Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate baseline and 14 days prospective changes in viscoelastic whole blood coagulation by thromboelastography (TEG) in patients with moderate and severe burns corresponding to ≥ 10 % total body surface area (TBSA). Methods: 13 patients with burns ≥ 10% were included in the study. TEG analysis and standard coagulation parameters as APTT, INR, plat...

A 62-year-old female patient diagnosed with left brain stem stroke 2 months ago was admitted to our clinic for rehabilitation. She had no generalized spasticity on both extremities, but could open her mouth only approximately 2 mm between her upper and lower teeth due to severe trismus. On needle electromyography, the left masseter muscle showed paradoxically increased muscle activity during mo...

Proprotein convertases (PCs) are Ca(2+)-dependent serine proteases of the subtilisin/kexin family which are known specifically to cleave propeptide and proprotein substrates at the C-terminal of R-X-(K/R)-R/ to generate the relevant biologically active peptides. PCs are initially synthesized as enzymically inactive proenzyme forms where the prosegments play an important inhibitory role to the r...

objective:  to investigate the reproductive outcome of artificial endometrial preparation with exogenous steroids for frozen-thawed embryo transfer with and without pre-treatment with depot gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist (gnrh-a) in women with regular menses. amaterials and methods: this is a prospective randomized clinical trial conducted in two rt centers on 176 women undergoing froze...

We combine HSTWFPC mosaics of clusters at multiple redshifts with Keck LRIS spectroscopy to characterize different galaxy populations and how they evolve. By combining quantitative measurements of structural parameters with velocity dispersions, line indices, and morphological types, we attempt to establish links between ellipticals, S0’s, E+A’s, and later type galaxies. Here we focus on galaxi...

Abstract Aim To compare the outcomes of pre and post implementation a Faster Diagnostic Standard (FDS) at 28 62 days before after One-Stop Haematuria Clinic in James Paget University Hospital. Method The data for retrospective audit was collected from Somerset cancer registry Ullyses. All patients referred on 2 week-wait haematuria pathways were included July 2020-October 2020 (pre-implementati...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To report the evolution in perceptions and behaviours of the general public in response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Hong Kong. DESIGN Ten similar and sequential telephone surveys were conducted during outbreak of SARS, which are classified as belonging to the first and second phases of the epidemic. SETTING Hong Kong, China. PARTICIPANTS 139...