OBJECTIVE To evaluate the value of conventional ultrasound and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) in determining the severity of active Crohn's disease. METHODS Thirty-seven patients who were considered to be in active period of Crohn's disease were included. Conventional ultrasound was employed to measure the thicknesses of interior, exterior and the whole bowel walls. Qualitative and quant...

The myogenic response of skeletal muscle arterioles is enhanced in hypertension because of the release of endothelin (ET) and prostaglandin H2 (PGH2)/thromboxane A2 (TxA2) from the endothelium. We hypothesized that ET and PGH2/TxA2 modulate Ca 21 signaling in arteriolar smooth muscle and thereby enhance myogenic constriction. Thus, simultaneous changes in intracellular Ca concentration in smoot...

OBJECTIVE Fetal peripartum surveillance with ST analysis of fetal electrocardiogram (STAN) alone or in combination with fetal blood sampling (FBS) is a worldwide debate. STAN monitoring without FBS support was implemented in 2000 in the authors' department when it took part in a European multicentre project. The aim of this study was to evaluate neonatal outcomes associated with peripartum STAN...

You have accessJournal of UrologyLate-breaking Abstract I - Benign1 Sep 2021LBA01-10 DISPARITIES IN DIAGNOSIS AND REFERRAL PATTERNS FOR ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION OUTPATIENT SETTINGS: AN ANALYSIS BETWEEN ACADEMIC COMMUNITY BASED PRACTICES Denise Asafu-Adjei, Alvaro Santamaria, Sriram Eleswarapu, Stanley Frencher, Lorna Kwan, Anissa Nguyen, Harry Yang, and Jesse Mills Asafu-AdjeiDenise Asafu-Adjei Mor...

Abstract Study question Which are the trends shown in data collection XXIII of European Society Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) PGT Consortium compared with previous years? Summary answer Data XXIV, year 2021, represents valuable on activity (mainly) Europe reports main observed, being further expansion blastocyst biopsy NGS-based comprehensive testing technologies. What is known alre...

This paper presents an error estimate in the L2-norm for the discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods (DGFEM) for elliptic problems with low regularity solutions. The Raviart–Thomas interpolation operator is employed to derive the new result, which complements the mesh-dependent energy norm error estimates in Gudi (2010) [2]. Numerical results corroborate the theoretical analysis. © 2012 E...

Becoming a bilingual can change a person’s cognitive functioning and language processing in a number of ways. This study focused on how knowledge of a second language influences how people read sentences written in their native language. We used the cognate-facilitation effect as a marker of cross-lingual activations in both languages. Cognates (e.g., Dutch-English schip [ship]) and controls we...