A Level-Headed Damage Assessment

Monitoring Antiepileptic Drugs: A Level-Headed Approach

Despite advances in epilepsy therapeutics, some physicians feel uncomfortable with newer antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) due to difficulty in promptly obtaining blood levels to guide medication adjustment, and even when levels for newer AEDs are obtained, many practitioners feel they are not very useful. Lacking confidence in AEDs whose levels that cannot readily or expeditiously be measured, many c...

assessment of the park- ang damage index for performance levels of rc moment resisting frames

چکیده هدف اصلی از طراحی لرزه ای تامین ایمنی جانی در هنگام وقوع زلزله و تعمیر پذیر بودن سازه خسارت دیده، پس از وقوع زلزله است. تجربه زلزله های اخیر نشان داده است که ساختمان های طراحی شده با آیین نامه های مبتنی بر نیرو از نظر محدود نمودن خسارت وارده بر سازه دقت لازم را ندارند. این امر سبب پیدایش نسل جدید آیین نامه های مبتنی بر عملکرد شده است. در این آیین نامه ها بر اساس تغییرشکل های غیرارتجاعی ...

A double-headed polyp

A 50-year-old man was seen as an outpatient for isolated, minimal and intermittent lower gastrointestinal bleeding. He had a history of well-controlled hypertension and diabetes. During his colonoscopy, a polyp with two heads that shared a common long and large stalk was encountered in the sigmoid colon (Fig. 1A). The heads were approximately 2 cm and 3 cm in size. Because of their overall size...

A Double-Headed Monster

A Double-Headed Monster

A double-headed monster was born in the Railway Hospital, Samastipur, on 5th July, 1948. It is an interesting case because of its rarity; the photograph (plate XXII) tells its own story. Dr. Mody, in his jurisprudence, gives a picture of such monster without any detail. The woman was a sweeper by caste, second para, and fairly well built. She came to hospital in a precarious condition, having b...