Towards Responsible Use Of Technology
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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Monday, May 2, 2011
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How can successfully treat resistant hypertension?
In a considerable number of hypertension patients can not be well controlled or with three or more drugs. Today we have a new option for these cases: renal sympathectomy intervention.
pathophysiological concept which states that blood pressure is the result of an overactive sympathetic nervous system is not new.
From the 50's practice of sympathectomy surgery as a last resort in malignant hypertension (resistant to conventional treatment). As aggressive operation is not at all surprising that this form of treatment has not ever come to impose itself as a real alternative.
Thanks to modern technology via a catheter is now possible that this approach to long-term therapy. This is a modified and much less aggressive treatment of hypertension. The goal of treatment is made up of nerve fibers of the sympathetic nervous system involving the renal arteries and penetrate the adventitia.
We know that renal nerve fibers largely determine the overall activity of the sympathetic nervous system and renal denervation of the sympathetic system is a new effective procedure for treatment of resistant hypertension or malignant.
This new method of bilateral denervation of the renal artery was performed by radiofrequency ablation is performed through an endovascular catheter. The procedure is not complicated in its implementation, lasts 40 to 60 minutes. Patients receive only a local anesthetic and analgesic.
A randomized study conducted by the team Dr. Michael Böhm in Homburg / Saar (Germany) and published recently, have shown positive results of this technique and its effectiveness in the treatment of malignant hypertension.
Dr. Mahfoud, a contributor to this team, said at the congress in Mannheim of the German Society of Cardiology, the patients selected for this study were taking an average of five to six different drugs for high blood pressure and nevertheless still had elevated blood pressure values.
Compared with the control group, which on average no significant changes in group selective renal sympathectomy, six months after surgical treatment was able to observe a significant reduction in blood pressure, with an average of 33/10 mmHg.
both measurements of blood pressure at home as their 24-hour ambulatory monitoring, we were able to demonstrate a significant reduction in blood pressure. After ablation, 84% of patients had a reduction in systolic blood pressure of at least 10 mm Hg in the control group only produced a reduction of blood pressure in 34% of patients.
denervation renal sympathetic also had a favorable effect on glucose metabolism, said Dr. Mahfoud. There was a significant reduction in blood glucose (fasting 118mg/dl average, it fell to 108 mg / dl) and improved insulin sensitivity.
Via: Aerztezeitung.de
Friday, April 29, 2011
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Two years have passed and many things in this course. The documentary premiered a Thursday in March 2009. Still moves me the auditorium of the Ministry of Litoral full, with people sitting in the aisles and standing in the background. Oscar Pineda covered the event with a note in The Telegraph and for us that it was enough. Then Silvia Buendía, Héctor Xavier Andrade Chiriboga and write about the video.
The documentary he spent another day on the street, with a projector, on March 6 and August 10. EcuadorTV also aired on a Sunday at 21h00 and then by range on a Thursday at 8.30am causing controversy. He had over 40 missed calls on my phone. Supposedly representatives of the Christian Social party spoke to the news media against the documentary. I woke up at 14h00, hangover. Our
misspelled names came out in all the newspapers. We were told we were going to sue and threatened some of the merchants who participated with us. We had to "hire" a lawyer and we were shit scared. In my cell got a call from Fernando Alvarado, saying that the President had liked our work and wanted a copy. She was never sent. We met with CT Enrique Arosemena, who gave us permission to use a lot of footage (which we used without permission) and clarified that the legal problem for the transmission range was not our business. One year later re-released the film with a new and accurate interview Miguel Salazar Haro. This time the room was filled MAAC Cine.
The Federation of Retail Merchants of the Guayas, on the anniversary gave us a symbolic diploma. Ernesto Toledo introduced us as "two young men break paradigms, which are where no one has called to say what no one dared to say and who risked to show the reality of retailing in Guayaquil. " We took a picture with the symbolic mother of the association. We became merchants panas A couple of officers tried to exploit the Conservatives guaiac branded us as traitors to the city.
With this, our debut , participate in the 1st Meeting of Community Documentary "Image of the People" . We were invited to 2nd Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Documentary - DOCLAT , which was held in Guayaquil. We met many interesting people and although we can not participate, were invited and "scholarships" to meet the other film festival - EDOC 9, in the city of Quito. Informal Guayaquil for some time hung in the former page EcuaCanal.com and thanks to several friends backpackers, the DVD has covered nearly all Latin America. I am told that the last presentation was a forum of the Landless Movement in Brazil. Stuart
Novoa in his thesis "The activist documentary film and video activism in Ecuador" we review:
"(Guayaquil Informal) is a clear indication of what the activist documentary film in the sense of mobilizing consciousness, the film becomes an act in which people reflect on the state of their city. Reporting is a documentary that questions the municipal management of Jaime Nebot, who has been responsible for persecuting, torturing criminalize and informal traders in Guayaquil. (...)
The documentary filmmakers assume the responsibility to show what has happened in the past, contextualizing the present with a decade of repression by the Guayaquil municipality. (...)
Beyond its technical merit, its main merit lies in its power as a tool to generate discussion on issues Guayaquil that takes for granted. "