Aortic dissection albeit negative d -dimers and zero clinical probability – Another facet of medicine's deadly chameleon

Value of plasma fibrin D-dimers for detection of acute aortic dissection.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this research was to assess the value of systemic inflammatory biomarkers in the detection of acute aortic dissection (AD). BACKGROUND Rapid diagnosis and initiation of treatment is pivotal for patients with acute AD. So far, there is no laboratory test to aid the diagnosis. METHODS Plasma fibrin D-dimers, white blood cell (WBC) count, C-reactive protein (CRP), and...

Another Facet of LIG

In this paper we present a new parsing algorithm for linear indexed grammars (LIGs) in the same spirit as the one described in (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1993) for tree adjoining grammars. For a LIG L and an input string x of length n, we build a non ambiguous context-free grammar whose sentences are all (and exclusively) valid derivation sequences in L which lead to x. We show that this grammar ...

Clinical Manifestations of Aortic Dissection

Another facet of ubiquitylation: death.

Ubiquitylation of caspase-8 by the Cullin3 E3 ligase allows its translocation to cytosolic aggregates in the cell by p62/sequestosome-1, increasing caspase-8 activation and thus leading to TRAIL-induced cell death.

Another Facet of LIG Parsing

In this paper 1 we present a new parsing algorithm for linear indexed grammars (LIGs) in the same spirit as the one described in (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1993) for tree adjoining grammars. For a LIG L and an input string x of length n, we build a non ambiguous context-free grammar whose sentences are all (and exclusively) valid derivation sequences in L which lead to x. We show that this gramma...