OBJECTIVE To determine abnormal MRI findings in adults hospitalized with acute severe axial LBP. METHOD Sixty patients with back pain were divided into 3 groups consisting of 1) 23 adults with acute axial severe LBP who could not sit up or stand up for several days, but had not experienced previous back-related diseases or trauma (group A), 2) 19 adults who had been involved in a minor traffi...

The persistence of species may depend upon their capacity to keep pace with climate change. However, dispersal has been ignored in the vast majority of studies that aimed at estimating and predicting range shifts as a response to climate change. Long distance dispersal (LDD) in particular might promote rapid range shifts and allow species to track suitable habitat. Many aquatic plant species ar...

Lhermitte-Duclos disease (LDD; dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma) is a rare hamartomatous lesion of the cerebellar cortex and this was first described in 1920. LDD is considered to be part of the autosomal-dominant phacomatosis and cancer syndrome Cowden disease (CS). We examined the brain of a 46-year-old man, who displayed the manifestations of CS, with 7 Tesla (T) and 1.5 T MRI and 1.5 T M...

In this paper, we apply our proposed computing algorithm for numerical solution of semiconductor device energy balance equation in carrier temperature simulation. This robust simulation based on finite volume discertization scheme and monotone iterative algorithm is successfully developed and implemented for intrinsic investigation of submicron MOSFET device. Simulation results demonstrate MOSF...

Objective: We aim to evaluate the effects of low-dose dopamine (LDD) infusion (0.5 – 2.5 g/kg/min) on hemodynamic status and short-term graft function in kidney transplant recipients. Materials Methods: Patients who underwent transplantation surgery between January 2007 December 2016 were included study. Demographic laboratory data, presence delayed function, rates rejection, loss, mortality re...

787 Dear Editor, We note with interest the recent article by Thekkinkattil et al. [1] studying the feasibility of the barbed suture (BS) (V-Loc) to close latissimus dorsi donor sites (LDD). Their seroma rates were fairly high (33% in the BS group) compared with the recently published literature [2,3], although they did not demonstrate any statistical difference with traditional interrupted quil...

PURPOSE To develop and validate a prediction model for mental health needs (MHN) and psychiatric needs (PN) using specific social indicators, obtainable from census data, within low-density departments (LDD) and high- density departments (HDD). METHODS In a population-based study of 20,404 participants from 22 departments in France, mental health needs were defined into three categories (no n...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To investigate negative contractile responses in the left ventricle during low-dose dobutamine (LDD) gated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy. METHODS Sixty-eight consecutive patients (mean age, 60 + or - 11 years; 7 male) with ischemic cardiomyopathy (i.e., left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] < or = 40...

A 57-year-old woman with a history of hypothyroidism, hysterectomy and depression presented to the emergency department (ED) with 3 months of progressive vertigo, ataxia and posterior headache. The patient denied fever, weight loss, vision difficulty or trauma. The patient was directed to the ED because of an abnormal outpatient MRI done earlier that day obtained by her family physician. The pa...

Abstract We report detailed fabrication and characterization of poly-Si thin-film transistors (TFTs) with T-shaped gate (T-gate) lightly-doped drain (LDD) structures. The formation the LDD underneath wings a T-gate primarily relies on shadowing implanted dopants during implantation source drain. Therefore, structures in our proposed TFTs can save number process steps as compared to conventional...