After hospital discharge, 114 patients with variant angina were followed for a mean period of 26 months. Six died suddenly and 13 others were resuscitated from sudden cardiac death. The extent of coronary disease and the prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction in these 19 "sudden death" patients were similar to those in the patients who did not experience sudden death ("survivors"). During s...

CONTEXT Cyst fluid CEA concentration>192 ng/mL has proven accurate to differentiate mucinous from non-mucinous pancreatic cystic neoplasms. It is unclear whether the degree of cyst fluid CEA elevation is predictive of malignant behavior in IPMNs. OBJECTIVES To determine whether elevated cyst fluid CEA concentrations were predictive of invasive cancer. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING...

OBJECTIVE The magnitude of ST elevation is a key piece of information in the decision to thrombolyse in acute myocardial infarction. The ability of clinicians to reliably identify ST elevation has not been previously assessed. This study sought to determine the variability in assessment of ST elevation in a group of doctors who commonly prescribe thrombolysis. METHODS The study was conducted ...

A spatial probability distribution of the variables in a parametric snow depletion curve (SDC) is tailored to the assimilation of satellite snow cover data into a gridded hydrological model. The assimilation is based on Bayes’ theorem, in which the proposed distribution represents the a priori information about the SDC variables. From the prior 5 gridded maps of snow storage and accumulated mel...

OBJECTIVE To determine clinical and biochemical factors influencing cerebral edema formation during diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) in children. STUDY DESIGN We used magnetic resonance diffusion-weighted imaging to quantify edema formation. We measured the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of brain water during and after DKA treatment in 26 children and correlated ADC changes with clinical and...

A new class of spline curves in polar coordinates has been presented in 12] and independently considered in 3]. These are rational trigonometric curves in Cartesian coordinates and can be represented as NURBS. From the relationship existing with the correspondent curves in Cartesian coordinates an alternative way to derive some useful tools for modelling splines in polar coordinates has been pr...

We propose an elevation-based approach to parking lot structure analysis from aerial imagery. In contrast to image-based methods, the new approach treats parked vehicles as 3-D microstructures and attempts to locate them in the elevation domain. The STME (Surface Texture and Microstructure Extraction) system is applied to the elevation map to extract the 3-D microstructures. A hybrid applicatio...