Management guidelines for cardiac implantable electronic device infections exist, but practice patterns of infectious disease (ID) specialists are not well known. We found that while many ID specialist practices mirror existing guidelines, a combination of complete device removal and prolonged antimicrobial therapy is favored when Staphylococcus aureus is involved.

Serfling-type periodic regression models have been widely used to identify and analyse epidemic of influenza. In these approaches, the baseline is traditionally determined using cleaned historical non-epidemic data. However, we found that the previous exclusion of epidemic seasons was empirical, since year-year variations in the seasonal pattern of activity had been ignored. Therefore, excludin...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Although several studies on laser-assisted hair removal have been published, data on long-term follow-up are few. The present study investigated the long-term efficacy and safety of normal-mode ruby laser pulses on hair removal. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS The normal-mode ruby laser (Epilaser; 694 nm, 3 msec) was used to treat a wide range of body sites in 51 v...

Background Recent advances in image-based computer assistance in the last ten years allow computerized preoperative simulations, giving a lot of advantages in the preoperative surgical planning of resections. Preoperative simulation represents the prerequisite for navigated liver surgery. The aim of this study is to describe elementary technical aspects of a navigated approach to liver resectio...

1. The time interval between radiation and the occurrence of epilation is shorter in mice injected with trypan blue than in normal animals. 2. An x-ray unit defined as that causing total spontaneous epilation on the skin of the mouse is suggested. It corresponds to four to five human erythema doses.

We extend the previous work on 3D black hole excision to the case of distorted black holes, with a variety of dynamic gauge conditions that respond naturally to the spacetime dynamics. We show that in evolutions of highly distorted, rotating black holes, the combination of excision and the gauge conditions we use is able to drive the coordinates to a frame in which the system looks almost stati...

Seven cases of arthroscopic radial head excision were followed up and their functional outcome evaluated. In this series, there appeared to be a significant improvement in the functional range of movements and pain scores at rest and during work. There were no complications. Arthroscopic radial head excision is a safe procedure with a good functional outcome. A final conclusion can be drawn onl...

To identify a mobile station (MS) and validate legal service requests, authentication functions are utilized in the location registration, call origination and call termination procedures. In GSM, the VLR requests the HLR for assistance in authenticating the visiting user. The authentication center (AuC) in the home network generates 3-tuples and sends them back to the VLR for subsequent authen...

The Vibrio cholerae SXT element is a conjugative self-transmissible chromosomally integrating element that encodes resistance to multiple antibiotics. SXT integrates in a site-specific fashion at prfC and excises from the chromosome to form a circular but nonreplicative extrachromosomal form. Both chromosomal integration and excision depend on an SXT-encoded recombinase, Int. Here we found that...

background and aims: the removing of (potential) toxic heavy metal ions from sewage, especially in industrial and mining waste effluents, has been widely studied in recent years. the aim of present study was to investigate the various methods for lead removal of lead ions from industrial wastewater. methods: this study was a review research. data were collected through different databases in va...