OBJECTIVES To evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous thrombus fragmentation (PTF) for massive pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with contraindications to the administration of thrombolytics. METHODS Between July 1999 and August 2005, 10 patients (7 males, 3 females, age 57+/-18 years) with massive PE and contraindications to the administration of thrombolytics underwent PTF. A tra...

Soluble plasma tissue factor (TF) circulates in picomolar concentrations in healthy individuals and increases in a wide spectrum of diseases. This study tests the hypothesis that both truncated TF (rsTF) or soluble plasmaTF (pTF) in low concentration combine with monocytes or platelets to convert factorVII (fVII) to fVIIa. Both rsTF (33 kDa) and pTF (47 kDa), obtained from pericardial wounds of...

Modern warfare’s situation awareness and operation planning requires analyzing a vast amount of information, ranging broadly from intelligence reports to data from autonomous sensors. Correctly assessing the credibility of such information in a timely manner is as crucial to decision making as being able to obtain the information in the first place. However, manual information quality assessmen...

OBJECTIVES (15)O-water-perfusable tissue fraction (PTF) has been shown to be a potential index for assessing myocardial viability in PET, an alternative to (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). This study aimed to directly compare these two independent methods in assessing myocardial viability in patients with abnormal wall motion. METHODS PET study was performed on 16 patients with previous myocar...

This investigation was to evaluate the applicability and prediction accuracy of pedotransfer function (PTF) estimate water retention curves Ap horizon soils for five soil series which cannot be directly used cultivate upland crops other than rice because their high salinity. Soil (SWRCs) were obtained from 150 undisturbed samples collected horizons textures grouped into sandy loam with contents...

Hypothesis / aims of study Urogenital reconstructive techniques include perineal reconstruction, vaginoplasty, urethral reconstruction, and vesico-vaginal (VVF) and recto-vaginal fistula (RVF) repair. Many of these procedures require the use of local or distant flaps for reconstruction, of which the pudendal thigh fasciocutaneous perforator (PTF) flap is an option. We frequently use this flap f...

We present five new outbursting AM CVn systems and one candidate discovered as part of an ongoing search for such systems using the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). This is the first large-area, systematic search for AM CVn systems using only large-amplitude photometric variability to select candidates. Three of the confirmed systems and the candidate system were discovered as part of the PTF t...

In this research-in-progress paper, we investigate the fit between process and information technology (IT) and its impact on organizational process performance. A process-level fit model provides a greater understanding of enterprise IT than models focusing on group or task-level assessments. After reviewing related research, we identify and consolidate the process, task, and IT variables that ...

The relationship between mean left atrial pressure (LAm) and P-wave abnormalities in lead V1 of standard 12-lead electrocardiograms was evaluated in 30 patients with acute myocardial infarction. In each patient pulmonary artery diastolic pressure or pulmonary wedge pressure was measured, and these values were used as an estimate of LAm. Electrocardiograms recorded at the time of the pressure me...