Diabetes is reported to be more common in people living with HIV (PLWH). There not an internationally agreed screening method for diabetes PLWH due reports that HbA1c falsely low this group. Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) has been used explore and discrepancy. Its role identification of dysglycaemia known data from Southern Africa are scarce. To the relationship between interstitial glucos...

It is important to investigate the reproducibility of raw mass spectrometry (MS) features of abundance, such as spectral count, peptide number and ion intensity values, when conducting replicate mass spectrometry measurements. Reproducibility can be inferred from these replicate data either formally with analyses of variance techniques or informally with graphical procedures, particularly, Blan...

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In the absence of replication of wells, empirical criteria for enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISpot) positivity use fixed differences or ratios between spot forming units (SFU) counts between test and control. We propose an alternative approach which first identifies the optimally variance-stabilizing transformation of the SFU counts, based on the Bland-Altman plot of the test and control wells. T...

Methods After informed consent, 36 patients (age, 45.9 ± 10.1 years; male/female= 25/11, Heart rate=65 ± 8bpm) with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) underwent CMRI at 3T (TimTrio, Siemens) and right heart catheterization in the same day. After Four-chamber cine images were acquired during short breath-holds with a retrospectively gated turbo FLASH gradient-echo sequence and...

INTRODUCTION Inadequate stent implantation is associated with stent thrombosis and restenosis. StentBoost can enhance stent visualization and evaluate stent expansion. Currently, there are limited comparison studies between StentBoost and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). We aimed to test the correlation and agreement between IVUS and StentBoost measurements. METHODS From December 2010 to Dece...

Objective: to compare the two immunological methods of HbA1c determination available at university hospital centers in capital Madagascar. Methods:Prospective comparative study between HbA1C assay techniquesat University Hospital Center Joseph RavoahangyAndrianavalona and RasetaBefelatanana both localized Antananarivo Madagascar was conducted. The techniques used are immunoturbidimetry immunofl...