A case of relapsing polychondritis showed IOP elevations three times during the follow-up due to the angle-closure mechanism. The peripheral anterior chamber depth (ACD) showed a good correlation with IOP elevation, but central ACD did not. The peripheral ACD could be more related to IOP elevation than central ACD.

It has long been recognized that alterations in cell shape and polarity play important roles in coordinating lymphocyte functions. In the last decade, a new aspect of lymphocyte polarity has attracted much attention, termed asymmetric cell division (ACD). ACD has previously been shown to dictate or influence many aspects of development in model organisms such as the worm and the fly, and to be ...

PURPOSE This study determined to assess the degree of agreement between anterior chamber depth (ACD) measurements obtained using three different devices and to analyse the relationship between ACD and spherical equivalent (SE) refraction. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 42 eyes of 42 patients with a mean SE of - 4.69 +/- 4.61 D (range 0.00 D to - 14.88 D) were analysed. Measurements of...

BACKGROUND Active compression-decompression (ACD) CPR combined with an inspiratory impedance threshold device (ITD) improves vital organ blood flow during cardiac arrest. This study compared survival rates with ACD+ITD CPR versus standard manual CPR (S-CPR). METHODS AND RESULTS A prospective, controlled trial was performed in Mainz, Germany, in which a 2-tiered emergency response included ear...

Anemia of chronic disease (ACD) is frequently found in patients with chronic immune activation. Since most studies on ACD pathophysiology were performed with cell culture or animal models but not in humans, we examined 37 ACD patients suffering from autoimmune diseases or infections, 10 subjects with iron-deficiency anemia (IDA), 10 anemic patients with hereditary spherocytosis (HS), and 27 age...

BACKGROUND Sevoflurane sedation in the intensive care unit is possible with a special heat and moisture exchanger called the Anesthetic Conserving Device (ACD) (AnaConDa; Sedana Medical AB, Uppsala, Sweden). The ACD, however, may corrupt ventilatory mechanics when used during the weaning process of intensive care unit patients. The authors compared the ventilatory effects of light-sedation with...

A direct use of activity cycle diagram (ACD) model into a simulation execution has a limitation that it does not maximize the power of the widely adopted three-phase rule in the simulation execution of ACD models. This paper presents a key model specification for the simulation execution of the ACD model, named, activity transition table (ATT). The proposed ATT reduces the gap between the ACD (...

To evaluate the role of electrophilicity in the induction of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) in humans, we compared the structure-activity relationship (SAR) model of ACD with those of electrophilic and nonelectrophilic subsets of chemicals in the ACD database. For these analyses, electrophilicity was defined as the potential of a chemical to induce mutations in Salmonella. It was found that ...

Background: Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) has been identified as a prominent signaling molecule that regulates the fundamental functions of keratinocytes and other skin immune cells. S1P can be generated inside by sphingosine kinases, but it also in intercellular space due to endogenous commensal bacterial ceramidase activity. interaction with its receptor S1PR2 epidermis maintains permeability...