Background Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is a new therapeutic option for severe refractory asthma not controlled despite high dose inhaled corticosteroids plus long-acting bronchodilators and omalizumab in selected cases. Risk of pulmonary atelectasis after BT in severe asthma has been described in literature, but no details have been reported on the possible mechanisms of the complication.

Up to 10 million females and 1 million males suffer from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa in the United States, and many more struggle with binge eating disorder. These conditions frequently occur with other mental health and substance abuse problems. Individuals suffering from an eating disorder (ED) often seek care from their family physician, and it has been suggested that primary care pr...

The management of craniosynostosis, especially in the setting of craniofacial syndromes, is ideally done in a multidisciplinary clinic with a team focused toward comprehensive care. Craniosynostosis is a congenital disorder of the cranium, caused by the premature fusion of one or more cranial sutures. This fusion results in abnormal cranial growth due to the inability of the involved sutures to...

The immediate complications of axillary node surgery are relatively insignificant. It is very uncommon for any patient to sustain serious injuries such as brachial plexus nerve or axillary vein injury, and although seroma formation is a very frequent occurrence it is well tolerated and is rarely prolonged. Delayed complications and long-term morbidity are by contrast commonplace and impact on t...

In his poetry, Walt Whitman sings, "I am large, I contain multitudes." Most healthy organisms are made up of a multitude of cells and cell types, but none of these cells acts alone. Likewise a cell in homeostasis contains many organelles, but none of these organelles work on their own. How these diverse cells and how these different organelles communicate with each other in time and space are s...

Chemical information conveyance is an important phenomenon in the biology of plants and animals. This involves intraspecific chemical communication and its exploitation by heterospecific organisms. As a result food webs are overlaid with information webs that can have important consequences for community processes. A vast amount of research shows that both the emission of chemical information a...

This paper presents a limited survey of methods and multidisciplinary applications of various techniques for the solution of several classes of inverse problems as developed and practiced by our research team. Sketches of solution methods for inverse problems of shape determination, boundary conditions determination, sources determination, and physical properties determination are presented fro...

OBJECTIVE To assess the long term effects of multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for patients with chronic low back pain. DESIGN Systematic review and random effects meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials. DATA SOURCES Electronic searches of Cochrane Back Review Group Trials Register, CENTRAL, Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, and CINAHL databases up to February 2014, supplemen...

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The TWINS project addresses co-design problems of product development consisting of integrated hardand software development that within industry. In search for a multidisciplinary modelling solution, knowledge is required about current practice of multidisciplinary development within industry. By analysing user-requirements, use-cases, and the applied tools and techniques of six industrial part...