Oatmeal porridge has been consumed for centuries and has several health benefits. We aimed to investigate the effect of oatmeal porridge on gut microflora functions. A total of ten healthy subjects ingested 60 g oatmeal porridge daily for 1 week. The following microflora-associated characteristics were assessed before and after the intervention: intestinal gas production following lactulose ing...

Objective: To define the incidence of brain and kidney anomalies in newborns with significant congenital heart disease admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. Study Design: A retrospective chart review of head and renal ultrasound was studied for newborns who were admitted with significant congenital heart disease to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital cardiac inte...

A new rehabilitation (New-RH) program including respiratory muscle stretch gymnastics (RMSG) was developed to alleviate post-coronary artery bypass grafting pain (PCP). Effects on respiratory muscle function, pain, activities of daily living (ADL), mood and exercise capacity were investigated. Subjects were 16 consecutive patients undergoing median full sternotomy coronary artery bypass graftin...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Recanalization is 1 drawback of the EVT of intracranial aneurysms. An analysis of the factors affecting the midterm anatomic results after EVT of ruptured intracranial aneurysms in a large multicenter series (CLARITY) is presented. MATERIALS AND METHODS Of the 782 patients initially included in the CLARITY trial, 649 would theoretically undergo midterm follow-up examina...

OBJECTIVE Associations between human leukocyte antigens (HLA) and sarcoidosis have been reported in several studies. We aimed to investigate these associations in Turkish patients. PATIENTS AND METHOD We performed HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, and HLA-D typing in 83 patients with sarcoidosis and in 250 healthy controls using a microlymphocytotoxicity method to investigate genetic susceptibility to the...

BACKGROUND Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can noninvasively stimulate the brain and transiently amplify or block behaviors mediated through a region. We hypothesized that a single high-frequency rTMS session over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) would reduce cue craving for cigarettes compared with a sham TMS session. METHODS Sixteen non-treatment-seeking, ...

Within the unmanageably large class of nonconvex optimization, we consider the rich subclass of nonsmooth problems having composite objectives (this includes the extensively studied convex, composite objective problems as a special case). For this subclass, we introduce a powerful, new framework that permits asymptotically non-vanishing perturbations. In particular, we develop perturbation-base...