OBJECTIVES To analyze strategies of operative management (OM) and non-operative management (NOM), mortality, and morbidity of hepatic trauma patients. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 296 consecutive patients with hepatic trauma at the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, 101st Hospital of PLA, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China a single level one trauma center between January 2003 and December 2012. Da...

A 71-year-old male patient was admitted with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction, he underwent an urgent coronary angiography and stent implantation to a totally occluded circumflex coronary artery. During the percutaneous coronary intervention, cardiac arrest occurred and a short-lived and successful mechanical and medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation was applied. Once a satisfactory c...

We present an extension of the Lubachevsky and Stillinger @J. Stat. Phys. 60, 561 ~1990!# packing algorithm to generate packings of polydisperse spheres. The original Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm is a nonequilibrium protocol that allows a set of monodisperse spheres to grow slowly over time eventually reaching an asymptotic maximum packing fraction. We use this protocol to pack polydisperse...

Codes in the projective space over a finite field, referred to as subspace codes, and in particular codes in the Grassmannian, referred to as constant-dimension codes (CDCs), have been proposed for error control in random network coding. In this paper, we first study the covering properties of CDCs. We determine some fundamental geometric properties of the Grassmannian. Using these properties, ...

Hepatic splenosis, one type of manifestation of ectopic spleen tissue, is rarely reported. It cannot be distinguished from hepatic malignancies because of lack of significant radiological features. By means of this case report and 31 literature reviews, potential treatment modalities concerning clinical diagnostics, patient’s management could be discussed. The report presents the case of a 33-y...

Correlations that allow determination of gas film mass transfer coefficients (kGat , kGaw) and liquid film mass transfer coefficients (kLaw) for packing materials used in biofilters and biotrickling filters for air pollution control are presented. Lava rock, polyurethane foam cubes (PUF), Pall rings, porous ceramic beads, porous ceramic Raschig rings, and various compost–woodchips mixtures were...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to introduce the concept of non-operative management (NOM) for blunt liver trauma by establishing a protocol and a prospective Liver Trauma Registry in Kuwait. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective Liver Trauma Registry was started in 4 hospitals and it included 117 patients who had sustained blunt liver trauma (94 men and 23 women). Unstable patients were ta...

The bubble packing method is implemented for adaptive mesh generation in two and three dimensions. Bubbles on the boundary of a three-dimensional domain are controlled independently of the interior bubbles in the domain, and a modified octree technique is employed to place initial bubbles in the three-dimensional zone. Numerical comparisons are made with other mesh generation techniques to demo...