Introduction: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is an important medical imaging modality that has been useful to the study of microstructural changes in neurological diseases. However, the image noise level is a major practical limitation, in which one simple solution could be the average signal from a sequential acquisition. Nevertheless, this approach is time-consuming and is not often applied i...

OBJECTIVE To find out the association between serum total cholesterol (TC) on admission and in-hospital mortality in patients with acute aortic dissection (AAD). METHODS From January 2007 to January 2014, we enrolled 1492 consecutive AAD patients with serum TC measured immediately on admission. Baseline characteristics and in-hospital mortality were compared between the patients with serum TC...

Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is a common complication of antibiotic use. There is growing interest in probiotics for the treatment of AAD and Clostridium difficile infection because of the wide availability of probiotics. The aim of this multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial was to assess the efficacy of probiotic Lactobacillus (Lacidofil® cap) for the preventi...

Open angle glaucoma (OAG) is a complex disorder with varying etiologies due to multiple genes and environmental effects. This genetic heterogeneity can confound efforts to map loci. Increased homogeneity in a sample can be achieved using either ordered subset analysis (OSA) which groups families, or individual OSA (IOSA), which groups individuals based on disease related covariates. Recently, G...

AIMS To examine the role of ethnicity and cultural identity in alcohol use and misuse in a birth cohort of over 1000 young people. METHODS Data on ethnicity, cultural identification, alcohol use, alcohol abuse/dependence (AAD), socio-economic factors and childhood adversity were gathered as part of a longitudinal study of a New Zealand birth cohort (the Christchurch Health and Development Stu...

Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is the third main driver of the out-of-hospital immediate death (Manfredini et al., 2008). Despite the state-of-the-art therapeutic and diagnostic methods, AAD develops hastily with often fatal consequences. Although the AAD was first reported more than two centuries ago there is still less knowledge about the origins and causes of it (Hagan et al., 2000). Environm...

Antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD) is one of the most common complications of most types of antibiotics. Our aim was to determine the efficacy of Clostridium butyricum, Bifidobacterium infantis, and their mixture for AAD treatment in mice. AAD models were administered with single probiotic strain and probiotic mixture for short term and long term to evaluate the changes of the composition and...

We answer a question of Gracia-Ferreira and Hrušák by constructing consistently a MAD family maximal in the Katětov order. We also answer several questions of Garcia-Ferreira.

A cute type A aortic dissection (AAD) is a lethal disease. The overall mortality rate—even when diagnosed and treated in a timely fashion with emergent surgical interven-tion—exceeds 20%. 1 This fact alone serves as a constant reminder that this disease represents a formidable challenge to all cardiovascular professionals who encounter AAD. Cardiovascular surgeons maintain great respect for ope...

Software development in highly variable domains constrained by tight regulations and with many business concepts involved results in hard to deliver and maintain applications, due to the complexity of dealing with the large number of concepts provided by the different parties and system involved in the process. One way to tackle these problems is thru combining software product lines and model-...