BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study was conducted to investigate whether changes in the complete blood count (CBC)/differential count (DC) and C-reactive protein (CRP) were correlated to Kawasaki disease (KD) with coronary artery lesions (CALs). METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed of all children with KD at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Kaohsiung from 2001 to 2006. KD patients were...

Le Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) est une génodermatose rare, fréquente au Maghreb vu le taux élevé de mariage consanguin. Ses manifestations cutanées sont dominées par la fréquence de cancers cutanés. La dermoscopie est une méthode non invasive, qui facilite l'orientation diagnostique et la surveillance de ces malades permettant ainsi de réduire le recours à une chirurgie délabrente en cas de diag...

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20130007 The complete blood count (CBC), also known as hemogram or blood panel, one of the components of the routine physical examination, aims to provide a lot of information to the physician regarding the state of a person’s general health. The CBC is frequently used as an essential screening test for a wide range of conditions and disorders, including anemia, infection...

BACKGROUND Changes in the prevalence of pneumococcal occult bacteremia (PnOB) because of pneumococcal conjugated vaccine (PCV-7) may have altered the predictive value of the complete blood count (CBC) for selected patients at risk of having occult bacteremia (OB). OBJECTIVE To analyze the rate of OB in infants with high fever without source related to pneumococcal vaccination status and to st...

No previous study has investigated the full range of complete blood count (CBC) parameters in small-for-gestational-age (SGA) newborns. The main aim of this study was to compare CBC and peripheral smear parameters in term, healthy SGA neonates and appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) neonates, and to establish CBC reference values for full-term SGA newborns. One hundred thirty-two healthy, ter...

The nuclear cap-binding protein complex (CBC) participates in 5' splice site selection of introns that are proximal to the mRNA cap. However, it is not known whether CBC has a role in alternative splicing. Using an RT-PCR alternative splicing panel, we analysed 435 alternative splicing events in Arabidopsis thaliana genes, encoding mainly transcription factors, splicing factors and stress-relat...

The objective of this study was to investigate the performance of 3 brain-computer interface (BCI) paradigms in an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) population (n = 11). Using a repeated-measures design, participants completed 3 BCI conditions: row/column (RCW), checkerboard (CBW), and gray-to-color (CBC). Based on previous studies, it is hypothesized that the CBC and CBW conditions will resu...

Data collections are traditionally stored as individually compressed files. Where the files have a significant degree of similarity, such as genomes, incremental backup archives, versioned repositories, and web archives, additional compression can be achieved using references to matching data from other files in the collection. We describe compression using long-range or inter-file similarities...