To evaluate the use of laparoscopic uterosacral ligament repair for long-term patient symptom improvement in patients with uterine prolapse or posthysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse and to evaluate how laparoscopic instrumentation kits facilitate procedure performance for the surgeon.
Identify commercial suppliers of reagents, instrumentation or kits, when the source is critical to the outcome of the experiments.
We used the IL test™ PC kit (Instrumentation Laboratory; synthetic chromogenic substrate).
DD (ng/ml) was measured by a turbidimetric immunoassay in an ACL Elite® coagulometer using a Hemosil™ kit (Instrumentation Laboratory, MA, USA).
We are also grateful to HAIN Lifesciences for providing instrumentation and test kits (FT MTB & GenoXtract) free of charge.
a) Four measurement protocol groups, "A" to "C", were identified on the basis of common suppliers of enzymes, purification kits, instrumentation and similar operating conditions.
Plasma triacylglycerol, cholesterol, NEFAs, and glucose were measured on an ILab650 automated analyzer (Instrumentation Laboratory) with commercially available enzymatic kits (Instrumentation Laboratory; WAKO NEFA-HR, WAKO Chemicals GmbH).
Anticoagulation factors protein C and antithrombin III were also measured by using chromogenic assay kits (Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, MA, USA), and CRP by using an immunoturbidimetric method with a commercially available test (Beckman Coulter, Fullerton, CA, USA).
The coagulation inhibitors antithrombin and protein C activities, and free protein S antigen, were analyzed using the Chromogenix Coamatic® Antithrombin, the Chromogenix Coamatic® Protein C, and the Chromogenix Coamatic® Protein S-Free kits from Instrumentation Laboratory (Lexington, MA, USA).
