objective(s) the purpose of this study was assessment of the influence of acute manic phase on the steady state pharmacokinetics of valproic acid (vpa) in bipolar patients in comparison with those of epileptic patients. materials and methods ninteen acutely manic and 25 epileptic patients who fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria were entered in this prospective study. blood samples were c...

Duplex stainless steels (DSSs) find increasing use as a substitution to austenitic in oil, gas and petrochemical industries, particularly aggressive environments. with appropriate controlled ferrite-austenite balance combine the attractive properties of excellent strength, general corrosion performance adequate weldability. All welding joints subjected regulation must be before commissioning pi...

In this paper we address the problem of creating accurate joint models from real motions while allowing scalability. We propose an automatic method to model, scale and simulate non-idealized joints from the external motion of markers. We demonstrate the method on the human knee joint modeling for musculoskeletal analysis and for character animation. The resulting joints, called correlative join...

INTRODUCTION Multiple dislocations of joints in the hand are rare. Double dislocations of the thumb joints have only been reported on four previous occasions, in all cases reported to date, the joints have dislocated dorsally. CASE REPORT We present the case of a 26-year-old male patient with simultaneous volar dislocations of the carpometacarpal and metacarpophalangeal joints of the thumb. T...

fracture mapping of late permian-early triassic flat-lying sedimentary rocks in the sydney basin,new south wales, australia, shows that joints developed originally in extension were faulted in subsequentevents. joints with a regional distribution fall into two (early and late) formed groups. group i joints propagatedhorizontally and never interfered with each other. these joints were subsequent...

Multicentric Reticulohistiocytosis (MRH) is a rare histiocytic disorder that primarily involves the skin and joints but can affect multiple visceral organs. A female patient presented a characteristic papulonodular skin eruption and polyarthritis with positive Antinuclear Antibody (ANA), and skin biopsy findings demonstrated classic features of MRH. The patient’s clinical manifestations were in...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disorder primarily involving the joints. Lung alterations in RA may be primary or secondary to pharmacological treatments and may involve the alveoli, interstitium, airways and/or pleura. Technetium-99m diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Tc-99m DTPA) aerosol inhalation scintigraphy is a sensitive and noninvasive test commonly employed to asses...