LEARNING OBJECTIVES Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: 1. Compare SLT with medical therapy as fi rst-line therapy for the management of OAG. 2. Develop appropriate treatment goals for patients with newly diagnosed OAG based on disease status and risk profi le. 3. Describe the epidemiology of myopia and the pathophysiological mechanisms by which glaucoma develops in ...

Metastatic pancreatic cancer is an aggressive malignancy that is difficult to treat. Gemcitabine monotherapy has been used first line and many contemporary treatment approaches have focused on gemcitabine plus experimental agents. The 2012 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium Abstract #213 is a study of gemcitabine with IPI-926, a novel hedgehog pathway inhibitor. Abstract #227 is a study of...

879 D la Chronique numéro 47, nous avons étudié les données scientifiques tirées de tous les essais contrôlés randomisés sur l’hypertension comparant les thiazidiqu de première intention avec les inhibiteurs de l’enzyme de conversion de l’angiotensine (IECA) et les inhibiteurs calciques (IC). Nous avons mis l’accent sur l’étude ALLHAT (traitement antihypertenseur et hypolipidémiant pour préveni...

Up to 70% of the patients treated to prevent rebleeding will experience a bleeding episode within 2 years. The response should be adapted to the delay after the index bleed, the source and the severity of the haemorrhage, the underlying liver disease and the initial treatment to prevent rebleeding. Bleeding can be caused by endoscopic techniques themselves, which should incitate to complete obl...

This paper describes the application of rigorous first principle process models corrected using real time online process data to match current plant response. Marrying detailed and rigorous first principle models, embodying converged heat and material balances, with real-time on-line process data, using State Estimation technology for correction, provides the ideal means of obtaining on-line re...

INTRODUCTION There are a limited number of paediatric antiretroviral drug options. Characterising the long term safety and durability of different antiretrovirals in children is important to optimise management of HIV infected children and to determine the estimated need for alternative drugs in paediatric regimens. We describe first-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) durability and reasons for ...

In the last 20-30 years the approach to metastatic breast cancer by chemotherapy has been largely studied. Anthracyclines, taxanes and, more recently, capecitabine and gemcitabine represent the breakthrough of treatment. In the next future the combination of chemotherapy and target therapy will be considered more frequently.

In this paper, intelligent models based on fuzzy inference are proposed to analyze single overhead line terminated to arrester. This paper consists of two parts. The first one is modeling overhead line and the second one is related to modeling grounding system. In each part, the behavior of the problem is first represented as simple and unchanged membership functions. After then, effects of par...