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Clinical Articles / BY: David N. Landsberg, MD, May 2010
... After initial research probing societal views on this issue,[ 9 ] the first LAD transplant was perform­ed in ... life support withdrawal.  The first DCD in BC occurred in November 2008. We believe that this donor source will ... retinopathy.  The first islet transplantation occurred in 2003, and since then 70 islet transplantations have been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
For this theme issue on pandemic influenza, we assembled a panel of experts ... syndrome (SARS) emerged as a zoonotic infection in 2003 but did not cause a pandemic.[ 1 ] Rapid action by ... before reaching a peak, in terms of mortality, in October, November, or December.[ 4 ] In Australia, reports suggest the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael D.D. McNeely, MD, FRCPC, FCACB July/August 2005
... of eGFR values is covered in the other articles in this issue.) Because the MDRD equation for calculating eGFR was ... Medicine developed a common approach, and in October 2003 almost all laboratories in the province began to use the ... the method-based factor has been introduced into BC (as of November 2004), the web-based calculations of eGFR do not ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... were published by Health Canada in 1998. [1]  In 2002 and 2003, the STD/AIDS Control Division of the BC Centre for ... all respondents. Returns were accepted by fax or post from November 2002 to January 2003. Results Of the 1200 family ... to generalize from this sample, primarily because of the issue of self-selection. Physicians who are more involved in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... guidelines for rectal cancer management in this theme issue of the BC Medical Journal ( 2003;45[6]:264 ) and on the BC Cancer Agency web site ( ... course for rectal cancer management in Vancouver in November 2002. The first day of the conference was designed ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... every Wednesday beginning 6 February 2002 and ending 28 November 2002—a total of 43 possible sessions. It was ... that payment of specialist services remained an unresolved issue. Patients were not asked to complete surveys for a ... Michalos, S. Grzybowski, et al., unpublished data, April 2003). These predictors account for 71% of the variation in ...