OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between calculated creatinine clearance (CCC)-based contrast dose and renal complications in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). BACKGROUND Excess volumes of contrast media are associated with renal complications in patients undergoing cardiac procedures. Because contrast media are excreted by the kidn...

Hepadnavirus replication requires the synthesis of a covalently closed circular (CCC) DNA from the relaxed circular (RC) viral genome by an unknown mechanism. CCC DNA formation could require enzymatic activities of the viral reverse transcriptase (RT), or cellular DNA repair enzymes, or both. Physical mapping of the 5' and 3' ends of RC DNA and sequence analysis of CCC DNA revealed that CCC DNA...

Current means of measuring RT-induced fibrosis are subjective. We evaluated the DermaLab suction cup system to measure objectively skin deflection as a surrogate for fibrosis. Sixty-nine patients with E-STS were treated with limb-sparing surgery and 50-66 Grays (Gy) of RT. Using a "scleroderma" DermaLab Suction Cup, the skin stiffness was measured by two clinicians. The National Cancer Institut...

The AOSD tools and methodologies have developed in a rapid speed in Java area. However, no matter how homologous .Net and Java are, AOP tools on .Net platform are still in experimental stage. The complex infrastructure and multi-language support make it hard to establish aspect-oriented programming on .Net. Microsoft provides Microsoft Intermediate Language(MSIL) to facilitate language implemen...

BACKGROUND Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level has been shown to be a prognostic factor for myocardial infarction and stroke via its promotion of vascular calcification. AIM To investigate for the first time the correlation between serum ALP level and coronary collateral circulation (CCC) development. METHODS A total of 356 patients with stable angina pectoris were evaluated retrospectiv...

We present a method of constructing ccc forcings: Suppose first that a continuous, commutative system of complete embeddings between countable forcings indexed along ω1 is given. Then its direct limit satisfies ccc by a well-known theorem on finite support iterations. However, this limit has size at most ω1. To get larger forcings, we do not consider linear systems but higher-dimensional system...

BACKGROUND Management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) is, currently, focused on food supplementation approaches. However, the sustainability of these strategies remains weak in low- and middle-income countries. In food-secure settings, an educational/behavioral intervention could be an alternative for improving MAM management. OBJECTIVE This study compared the effectiveness of weekly con...

We thank the authors (hereafter referred to as CCC) for providing us an opportunity clarify some points of our original paper. CCC list in their abstract three “key points”that we respond this Reply. The first comment is central one and most developed. It deals mainly with discussion features methods spectral analysis, SSA. have quoted sub-parts that items 1a 1k. replies comments/key 2 3 are sh...

The elimination of viral covalently closed circular DNA (CCC DNA) from the nucleus of infected hepatocytes is an obstacle to achieving sustained viral clearance during antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. The aim of our study was to determine whether treatment with adefovir, a new acyclic nucleoside phosphonate, the prodrug of which, adefovir dipivoxil, is in clinical...