Our Universe is perhaps a domain separated by physical phase boundaries from other domain-Universes with different vacuum energy density (cosmological constant) and matter content. The coexistence of different quantum vacua can then be regulated by the exchange of global fermionic charges between the vacua, such as baryonic and leptonic charge, or by fermion zero modes on the phase boundary. An...

The measurement of the thrombosis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) frame count is a simple method for evaluating coronary blood flow. Although it is well known that slow coronary flow is present in patients with coronary artery ectasia (CAE), the effects of coexisting stenosis and the severity of ectatic involvement on coronory flow have not been adequately studied. Thus, we examined (1) the eff...

BACKGROUND This 1-year prospective cohort study aimed to compare the changes in clinical symptoms and functional disability between patients with coexisting patellofemoral (PF) and tibiofemoral (TF) osteoarthritis (OA) and those with isolated TFOA. METHODS Seventy-two patients with medial knee OA were enrolled. Knee pain and functional disability were assessed at baseline and at 1-year follow...

Introduction The presence of multiple coexisting chronic pain (CP) conditions (eg, low-back pain and migraines) within patients has received little attention in literature. The goals of this observational longitudinal study were to determine the prevalence of coexisting CP conditions, identify the most frequent ones and patterns of coexistence, investigate the relationships among patients' biop...

Chronic (atrophic) gastritis (AG) is common in active duodenal (DU) and gastric ulcer (GU) disease. In this case control study in consecutive prospective outpatients (571 cases and 1074 controls) who had undergone diagnostic upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and routine biopsies from both antral and body mucosa, we calculated the risk of coexisting active DU and/or GU in different gastritis of t...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a combination of ethinylestradiol (EE) and 0.02 mg/drospirenone (DRSP) 3 mg in Japanese women with dysmenorrhea and in particular to determine whether or not the presence of specific coexisting organic diseases (eg, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, uterine adenomyosis) has an impact on treatment. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

The association of keratoconus and atopic disease has been reported on several occasions but the only controlled clinical study that has so far been published found no evidence to support this view. Since it is now known that atopy is often associated with changes in various immunoglobulins, particularly IgE, it was considered desirable to determine the immunological profiles of a large series ...

groups were equivalent for age, gender, underlying diagnosis, operative procedure and amount of bolus fluid received (Table 1). The main results are shown in Table 2. We conclude that the change in postoperative fluid regimen from dextrose 3% and sodium chloride 0.3% at two-thirds maintenance rate to dextrose 5% and Hartmann’s at full maintenance rate reduced the proportion of patients with pos...

A rare case of coexisting retroperitoneal and mediastinal fibrosis is reported. Increasing awareness of this association may lead to earlier recognition of significant symptoms and more effective therapy.