Reply to Nannini and Arias

Reply to Nannini and Arias.

TO THE EDITOR— We thank Nannini and Arias for their interest in our article [1]. They raise several important issues in assessing the impact of emergency department occult Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia on patient outcomes [2]. Although 30-day mortality is a commonly used study endpoint in most bacteremia outcome researches, we agree that a 30-day follow-up period might be inadequate for pati...

Reply to Nannini and to a previous letter by Hurley.

Impact of van-comycin resistance on mortality among patients with neutropenia and enterococcal bloodstream infection. Epidemiology and mortality risk of vanco-mycin-resistant enterococcal bloodstream infections .terococcal bacteremia: risk factors for vanco-mycin resistance and predictors of mortality.tant and vancomycin-susceptible enterococcal bacteremia: comparison of clinical features and o...

Arias, anxieties and epidemics.

ARIAS , WOLFSON , LUCEY , AND McKAY TABLE II

Normal full-term infants may have transient unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia that rarely exceeds 5 mg per 100 ml during the first 3 to 5 days of life (1, 2). This so-called physiologic hyperbilirubinemia is believed to result from delayed development of the hepatic glucuronide conjugating system (3-5), particularly glucuronyl transferase (6). Numerous factors, such as hemolysis, infection, drugs...

ARIAS: Automated Retinal Image Analysis System

In this paper, a system for automated analysis of retinal images is proposed. This system segments blood vessels in retinal images and recognizes the main features of the fundus on digital color images. The recognized features were defined as blood vessels, optic disc, and fovea. An algorithm called 2D matched filters response has been proposed for the detection of blood vessels. Also, automati...