...

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Cardiorespiratory fitness is impaired and predicts mid-term postoperative survival in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm disease

... Fixed risk factors include advancing age, with risk increasing by 40% every 5 years after the age of 65 years, being male (male to female ratio, 6:1) and having a positive family history, notably first degree male family members. Modifiable risk factors include smoking, hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia (Basnyat et al. 1999). Approximately 2–20% of AAAs are classified as juxtarenal (JR) if their proximal extent is close to the origin of the renal arteries but does not involve them (Crawford et al. 1986). ...

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Intervisceral artery origins in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysmal disease; evidence for systemic vascular remodeling

... Despite being typically asymptomatic, AAA is prone to rupture, 1 leading to devastating consequences with a mortality rate of nearly 80%. 2,3 The risk of AAA is associated with hypertension, atherosclerosis, smoking, and family history. [4][5][6] Given the stealthy nature of AAA symptoms and the lifethreatening complications associated with it, there is an urgent need for early prevention strategies focusing on modifiable risk factors. ...

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Sleep Pattern, Genetic Susceptibility, and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in UK Biobank Participants

... Therefore, it may indeed be reasonable to assign greater priority to the anonymity of ratings, as is currently the case in the " Connect " community. The fact that certain individuals did not hesitate to exert pressures on editors to disclose the identity of raters who negatively rated their contributions [41] lends additional support to the stated conclusion. ...

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Four Questions on Complexity and Learning

... Positive attitudes toward nurse endoscopists were predicted by actual experience with nurse endoscopists and beliefs that nurse endoscopists would provide adequate endoscopic quality and patient experiences (Van Putten et al., 2009). Finally, an audit on one hospital unit following the introduction of a nurse-led flexible sigmoidoscopy found that, despite patient satisfaction with a nurseled flexible sigmoidoscopy service in the United Kingdom, 72% of general practitioners had reservations about the service and only 41% had referred patients (Basnyat, West, Davies, Davies, & Foster, 2000). ...

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Nurse-Performed Endoscopy: Implications for the Nursing Profession in Australia

... Every one of the included 246 studies described smoking prevalence among physicians. The main aim of examining smoking prevalence among physicians was reported in most studies (n = 117) [24,26,27,29,32,33,[35][36][37][38][39][40][41]44,45,48,49,[53][54][55][56]58,59,68,69,72,73,76,78,82,84,85,87,[90][91][92][93][94][95][97][98][99][102][103][104]107,108,110,115,[119][120][121]126,[131][132][133][135][136][137][138]141,142,[144][145][146][147][148][149]151,154,[156][157][158]160,161,[163][164][165]167,[169][170][171][172]174,176,[178][179][180]182,183,185,187,[189][190][191][192][193][194]196,197,199,[201][202][203][204]207,211,213,218,224,225,227,231,239,[241][242][243]. Fifteen studies also aimed to assess the use of other substances in physicians. ...

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Smoking Prevalence among Physicians: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

... Patient satisfaction was reported in 7 (7%) records (Basnyat et al., 2001;Cusack et al., 2018;Hui et al., 2015;Johal & Dodd, 2017;Satyapan et al., 1983;van Putten et al., 2012;Williams et al., 2020). ...

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Roles of nurse‐surgeons in global surgical care: A scoping review

... For example, a patient with ruptured aortic aneurysm has a 70% mortality, while the survival rate after the identified aortic aneurysm is excellent. 10 Thus, there are aortic aneurysm screening programmes in several countries. 11 Determination of the real incidence of aortic aneurysms is very difficult. ...

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Adult degenerative scoliosis associated with increased aortic diameter and plaque burden and composition