A 57-year-old woman with morbid obesity (body mass index 41.6), diabetes mellitus, hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea sought bariatric surgery for weight loss. Her pre-operative serum creatinine was 1.0 mg/dL (88.4 μmol/L), and she had no history of renal calculi. She underwent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery with a 75-cm Roux limb. Post-operatively, she was non-adherent wit...

severe traumatic injuries to immature teeth often cause damage to periodontal ligament as well as dental pulp; pulp necrosis, root resorption and subsequent apical lesion are common consequences. this article reports the surgical management of an infected immature maxillary central incisor associated with a gigantic periradicular lesion and severe root resorption. the tooth had a history of tra...

Low delay video transmission is becoming increasingly important. Delay critical, video enabled applications range from teleoperation scenarios such as controlling drones or telesurgery to autonomous control through computer vision algorithms applied on real-time video. To judge the quality of the video transmission in such a system, it is important to be able to precisely measure the end-to-end...

Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) revolutionized surgery by drastically reducing patient recovery times by allowing surgeons to perform procedures through a series of small incisions. However, MIS has also increased the complexity of the tasks as tools did not have the same degrees of freedom and dexterity compared to open procedures. In particular, pediatric patients pose a unique challenge as ...

FGS (Fine Granularity Scalability) is a scalable coding technique which can provide flexibility and good performance for Internet video streaming. However, FGS is not suitable for wireless video streaming. This is mainly because the low coding efficiency of FGS does not fit the limited bandwidth of wireless networks. In this paper, we jointly consider mode selection and UEP (unequal error prote...