OBJECTIVE Prolonged air leak is still one of the most frequent complications after pulmonary resections, particularly upper lobectomy. This study aimed at evaluating the efficacy of pleural tenting in decreasing air leak after upper lobectomy. METHODS This was a prospective randomised study of 48 patients who had upper lobectomy. They were divided into two groups: the first group included 23 ...

This position paper describes the attempt to automate the statistical approach for memory leak detection in JavaTM applications. Proposed system extends the basic statistical memory leak detection method with further intelligence to pinpoint the source of the memory leak in the source code. As the method adds only small overhead in runtime it is designed to be used in production systems and wil...

In this project we implemented Leak Finder, a tool for examining how Android applications use their granted permissions. Leak Finder instruments Android applications with custom log code, then it collects the logs from actual user application runs and uses these logs to create an execution graph. Auditors can use the executing graph to examine when an applications tends to use its permissions. ...

BACKGROUND The differentiation of the nature of a fluid collection as a complication of kidney transplantation is important for management and treatment planning. Early and delayed radionuclide renography can play an important role in the evaluation of a urine leak. However, it is sometimes limited in the evaluation of the exact location and extent of a urine leak. CASE PRESENTATION A 71-year...

BACKGROUND Duodenal leak remains a major cause of morbidity and graft loss in pancreas transplant recipients. The role and efficacy of surgical and image-guided interventions to salvage enterically drained grafts with a duodenal leak has yet to be defined. METHODS We investigated the incidence, treatment, and outcome of duodenal leak in 426 pancreas transplantation recipients from 2000 to 201...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate mask technique during simulated neonatal resuscitation and test the effectiveness of training in optimal mask handling. STUDY DESIGN Seventy participants(consultants, registrars and nurses) from neonatal units were asked to administer positive pressure ventilation at a flow of 8 l/min and a frequency of 40-60/min to a modified leak free, term newborn manikin (lung compl...

A 79-year-old man underwent trans-catheter aortic valve replacement for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis with a 26-mm Edwards SAPIEN XT valve. Immediately after valve deployment there was moderate amount of paravalvular leak. Post-dilation was performed with an additional 2 cc of volume, and the paravalvular leak was reduced to trace. Nine months later, trans-thoracic echocardiography reveale...

A computer model was used to simulate the dependence of protonmotive force (Δp), proton leak and phenomenological (involving proton leak) ATP/O2 ratio on work intensity in skeletal muscle. Δp, NADH and proton leak decreased with work intensity. The contribution of proton leak to oxygen consumption ([Formula: see text]) decreased from about 60% at rest to about 3 and 1% at moderate and heavy/sev...

In this paper, we present two methods for determining the position of a leak in an open water channel. The available measurements are the water level and the gate position at the upstream and downstream end of a channel reach. We assume that the size of the leak and the time it started are already estimated by a leak-detection method. Both of the proposed methods make use of a nonlinear Saint-V...

INTRODUCTION Idiopathic systemic capillary leak syndrome is a rare and fatal disease due to the unexplained episodic attacks of capillary leakage of plasma from the intravascular into the interstitial space. The attack consists of three phases, a prodromal phase, peripheral leak phase and recruitment phase. During the peripheral leak phase, generalized edema, mainly in the trunk and extremities...