Post-operative trochanteric bursitis is a known complication secondary to the surgical approach in total hip arthroplasty. This phenomenon may be partially attributable to repetitive microtrauma generated when soft tissues rub against implanted hardware. Significant rates of post-operative trochanteric bursitis have been observed following procedures in which a trochanteric fixation device, suc...

Digital images are often affected by impulse noise during image acquisition and/or transmission over communication channel. A Neural Based Post Processing Technique for Image Quality Enhancement (NBPPTIQE) for enhancing digital images corrupted by impulse noise is proposed in this paper. The proposed filter is an intelligent filter obtained by aptly combining a Nonlinear Filter (NF), Modified C...

Digital images are often affected by impulse noise during image acquisition and/or transmission over communication channel. A Neural Based Post Processing Technique for Image Quality Enhancement (NBPPTIQE) for enhancing digital images corrupted by impulse noise is proposed in this paper. The proposed filter is an intelligent filter obtained by aptly combining a Nonlinear Filter (NF), Modified C...

purpose: mesh technique is the standard for inguinal hernia repair because of less recurrence,   but it is inferior or equal to sutured technique in case of other post-operative complications   such as chronic pain. this clinical trial set out to compare these two techniques.   materials and methods: a total number of 322 cases of unilateral inguinal hernia in participants   older than 18 years...

Objective: There are many risk factors for postoperative bronchopleural fistula (BPF), including extensive resection, diabetes, chronic infection, perioperative steroid therapy, preoperative chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, the risk of bronchopleural fistula increases with resection for inflammatory diseases, especially Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). The aim of this study is to evaluate the e...

In this paper, a novel noise reduction method using hybrid noise estimation technique and post-filtering is proposed to suppress both localized and non-localized noise components which can not be dealt with by the traditional methods [2][3][4]. To do this, a hybrid noise estimation approach is proposed by combining our previously constructed multichannel noise estimation approach and a single-c...

BACKGROUND Prostate traction is one way to control post-prostatectomy bleeding. The most popular method involves traction with a catheter fixed to the thigh with adhesive bands. However, this method has its own drawbacks. OBJECTIVES We aimed to simplify this traction procedure and to overcome its disadvantages. PATIENTS AND METHODS From 2007 - 2015, a new method was used to control post-pro...

Abstract-Increased usage of software systems in recent years has in turn led to high need for ensuring the (i) confidentiality, (ii) integrity, and (iii) availability of these software systems. Pre-deployment security testing techniques do not ensure that all possible behaviors of implementation are analyzed, executed and tested. This in turn causes the software to often behave differently than...

Reported rates of pancreatitis after ERCP and sphincterotomy range from less than one percent to 40 percent, but rates of 5 percent or more are typical [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]. Variations in reported rates of pancreatitis relate to many factors including the definition used, the thoroughness of follow up [24], and to patient and techniq...

INTRODUCTION Ileal conduit, post radical cystectomy, is currently the most practiced type of urinary diversion. The aim of our study was to modify the ileal conduit technique in order to retain acceptable outcomes while decreasing the rate of postoperative urine leak and ureteroileal stricture. METHODS Forty consecutive patients were included in our study, from January to June 2011. Radical c...