OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety and patency of self-expanding stents to treat hepatic venous outflow obstruction after orthotopic liver transplantation. To evaluate differences in the response between patients with early obstruction and patients with late obstruction. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of 16 patients with hepatic venous outflow obstruction after liver tra...

The supercritical disk accretion flow with radiatively driven outflows is studied based on twodimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations for a wide range of the mass input rate, Ṁinput, which is the mass supplied from the outer region to the disk per unit time. The α-prescription is adopted for the viscosity. We employ α = 0.5, as well as α = 0.1 for Ṁinput ≥ 3 × 10 LE/c 2 and only α = 0.5 ...

We present results from multi-epoch spectral analysis of XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of the broad absorption line (BAL) quasar APM 08279+5255. Our analysis shows significant X-ray BALs in all epochs with rest-frame energies lying in the range of ∼ 6.7–18 keV. The X-ray BALs and 0.2–10 keV continuum show significant variability on timescales as short as 3.3 days (proper time) implying a ...

PURPOSE A linear relationship between the density of pores in the inner wall of Schlemm's canal and aqueous outflow facility has been reported previously in a study in which investigators examined only eyes fixed at constant pressure, so that fixative flow rates differed from eye to eye. Because pores may form as a function of flow rate, the purpose in the current study was to verify the previo...

The effect of a single glucose feeding upon the net inflow and outflow transport of plasma free fatty acids (FFA) has been studied in 75 unanesthetized rats. The animals were fasted for 22 +/- 2 hr; then 50 rats were refed 2 ml of 50% glucose by gastric intubation. At 0, 10-15, and 30-35 min after glucose refeeding, the rats were injected with palmitate-1-(14)C complexed to rat serum. The trace...

We present Submillimeter Array observations toward the 10 L⊙ starforming region G240.31+0.07, in the J = 2–1 transition of CO and CO and at 1.3 mm continuum, as well as the CO and CO observations from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory to recover the extended emission filtered out by the interferometer. Maps of the CO and CO emission show a bipolar, wide-angle, quasi-parabolic molecular outf...