6%), with renal complications and road traffic accidents accounting for 2.2% each. Patients' age ranged from 31 to 84 years, with a modal age of 57 years. There was a male predominance with a male-to-female ratio of 1.51. Systemic hypertension co-morbidity was statistically significantly more common in patients aged 60 and above (P = 0.035). The most common lesion observed in the kidneys was...
94; 95% CI, 0.74-1.19] and 162 of 2633 (6.2%) and 160 of 2609 (6.1%) patients with PIS [HR 1.00; 95% CI, 0.81-1.25], respectively (pinteraction = 0.679). Conclusions Patients with the EMI ECG pattern proved to have an increased rate of the primary outcome within one year compared to the PIS pattern. Routine manual thrombectomy did not reduce the risk of primary outcome within the different...
The volumes of normal tissue receiving high (≥80% of prescription dose or ≥40 Gy) or intermediate (80%>dose≥50% of the prescription dose or 40Gy>dose≥25Gy) dose were significantly smaller with CK vs. IMRT plans (p less then 0.0001 for all comparisons). With a median follow-up of 3.7 (range 0.1-9.0) years, 3-year LC was 92% for all patients. Eight failures occurred one...
Density and mechanical properties (e.g., compressibility or bulk modulus) are important cellular biophysical markers. As a result, developing a method to separate cells directly based on these properties benefits various applications including biological research, diagnosis, prognosis, and medical therapy. As a potential solution, surface acoustic wave (SAW) based cell separation has...
Are humans the only species with a sense of consciousness? This question has intrigued me for most of my life. Having kept pets and livestock animals, and observed wild animals from both near and far, I have often wondered just how much they know about their surroundings and their place in it. Do they know how to reason out answers to questions important to them? Are they aware of the...
In the present study, the suitability of various chemical treatments to improve the performance of jute fibers (JFs) filled natural rubber (NR) composites was explored. The surface of JFs was modified by three different surface treatments, namely, alkali treatment, combined alkali/stearic acid treatment and combined alkali/silane treatment. Surface modified JFs were characterized by X-ray...
Small-bowel obstruction is a common cause of abdominal pain and accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions. Radiologic imaging plays the key role in the diagnosis and management of small-bowel obstruction as neither patient presentation, the clinical examination, nor laboratory testing are sufficiently sensitive or specific enough to diagnose or guide management. This document...
Ultraviolet photochemical reaction of sulfite (SO32-) photosensitizer generates strongly reducing hydrated electrons (eaq-; NHE = -2.9 V) that have been shown to effectively degrade individual per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), including perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). However, treatment of complex PFAS mixtures in aqueous film-forming foam...
