Some apparent characteristics of ganglion cell death in glaucoma Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy with characteristic optic disc changes and associated visual field defects. 2 The pattern and progression of visual field loss due to ganglion cell death varies between glaucoma patients suggesting that there is some variability in the magnitude of the insult responsible for the cell loss...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the epidermal growth factor (EGF, rs4444903), patatin-like phospholipase domain-containing protein 3 (PNPLA3, rs738409) genes, and near the interleukin-28B (IL28B, rs12979860) gene are linked to treatment response, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in chronic hepatitis C. Whether these SNPs independently or in combination predict clinical det...

INTRODUCTION One in five patients with sepsis deteriorates within 48 hours after hospital admission. Regrettably, a clear tool for the early detection of deterioration is still lacking. The SepsiVit study aims to determine whether continuous heart rate variability (HRV) measurement can provide an early warning for deterioration in patients presenting with suspected infection or sepsis to the em...

PURPOSE: The deterioration of elements of steel hydraulic structures (SHS) on our nation’s lock system is caused by combined effects of several complex phenomena: corrosion, cracking and fatigue, impact, and overloads. This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note presents examples of deterioration and a method for predicting future deterioration based on current conditions. In a compa...

background : the aim of this study was to predict the survival rate of iranian gastric cancer patients using the cox proportional hazard and artificial neural network models as well as comparing the ability of these approaches in predicting the survival of these patients. methods: in this historical cohort study, the data gathered from 436 registered gastric cancer patients who have had surgery...

This paper describes a study conducted to develop a method to facilitate more reliable determination of the rehabilitation priority order for water pipes by taking into account the pipes’ hydraulic importance. Existing methods use only the pipeline deterioration rate to determine the rehabilitation priority order. Accordingly, the deterioration rate under normal conditions and the hydraulic imp...