PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide (IVT) reinjection on clinical and optical coherence tomographic features in refractory diabetic macular edema. METHODS In a prospective interventional case series, all IVT treated patients enrolled in a previous clinical trial were recalled to have a new ophthalmologic examination and optical coherence tomography (OCT) per...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effective-ness of vision therapy (VT) in the treatment of sympto-matic convergence insufficiency (CI). Symptomatic CIsubjects were given 10 sessions of 60 minutes of in-office VT (IVT) followed by 30 minutes of home visiontherapy (HVT) per day for 3 months. Near exophoria,near point of convergence (NPC) break and near positi...

Influenza A incidence peaks during winter in temperate regions. The basis for this pronounced seasonality is not understood, nor is it well documented how influenza A transmission principally occurs. Previous studies indicate that relative humidity (RH) affects both influenza virus transmission (IVT) and influenza virus survival (IVS). Here, we reanalyze these data to explore the effects of abs...

Abstract Integrated atmospheric water vapor transport (IVT) is a determinant of global precipitation. In this paper, using the CERA-20C climate reanalysis dataset, we explore three questions in Northern Hemisphere precipitation for four seasons: 1) What covariability between leading spatiotemporal modes seasonal sea surface temperature (SST), IVT, and Hemisphere? 2) How well can spatial be reco...

Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with alteplase remains the standard treatment for acute ischemic stroke. Although IVT can be started up to 4.5 hours after symptoms' onset, it is all the more effective and safe when started early. It allows a 10% absolute reduction in the risk of handicap or death at 3 months, despite a 2-7% risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage. Current research efforts in...

BACKGROUND Intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) for acute ischemic stroke is subject to label and guideline contraindications. Updated European guidelines in 2008/2009 recommended IVT in selected patients aged >80 years and stroke onset-to-treatment time 3 to 4.5 hours, which the label still prohibited. Our aim was to compare contraindication nonadherence before and after the guideline update. METH...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies revealed a close relationship between thrombus length and recanalization rate after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT). As a novel approach, we prospectively adjusted the order of sequence acquisition to obtain delayed gadolinium-enhanced T1 (dGE-T1) and thereby assess thrombus length on dGE-T1 to evaluate its predictive value for recanalization after IVT. ...

Original scientific paper This paper presents an architecture for providing quality of service (QoS) and mobility-aware telescreen services in vehicular networks, named "in-vehicle telescreen" (IVT). Providing seamless imagery effect is a key challenge in the distribution of high-resolution and delay-sensitive infotainment IVT services under mobile and varying network conditions. In the IVT arc...

Patients with major cerebral artery occlusion represent the most severe cases of ischemic stroke, for whom prompt recanalization would offer an alternative to a very unfavorable outcome. We have previously demonstrated that hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign, which indicates proximal middle cerebral artery occlusion, disappears after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) in approximately half of c...

Aim of the study was to examine cardiorespiratory parameters at individual ventilatory threshold (IVT) and peak exercise capacity ([Formula: see text]) in outpatient diabetic and sarcopenic obese subjects. Seventeen obese subjects (BMI: 36.6 ± 4.1 kg·m(-1)) and sixteen SO subjects (BMI: 37.0 ± 7.3 kg·m(-1)) were compared with sixteen T2DM subjects (BMI: 37.7 ± 5.6 kg·m(-1)). All groups performe...