Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background The impact capacitance and blood volume redistribution on outcomes patients with chronic heart failure is incompletely understood. Quantitative plasma (PV) measurements together echocardiographic evaluation allow a comprehensive assessment the interplay between volumetric overload, cardiac chamber remodelling myocardial...

As pulmonary CT has a lot of noise produced by thoracic imaging and partial volume effect, it is difficult that the computer segments out the correct blood vessels for plain thoracic CT. Therefore, after a deep investigation into the enhancement, segmentation methods and the upgrading ability of fractional differential operation, the paper proposes an automatic segmentation method for pulmonary...

background : the present study was undertaken to ascertain whether (or not) long term occupational exposure to low (sub-tlv levels) atmospheric concentrations of chlorine gas was associated with any significant decrements in the parameters of pulmonary function and/or  increased prevalence of respiratory symptoms. methods : in this retrospective cohort study that was performed in 2012, 54 worke...

background: occupational exposure to excessive level of copper results in many adverse health effects. objective: to measure pulmonary function, oxidative stress, and extent of dna damage in workers of a copper processing industry. methods: 30 men working in a copper processing industry and 30 men matched for age and socioeconomic status (comparison group) were included in this study. pulmonary...

background: pulmonary complications of radiation to breast are inevitable, while its incidence and severity are not clear. one of the methods to assess pulmonary complications is spirometry. the influence of radiotherapy on pulmonary function test and the factors affecting it have been assessed in this study. methods: breast cancer patients with stage ii and iii (based on tnm staging), underwen...