Major resections for esophageal, gastric, hepatic, pancreatic, and colorectal cancer continue to be associated with a high peri-operative morbidity of up to 30%–40%. To a large extent, this morbidity is caused by infectious complications that add up to a considerable burden to patients and hospital costs. …

Surgery aims to improve a patient’s medical condition. However, surgery is a major life event with the risk of negative consequences, like peri- and postoperative complications, prolonged hospitalization and delayed recovery of physical functioning. One of the major common side effects, functional …

De behandeling van non-infectieuze posteriore of intermediaire uveïtis berust op topicale, systemische of posterior peri-oculair geïnjecteerde corticosteroïden. Dit geeft echter veel bijwerkingen en de beoogde werking is kortdurend. Een recente ontwikkeling in de behandeling is een dexamethason implantaat. …

Obesitas is een steeds vaker voorkomende aandoening in West-Europa, Noord-Amerika en andere welvarende delen van de wereld. Uit recent onderzoek van het RIVM is gebleken dat van de gehele volwassen populatie in Nederland in 2012, zo’n 40% overgewicht heeft en 12% obesitas. Bij obesitas vindt een ophoping …

In this paper, the performance gain obtained by combining parallel peri- odic real-time processes is elaborated. In certain single-core mono-processor configurations, for example, embedded control systems in robotics comprising many short processes, process context switches may consume a considerable …

Spätestens seit der PISA- Studie (2004) liegt das Augenmerk der deutschen Bevölkerung verstärkt bei sprachauffälligen Kindern. In den Vordergrund der derzeitigen Problematik ist die Sprachentwicklung der Kindergartenkinder gerückt. Weisen Kinder Defizite in der Sprache auf, so kann dies schnell zu Chancenungleichheit …

Objective: To systematically describe changes in pain and functioning in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) awaiting total joint replacement (TJR), and to assess determinants of this change. Methods: MEDLINE®, EMBASE, CINAHL® and Cochrane Database were searched through June 2008. The reference lists of …