BACKGROUND Heart Failure (HF) is a low grade inflammatory condition. High sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP) is an established marker of inflammation. A cut-off value of hsCRP beyond which an infection should be sought has never been studied in HF. We aimed to determine the best hsCRP cut-off for infection prediction in acute HF. METHODS We analyzed patients included in an acute HF regist...

OBJECTIVES To explore the interplay between primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer by estimating future screening outcomes in women offered human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination when they were sexually naïve. DESIGN Estimation of outcome of liquid-based cytology screening for a post-HPV vaccination cohort using pre-vaccination screening data combined with HPV vaccination efficac...

The present study aimed to investigate the value of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) in the grading of well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PanNETs). A total of 44 patients with histologically proven well-differentiated PanNET [grade 1 (G1) and grade 2 (G2) according to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria] underwent pretreatment magnetic resonance im...

An Adaptative Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS), new flexible tool, is applied to predict the cut-off frequencies of the symmetric and the anti-symmetric circumferential waves (Si and Ai, i=1,2) propagating around an elastic aluminum cylindrical shell of various radius ratio b/a (a: outer radius and b: inner radius). The time-frequency of WignerVille and the proper modes theory are used in t...