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OBJECTIVE |
Surgical site infection (SSI) is a rare but significant complication after vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) placement. Treatment options range from antibiotic therapy alone to hardware removal. The optimal therapeutic strategy remains open to debate. Therefore, the authors conducted this retrospective multicenter analysis ... |
METHODS |
Under institutional review board approval and utilizing an institutional database with 641 patients who had undergone 808 VNS-related placement surgeries and 31 patients who had undergone VNS-related hardware removal surgeries, the authors retrospectively analyzed VNS-SSI. |
RESULTS |
Sixteen cases of VNS-SSI were identified; 12 of them had undergone the original VNS placement procedure at the authors' institutions. Thus, the incidence of VNS-SSI was calculated as 1.5%. The mean (± standard deviation) time from the most recent VNS-related surgeries to infection was 42 (± 27) days. Methicillin-sensit... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Removal of the VNS including electrode leads combined with antibiotic administration is the definitive treatment but has a risk of causing dysphagia. If the surgeon finds dense scarring around the vagus nerve, the prudent approach is to snip the electrode close to the nerve as opposed to attempting to unwind the lead c... |
ABSTRACT This paper investigates Gholām-Hossein Sāedi’s appropriation of Shakespeare’s Othello in his seminal play Othello in Wonderland. The play is worth investigating since it disentangles itself from the Shakespearean logocentric tradition to depict the plights of Sāedi’s fellow artists at a critical point in Irani... |
In the development of nonlinear optical switching mechanisms, it would be very desirable to have a computer simulation of the electromagnetic pulse propagating in the nonlinear fiber. This would be helpful in understanding the underlying electromagnetics, and would also be helpful in designing new switching configurati... |
In spite of large amount of research in fabricating surfaces of varying wettability by biomimicking the naturally occurring surfaces, the work on fundamentally and industrially important air bubble adhesion on solid surfaces and its applications are still in the burgeoning stage. The present progress report provides a ... |
A 31-years-old woman was diagnosed as pheocromocytoma by the various endocrine testings and 131I-MIBG scintigraphy. The CT scan and bone scintigraphy showed right adrenal tumor, along with liver metastasis, lymph nodes swelling around aorta and multiple bone metastases. She underwent chemotherapy consisting with Cyclop... |
An automated reticulocyte procedure using a flow cytometer and the fluorescent dye thiazole orange was evaluated for clinical use. The mean reticulocyte count on 118 hematologically healthy adults was 1.56% (standard deviation [SD] 0.54), with virtually no difference in percentage between women and men. The mean absolu... |
Previous work has demonstrated the cardiovascular teratogenicity of dextroamphetamine sulfate (0.25 mg/egg) in the 4-day (stage 24) chick embryo. Our current studies indicate that embryos treated with this teratogenic dose of d-amphetamine exhibit a mean ventricular blood pressure (MVBP) elevation for 1 hour at 4 hours... |
To analyze clinical features and to discuss the modality of investigation and treatment of a series of mucosa‐associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. To investigate the prevalence of aberrant promoter methylation, responsible for gene inactivation, in a selected panel of genes potentially involved in the pathogene... |
The innervation of the rabbit ear vasculature by noradrenergic and substance P-immunoreactive (SP-IR) nerves was investigated in both young and adult animals. All vascular segments were supplied by both noradrenergic and SP-IR nerves. In the ear margins, the arteriovenous anastomoses (AVAs) were more densely innervated... |
BACKGROUND |
Young individuals with high normal blood pressure (HNBP) are at risk for hypertension. The aim of our study was to compare NO production and the intensity of free radical processes in young males with different BP levels. |
MATERIAL/METHODS |
Male subjects aged 18-45 years with normal BP, HNBP, and hypertension underwent physical and cardiological examination. NO production was evaluated by measuring plasma nitrite and nitrate (NOx) and 24-hour urinary excretion of NOx. Lipid peroxidation (LP) intensity and serum antioxidant activity (AOA) were measured usi... |
RESULTS |
HNBP was associated with increased 24-hour systolic BP (SBP), diastolic BP (DBP), SBP and DBP variability, plasma and 24-hour urinary NOx and LP intensity, and decreased total AOA as compared to normotensive controls. We observed a direct nonlinear correlation between plasma NOx and SBP and between 24-hour urinary NOx ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Activation of LP processes and depression of AOA proceed in parallel with declining NO production and severity of hypertension. Early correction of the revealed disorders before the appearance of clinical symptoms may be promising in terms of prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.A feasibility study of qua... |
OBJECTIVE |
The purpose of this study is to establish the feasibility and potential value of measuring the concentration of choline-containing compounds by proton MR spectroscopy (MRS) in musculoskeletal lesions at 3 T. |
