To determine the effect of age on quadriceps muscle blood flow (QMBF), leg vascular resistance (LVR), and maximum oxygen uptake (QVO2 max), a thermal dilution technique was used in conjunction with arterial and venous femoral blood sampling in six sedentary young (19.8 +/- 1.3 yr) and six sedentary old (66.5 +/- 2.1 yr) males during incremental knee extensor exercise (KE). Young and old attaine...

Modern interventional and pharmacological treatments significantly reduced the incidence of mortality and other major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), and improved contractile function in patients with ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI). Double antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) with acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and an antagonist of the platelet P2Y12 receptor for adenosine diphosphat...

A CMOS voltage reference, which is based on the weighted difference of the gate–source voltages of an NMOST and a PMOST operating in saturation region, is presented. The voltage reference is designed for CMOS low-dropout linear regulators and has been implemented in a standard 0.6m CMOS technology ( 0 9 V at 0 C). The occupied chip area is 0.055 mm. The minimum supply voltage is 1.4 V, and the ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to review characteristics of patients undergoing left ventricular reconstruction (LVR) with or without mitral annuloplasty (MAP) for postinfarction ventricular remodeling. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-seven patients were divided into two groups: LVR (LVR group, n = 22) and LVR with MAP (LVRM group, n = 25). Echocardiographic parameters including left ventric...

BACKGROUND Over the last several years, the morbidity, mortality, and high costs associated with lung volume reduction (LVR) surgery has fuelled the development of different methods for bronchoscopic LVR (BLVR) in patients with emphysema. In this meta-analysis, we sought to study and compare the efficacy of most of these methods. METHODS ELIGIBLE STUDIES WERE RETRIEVED FROM PUBMED AND EMBASE ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The risk of heart disease subsequent to breast cancer radiotherapy was examined with particular focus on women receiving anthracycline-containing chemotherapy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in Denmark, 1977-2005, were identified from the register of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group, as was information on cancer-directed tr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to clarify the efficacy of intravenous milrinone in postoperative care for patients following left ventricular (LV) restoration (LVR). METHODS Fourteen patients who had ischemic cardiomyopathy with an LV ejection fraction (LVEF) of less than 0.30 and an LV end-systolic volume index of more than 100 ml/m2 underwent coronary artery bypass grafting and concomita...

Considerable progress has been made in speech recognition technology over the last few years and nowhere has this progress been more evident than in the area of Large Vocabulary Recognition LVR Current laboratory systems are capable of transcribing continuous speech from any speaker with average word error rates of between and If speaker adaptation is allowed then after or minutes of speech the...