BACKGROUND The hallux valgus interphalangeus (HVI) deformity is described as rare, but improved outcomes in hallux valgus (HV) surgery is associated with its surgical correction via an Akin osteotomy. The hypothesis of this study is that HVI is common and makes a significant contribution to the total valgus deformity of the hallux (TVDH). METHODS 285 pre-operative foot radiographs (193 with H...

BACKGROUND Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated T/natural-killer lymphoproliferative disorders form a group of diseases that includes classical and systemic hydroa vacciniforme (HV) and hypersensitivity to mosquito bites (HMB). Patients with systemic HV (sHV) and HMB often have a poor prognosis, although little is known about the prognostic factors. OBJECTIVES To elucidate the prognostic facto...

  Objective(s): Klebsiella infections are caused mainly by K. pneumoniae and K. oxytoca. In the last two decades, a new type of invasive Klebsiella pneumoniae which contains mucoviscosity-associated gene (magA) has emerged. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of magA gene and to detect antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Klebsiella   spp. isolated from clinical samples....

To determine whether drying and hypertonicity of the airway surface fluid (ASF) are involved in thermally induced asthma, nine subjects performed isocapnic hyperventilation (HV) (minute ventilation 62.2 +/- 8.3 l/min) of frigid air (-8.9 +/- 3.3 degrees C) while periciliary fluid was collected endoscopically from the trachea. Osmolality was measured by freezing-point depression. The baseline 1-...

Satellite RNAs (satRNA) associated with Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) have been shown to generate multimers during replication. We have discovered that multimers of a CMV satRNA generated in the absence of its helper virus (HV) are characterized by the addition of a hepta nucleotide motif (HNM) at the monomer junctions. Here, we evaluated the functional significance of HNM in HV-dependent replica...

We study a new class of $H_v$-structures called Fundamentally Very Thin. This is an extension of the well known class of the Very Thin hyperstructures. We present applications of these hyperstructures.

The increased luminosity of the HL-LHC will require more channels in the upgraded ATLAS Tracker, as a result of the finer detector segmentation. Thus, an upgraded and more efficient HV biasing of the sensors will also be needed and is among the many technological challenges facing the ATLAS Tracker Upgrade. A number of approaches, including the sharing of the same HV line among several sensors ...

A 64-year-old man presented with left-sided weakness with an initial NIH Stroke Scale score of 11. Brain CT imaging showed a hyperdense artery sign of right middle cerebral artery (MCA) occlusion (figure 1, A and B). Brain MRI showed the susceptibility vessel sign (SVS) on gradient recalled echo and hyperintense vessels (HV) on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery images (figure 1, C and D). Ang...

Urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB) with glandular differentiation is a histological variant (HV) that is more likely to have positive extravesical tumors or nodes than those in pure UCB. Cisplatin-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) prior to radical cystectomy (RC) is more effective for pure UCB; however, few reports are available on second-line chemotherapy for recurrence of UCB with H...

In this paper, educational software for the reliability assessment of high/medium-voltage (HV/MV) substations and distribution feeders is presented. It is a useful tool for learning the utility of reliability indices of the HV/MV substations and their distribution feeders, and their influence on the electrical power system operation. By means of an interactive graphical interface, multiple conf...