SUBJECTS AND METHODS |
Thirty-three subjects with 34 musculoskeletal lesions (four histologically proven malignant, 13 histologically proven benign or proven benign by follow-up analysis, and 17 posttreatment fibrosis with documented stability for 6-36 months) underwent single-voxel 3-T MRS studies. In each case, both water-suppressed and wa... |
RESULTS |
Spectral quality was excellent in 26 cases, adequate in four cases, and nondiagnostic in four cases. For malignant lesions (three sarcomas), the choline concentrations were 1.5, 2.9, and 3.8 mmol/kg, respectively. For five benign lesions (two neurofibromas, two schwannomas, and one enchondroma), the choline concentrati... |
CONCLUSION |
The measurement of choline concentration within musculoskeletal lesions by MRS is feasible using an internal water-referencing method at 3 T and has potential for characterizing lesions for malignancy.Wherefore and whither the naturalist? |
Diver's Caddy Vessel, adapted primarily to move beneath a seaway surface, made buoyant by the diver's exhalant into a skirt of the vessel, whereby to offset suspension weight of diver's gear, game and the like, characterized by a collapsible, bladder-like enclosure which is elongate in exterior configuration, open at t... |
Background Self-reports of function may systematically overestimate the ability of patients to move around postarthroplasty. Objective The purpose of this study was to estimate the magnitude of systematic differences in Lower Extremity Functional Scale (LEFS) and Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis... |
: Rates for microbial cross transmission were measured in sentinel rats housed for 60 days in a fabric-walled mass air flow system. Naturally infected rats housed in the enclosure were the source of the infectious material. The cross transmission rates for rat coronaviruses, Kilham's rat virus, pneumonia virus of mice,... |
Electrocatalytic nitrite reduction not only holds significant potential in the control of nitrite contamination in the natural environment, but also is an attractive approach for sustainable ammonia synthesis. In this communication, we report that a TiO2-x nanobelt array with oxygen vacancies on a titanium plate is abl... |
The acidic environment inside secretory vesicles ensures that neuropeptides and peptide hormones are packaged in a concentrated condensed form. Although this is optimal for storage, decondensation limits release. Thus, it would be advantageous to alter the physical state of peptides in preparation for exocytosis. Here,... |
The benthic mollusk Scapharca inaequivalvis was collected in spring 1999 from three areas of the northern Adriatic Sea. From the mollusk, molecular forms of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), consisting of two prevailing spontaneously soluble (SS) forms present in the blood, were obtained. These forms are a globular tetramer... |
In a polemical essay written on September 11, 2001, Professor Ward Churchill claimed that it was America's own actions that called forth the terrible events of that morning. Four years later, a controversy exploded over Churchill's remarks. Churchill's essay, entitled "Some People Push Back," might have encouraged refl... |
After summarising the legal requirements of contractual capacity, an attempt is made to define the term will with psychiatric conceptualisations. Possible restrictions of a free declaration of will are outlined. Symptoms, which possibly influence cognitive preconditions of will and personal values, are taken into accou... |
Today’s applications are often constructed by bringing together functionality from multiple systems that utilize varied technologies (e.g. application programming interfaces, Web services, cloud computing, data mining) and alternative standards (e.g. XML, RDF, OWL, JSON, etc.) for communication. Most such applications ... |
ABSTRACT Recently, resilience has been highlighted in tourism studies. This article examines resilience through a social innovation framework which includes identifying the needs for and envisioning ways of building resilience, emphasizing collaboration, and co-creating outcomes. The aim is to explore the role of socia... |
As result of the modification of polyolefin, composite |
materials based on them were obtained for the use in special |
equipment in order to entrain their heat resistance. Data analysis |
DTA (differential thermal analysis) of the DTA curve of this |
polyethylene sample suggests a bimodal nature of their MWD |
(molecular weight distribution) which differs from polyethylene |
with unimodal MWD and a series of endo oxidation effects with a |
maximum temperature of 245, 335, 358 and 435 °С. X-ray |
structural studies showed that the crystal system and the size of |
the unit cells of the crystal lattice of LLDPE practically does not |
differ from those of LDPE. LLDPE as well as LDPE and HDPE |
has a layered structure with dense packing of macromolecules. In |
terms of crystallinity and crystallite sizes, LLDPE are on par with |
HDPE and significantly differ from LDPE. These data are in |
agreement with published data. The parameters of the unit cells |
of the crystal structure of UHMWPE are close to those of |
LLDPE, and by crystallinity it occupies middle ground between |
HDPE and LLDPE.Simultaneous and Proportional Real-Time Myocontrol of up to Three Degrees of Freedom of the Wrist and Hand. |
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