Dengue fever (DF) has several hematological manifestations including thrombocytopenia and increased bleeding risk. Prophylactic platelet transfusion-in the absence of major bleeding-is utilized in DF with thrombocytopenia with the intention of preventing hemorrhagic complications. However, prophylactic platelet transfusion in DF is neither standardized nor supported by clinical evidence. We con...

1 Movement Disorders Section, Neurology Unit, Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 2 Neuroradiology Section, Clı́nica Villas Boas, Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 3 Neuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 4 Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada 5 Imeka Inc, 3000 boul. de l‘Unive...

1 Movement Disorders Section, Neurology Unit, Hospital de Base do Distrito Federal, Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 2 Neuroradiology Section, Clı́nica Villas Boas, Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 3 Neuroscience and Behaviour Laboratory, Institute of Biology, University of Brası́lia, DF, Brazil 4 Sherbrooke Connectivity Imaging Lab, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada 5 Imeka Inc, 3000 boul. de l‘Unive...

Wavelength-agile, single and multiline laser radiation has been obtained from a subsonic gas flow system which is optically pumped with a multiline chemical laser. This optical resonance transfer laser (ORTL) concept was first demonstrated on the 10.6pm DF/C02 system in 1976, Since then, several IR laser pumped molecular lasers have been demonstrated. The pump laser is either a cw HF or DF chem...

We propose local linear mapping (LLM), a novel fusion framework for distance field (DF) to perform automatic hippocampus segmentation. A k-means cluster method is propose for constructing magnetic resonance (MR) and DF dictionaries. In LLM, we assume that the MR and DF samples are located on two nonlinear manifolds and the mapping from the MR manifold to the DF manifold is differentiable and lo...

background: tissue iron deposition may disturb functions of the organs. in many diseases like thalassemia, the patients suffer from iron deposition in kidney and heart tissues. deferoxamine (df) is a synthetic iron chelator and silymarin (sm) is an antioxidant and also a candidate for iron chelating. this study was designed to investigate the effect of df and sm combination against kidney and h...

There is a natural orthogonal basis of the 6-qubit decoherence-free (DF) space robust against collective noise. Interestingly, most of the basis states can be obtained from one another just permuting qubits. This property: (a) is useful for encoding qubits in DF subspaces, (b) allows the implementation of the Bennett-Brassard 1984 (BB84) protocol in DF subspaces just permuting qubits, which com...

INTRODUCTION Sites of complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAE) and dominant frequency (DF) have been implicated in maintaining atrial fibrillation (AF); however, their relationship is poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty patients underwent biatrial high-density contact mapping (507 +/- 150 points/patient) during AF. CFAE were characterized using software to quantify electrogra...

BACKGROUND We previously reported that stable rotors are observed in in-silico human atrial fibrillation (AF) models, and are well represented by a dominant frequency (DF). In the current study, we hypothesized that the outcome of DF ablation is affected by conduction velocity (CV) conditions and examined this hypothesis using in-silico 3D-AF modeling. METHODS We integrated 3D CT images of le...

Ames dwarf (Prop1(df), df/df) mice are characterized by growth hormone (GH), prolactin, and thyrotropin deficiency, remarkable extension of longevity and increased insulin sensitivity with low levels of fasting insulin and glucose. Plasma levels of anti-inflammatory adiponectin are increased in df/df mice, while pro-inflammatory IL-6 is decreased in plasma and epididymal fat. This represents an...