During gait rehabilitation, therapists or robotic devices often supply physical assistance to a patient's lower limbs to aid stepping. The expensive equipment and intensive manual labor required for these therapies limit their availability to patients. One alternative solution is to design devices where patients could use their upper limbs to provide physical assistance to their lower limbs (i....

PURPOSE This study was a retrospective review of 11 limbs of 10 patients with popliteal artery entrapment syndrome (PAES) treated surgically in a 20-yr period. METHODS The patients were aged 34.7 +/- 17.4 SEM yr. Arteriographic findings varied, showing medial deviation in two limbs, poststenotic dilatation in four limbs and occlusion of the popliteal artery in five limbs. In addition, compute...

A very notable phenomenon took place during the final stages of Late Bronze Age in Balearic Islands: ritualistic, votive deposits certain bronze objects. Of various that have been discovered, at Es Mitjà Gran Mallorca is among most significant terms both variety and number objects found. Isotope analyses allowed some these to be linked with areas around Western Mediterranean European continent....

Measurements were carried out in 146 limbs with angiographically documented arterial occlusive disease (AOD) and in 85 limbs without AOD. Ankle systolic pressure (AP) was equal to or higher than brachial systolic pressure in limbs without AOD. It was below 82% of the brachial in all limbs with complete occlusion, usually below 50% in those with multiple occlusions, and above 50% in limbs with s...

In this study, we propose an exchange market model with arti cial adaptive agents (AGEDASI TOF) and conduct a computer simulation as a study on the arti cial market. First, AGEDASI TOF is compared with a random walk model and a linear regression model in out-of-sample forecasts. The results indicate that AGEDASI TOF outperforms the other models over all forecast horizons. Next, we analyze an ex...

OBJECTIVE The first-line antituberculous agents for use during pregnancy have minimal teratogenic effects. The possibility of limb deformity during rifampin use, however, was reported by some researchers. CASE REPORT A male newborn was born with a hypoplastic right forearm to a mother with tuberculosis who used isoniazid and rifampicin in the first two months of her pregnancy. CONCLUSIONS T...

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In this issue of Circulation, Baumgartner et al 1 report a significant advance in angiogenic gene therapy. The authors induced collateral neovascularization in 10 critically ischemic limbs in 9 patients by the intramuscular gene transfer of naked plasmid DNA encoding the 165-amino-acid isoform of the human angiogenic protein, vascular endothelial growth factor (phVEGF165). The plasmid DNA was i...