BACKGROUND Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has been shown to provide adequate durability, pain relief, and improved long-term functional outcomes in the average patient, but proof of its efficacy in individuals with greater than average physical demands is scarce. Further knowledge is required to understand which patients may benefit from ACI and to identify which risk factors are ass...

Shear reinforcement is one of the common measures used to strengthen slab–column connections. It can make joint’s load capacity increase. However, when connection subjected an unbalanced bending moment, reduction effect shear on moment worth investigating. Nonlinear finite element analysis was performed reinforced concrete slabs with for various moment-to-shear (M/V) ratios. The effects number ...

PURPOSE To compare clinical outcomes of patients undergoing isolated patellofemoral autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) and ACI combined with patellofemoral realignment. METHODS A systematic review was performed by use of PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines/checklist. We searched PubMed, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied He...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the prognostic value of the aortic calcification index (ACI), an estimate of abdominal aortic calcification by plain abdominal computed tomography (CT), in terms of left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction, mortality, and nonfatal cardiovascular (CV) events in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients. METHOD PD patients who received both abdominal CT and echocardiog...

Section Editor: Sean O. Henderson, MD Submission history: Submitted December 30, 2014; Accepted January 15, 2015 Electronically published February 26, 2015 Full text available through open access at http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.1.25321 [West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(2):318–319.] Naval Medical Center San Diego, Department of Emergency Medicine, San Diego, Califo...

PURPOSE Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), as one of the most immunogenic tumors has been the focus of adoptive cellular immunotherapy (ACI), but the effects of ACI on objective response and survival in patients with mRCC are still controversial. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to address this issue. METHODS A search was conducted in the PubMed database for...

BACKGROUND Numerous surgical options exist to treat chondral lesions in the knee, including microfracture (MFx), osteochondral autograft transplantation (OAT), first-generation autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI-1), and next-generation ACI (ACI-2). PURPOSE To compare the cost-effectiveness of MFx, OAT, and ACI-1. The secondary purpose of this study was to compare the functional outcomes...

The class of acyclic clique-interval (ACI) graphs is introduced as the class of those graphs G=(V ,E) whose cliques are intervals (chains) of an acyclic order on the vertex set V . The class of ACI graphs is related to the classes of proper interval graphs, tree-clique graphs and to the class DV (intersection graphs of directed paths of a directed tree). Compatibility between a graph and an acy...

The acI lineage of freshwater Actinobacteria is a cosmopolitan and often numerically dominant member of lake bacterial communities. We conducted a survey of acI 16S rRNA genes and 16S-23S rRNA internal transcribed spacer regions from 18 Wisconsin lakes and used standard nonphylogenetic and phylogenetic statistical approaches to investigate the factors that determine acI community composition at...