Early diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) remains difficult due to the variable performance of the tests used. We compared the performance characteristics of Aspergillus lateral flow device (LFD) in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) vs. BAL-galactomannan (GM), for the diagnosis of IPA. 311 BAL specimens were prospectively collected from patients who underwent bronchoscopy from Januar...

Hastalar ve Yöntem:Bölümümüzün meme görüntüleme ünitesi arşivinden son 10 yılda ultrasonografi incelemesinde memesinde kompleks kist saptanan ve biyopsi yapılan 61 olgu değerlendirildi. Kalın duvarlı-kalın septalı kistler ve solid bileşen içeren kistler çalışmaya dahil edildi. Hem kistik, hem de solid odak içeren karma tip lezyonlar çalışma dışı tutuldu. Tüm lezyonların ultrasonografi ve varsa ...

The widespread application of the hybrid empirical method (HEM) has made it a viable approach for developing ground motion prediction equations in regions where there are few strong motion recordings but there are ample weak motion data from small-magnitude earthquakes. The HEM uses empirical estimates of ground motion in one region (the host region) to provide estimates of ground motion in ano...

Polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) extravasation/sequestration in the lung and a dysregulated inflammatory response characterize the pathogenesis of acute lung injury (ALI). Previously, we have shown that hemorrhage (Hem) serves to prime PMN such that subsequent septic challenge [cecal ligation and puncture (CLP)] produces a pathological, inflammatory response and consequent lung injury in mice...

—This paper proposes a method of real-time voltage stability assessment for load areas, in which the proximity to voltage collapse point at each bus can be accurately evaluated. Based on the non-iterative holomorphic embedding method (HEM), the voltage of each bus for different loading levels in the load area is quickly screened out by only performing one-time power flow calculation. A power se...

Objective(s) The aim of this study was to evaluate the expressions of two angiogenic immune-markers (CD-31 and VEGF), and one proliferative immune-marker (Ki-67) in oral pyogenic granulomas (PG), hemangiomas (Hem) and inflammatory gingivitis (IG). Materials and Methods Sixty cases of PG, Hem and IG (twenty cases each) were examined. Immunohistochemical (IHC) staining was performed based on r...

The spectrum of vascular tumors ranges from hemangioma (HEM), to epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) and to angiosarcoma (AS). To the best of our knowledge, the usefulness of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for vascular tumors has never been comprehensively studied. The present study investigated the usefulness of FDG-PET for pathologically diagnosed vascular t...

Acute lung injury (ALI) is identified with the targeting/sequestration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) to the lung. Instrumental to PMN targeting are chemokines [e.g., macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC), etc.] produced by macrophage, PMN, and other resident pulmonary cells. However, the relative contribution of resident pulmonary macrophages as ...

Gereç ve yöntemler: Çalışmada 21 sol distal femur kırığı modeli kullanıldı. Kemikler 3 eşit gruba ayrıldı. Grup 1 örnekleri distal femur anatomik kilitli plak ile yandan tespit edildi. Grup 2 örnekleri distal femur retrograd İM çivi ile tespit edildi. Grup 3 örnekleri hem distal femur anatomik kilitli plak hem distal femur retrograd İM çivi ile tespit edildi. Mekanik testlerde aksiyel yüklenme ...