BACKGROUND Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated T/natural-killer lymphoproliferative disorders form a group of diseases that includes classical and systemic hydroa vacciniforme (HV) and hypersensitivity to mosquito bites (HMB). Patients with systemic HV (sHV) and HMB often have a poor prognosis, although little is known about the prognostic factors. OBJECTIVES To elucidate the prognostic facto...

BACKGROUND In haemodialysis (HD) patients, anaemia is associated with reduced survival. Despite treatment with erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs), a large number of patients with chronic kidney disease show resistance to this therapy and require much higher than usual doses of ESAs in order to maintain the recommended haemoglobin (Hb) target, and recent studies suggest that hepcidin (HEP)...

Objective: We used permutation entropy (PE) to disclose abnormalities of cerebral activity in patients with early genetic or sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), as compared to patients with steroid-sensitive subacute encephalopathies (SSE) and healthy volunteers (HV). Methods: We evaluated 16 EEG of CJD patients, 21 of SSE patients and 33 of HV. EEG of CJD patients were performed at an ea...

Hallux valgus (HV) is a common foot deformity of multifactorial etiology, but knowledge about the relative importance of genetics and environments on HV has been limited. In order to estimate genetic influences on HV, 1,265 adults, including 175 monozygotic twin (MZ) pairs, 31 dizygotic twin (DZ) pairs, and 853 first-degree singleton family members of the twins were included from the Healthy Tw...

BBn (BioBreeding) rats were fed casein-based diets supplemented with barley flour, oatmeal flour, cellulose, or barley beta-glucans of high [HV] or low viscosity [LV] in order to measure the prebiotic effects of these different sources of dietary fiber. The dietary impact on the composition of the cecal microbiota was determined by the generation of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Several methods are being used to assess cerebral vasomotor reactivity (CVR), including transcranial Doppler (TCD) sonography and blood oxygenation level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The aim was to assess the correlation of TCD and fMRI in the CVR assessment. METHODS Study group consisted of 28 patients (24 males, 4 females; aged 30-82, mean 6...

BACKGROUND The aim was to describe a strategy for recruitment of healthy volunteers (HV) to a randomized trial that assessed the efficacy of different telephone techniques to assist HV in performing cardiac massage for vital emergency. Participation in the randomized trial was not financially compensated, however HV were offered emergency first-aid training. We also studied factors associated w...

Objective This study aims to assess head volume (HV) alterations at 11 to 14 weeks in fetuses with congenital heart defects (CHD). Methods A retrospective case-control study on 100 normal and 26 CHD fetuses was conducted. The fetuses had a first trimester scan with volume data sets stored from which HV was calculated. The mean HV and HV as a function of crown-rump length (CRL) in normal fetuses...

Background: Abnormality of hepatic vein (HV) waveform evaluated by Doppler ultrasonography has been widely studied in patients with chronic liver disease. The paper investigates the relationship between HV waveform changes, portal vein velocity (PVVel), hepatic artery pulsatility index (HAPI) and portal pressure (PP) measured directly from patients with portal hypertension (PHT), aiming to disc...

OBJECTIVE This study was aimed to evaluate relationship between hyperintense vessels (HV) on fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) and artery steno-occlusion related intracerebral collaterals. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 233 patients with 260 atherosclerotic lesions in the M1 segment of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) were examined with FLAIR and digital subtraction angiography (D...