BACKGROUND In Austria, mortality from diseases of the circulatory system and malignant neoplasms is high and varies among the federal states. Lower mortality in some states indicates a preventive potential in those states with higher mortality. METHODS We computed the number of premature deaths, for women and men separately, from the two leading causes of death, diseases of the circulatory sy...

BACKGROUND This study searches the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) used in a previous project, aiming for reconstructing possible cerebrovascular disease-related groups (DRG),and estimating the costs between cerebrovascular disease and related diseases. METHODS AND MATERIALS We conducted a nationwide retrospective cohort study in stroke inpatients, we examined the overall ...

For anesthetic management during renal transplantation, it is necessary to maintain the blood flow and function of the transplanted kidney by performing massive fluid management and stabilizing blood pressure. We report anesthetic management for renal transplantation with a less-invasive circulatory monitoring system (Edwards Life Sciences Co., Ltd., Irvine, California, U.S.A.). In November 201...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to explain the difference in characteristics of exercise limitation factors of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and sequelea of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB-s) . [Subjects] The subjects were 29 patients with COPD (28 males, 1 female; 70.6 ± 8.0 years) and 8 patients with PTB-s (5 males, 3 females; 69.5 ± 9.5 years). [Method] We co...

A computational hemodynamics approach is presented to simulate the blood flow through the human circulatory system under altered gravity conditions. Numerical techniques relevant to hemodynamics issues are introduced to non-Newtonian modeling for flow characteristics governed by red blood cells, distensible wall motion due to the heart pulse, and capillary bed modeling for outflow boundary cond...

This report is based upon a study of multiple segments of the cardiovascular system of 200 deceased persons and selected surgical specimens. M\last (ells are present in the adventitia of all blood vessels. Only the largest vessels have mast cells in the intima and subintima as well. In this location the number of mast cells is highest in grossly normal but microscopicallv e(lematous areas. Mast...

One of the challenges in a military wireless sensor network is the determination of an information collection infrastructure which minimizes battery power consumption. The problem of determining the right information collection infrastructure can be viewed as a variation of the network design problem, with the additional constraints related to battery power minimization and redundancy. The prob...