OBJECTIVE To evaluate insulin resistance and systemic inflammation in older patients with systolic (SHF) or diastolic heart failure (DHF). PATIENTS 52 non-diabetic patients (> 70 and < 90 years old) with chronic heart failure (CHF) and hospitalised within the previous six months for heart failure were studied, together with a control group of older healthy volunteers (n = 26). On the basis of...

BACKGROUND Venous thoromboembolism (VTE) is one of the most significant complications after hip surgeries. Many studies have been reported about the incidence of VTE after THA, but a small number of reports were found concerning Periacetabular osteotomy, Revision THA and Surgery for hip fracture postoperatively. Furthermore, there exists no comparative study of the incidence of VTE among major ...

Post-synthetic modification (PSM) of the interpenetrated diamondoid metal–organic framework (Me2NH2)[In(BDC-NH2)2] (BDC-NH2=aminobenzenedicarboxylate) SHF-61 proceeds quantitatively in a single-crystal-to-single-crystal manner to yield acetamide derivative (Me2NH2)[In(BDC-NHC(O)Me)2] SHF-62. Continuous breathing behaviour during activation/desolvation is retained upon PSM, but pore closing now ...

The vertebrate heart is formed from diverse embryonic territories, including the first and second heart fields. The second heart field (SHF) gives rise to the right ventricle and outflow tract, yet its evolutionary origins are unclear. We found that heart progenitor cells of the simple chordate Ciona intestinalis also generate precursors of the atrial siphon muscles (ASMs). These precursors exp...

Supracondylar humerus fractures (SHF) are seen more than half of all fractures in the elbow. SHF may cause to vascular and neurologic injury. The most causes of the vascular injury are thrombosis with intimal tear, brachial artery entrapment in the fracture site, compression of the artery due to deformity/swelling and partial or complete transection of the artery (by the perforating spike of th...

Heart development depends on the spatio-temporally regulated contribution of progenitor cells from the primary, secondary and anterior heart fields. Primary heart field (PHF) cells are first recruited to form a linear heart tube; later, they contribute to the inflow myocardium of the four-chambered heart. Subsequently cells from the secondary (SHF) and anterior heart fields (AHF) are added to t...

Background—Cross-talk between monocytes and platelets is reflected by the formation of monocyte-platelet aggregates (MPAs). It is not known whether MPAs are affected in heart failure (HF) and we examined differences in patients with acute HF (AHF), stable HF (SHF), stable coronary artery disease (CAD) without HF, and healthy controls (HC). Methods and Results—MPAs were analyzed by flow cytometr...

CONTEXT Many older patients with symptoms of congestive heart failure have a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). However, the pathophysiology of this disorder, presumptively termed diastolic heart failure (DHF), is not well characterized and it is unknown whether it represents true heart failure. OBJECTIVE To assess the 4 key pathophysiological domains that characterize class...

This paper provides an up-to-date critical survey of enhancement of infrared images by two popular algorithms namely spatial and spatiotemporal homomorphic filtering (SHF and STHF) based upon a infrared imaging model. Although spatiotemporal homomorphic filtering may reduce the number of iterations greatly in comparison to spatial one for a similar degree of convergence by making explicit use o...

In literatures two enhancement algorithms spatial and spatiotemporal homomorphic ltering SHF and STHF have been proposed for enhancement of the far infrared image based upon a far infrared imaging model Although spatiotemporal homomorphic lter ing may reduce the number of iterations greatly in comparison to spatial one for a similar degree of con vergence by making explicit use of the additiona...