AIM It is controversial that whether sleeve lobectomy (SL) should be promoted more worthy than pneumonectomy (PN) in suitable patients. METHODS We searched all studies that had been published in English from PUBMED and Embase which compared the short-term and long-term outcomes of SL and pneumonectomy (PN) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). RESULTS Nineteen studies met our...

Iodine deficiency (ID) has multiple adverse effects on growth and development due to inadequate thyroid hormone production. Methods for assessment of iodine nutrition in individuals include the urinary iodine concentration (UI), thyroid size and thyroid function tests. The UI measured in several repeat 24-h urine samples can detect inadequate iodine intake in individuals receiving enteral or pa...

A vertex irregular total k-labeling of a graph G with vertex set V and edge set E is an assignment of positive integer labels {1, 2, ..., k} to both vertices and edges so that the weights calculated at vertices are distinct. The total vertex irregularity strength of G, denoted by tvs(G)is the minimum value of the largest label k over all such irregular assignment. In this paper, we study the to...

Background/Purpose: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a worldwide pathology with several complications, and 50% of patients T2DM develop peripheral neuropathy (PN) in the long term. The present study aimed to review literature on association between PN vitamin B12 deficiency treated metformin. Materials methods: A was carried out PubMed Central, Cochrane, Scielo, Scopus Embase databases, from ...

This review emphasizes the benefits of parenteral nutrition (PN) in critically ill patients, when prescribed for relevant indications, in adequate quantities, and in due time. Critically ill patients are at risk of energy deficit during their ICU stay, a condition which leads to unfavorable outcomes, due to hypercatabolism secondary to the stress response and the difficulty to optimize feeding....

CONTEXT Partial nephrectomy (PN) is the current gold standard treatment for small localized renal tumors.; however, the impact of duration and type of intraoperative ischemia on renal function (RF) after PN is a subject of significant debate. OBJECTIVE To review the current evidence on the relationship of intraoperative ischemia and RF after PN. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION A review of English-lang...

In direct-sequence wideband (DS-WB) systems, long spreading sequences are used to span multiple symbol intervals in order to remove spectral lines and to mitigate multiple access interference. The usage of long spreading sequences will result in a large search space during acquisition stage. As a result, the DS-WB systems will need a lot of time to achieve acquisition state. This paper proposes...