Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of neopterin (NP), C-reactive protein (CRP) and myeloperoxidase (MPO) in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting with or without cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Patients and Methods: Forty patients submitted for elective coronary artery bypass grafting were included in this prospective study. Patients were divided int...

0196-8904/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2010.11.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Electronic and E University of Technology, Modars Blvd., P.O. 71555-3 7264121; fax: +98 711 7353502. E-mail addresses: [email protected], taher_n [email protected] (H.D. Mojarrad), h.zeinaddin Economic dispatch (ED) is one of the important problems in the operation and ma...

BACKGROUND Macrolides have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties that may be useful in the treatment of chronic asthma. METHODS We performed a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blinded effectiveness trial of 12 weekly doses of adjunctive azithromycin, with follow-up to 1 year after randomization, in adults with persistent asthma. Measurements included overall asthma symptoms, as...

Recently external memory graph problems have received considerable attention because massive graphs arise naturally in many applications involving massive data sets. Even though a large number of I/O-efficient graph algorithms have been developed, a number of fundamental problems still remain open. The results in this paper fall in two main classes. First we develop an improved algorithm for th...

Objectives: To investigate the differences of genotypic distributions among isolates between immunosuppressed and immunocompetent patients in a Taiwanese population. Methods: Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) isolates from 76 patients with adequate chart data were analyzed. Polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) was used to define gB genotypes which include gB1...

Objective: To examine the role of calpain-10 SNP-44, -43, -63 and del/ins-19 in genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and associations with triglycerides and total cholesterol in a group of subjects residing in the Gaza Strip. Subjects and Methods: Ninety-six individuals were examined: 48 T2DM patients and 48 controls. The groups were genotyped for calpain-10 SNP-44, -43, -6...

0196-6553/$36.00 Copyright 2015 by the Associa http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.010 Background: Health careeassociated infections (HAIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of daily bathing with chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) on the incidence rates of HAIs, with a focus on their causative bacteria, i...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The possible role of inflammatory reaction of the cerebral artery in the pathogenesis of cerebral vasospasm has been noted in recent studies. We quantitatively measured the levels of expression of genes related to inflammation in the spastic artery in a canine double-hemorrhage model. METHODS Twenty dogs were assigned to 4 groups: group D0, control; group D2, dogs kille...