BACKGROUND Intrathecal baclofen (ITB) therapy using a programmable battery-based pump is a well-recognized option in the treatment of patients with refractory spasticity. Improvements in clinical scale scores for muscle spasticity among this heterogeneous group of patients may not reflect the functional benefits of this therapeutic option. The aim of our study is to report the efficacy of ITB t...

Objetivo: La enfermedad arterial oclusiva crónica de EEII (EAOC EEII) ha sido subestimada y subdiagnosticada especialmente a nivel atención primaria. El objetivo este estudio fue estimar la prevalencia EAOC en pacientes alto riesgo cardiovascular pertenecientes un centro salud familiar mediante el uso del índice tobillo-brazo (ITB) como método screening. Material Método: Estudio observacional c...

Profile stiffness is a long standing problem, which may limit the overall performance of H-mode plasmas. In the JET experiment, while strong temperature profile stiffness is observed around the nonlinear threshold of ion temperature gradient, it can be greatly reduced by co-current toroidal rotation in weak magnetic shear plasma [1]. To understand such a mitigation mechanism of the stiffness, w...

BACKGROUND Labral reconstruction using iliotibial band (ITB) autografts and semitendinosus (Semi-T) allografts has recently been described in cases of labral deficiency. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS To characterize the joint biomechanics with a labrum-intact, labrum-deficient, and labrum-reconstructed acetabulum in a hip cadaveric model. The hypothesis was that labral resection would decrease contact a...

Dedicated to Prof. Rolf D. Schmid on the occasion of his 60 th birthday [**] We thank Prof. R. discussions and Sandra Vorlová (ITB) for providing recombinant hAChE and bAChE.

Bordetella bronchiseptica INFECTION and PREVENTION Closely related to Bordetella pertussis, the cause of “whooping cough” in humans, Bordetella bronchiseptica is a gram negative, aerobic coccobacillus particularly well adapted to colonize the ciliated respiratory epithelium of dogs and cats. Today, this organism is regarded as the principle etiologic agent of canine infectious tracheobronchitis...

Clusters of workstations (COWs) are becoming increasingly popular as a cost-effective alternative to parallel computers. In previous papers we presented the in-transit buffer mechanism (ITB) to improve network performance, applying it to COWs with irregular topology and source routing. This mechanism considerably improves the performance of this kind of networks when compared to current source ...

BACKGROUND Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is characterized by severe debilitating chronic pain. Patients with CRPS may experience various pain sensations, which likely embody different pathophysiologic mechanisms. In this study, we evaluated the differential effects of central γ-aminobutyric acid (B) receptor stimulation on the different pain qualities in CRPS patients with dystonia. M...

Here we explore the role of the interplay between host immune response and epithelial-mesenchymal-transition (EMT)-Type tumor-budding on the outcome of pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC). CD4+, CD8+, and FOXP3+T-cells as well as iNOS+ (M1) and CD163+-macrophages (M2) were assessed on multipunch tissue-microarrays containing 120 well-characterized PDACs, precursor lesions (PanINs) and correspondin...