Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) was done for the first time in Belgium in 1993. Gastric torsion after band slippage is extremely rare. Literature review of gastric banding and complications in pregnancy did not reveal any case of gastric torsion. Hence, we report this rare case of gastric torsion in a pregnant lady following gastric banding.

right bundle branch block (rbbb) is considered as an important predictor of poor outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction, but the prognostic implication of rbbb in patients with suspected coronary artery disease (cad) is unclear. furthermore, the association between rbbb and incidence of cad also its influence on the severity of stenosis in coronary arteries has not been establishe...

conclusions male gender, history of hypertension, high nyha score, and the presence of cad predict lvef deterioration in patients with lbbb. objectives the present study aimed to identify underlying factors that predict left ventricular ejection fraction (lvef) deterioration in patients suffered from complete lbbb. patients and methods in a retrospective case-control study, the data of 220 cons...

background: noninvasive techniques for the localization of the accessory pathways (aps) might help guide mapping procedures and ablation techniques. we sought to examine the diagnostic accuracy of strain imaging for the localization of the aps in wolff-parkinson-white syndrome. methods: w e prospectively studied 25 patients (mean age = 32 ± 17 years, 58.3% men) with evidence of pre-excitation o...

the geometry of a system of second order differential equations is the geometry of a semispray, which is a globally defined vector field on tm. the metrizability of a given semispray is of special importance. in this paper, the metric associated with the semispray s is applied in order to study some types of foliations on the tangent bundle which are compatible with sode structure. indeed, suff...

Penetration and development of juveniles of tobacco cyst nematode (Globodera tabacum solanacearum) on a resistant (NC567) and a susceptible (K326) cultivar of flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) were determined in root zone chamber experiments. More vermiform juveniles developed into a swollen shape at 22, 27, and 31 degrees C than at 17 degrees C. Development of flask-shaped nematodes ap...

For a class of two-point boundary value problems we prove exact-ness of an S-shaped bifurcation curve. Our result applies to a problem from combustion theory, which involves nonlinearities like e au=(u+a) for a > 0. 1. Introduction We consider positive solutions of u 00 + f(u) = 0 on (?1; 1); u(?1) = u(1) = 0: (1.1) Here is a positive parameter, and we wish to describe all solutions of (1.1) fo...

The association of various personal, occupational, and environmental factors with climatic droplet keratopathy and pterygium was examined in a group of Australian Aborigines. Climatic droplet keratopathy was seen especially in aboriginal males who had worked as stockmen for more than 20 years. Although no definite association with a single causal factor could be made, there is circumstantial ev...

Distribution data describing the current shea range were obtained from John Hall (University of Wales, Bangor); for details, see previous reports and Vitellaria paradoxa: a monograph (Hall et al., 1996). In 2010, these records were supplemented with shea plot data from Burkina Faso, Mali and Ghana, and with the collection localities of herbarium specimens held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ...

We study the problem of on-line searching for a target inside a polygon. In particular, we propose a strategy for finding a target of unknown location in a star-shaped polygon with a competitive ratio of 11.52. We also provide a lower bound of 9 for the competitive ratio of searching in a star-shaped polygon which is close to the upper bound. A similar task is the on-line recognition of a star-...