BACKGROUND The effect of surgical history on graft outcomes in patients with functionally univentricular hearts (UH) is not well understood. We compared graft outcomes after heart transplantation in children with a UH between patients who received allografts without prior cardiac surgery (Group A) and patients who underwent transplantation after prior cardiac surgery (Group B). METHODS We rev...

INTRODUCTION Superior mesenteric artery occlusion (SMAO) is a simple and reproducible model of shock-induced gut ischemia/reperfusion, but some argue that it is not clinically relevant. The purpose of the current study was to compare SMAO to a standard model of controlled hemorrhage (CH) and uncontrolled hemorrhage (UH). METHODS Rats had femoral lines and a jejunal mucosal laser Doppler place...

Ultra-high pressure homogenization (UHPH) is one of the most promising alternatives to traditional thermal treatment of food preservations and diversification. However, little research exists on the sensory characteristics of milk cheeses made from UHPH-treated milk. The aim of the current work was to study the effect of UHPH in goat milk at a pressure of 200 MPa on the sensorial characteristic...

The discrete Unbalanced Haar (UH) transform is a decomposition of one-dimensional data with respect to an orthonormal Haar-like basis where jumps in the basis vectors do not necessarily occur in the middle of their support. We introduce a multiscale procedure for estimation in Gaussian noise which consists of three steps: a UH transform, thresholding of the decomposition coefficients, and the i...

Purpose: To compare the efficacy and safety of a low molecular weight heparin (enoxaparin) with unfractionated heparin (UH) in this prophylaxis. Methods: Seventy five patients (59 men and 16 women), undergoing major lower extremity amputation (30 above-knee and 45 below-knee), were randomized to be treated with subcutaneous UH (5,000 IU t.i.d.) or enoxaparin (40mg/day) during hospitalization. P...

On the basis of structured unified hardening model (structured UH model) considering soil collapse, time effect is take into account, and an elastic-viscous-plastic extended. In presented model, moving normal compression line (MNCL) extended to a instant (MINCL) for simulating both structure effect. Then instance plastic strains irrespective are calculated by referring MINCL, due traditional li...

The present study was designed to examine the relationship between homocyst(e)ine (H[e]) levels and muscle mass. Two experimental groups each of 24 Caucasian males, one consisting of higher-muscle mass subjects (HMM) and the other of lower-muscle mass subjects (LMM) participated in this study. Muscle mass was estimated from 24-hour urine collections of creatinine (Crt). Muscle mass was 40.3 ± 1...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To determine the sensitivity and the specificity of the GDx in the detection of (1) advanced glaucoma, (2) early glaucoma, and (3) nerve fibre bundle defects (NFBD). METHODS Group A comprised 20 eyes with reproducible glaucomatous visual field defects confirmed by octopus perimetry, group B consisted of 10 eyes with normal visual fields but either glaucomatous NFBD or deterior...