Abstract Background Infective endocarditis (IE) requires a high degree of suspicion and advanced level multidisciplinary management. In 2015, the European guidelines recommended formation an endocarditis-team (ET) for optimal treatment IE. 2011, we already established ET within hospital that was only consulted on demand certain patients. Since has been increasingly involved in management almost...

1.2 Machine failure A system is composed of 5 components, each of which is either working or broken. Consider an experiment that consists of observing the status of each component, and let the outcome of the experiment be given by the vector (x1, x2, x3, x4, x5), where xi = 1 if component i works and 0 if component i is broken. 1. How many outcomes are in the sample space of this experiment? 2....

Neoplastic transformation is a complex process that results from multiple changes in gene activities. Probably most of these are mutational, i.e. alterations in the genomic structure of DNA, but others may be due to adaptive changes wherein genes are expressed that are inappropriate to a stage of development or differentiation. In this commentary neoplastic development is discussed in the conte...

abstract background: chronic renal disease and hemodialysis cause numerous psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual challenges for both patients and their families. overcoming these challenges is possible only through providing holistic support for the patients. today, despite the support provided by family and professional caregivers for the patients, patients still express dissatisfacti...

background: teachers, parents and foundations should become objective-oriented for children with visual impairment so that learning and sensitization of necessary knowledge and skills for the behaviors of these children are assisted. where there is impairment in the relations of children caregivers, their emotional security is disturbed and its effects will appear in their behaviors. therefore,...

this study aimed to determine the aerosolization behavior of a nanodispersion of budesonide, prepared using microfluidic reactors. the size and morphology of budesonide nanoparticles were characterized by photon correlation spectroscopy (pcs) and transmission electron microscopy (tem). processing/formulation parameters for formation of the nanoparticles were studied to determine their effects o...