OBJECTIVE Several studies showed low bone mineral density (BMD) and elevated risk of symptomatic fractures in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). To our knowledge, there has been no investigation on the prevalence of asymptomatic vertebral fractures (VFx) in T1D. In the current study, we assessed BMD and the prevalence of VFx in T1D. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We evaluated 82 T1D patients (...

This paper was originally presented to the 2005 Annual UK-CMG Conference in Warwickshire, UK. At that time, details on z/9 109 server and z/OS V1R7 were not available. That paper was accepted for presentation by the Computer Measurement Group at the 2005 CMG International Conference. The CMG Program Committee required that the final paper be submitted no later than September 16 . By that paper ...

One of the steps to reconstruct the 3-D geometry of biological objects from a stack of 2-D microscopic images, is to align the individual slices with respect to each other. Due to complex internal structures and imaging artifacts, automatic methods do not always lead to reliable results. Visual feedback consisting of sagittal and coronal cross-sections is very useful to validate the alignment r...

Purpose: Chronological and longitudinal changes of bone density in patients with secondary osteoporosis, have been shown helpful in providing a model of calcium and bone metabolism. This model can be used in the understanding and management of bone disorders in primary osteoporosis. Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate bone density changes in thalassemic patients. Method: Thalassa...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a recessive neuromuscular disease caused by mutations in the human survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene. The human SMN protein is part of a large macromolecular complex involved in the biogenesis of small ribonucleoproteins. Previously, we showed that SMN is a sarcomeric protein in flies and mice. In this report, we show that the entire mouse Smn complex localize...

IFPOS 34th Annual Meeting The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com April 16 IFPOS session 14:20–18:30 VIEUX PORT 300 IOP1/14:20–14:25 Postoperative complications following spinal fusions in children with neuromuscular scoliosis Tristan Nishnianidze, Ilhan A Bayhan, Oussama Abousamra, Kenneth J Rogers, Kirk W Dabney, Freeman Miller NAIDHC, Wilmington DE,...

Traumatic spinal cord injury is one of the important causes of disability.in some of vertebral fractures,spinal canal is deformed and compromised.the relationship between the shape of the cervical canal and spinal cord hnjury has been proved but such a correlation for thoraculombar spine 50 patients with compromised canal(cases) and 50 oatients with intact canal were evaluated in the light of s...

introduction spinal tumours may be classified in three groups: 1) extradural, 2) intradural extramedullary and 3) intramedullary spinal cord tumours. intradural extramedullary tumours arise from the leptomeninges or nerve roots and include schwannomas. a schwannoma is usually a firm grey-whitish tumour growing near a nerve trunk or ramus. it can be separated from the nerve without damaging neur...

compound action potential (cap) of spinal cord represents valuable properties of neural fibers including excitability, rate of myelination and membrane integrity. these properties are measured using amplitude, latency and area under curve of caps recorded from spinal cord. here, the isolated spinal cord was set in a double sucrose gap (dsg) chamber and its response to intracellular stimulation ...