Methods Both serum FENa & FEurea were measured in 40 patients (pts) with acute kidney injury (AKI) complicating circulatory shock during their stay in ICU. All patients were divided into 26 pts (mean: 60.0 ± 15.15 years) with prerenal azotemia (group-1) and 14 pts (mean: 56.29 ± 19.5 years) with renal azotemia (group-2). Group-1 was subdivided into 12 pts (group-1a) who didn’t receive diuretics...

Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) in young women may cause impairment in the quality of life of otherwise healthy people. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of PTS and its risk factors in young women. We evaluated 51 women with at least one previous episode of symptomatic, objectively documented deep vein thrombosis (DVT) before the age of 40. Each patient asked for symptoms had a physical examin...

The associations between lifetime traumatic events (TEs), posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms, and disordered eating (DE) were studied in a sample of 614 university students (mean age 20 years). An anonymous questionnaire included 32 lifetime TEs, IES-revised measured PTS symptoms, and EAT-26 evaluated DE symptoms. Statistical analyses included Pearson correlations and structural equation model...

Posttraumatic stress (PTS) is common in survivors from life-threatening events. Little is known, however, about the course of PTS after life threat in the absence of collateral stressors (e.g., bereavement, social stigma, property loss) and there is a scarcity of studies about PTS in the long term. This study assessed the short- and long-term course of PTS, and the influence of gender, educatio...

According to the National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia, approximately 60% of patients in whom DVT develops will recover without further symptoms. However, 40% will have some degree of postthrombotic syndrome, (PTS) and in 4%, severe PTS will develop. The American Venous Forum suggests that PTS will develop in up to two thirds of patients with DVT. Although the severity of PTS can v...

Partial Transmit Sequences (PTS) is an efficient scheme for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. It does not bring any signal distortion. However, its remarkable drawback is the high computational complexity. In order to reduce the computational complexity, currently many PTS methods have been proposed but with the cost of the...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is known as one of the promising broadband techniques in wireless communications. One of the major drawbacks of OFDM is its high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) due to the overlay process of all subcarrier signals. This leads to distortion problems at the receiver. Partial Transmit Sequence (PTS) technique is one of the most popular to reduce...

Background: antibiotic therapy and prophylaxis of epidermal wounds in emergency room are often made empirically in case of clinics due to infective complications, although there are no scientific evidences supporting their validity yet. Furthermore, resistance to many antibiotics is a constantly growing problem, especially in Lombardy, Italy. When needed, better prefer beta-lactams or macrolide...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study was to evaluate LV function, by means of echocardiography, after mitral valve repair (MVr) or mitral valve replacement (MVR) in patients (pts) with chronic degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) and depressed LV systolic function during a 6-years follow-up (FU) period. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty-five pts with moderately severe or severe MR and preoperative EF<...

The bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP):carbohydrate phosphotransferase system (PTS) carries out both catalytic and regulatory functions. It catalyzes the transport and phosphorylation of a variety of sugars and sugar derivatives but also carries out numerous regulatory functions related to carbon, nitrogen, and phosphate metabolism, to chemotaxis, to potassium transport, and to the virulence o...