This study was done to determine whether high or low dose of anti-snake venom (ASV) is better in coagulopathy in victims of envenoming by vipers. This retrospective study was conducted on the 154 patients (Mean age ± SD, Range) of viper snake bites who were referred to the emergency ward of Razi Hospital, Ahvaz, Iran over 2 years period (2004 - 2006). According to the treatment dosage the patie...

Background: Aneurysm of the sinuses Valsalva (ASV) is a rare but potentially lethal condition. Young patients with aortic root aneurysm and normal valve are preferentially treated valve-sparing replacement (VSRR). However, this option may not be feasible in presence an ASV. We herein describe unique repair technique that allows ASV closure subsequent VSRR.

We present an approach to actively calibrate the exteroceptive sensors of an Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV) autonomously. The approach consists of locating suitable calibration sites in the environment from aerial imagery, navigating to them, gathering calibration data and estimating the required parameters from data. We have conducted experiments using an ASV in a lake to validate our approach.

Existing automatic speaker verification (ASV) systems perform with high accuracy when the speech signal is collected close to the mouth of the speaker (< 1 ft). However, the performance of these systems reduces significantly when speech signals are collected at a distance from the speaker (2-6 ft). The objective of this paper is to address some issues in the processing of speech signals collect...

We investigated effects of arsenate (AsV), chromate (CrVI) and sulfate on As and Cr uptake and translocation by arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata (PV), which was exposed to AsV, CrVI and sulfate at 0, 0.05, 0.25 or 1.25 mM for 2-wk in hydroponic system. PV was effective in accumulating large amounts of As (4598 and 1160 mg/kg in the fronds and roots at 0.05 mM AsV) and Cr (234 and 12,630 ...

BACKGROUND & AIMS High cure rates are achieved in HCV genotype-1b patients treated with daclatasvir and asunaprevir, DCV/ASV. Here we analyzed early HCV kinetics in genotype-1b infected Japanese subjects treated with DCV/ASV and retrospectively projected, using mathematical modeling, whether shorter treatment durations might be effective. METHODS HCV RNA levels were measured frequently during...

Sequential injection system (SI system) was used for the pretreatment of a carbon electrode in an anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) for the determination of arsenic (III). In this research, a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) was used; SPCE was prepared in our laboratory by us. In ASV, SPCE was chosen as a working electrode because SPCE is less expensive, easy to use for a flow cell and s...

Daclatasvir (DCV) and asunaprevir (ASV) are direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) used in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Combined therapy with DCV and ASV shows high efficacy and safety even in patients with cirrhosis. We encountered a patient exhibiting severe hyperbilirubinemia during combined therapy, which is an unreported side effect of DCV and ASV. A 78-year-old wom...

AIMS OF STUDY The present study was undertaken to study the relationship between the time of anti-snake venom (ASV) administration due to late arrival of patient at hospital and subsequent development of complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS All patients of snake bite that presented to our institution over a period of 1 1/2 years were included in the present study. A detailed clinical history, ...

BACKGROUND Adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV) therapy is a recent non-invasive positive pressure ventilation therapy that was developed for patients with heart failure (HF) refractory to optimal medical therapy. However, it is likely that ASV therapy at relatively higher pressure setting worsens some of the patients' prognosis compared with optimal medical therapy. Therefore, identification of op...