... treatment with low- dose oral alendronate (5 mg per day) Case presentation Case A 66-year-old Japanese man presented withlow back pain (visual analogue scale (VAS) = 5.2) There was no notable ... pain relief were maintained for one and a half years without any further treatment In contrast to our patient in Case 1, however, her TALP and uNTX levels again increased beyond the normal range, ... in the involved bone, typical plain radiological features of osteosclerosis alternating with areas of osteolysis, a radionuclide bone scan indicating markedly increased tracer uptake in the affected...
... analysed using parametric t-test Pain and nausea scores were analysed using non-parametric test (Mann-Witney) and sedation, nausea and vomiting scores were analysed using Chi-Square tests An initial ... various injuries and those requiring manoeuvring and splinting is ketamine Ketamine offers a safe and effective analgesia since this agent avoids the potential decrease in blood pressure and respiratory ... power analysis showed that witha clinical relevant difference in NRS-scores of for pain, witha SD of 0.75, reaches a power-value of 0.8 with patients included in each group against a p-value...
... Columns and list the systematic names of the two paralogs in question as per the Saccharomyces Genome Database *A gene duplicate pair that has been classified as an ohnolog resulting from a WGD ... duplicates were often observed as adjacent loci in inverted orientation, suggesting that inversions may be part and parcel of the original duplication event As a first step towards determining ... exons and introns revealed an interesting observation, namely the presence of nonhomologous introns between paralogs across 24 pairs of ribosomal protein duplicates with varying KS values (ranging...
... categories are shown as means with ranges where appropriate Comparative data between characteristics are displayed, and data are summarized as tables as well as in text Results Patient characteristics ... awareness King Fahad National Guard Hospital is an 800-bed tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel health care for National Guard ... mechanical ventilation It is probable that debilitating factors such as alcoholism or anemia are contributory Aspiration of sputum leading to aspiration pneumonia was a less common diagnosis in...
... Johanna Moore, Myroslava Dzikovska, and Elaine Farrow 2009 Using natural language processing to analyze tutorial dialogue corpora across domains and modalities In Proceedings of 14th International ... Myroslava O Dzikovska, Charles B Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Johanna D Moore, Natalie B Steinhauser, and Gwendolyn E Campbell 2009 Dealing with interpretation errors in tutorial dialogue In Proceedings ... Umarani Pappuswamy 2006 Understanding complex natural language explanations in tutorial applications In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding, ScaNaLU ’06, pages...
... Sottrup-Jensen L, Aspan A, Hall M & Soder¨ hall K (1997) Pacifastin, a novel 155-kDa heterodimeric proteinase inhibitor containing a unique transferrin chain Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 94, 6682–6687 ... calculated according to the procedures described by Wishart et al [37,38] Fitting of relaxation and dynamical parameters Fitting of R1 and R2 rates and calculating heteronuclear NOE values was ... residues assignable in all three states are compared Weights are calculated as for Fig On average, changes upon pH elevation are about twice as small as for complexation (average change 0.09...
... increases, the hardware complexity of a transform as well as the compression latency also increases Another approach is a spatial domain FMC that requires a relatively small amount of computation ... image in this case is in the : : format instead of the : : format as in Section Thus, all three color components are available for each pixel, and they are packetized in the same format shown in ... display interface such as low- voltage differential signaling (LVDS) adopt the color space consisting of G, RG, B-G instead of the YCbCr color space One of the main advantages is a simple transformation...
... demand: nearly all administrative tasks are informational in nature, decision making is a public official’s daily bread, and for any E-government – a Roadmap for Progress agency its particular ... understanding of processes, building on widespread administrative concepts, ensuring interoperable platforms, having a workable administrative domain ontology, defining formats for data interchange ... “certified” data and to start creating the Municipal database (an integrated virtual archive storing all information belonging to the Municipality, its citizens, its estates) The system for managing and...
... data Mirroring and RAID not protect against data corruption due to human errors or application faults A combination of quality data managers (e.g logging file systems and database managers) and ... SUMMARY Data centre Data centre Application A Application A traffic Application B Replicator Replicator Volume manager Application A data 29 Application B traffic Application B replica Volume manager ... site after a disaster is similar to that of restarting services after a crash at the main data center, provided that updates are replicated in the same order as they are applied at the main data...
... rehabilitation programme [in Modern Greek] Pneumonologika Themata 2006:21-23 38 Mishima M, Oku Y, Muro S, Hirai T, Chin K, Ohi M, Nakagawa M, Fujita M, Sato K, Shimada K, Yamaoka S, Oda Y, Asai ... depression and anxiety in patients with COPD: relationship to functional capacity Chest 1985, 87:35-38 15 Maurer J, Rebbapragada V, Borson S, Goldstein R, Kunik M, Yohannes AM, Hanania NA: Anxiety and ... disease They frequently have to change jobs or retire early Their social interactions are also adversely affected because they cannot maintain pace with their peers [37] In addition, patients with...
