The authors used albumin aggregates whose diameters were stated to range from 15 μm to 50 μm. Assuming radioactivity relates to particle mass, not diameter, 50 μm particles would be 37 times hotter than 15 μm particles ((50/15) = 37). If the abnormal vascular channels at their narrowest exceeded 50 μm diameter, this inhomogeneity of size may have posed no problem. If any were less than 50 μm bu...

background: echocardiographic evaluations of the longitudinal axis of the left ventricular (lv) function have been used in the diagnosis and assessment of heart failure with normal ejection fraction (hfnef). the evaluation of the global and segmental peak systolic longitudinal strains (pslss) by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (ste) may correlate with conventional echocardiogr...

Cervical laminectomy has been known to cause postlaminectomy kyphosis and instability, often necessitating extensive anterior and posterior procedures with instrumentation for the stabilisation and correction of the deformity. We report a case of spontaneous stabilisation of postlaminectomy cervical kyphosis by anterior longitudinal ossification in the absence of an ossified posterior longitudi...

Abstract Background Frailty is a state of dysregulation in multiple physiological systems and vulnerability to stressors. Many frailty identification tools exist that differ their conceptualisation vis-à-vis morbidity, disability, cognition, other geriatric assessment dimensions. We compared the ability four different predict 8-year mortality TILDA. Methods included TILDA Wave 1 (2010) particip...