introduction here we report an unusual case of massive stone formation in augmented urinary bladder. case presentation a 25-year-old man presented with recurrent urinary tract infection ten years after augmentation cystoplasty after a complex pelvic fracture urethral distraction defect. on evaluation by ultrasonography, x-ray, and computed tomography of abdomen showed large burden of stones in ...

The main subject of the thesis is connectivity augmentation: we would like to make a given graphk-connected by adding a minimum number of new edges. There are four basic problems in thisfield, since one might consider both edgeand node-connectivity augmentation in both graphsand digraphs. The thesis wishes to contribute to three out of these four problems: directed-and undirecte...

Polyacrylamide hydrogel (PAHG) is a medical soft tissue filling agent utilized for the treatment of a variety of soft tissue defects. However, postoperative complications occur that have to be alleviated. The aim of the present study was to examine the treatments of postoperative complications of mammoplasty augmentation with PAHG. Open suction techniques and partial mastectomies via periareola...

This short paper considers comparisons of different data augmentation algorithms in terms of their convergence and efficiency. It examines connections between the partial order 1 on Markov kernels, and inequalities of operator norms. It applies notions from Roberts and Rosenthal (2006) related to variance bounding Markov chains, together with L2 theory, to data augmentation algorithms (Tanner a...

Spleen cells serially sampled from normal mice following partial hepatectomy were tested for antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and natural killer (NK) activity. There was a marked augmentation of these activities of spleen cells from the hepatectomized animals, compared to cells from controls with a simple laparotomy. The augmentation of ADCC in the hepatectomized mice was largely...

Sinus venosus atrial septal defect (ASD) is usually associated with partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) of the right pulmonary veins to the superior vena cava (SVC), or to the SVC-right atrial junction. Standard procedure for repair of this defect is a patch roofing of the sinus venosus ASD and rerouting of pulmonary veins. However, the presence of SVC stenosis is a complication o...

Background: Shoulder instability with critical bipolar bone loss can be difficult to treat. Anterior glenoid block augmentation and partial humeral head resurfacing is a viable option. Indications: This procedure indicated in patients both anterior (≥20%) an engaging Hill-Sachs lesion. Technique Description: A deltopectoral approach performed, followed by subscapularis tenotomy. The lesion resu...

One common approach to solve optimization problems is the primal method. One starts with a feasible point and then successively produces new feasible solutions with better objective function values until an optimal solution is reached. From an abstract point of view, an augmentation problem is solved in each iteration, i.e., given a feasible point find an augmenting vector, if one exists. The d...