Stroke is a major cause of disability and mortality worldwide; yet; prior to this study; there had been no sufficient evidence to support the effectiveness of various transitional care interventions (TCI) on the disability and mortality of stroke survivors. This meta-analysis aimed to assess the effectiveness of TCI in reducing mortality and improving the activities of daily life (ADL) of strok...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Several studies have demonstrated genetic heterogeneity in populations of Trypanosoma cruzi that allowed the identification of six different discrete typing units (DTU) classified as TcI, TcII, TcIII, TcIV, TcV and TcVI. Furthermore, some characterization studies have described genetic variability within TcI isolates from endemic regions. The objective of the present stu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE A recent report has demonstrated that the contralesional primary motor cortex (M1) inhibited the ipsilesional M1 via an abnormal transcallosal inhibition (TCI) in stroke patients. We studied whether a decreased excitability of the contralesional M1 induced by 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) caused an improved motor performance of the affected hand...

To the Editor: In the August issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, I found two articles of particular interest regarding propofol administration. I was simply confounded by the fact that target-controlled infusion (TCI) “predicted” concentrations have become the basic jargon for scientific papers. In both articles, I never found any TRUE raw data disclosing the actual dose of drug administered to these pati...

Background. The revised Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI-R) measures Cloninger's psychobiological model of personality. The average effects of individual temperament and character traits have been associated with schizotypy and with impaired regulation of affect and cognition. We extended prior research by testing predictions about the association of specific multidimensional configurat...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Propofol administration via a target-controlled infusion system with bispectral index monitoring (BIS/TCI system) is expected to prevent complications from sedation during complex and long endoscopic procedures. We evaluated the feasibility of setting the BIS/TCI system for non-anesthesiologist administration of propofol (NAAP) during endoscopic submucosal dissection (...

The mechanism behind the three-spin chiral interaction (TCI) included in extended Heisenberg Hamiltonian and represented by an expression worked out recently (Phys.\ Rev.\ B, {\bf 101}, 174401 (2020)) is discussed. It stressed that this approach provides a unique set of multispin exchange parameters which are independent each other either due to their different order perturbation or symmetry. T...