background the benefits of laparoscopy over laparotomy include lower blood loss, decreased length of hospital stay, and decreased postoperative pain. it is unknown, however, whether patients with previous surgeries are good candidates for laparoscopic surgery. objectives to determine whether the location and type (laparoscopic surgery vs. laparotomy) of previous abdominal surgery is associated ...

this report presents a case of left radial artery pseudoaneurysm developing at the previous site of invasive monitoring. the patient had prosthetic mitral valve replacement one month earlier, and anti-coagulation therapy had started on the first post-operative day. the patient’s radial artery aneurysm with a 4-centimeter diameter was resected and the radial artery was ligated.

purpose: to report the results of different methods for true corneal power and intraocular lens (iol) power calculation in 10 eyes with previous radial keratotomy (rk) with or without astigmatic keratotomy. methods: in this case series including 10 eyes of 7 patients who had undergone rk with or without astigmatic keratotomy, we firstly determined corneal power using two methods: contact lens m...

We read with interest the analysis of the merged Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) database showing an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI) but not death in patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) who were previously on aspirin therapy (1). The authors conclude that previous aspirin use was “a marker as opposed to a pathophysiologic factor related to an increased risk” f...

I have developed new techniques to address both of these issues that deliver faster and more reliable solutions to inverse problems, i.e., uncover the causal factors generating the data. The ‘secret sauce’ in these techniques is inspired by physical laws and processes to either (i) augment the data representation in the forward or generative model, and hence, supplement learning techniques, or ...

We study the problem of finding the longest previous reverse factor occurring at each position of a string. This is a generalisation of a notion used for the optimal detection of various types of palindromes in a string. We describe two algorithms for computing the LPrF table of a string, one from its Suffix Tree and the second from its Suffix Automaton respectively. These algorithms run in lin...

Searching all the configurations C′ which produce a given configuration C is an extremely hard task. The current approximations are based on heavy hand-made calculus by considering the specific features of the given configuration. In this paper we present a general method for characterizing all the configurations C′ which produce a given configuration C in the framework of transition P systems ...

This article reviews the case of a 29-year-old woman who underwent revision rhinoplasties. Preoperative photographs and postoperative photographs 1 year after surgery are included.

We report two cases of Caesarean scar pregnancies that were managed surgically. The first case was a 33-year-old woman who presented at 21 weeks of gestation with lower abdominal pain. An exploratory laparotomy was performed as she was hypotensive and had a drastic drop in haemoglobin level. Intraoperatively, a ruptured scar ectopic pregnancy with placenta percreta was found. A hysterectomy was...