Ischemic placental disease is a concept that links intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and preeclampsia (PE) back to insufficient remodeling of uterine spiral arteries. The rheological consequences of insufficient remodeling of uterine spiral arteries were hypothesized to mediate the considerably later manifestation of obstetric disease. However, the micro-rheology in the intervillous space ...

BACKGROUND Patient-controlled sedation (PCS) has been suggested as an alternative method for sedative colonoscopy. However, as any new techniques, PCS introduction as a potential alternative to traditional intravenous sedation (IVS) has brought about challenges. To evaluate the advantages and disadvantages between PCS and IVS more comprehensively, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analy...

background: the late postoperative course for children with transposition of the great arteries (tga) with an intact ventricular septum (ivs) is very important because the coronary arteries may be at risk of damage during  arterial switch operation (aso). we sought to investigate left ventricular function in patients with tga/ivs by echocardiography. methods: from march 2011 to december 2012, t...

Objectives: In this study, beta-Thalassemia Major (BTM) diagnosed patients and their parents were subjected to DNA sequencing in order confirm diagnosis, improve treatment determine the mutation distributions of both parents.
 Methods: A total 90 people, BTM (n=30) (n=60), included study. For all analyses, two blood samples taken into EDTA-containing tubes from each parents. Complete count...

BACKGROUND Few series comparing the clinical efficacy of retropubic slings versus transobturator slings for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) are available. OBJECTIVE To compare clinical efficacy of retropubic tape operations and transobturator suburethral tape operations for the surgical treatment of female SUI. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS From January 2003 to...

This paper presents an intelligent video sensor (IVS) and possible applications in traffic surveillance. The IVS combines video sensing with video processing and data communication. It will be realized as embedded system and captures a video stream, computes traffic information and transfers the compressed video stream and the traffic information to the base station.

Complex Network Theory (CNT) studies network models and centrality metrics to deal with reliability/vulnerability assessment in networked systems. Classic CNT analyses evaluate the impact of failure single vertices/edge elements on system connectivity assuming that all vertices/nodes have same relevance. In Water Distribution Networks (WDNs), Isolation Valve System (IVS) plays a crucial role fo...

Iridoviruses (IVs) are classified into five genera: Iridovirus and Chloriridovirus, whose members infect invertebrates, and Ranavirus, Lymphocystivirus, and Megalocytivirus, whose members infect vertebrates. Until now, Chloriridovirus was the only IV genus for which a representative and complete genomic sequence was not available. Here, we report the genome sequence and comparative analysis of ...

BACKGROUND Myocardial contractility can be investigated using longitudinal peak strain. It can be calculated using the Doppler-derived TDI method and the non-Doppler method based on tissue tracking on B-mode images. Both are validated and show good reproducibility, but no comparative analysis of their results has yet been conducted. This study analyzes the results obtained from the basal segmen...

FIGURE 1. M-mode scan from aorta (Ao) to apex of left ventricle (LV) performed with uniform speed of transducer. Note length of narrowed left ventricular outflow tract (OT). IVS, interventricular septum; c, cusps of aortic valve; F, fluttering of mitral valve; LA, left atrium; aML and pML, anterior and posterior leaflets of mitral valve; IVS, interventricular septum; ppm, posteromedial papillar...