The distribution of 16 antigens of the HLA-A and 15 antigens of the HLA-B series of HLA system, the blood groups ABO, and Rh antigens were studied in 40 alcoholics with cirrhosis, 18 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and in normal control subjects. The group of alcoholics with cirrhosis showed a significantly high frequency of HLA-B13 (corrected P less than 0.01) when compared with normal subjects,...

modeling of the connections per day with time series did not give good results (the errors in some case exceeded the 200%), one of the reason of this bad performance was represented by the sharp fluctuations of the number of connections. On the other hand the results obtained when modeling the average number of connections per week were encouraging. In particular, Figure 3 and Figure 4 report r...

The rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is increasing worldwide including Egypt. Non-B non-C HCC was reported in some countries. We aimed to investigate P53 antibodies and alpha-fetoprotein in patients with non-B non-C HCC in our region. In a case series study, included 281 patients with HCC and 20 patients with liver cirrhosis of matched age, sex and social factors were received for managem...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Secondary sclerosing cholangitis in critically ill patients (SSC-CIP) is a relatively new previously unrecognized entity which may lead to severe biliary disease with rapid progression to cirrhosis. We present for the first time a case series of patients with rapidly progressive SSC-CIP requiring aggressive intensive care treatment following major burn injury. RESULTS SSC-...

Keeping a player within the flow in a game is a central goal for game designers, making the game neither too easy nor too hard. Dynamic Difficulty adjustment seeks to fulfill this goal by dynamically tuning difficulty according to player actions in the game. In this paper we demonstrate that case-based reasoning with time series can serve to automatically identify the ability of a player in a g...

The self-controlled case series method, commonly used to investigate potential associations between vaccines and adverse events, requires information on cases only and automatically controls all age-independent multiplicative confounders while allowing for an age-dependent baseline incidence. In the parametric version of the method, we modelled the age-specific relative incidence by using a pie...

Introduction: - The liver is irrevocably damaged and replaced with scar tissue as a result of the late-stage disease cirrhosis. Scar prevents your from functioning properly. Cirrhosis typically develops decades after onset chronic disease. Men experience it twice frequently women. Clinical Findings:-Weakness, loss appetite, easy bruising, skin yellowing (jaundice), itching, weariness are all sy...

Automatic dysfunction may contribute to the hemodynamic disturbances in cirrhosis. Tests of autonomic function were performed in 31 patients with non-alcoholic cirrhosis and 30 healthy subjects. Patients were divided into 3 groups according to child- Pugh,s classification ( A.B.C). The patients with moderate and severe cirrhosis( child B,C) had significant parasympathetic disturbance ( in the v...