BACKGROUND Upside-down stomach (UDS) is characterized by herniation of the entire stomach or most gastric portions into the posterior mediastinum. Symptoms may vary heavily as they are related to reflux and mechanically impaired gastric emptying. UDS is associated with a risk of incarceration and volvulus development which both might be complicated by acute gastric outlet obstruction, advanced ...

Current research projects and database product extensions re ect the importance of unconventional database applications (for example, document processing and computer aided design). Unconventional applications di er from the conventional ones (for example, airline reservation) in the nature of transactions and data. The transactions may be complex, long and involve human interaction. The data i...

The clinical presentation of the neurogenic bladder can be as vast as the pathologic causes however urodynamics (UDS) can help guide clinical decision-making and help simplify a complex disease state. UDS may be considered as the gold standard in helping to break down complex and multifactorial voiding dysfunction into manageable goals; these include protecting the upper tracts, limiting urinar...

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a clinical symptom complex whose hallmark is the symptom of urinary urgency, usually accompanied by frequency and nocturia, with or without urgency incontinence. Historically, urodynamics (UDS) evaluation has not been recommended in the initial evaluation of OAB, since it is defined primarily by clinical symptoms. As the pathophysiology of the OAB complex has become ...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Alternative treatment for stress urinary incontinence. This is an interesting retrospective study assessing the use of biofeedback for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) using ICIQ-SF scores and urodynam-ics (UDS) parameters as outcome measures (1). The authors concluded that women with SUI improved with biofeedb...

Methods Fifty HIV-1 patients who experienced virological failure were included in this retrospective study. The HIV-1 UDS protocol was performed using the GS Junior (Roche 454 Life Sciences Branford, CT). This UDS protocol allowed the detection and quantification of minor and major HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase variants related to genotypes A, B, C, E, F and G. DeepChekHIV (ABL, SA a...

Human peripheral blood lymphocytes enriched in T or B cells were exposed to ultraviolet irradiation, nitrogen mustard or methylmethane sulphonate and investigated regarding their capacity for DNA repair synthesis. The DNA repair synthesis, measured as [3H] thymidine incorporated, was determined by autoradiography as unscheduled DNA synthesis (UDS). No systematic difference could be found in the...

Neocortical neurons show UP-DOWN state (UDS) oscillations under a variety of conditions. These UDS have been extensively studied because of the insight they can yield into the functioning of cortical networks, and their proposed role in putative memory formation. A key element in these studies is determining the precise duration and timing of the UDS. These states are typically determined from ...

Heretofore, unscheduled DMA synthesis (UDS) induced by DMA-damaging chemicals has been measured in nonreplicating human fibroblasts by autoradiographic meth ods that are not readily applicable to organotypic epithe lial cell cultures. In order to evaluate the range of chemi cal sensitivity and DNA repair response of human skin epithelial cells, we have developed a novel semiquantitative in vitr...

Abstrad-The paper presents the development of a real-time expert system (RTES) for supervision and fault detection in urban drainage systems (UDS). Several vita1 characteristics of such an expert tool, in which the project is being developed, are recalled. The main aspects of the modelling of the UDS and the detection of faults are outlined and illustrated for the case of a test urban area, nor...