TEMPLETON, GORDON H., AND Louxs R. NARDTZZI. Elastic and viscous stifness of the canine left ventricle. J. Ap pl. Ph ysiol. 36 ( I ) : 123-I 27. 1974.-Elastic and viscous stiffness of canine left ventricles was measured continuously over the entire cardiac cycle. These mechanical properties were determined from the sinusoidally varying portion of the left ventricular pressure induced by an exte...

conclusions atypical irregular tumors should be considered as sos when the patient has received oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy. a qualitative imaging modality diagnosis, such as with diffusion-weighted mri, is superior to a morphological diagnosis in focal sos. this imaging modality can prevent unnecessary operations. case presentation a 40-year-old woman with rectal cancer underwent high anter...

Portal hypertension is a clinical syndrome defined by a pathological increase in portal pressure. The development of cirrhosis of the liver is characterized by clinical manifestations related to portal hypertension like esophageal varices, ascites, bleeding, and encephalopathy. Direct measurement of portal pressure is invasive, inconvenient, and clinically impractical. Currently, the most commo...

Machine perfusion at subnormothermic temperature (20°C), MP20, was developed by Vairetti et al. and showed to afford a better preservation of fatty livers respect to traditional cold storage (CS) in terms of enzyme release into the perfusate and bile, glycogen stores, energy charge and oxidative stress. Here we investigated whether it also caused decreased cell death by apoptosis. Fatty and lea...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of endothelin-1 in modulating hepatic microcirculation and liver damage. Rats were infused with endothelin-1 at doses ranging from 30 to 1,000 pmol/kg over 1 min through an indwelling cannula placed in the portal vein. In control rats, saline solution was infused at the same rate. Alterations in hepatic microcirculation were measured with an in...

INTRODUCTION Liver dysfunction is a common feature of severe sepsis and is associated with a poor outcome. Both liver perfusion and hepatic inflammatory response in sepsis might be affected by sympathetic nerve activity. However, the effects of thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA), which is associated with regional sympathetic block, on septic liver injury are unknown. Therefore, we investigated ...

The present study investigates the peristaltic transport of non-Newtonian fluid, modeled as power law and Bingham fluid, in a diverging tube with different wall wave forms: sinusoidal, multi-sinusoidal, triangular, trapezoidal and square waves. Fourier series is employed to get the expressions for temporal and spatial dependent wall shapes. Solutions for time average pressure rise — flow rate r...

The sinusoidal speech model represents a speech signal as a linear combination of sinusoids with time-varying parameters {amplitudes, frequencies, and phases}. However, one drawback of this model is that the analysis window width is generally fixed in analyzing the signal. Since each sinusoidal parameter has different frequencies, an analysis window with fixed width can’t guarantee an optimum s...

Surface wave dynamics of vertical falling films under monochromatic-frequency flowrate-forcing perturbations is computed by the direct simulation of Navier–Stokes equations using the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method to track free surfaces and the Continuum Surface Force (CSF) model to account for dynamic boundary conditions at free surfaces. The numerical VOF–CSF model is completely formulated, and...

In this paper, we address the estimation of the parameters of the two dimensional sinusoidal signal model. The proposed method is the two dimensional extension of the one dimensional noise space decomposition method. The proposed methods provide consistent estimators of the unknown parameters and they are non-iterative in nature. We propose a pairing algorithm also, which helps in identifying t...