background transient hypocalcemia is one of the postoperative complications of thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules, and intraoperative and postoperative intact parathyroid hormone (ipth) assays are used to predict postoperative hypocalcemia. objectives the current study was conducted to evaluate a single serum ipth measurement on postoperative day 1 (pod 1) as a means to predict hypocalcemia occu...

BACKGROUND Transient hypocalcemia is one of the postoperative complications of thyroidectomy for thyroid nodules, and intraoperative and postoperative intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) assays are used to predict postoperative hypocalcemia. OBJECTIVES The current study was conducted to evaluate a single serum iPTH measurement on postoperative day 1 (POD 1) as a means to predict hypocalcemia oc...

Two series of lanthanide-containing metal–organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs) the general formula {[Ln(HIDA)2H2O]ClO4·H2O}n (Ln = La (1), Nd (2), Eu (3), Gd (4), Tb (5), Eu:Tb (6); H2IDA iminodiacetic acid) and [Ln(TT) (HTT) (H2O)3]n (7), (8), (9), Dy (10), (11); H2TT tartaric were synthesized by reacting Ln(ClO4)3 with acid L-tartaric acid, respectively. All compounds structurally characterized singl...

BACKGROUND Septoplasty, tonsillectomy (with and without adenoidectomy) and cervical lymph node excision are amongst the most common 50 inpatient operations in Germany. Intracapsular tonsillectomies (i.e. tonsillotomies) are increasingly performed. The aim of this study was to evaluate technical traps and pitfalls as well as alleged medical malpractice associated with tonsillectomy (TE), adenoid...

Objective(s)Lupus nephritis (LN) is frequently associated with a poor long-term prognosis. Renal biopsy is the diagnostic method of choice in this condition. Urine biomarkers have been mentioned in the diagnosis of LN. The study,s purpose was to evaluate the performance of urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(UMCP-1) as a biomarker of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.Mate...

We prove that Simulated Annealing with an appropriate cooling schedule computes arbitrarily tight constant-factor approximations to the minimum spanning tree problem in polynomial time. This result was conjectured by Wegener (2005). More precisely, denoting $n, m, w_{\max}$, and $w_{\min}$ number of vertices edges as well maximum edge weight MST instance, we simulated annealing initial temperat...

objective(s)lupus nephritis (ln) is frequently associated with a poor long-term prognosis. renal biopsy is the diagnostic method of choice in this condition. urine biomarkers have been mentioned in the diagnosis of ln. the study,s purpose was to evaluate the performance of urinary monocyte chemoattractant protein 1(umcp-1) as a biomarker of renal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.mate...

BACKGROUND Serum testosterone can be measured by LC-MS/MS and RIA. We investigated whether the testosterone-fracture relationship was affected by the method of measurement. METHODS We measured total testosterone (TT) by LC-MS/MS (TTLC-MS/MS) and RIA (TTRIA) in serum samples collected from 602 men whose incident fractures had been continuously ascertained by x-ray reports from 1989 to 2010. We...

In this work, we introduce DIRECTGO , a new MATLAB toolbox for derivative-free global optimization. collects various deterministic DIRECT -type algorithms box-constrained, generally constrained, and problems with hidden constraints. Each sequential algorithm is implemented in two ways: using static dynamic data structures more efficient information storage organization. Furthermore, parallel sc...