The blood pressure, smoking habit and haemotocrit of 154 patients with transient ischaemic attacks and 191 age-and sex-matched neurological controls were studied. Regression analysis revealed that the haematocrit value was related to both systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and to smoking. Smoking elevated the haematocrit by 1.9 +/- 0.59 in males and by 2.18 +/- 0.68 in females. When these a...

We consider the stability and convergence analysis of pressure stabilized finite element approximations of the transient Stokes’ equation. The analysis is valid for a class of symmetric pressure stabilization operators, but also for standard, inf-sup stable, velocity/pressure spaces without stabilization. Provided the initial data is chosen as a specific (method dependent) Ritz-projection, we g...

PURPOSE To describe the assessment of the spatiotemporal distribution of relative aortic pressure quantifying the magnitude of its three major components. METHODS Nine healthy volunteers and three patients with aortic disease (bicuspid aortic valve, dissection, and Marfan syndrome) underwent 4D-flow CMR. Spatiotemporal pressure maps were computed from the CMR flow fields solving the pressure ...

Given the sophisticated nature of the blast phenomenon in relation to structures, it is of significance to accurately investigate the structure behavior under blast loads. Due to its rapid and transient nature, blast loading is one of the most important dynamic loadings on the structures. Since masonry materials are widely used as the partition and bearing walls in the existing and newly-built ...

abstract objective: abnormal values of the transient ischemic dilation (tid) ratio are associated with severe and extensive coronary artery disease (cad). tid can be used as a diagnostic and prognostic marker of cad in diabetic patients. the aim of current study was to determine the pooled estimate of tid ratio in single myocardial perfusion scan in diabetic patients by a systematic review and ...

Analysis of transient fluid pressure signals has been investigated as an alternative method of fault detection in pipeline systems and has shown promise in both laboratory and field trials. The advantage of the method is that it can potentially provide a fast and cost effective means of locating faults such as leaks, blockages and pipeline wall degradation within a pipeline while the system rem...