An incisional hernia is represented by the protrusion of hollow viscera from their physiological position through an area of weakness in a surgical scar. Spontaneous rupture of abdominal herniae is very rare and usually occurs in incisional herniae [1] with only very few cases reported in literature. An incisional hernia is a frequently observed complication after abdominal surgery, with an inc...

BACKGROUND Extreme hot weather conditions have been associated with increased morbidity and mortality, but risks are not evenly distributed throughout the population. Previously, a heat vulnerability index (HVI) was created to geographically locate populations with increased vulnerability to heat in metropolitan areas throughout the United States. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine whether are...

In this paper, we introduce a computational model for the simulation of hypervelocity impact (HVI) phenomena which is based on the Discrete Element Method (DEM). Our paper constitutes the first application of DEM to the modeling and simulating of impact events for velocities beyond 5 kms-1. We present here the results of a systematic numerical study on HVI of solids. For modeling the solids, we...

The term ‘‘micronaire” describes an important cotton fiber property by characterizing both the fibermaturity and fineness. In practice, micronaire is regularlymeasured in laboratories with the well established high volume instrumentation (HVI) protocol. In most scenarios, cotton breeders/geneticists sent cotton breeding line field trial samples to laboratories equipped to use the HVI systems av...

CONTEXT Spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy is a well-accepted procedure for benign tumors of the distal pancreas. Its safety and feasibility have been proven. However many doctors have not used this procedure due to the trauma involved. OBJECTIVE We present our experience of six cases of distal pancreatic trauma where we managed to preserve the spleen during distal pancreatectomy in an e...

The classically conditioned eyeblink response in the rabbit is one of the best-characterized behavioral models of associative learning. It is cerebellum dependent, with many studies indicating that the hemispheral part of Larsell's cerebellar cortical lobule VI (HVI) is critical for the acquisition and performance of learned responses. However, there remain uncertainties about the distribution ...

Background: Peritonitis due to hollow viscous perforation continues to be one of the most common surgical emergencies and a potentially life threatening condition attended by a surgeon on emergency duty. Its accurate diagnosis and management is still a challenge to surgeons worldwide. A scoring system should be able to assess the need, type, and quality of the care required for a particular pat...

According to modern ideas, changes in the functioning of immune system affect processes nervous system, contributing development neuro-immuno-inflammation and thereby indirectly rate progression neurodegenerative processes. The aim our study was investigate prevalence post-viral chronic fatigue syndrome cognitive impairment (aMCI) among patients with atypical, active herpesvirus infections (ACA...

During the period from May 2001 to December 2001, a total number of emergency admissions in surgery unit -V. of DMCH was 450. Out of them l00 were due to perforated gas containing hollow viscus (Table-1 ), majority of them were from duodenal ulcer (72%), 10% from typhoid ulcer, 06% from intestinal tuberculosis and the remaining were from other causes (Table-7). 84% were male and 16% were female...