background: atherosclerosis of the peripheral arteries occurs in 12% of individuals at 65 years of age or older. at least 28% of these patients suffer from coronary heart diseases and 10% of them are afflicted with cerebrovascular diseases. to calculate the agreement between two diagnostic tests for peripheral arterial disease (pad), namely ankle brachial index (abi) and ultrasound duplex scann...

conclusions la increases the risk of cva and dementia. the la pathology is unknown. the epidemiological studies revealed the age, diabetes, smoking and atherosclerosis are related with la. our findings showed that cimt as an atherosclerosis marker was higher in la patients than control group. results totally 200 patients were studied, 102 in normal group and 98 in ila group. the mean age of pat...

canine distemper virus (cdv) is the cause of canine distemper (cd) which is a severe and highly contagious disease in dogs. in the present study, a duplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rt-pcr) method was developed for the detection and differentiation of wild-type and vaccine strains of cdv. four primers were designed to detect and discriminate the two viruses by generating 6...

rapid and accurate identification of microorganisms have a significant impact on strategies and fish health management programs. hence, in this study a duplex pcr assay based on the 16s rrna gene for simultaneous detection of aeromonas hydrophila rticc 1032 and escherichia coli rticc 2325 from pure cultures, and challenged fish tissues was performed and their results were compared with the resu...

objective: duplex ultrasonography is a non-invasive, non-expensive screening test for carotid disease. intima media thickness (imt) is appropriate for atherosclerosis process diagnosis. leukoaraisis (la) increase the risk of cerebrovascular accident (cva). la patients need preventive medication for cva. imt is a non-invasive diagnostic and prognostic test in la. the aim of this study was evalua...

Canine distemper virus (CDV) is the cause of canine distemper (CD) which is a severe and highly contagious disease in dogs. In the present study, a duplex reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) method was developed for the detection and differentiation of wild-type and vaccine strains of CDV. Four primers were designed to detect and discriminate the two viruses by generating 6...

conclusions neither of studied variables was perfect to differentiate cirrhotic patients with and without evs. endoscopy is still the gold standard diagnostic method for diagnosing esophageal varices in patients with cirrhosis. it seems that some of the splenoportal doppler indices are promising, but more research and evaluation is necessary. results forty-four patients were male and 22 female....

Background and Objective: Sexually infections transmitted by bacteria are one of thetherapeutic and social problemsworldwide. The Real-time PCR assay is one of the most sensitive diagnostic and screening methods for these infections. The purpose of this study wassimultaneous detection of Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitaliumusing the TaqMan duplex real-time polymerase chain reaction. ...

We study a multi-cell multi-user MIMO full-duplex network, where each base station (BS) has multiple antennas with full-duplex capability supporting single-antenna users with either full-duplex or half-duplex radios. We characterize the upand downlink ergodic achievable rates for the case of linear precoders and receivers. The rate analysis includes practical constraints such as imperfect selfi...