RATIONALE Hepaticarterioportal fistula (APF) is a rare cause of portal hypertension and gastrointestinal hemorrhage, and presents as abnormal communication between the hepatic artery and portal vein. Percutaneous liver biopsy is a main iatrogenic cause of AFP. However, non-iatrogenic, abdominal, trauma-related APF is rarely reported. PATIENT CONCERNS A 29-year-old man presenting with severe, ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Gastrointestinal (GI) complications such as gastric retention (GR) and constipation are common after lung transplantation (LT). Abdominal plain films (APFs) are a low-cost diagnostic tool to detect impaired GI function. The goal of our study was to assess the prevalence of GI pathology seen on APF in lung transplant recipients (LTRs) and to identify associated risk factors...

A full compensating system for distribution networks which is able to eliminate harmonics, correct unbalanced loads and generate or absorb reactive power is presented. The system is based on a combination of a Thyristor Binary Compensator (TBC), and a PWM-IGBT Active Power Filter (APF) connected in cascade. The TBC compensates the fundamental reactive power and balances the load connected to th...

Different methodologies for manipulators have been proposed and applied to robot obstacle detection avoidance in unstructured environments. These methods include different real-time sensors, observer-based algorithms, path planning using genetic algorithms. However, sensor design integration is complex considerably expensive. Moreover, the observer algorithm requires complete system dynamics in...

Autoinflammation has recently been suggested in the pathogenesis of neutrophilic dermatoses but systematic studies on their cytokine profile are lacking. Notably, amicrobial pustulosis of the folds (APF), classified among neutrophilic dermatoses, has been studied only in small case series. In our University Hospital, we conducted an observational study on 15 APF patients, analyzing their clinic...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the usefulness of the routine sonographic evaluation of the pattern of fluctuate portal velocity tracings and the hepatic veins for the diagnosis of arterioportal fistula (APF) and cardiogenic trans-sinusoidal shunting (CTS). MATERIALS AND METHODS.: Color Doppler flow imaging and pulsed-wave Doppler (PW) examinations of the portal vein were performed in 282 subjects. The...

The antigenic substrate of the antiperinuclear factor (APF) in human buccal mucosa cells was studied by light microscopy, cytochemistry, and the immunofluorescence technique (IFT). The cytoplasmic granules against which the APF is directed stained basophilic in light-microscopical staining techniques. The granules did not show a positive reaction product by techniques in which special chemical ...

Model based methods to marker-free motion capture have a very high computational overhead that make them unattractive. In this paper we describe a method that improves on existing global optimization techniques to tracking articulated objects. Our method improves on the stateof-the-art Annealed Particle Filter (APF) by reusing samples across annealing layers and by using an adaptive parametric ...

Alignment or superposition of multiple flexible ligands in 3D is a key step in rational ligand-based drug design, pharmacophore elucidation and 3D QSAR analysis. We have recently introduced Atomic Property Fields methodology, which utilizes continuous Gaussian-based multicomponent potentials to represent the distributions of physico-chemical atomic properties. Calculation of APF pseudo-energy p...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of low power red laser associated with acidulated phosphate fluoride on the development of induced-dental caries in rats. DESIGN Dental caries were induced in molars of 40 rats divided into five groups: control group (CG), the teeth were not submitted to any treatment; laser group (LG), teeth were irradiated with a low power r...