... Oncologia, Ospedale Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy 2UOC Chirurgia Toracica, Ospedale Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy 3UOC Anatomia Patologica, Ospedale Cardarelli, Napoli, Italy Authors’ contributions FR, GDL and ... regimen in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer: a meta-analysis JAMA 2004, 292:470-84 Mattson KV, Abratt RP, ten Velde G, Krofta K: Docetaxel as neoadjuvant therapy for radically treatable stage ... docetaxel-based chemotherapy in other inoperable malignant tumors, such as breast cancer[8] Surprisingly, a complete pathologic response was not obtained witha platinum-based regimen, but with single-agent...
... changes Post-RT brain injury induces a focal tissue reaction with inflammatory component and increased capillary permeability, causing fluid transudation into the interstitial space and brain ... thalamic low- grade oligodendroglioma ina 10 year-old boy after partial resection, without contrast enhancement [A] T1-weighted transaxial MR image after administration of intravenous Gd-DTPA [B] T2 ... 113(2):405-410 Brandsma D, Stalpers L, Taal W, Sminia P, Bent van den M: Clinical features, mechanisms, and management of pseudoprogression in malignant gliomas Lancet Oncol 2008, 9:453-461 Lafay-cousin L,...
... ina patient with prosthetic aortic valve infective endocarditis: a case report Vishal Luther1*, Refai Showkathali2 and Reto Gamma2 Abstract Introduction: Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial ... following aortic and mitral valve replacement: successful management with abciximab and urokinase Cathet Cardiovasc Diagn 1998, 43:457-459 Kiernan TJ, Flynn AMO, Kearney P: Coronary embolism causing ... embolisation is a rare cause of AMI and needs to be considered in patients with atrial fibrillation, Figure Echocardiogram (apical view) showing vegetation in the native posterior mitral valve leaflet...
... wall was thin and a fetal hand and head were visible through it (Figure 2A and 2B) A transverse incision was made cephalad to this thin wall area, and a 2604 g (appropriate-for-date Figure An abdominal ... important clinical issue is that abdominal palpation and ultrasound may be useful in detecting this condition Although abdominal pain [2,3] and non-reassuring FHR patterns, especially fetal bradycardia, ... posterior incarceration A histological examination of the excised uterine wall was not performed An abdominal and vaginal ultrasound seven days post-partum revealed a well-involuted uterus and the absence...
... murmur radiating to the apex and to the carotid arteries An abdominal examination revealed a distended abdomen and tenderness to palpation in the left upper quadrant A computed tomography (CT) scan ... consistent with acquired systemic AA amyloidosis, which was previously called Figure Hematoxylin and eosin staining results Hematoxylin and eosin stain of splenic tissue at 40 × magnification showing amyloid ... peri-vascular amyloid A immunoperoxidase staining at 40 × magnification secondary amyloid because it was seen secondary to inflammation This type of amyloidosis is a rare systemic condition that can...
... life-threatening complication of PEG-IFNa 2a treatment Abbreviations AA: aplastic anemia; AIHA: autoimmune hemolytic anemia; EBV: Epstein-Barr virus; HAA: hepatitis-associated aplastic anemia; Hb: ... tissue and its replacement with fat Hematoxylin & eosin staining 20× magnification The diagnosis of severe AA was made in the patient Treatment with PEG-IFN -a 2a and ribavirin were discontinued ... doi:10.1186/1752-1947-4-268 Cite this article as: Ioannou et al.: Aplastic anemia associated with interferon alpha 2a ina patient with chronic hepatitis C virus infection: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports...
... this case report Anodyne was used, but there are other similar devices available for healthcare providers Anodyne is FDA approved for increasing circulation and reducing pain, and it has been ... FDAapproved drugs on the market for the treatment of RLS Now ropinirole and pramipexole, both dopamine agonists, are available Unfortunately these drugs can cause insomnia, nausea, dyspepsia, and ... Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology Pharmacol Rev 1991, 43(2):109-142 23 Hawkins D, Abrahamse H: Phototherapy - a treatment modality for wound healing and pain relief African Journal of Biomedical Research 2007,...
... this case report Anodyne was used, but there are other similar devices available for healthcare providers Anodyne is FDA approved for increasing circulation and reducing pain, and it has been ... FDAapproved drugs on the market for the treatment of RLS Now ropinirole and pramipexole, both dopamine agonists, are available Unfortunately these drugs can cause insomnia, nausea, dyspepsia, and ... Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology Pharmacol Rev 1991, 43(2):109-142 23 Hawkins D, Abrahamse H: Phototherapy - a treatment modality for wound healing and pain relief African Journal of Biomedical Research 2007,...