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ADDflower

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  1. wow.. has someone attempted to find contact information for Sunil Arya (the developer)? Apparently he/she was the team lead of the group at The University of South Florida in Tampa that developed this?

     

    edited to add: if they can develop this for saliva perhaps they can alter the sensor to work like a glucometer and use blood.

  2. I sent e-mail to both my state senators (Boxer and Feinstein)... Here is a copy of what I wrote, I hope the content dosn't offend anyone.

     

    Lovingly,

    Ami

     

    Dear Senator,

     

    I am writing to you to bring to your attention that you should have received a "Dear Colleague" letter from Suzanne Meledeo of Senator Inhofe's office. Senator Inhofe has taken up the cause of having April 8th designated Cushing's Awareness Day.

     

    I am a member of a non-profit organization called CUSH, which stands for Cushings Understanding Help and Support. The world of endocrinology is really just beginning to understand that severity of what has for years been considered a rare disease. Most people with Cushing's suffer declining health and irreversible damage for years while in the care of doctors not educated enough to diagnose the disease in its milder forms. You can find more information about us at http://www.cush.org.

     

    Recently, however, our desire to have April 8th designated Cushing's Awareness Day has become a double cause. The woman who has spearheaded our campaign has had a severe decline in health due to a secondary cancer. We do not know how much loner Sue Koziol will be with us, as she is currently on hospice care. To see this resolution pass would mean so much not just to those that suffer from cushings disease, but also to our own Sue, who after winning her battle against cushings may soon loose her battle with cancer.

     

    Thank you for your consideration, I will follow up with a phone call to your office tomorrow.

  3. I came across this article while doing reasearch at the medical library today. I could only figure out how to access the abstract, which you can find here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.f...bstr&query_hl=1 (ugh, I don't know if that will even work) ... here is the abstract:

     

    J Neurosurg. 2005 Sep;103(3):448-54.

     

    Predictors of diabetes insipidus after transsphenoidal surgery: a review of 881 patients.

     

    Nemergut EC, Zuo Z, Jane JA Jr, Laws ER Jr.

     

    Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA. en3x@virginia.edu

     

    OBJECT: Diabetes insipidus (DI) is a common complication of transsphenoidal surgery. The purpose of this study was to elucidate patient- and surgery-specific risk factors for DI. METHODS: The perioperative records of 881 patients who had undergone transsphenoidal microsurgery at the authors' institution between January 1995 and June 2001 were reviewed. Among 857 patients without preoperative DI, the overall incidence of immediate postoperative DI was 18.3%, with 12.4% of patients requiring treatment with desmopressin at some point during their hospitalization. Persistent DI requiring long-term treatment with desmopressin was noted in 2% of all patients. An observable intraoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak was strongly associated with an increased incidence of both transient (33.3%) and persistent (4.4%) DI. Craniopharyngioma and Rathke cleft cyst (RCC) were also associated with an increased incidence of transient and persistent DI, whereas repeated operation was not. Among patients with pituitary adenomas, those with Cushing's disease had an increased risk of transient (22.2%), but not persistent, DI. Patients with a microadenoma were more likely to suffer transient DI than those harboring a macroadenoma (21.6 compared with 14.3%) but were not more likely to experience persistent DI. CONCLUSIONS: Diabetes insipidus remains a common complication of transsphenoidal surgery; however, it is most frequently transient in nature. Patients with an intraoperative CSF leak, a microadenoma, a craniopharyngioma, or an RCC appear to have an increased risk of transient DI. Risk factors for persistent DI include an intraoperative CSF leak, a craniopharyngioma, or an RCC.

     

    PMID: 16235676 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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