STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the peripheral effects of BAL on the neutrophil counts and cytokine levels in the circulation. DESIGN AND METHODS WBC counts and plasma cytokines were measured before and 4 h after fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) without further interventions (n = 6), or combined with BAL in normal volunteer subjects (n = 6), and in patients with bacterial pneumonia (n = 4). The bron...

case presentation: a five-month-old male infant (gestational age 28 weeks, birthweight 1020 gm) with posthemorrhagic hydrocephalus subsequent to prematurity had a left sided ventriculoperitoneal shunt 3 months after birth. frontal radiography of the chest and abdomen check-up after operation are shown in figure 1. he was referred to our emergency department with a history of right scrotal swell...

a 33-year-old man presented to the emergency department ed) with complaint of 2-day history of abdominal pain. his pain developed with gradual onset prominently in epigastric area after eating dried mushrooms. the pain was diffuse, persistent, radiating to the back and aggravated by meal. he had been tolerating only liquids and had complaints of nausea and vomiting. he had no history of diabete...

a 78-year-old woman with a history of colon cancer with metastasis to the liver was presented to our emergency department because of bilateral groin pain and difficulty in walking, which had gradually increased during the previous 5 days. the pain was of sudden onset, radiating to the back, without aggravating or relieving factors. it was associated with constipation, dysuria and vaginal discha...

Diagnostic tools for common uterine disorders like cystic endometrial hyperplasia (CEH), mucometra, hydrometra or pyometra as well as effective treatments are discussed. Cystic Endometrial Hyperplasia (CEH), a chronical degenerative disease of the endometrium, coincedes with delayed uterine clearance of fluids after mating and reduced uterine contractions and perfusion. Since in bitches with CE...

The article provides information on the impact of training clinical blood parameters in horses participating equestrian distance running competitions, length is 40 km. animals were divided into two groups, 10 heads each. first group included that trained one week before races, second weeks competition. As a result research, it was revealed case within competition, had statistically significant ...

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel second-harmonic-generation (SHG) scheme capable of supporting temperature-insensitive phase-matching (PM) at various laser wavelengths. This versatile temperature-insensitive PM is designed by using two cascaded crystals with opposite signs of temperature derivation of phase-mismatch, in which the temperature-induced phase-mismatch in the first ...

August 29, 2013 Type Package Title Threshold Regression Version 1.0.2 Date 2012-11-26 Author Tao Xiao Maintainer Tao Xiao Depends survival, Formula Description Fit a threshold regression model based on the first-hitting-time of a boundary by the sample path of a Wiener diffusion process. The threshold regression methodology is well suited to applications involving survival ...

This paper examines the hypothesis that both stock returns and volatility are asymmetrical functions of past information derived from domestic and US stock market news. By employing a double-threshold regression GARCH model to investigate four major index return series, we find significant evidence to sustain the asymmetrical hypothesis of stock returns. Specifically, evidence strongly supports...