Aims: To determine and compare the effectiveness, periand postoperative outcomes of mid-urethral sling (MUS) operations for urinary incontinence, using 2 different patient positions during surgery. Methods: In this study, 146 patients underwent MUS surgery in a urogynecology clinic. Of them, 72 patients underwent the intraoperative surgical procedure of reverse trendelenburg patient positioning...

Natural killer (NK) cells have been shown to express a clonally distributed ability to recognize HLA class I alleles. The previously defined NK clones belonging to "group 1" recognize HLA-C*0401 (Cw4) and other HLA-C alleles sharing Asn at position 77 and Lys at position 80. Conversely, the "group 2" NK clones recognize HLA-Cw*0302 (Cw3) and other HLA-C alleles characterized by Ser at position ...

HLA-DQ alleles are closely associated with susceptibility and resistance to insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) but the immunologic mechanisms involved are not understood. Structural studies of the IDDM-susceptible allele, HLA-DQA1*0301/DQB1*0302, have classified it as a relatively unstable dimer, particularly at neutral pH. This is reminiscent of studies in the nonobese diabetic mouse, ...

Most approaches use corresponding points to determining an object’s orientation from stereo-images, but this is not always possible. Imaging modalities that do not produce correspondences for different viewing angles, as in X-ray imaging, require other procedures. Our method works on contours in images that do not need to be equivalent in length or contain corresponding points. It is able to de...

Empirical work on cross-country growth has focussed almost exclusively on the speed of convergence to steady state and the variations in steady state levels. This paper examines the estimated long-run growth rate, i.e. the rate of steady state growth, in a Solow growth model. All estimates of common world steady state growth are shown to be zero or significantly negative under the null model. T...

Narcolepsy-Cataplexy (NC) is a neurological disorder associated with the human leukocyte antigen HLA DR2. This is a prerequisite for the disease in 95 to 98% of Caucasian patients. It has been demonstrated that the HLA DQB1*0602 allele is a better marker for narcolepsy than DRB1*1501 (DR2). We present a DR-negative and DQB1*0602-positive Caucasian Spanish patient with a very unusual genotype. A...

Deardorff [Journal of International Economics 36 (1994) 167-175] offers an intuitively appealing test for factor price equality (FPE). He demonstrates that FPE is impossible if the set (i.e., lens) of points defined by regional factor abundance vectors does not lie within the set of points defined by goods’ input intensities. This note demonstrates that empirical implementation of the lens cond...

We describe the occurrence of an inflammatory inclusion body myositis in siblings of a single generation in three separate families. The disease in this total of seven patients was characterized by selective and early involvement of forearm and finger flexors, confirmed by MRI, and weakness of the quadriceps, triceps and foot extensors. Muscle biopsies in at least two members from each family s...

The objective was to evaluate the prevalence and association of several markers (islet cell antibodies: ICA, insulin autoantibodies: IAA, glutamic acid decarboxylase antibodies: GADA and ICA512 antibodies: ICA512A) along with HLA DQB1 genotype in type 1 diabetes mellitus of recent onset, including siblings and individuals without any history of this disease, in an Argentine population. A total ...