Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a heterogeneous disorder characterized by prolonged eosinophilia without an identifiable cause, ultimately resulting in organ dysfunction. Three major types of neurologic involvement have been well defined in HES; however, to our knowledge, inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) in association with HES has not been reported. We present a case of IPT of the...

To compare the effects of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 and HES 200/0.5, which have different molecular weights and degrees of substitution, on microcirculation perfusion and tissue oxygenation in patients undergoing liver surgery. Thirty patients with an American Society of Anesthesiologists status I/II who were scheduled for liver surgery were randomly divided into two groups: one receive...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this experimental study was to evaluate the efficacy of hesperidin (HES) in protecting against methotrexate (MTX)-induced intestinal damage using histopathological and immunohistochemical techniques. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-eight male Wistar albino rats were divided into 4 groups that received (a) saline only (control group), n = 19; (b) HES only, n = 19; (c) MT...

subtle points in the semi-inverse method of nonlinear elasticity BY RICCARDO DE PASCALIS, MICHEL DESTRADE* AND GIUSEPPE SACCOMANDI Dipartimento di Matematica, and Sezione di Ingegneria Industriale, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione, Università degli Studi di Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy Institut Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, CNRS (UMR7190), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Case 162, 4 Place ...

Several inverse spectral problems are solved by a method which is based on exact solutions of the semi-infinite Toda lattice. In fact, starting with a well-known and appropriate probability measure μ, the solution αn(t), bn(t) of the Toda lattice is exactly determined and by taking t = 0, the solution αn(0), bn(0) of the inverse spectral problem is obtained. The solutions of the Toda lattice wh...

The GluR1 subunit of the AMPA receptor plays an important role in excitatory synaptic transmission and synaptic plasticity in the brain, but the regulation mechanism for GluR1 expression is largely unknown. Hairy and enhancer of split 1 (Hes-1) is a mammalian transcription repressor that regulates neuronal differentiation and development, but the role of Hes-1 in differentiated neurons is also ...

We retrospectively evaluated the effects of 6% hydroxyethyl starch (HES) 130/0.4 on postoperative blood loss and acute kidney injury (AKI) in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (OPCAB).Electronic medical records of 771 patients who underwent OPCAB in our hospital between July 2012 and July 2014 were reviewed, and 249 patients without intraoperative HES-exposure (group ...

We discuss the use of local basis expansions (LBEX) for solving linear inverse problems with continuous source spaces. The LBEX method is a generalisation, to the linear inverse problem, of the multitaper technique for spectral analysis. The multitaper technique employs Slepian sequences, that are maximally concentrated in the frequency domain. The analog for LBEX are combinations of lead field...

The response of JERS-1 and ERS-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) to the forest stem volume (biomass) was investigated by employing a digital stem volume map and weather information. The stem volume map was produced from the National Forest Inventory sample plot data together with a LANDSAT thematic mapper (TM) image. A new indirect inversion method was developed and tested to estimate the forest...