Introduction The UK has one of the highest deliberate self-poisoning overdoses within Europe [1]. The majority of them have a short length of stay with a low mortality. Patients commonly present with a reduced GCS, triggering the order for a CT scan. This is generally despite the absence of lateralising neurology, leading to multiple scans, especially for recurrent overdoses, often providing li...

Adoption of SNOMED CT has not been as quick and easy as many people had hoped or expected. One reason is lack of education and hence understanding of what SNOMED CT does and how it works. We set out to answer the question "who needs to know what?" about SNOMED CT to help establish priorities for UK higher education. We devised an online questionnaire and obtained 177 responses, 51% health IT pr...

Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct) serological studies in populations could help monitor changes in lifetime cumulative risk of infection. We developed a double-antigen sandwich ELISA based on the Ct-specific Pgp3 antigen, then tested blind stored sera from over 800 participants in a New Zealand birth cohort from Dunedin at ages 26, 32 and 38. The double-antigen sandwich ELISA was more sensitive than o...

Citation: dos Santos SB, Rocha GP, Fernandez LL, de Padua AC and Reppold CT (2018) Association of Lower Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, Self-Esteem, Subjective Well-Being, Optimism and Hope Scores With Mild Cognitive Impairment and Mild Dementia. Front. Psychol. 9:371. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00371 Association of Lower Spiritual Well-Being, Social Support, Self-Esteem, Subjective Well-Bei...

background: to reduce uncertainties of patient positioning, the computerized tomography (ct) images acquired at the treatment planning time can be compared with those images obtained during radiation dose delivery. this can be followed during dose delivery procedure as image guided radiotherapy (igrt) to verify the prescribed radiation dose delivery to the target as well as to monitor radiation...

background: this study set out to evaluate the utility of cerebrovascular virtual non-contrast (vnc) scans. materials and methods: conventional non-contrast (cnc) and dual-energy computed tomography angiography (de-cta) head scans were conducted on 100 subjects, of which 46 were normal, 15 had parenchymal hematomas of the brain, 13 had ischemic infarction, 22 had tumors, and 4 had calcified les...

conclusions recent treatment, in addition to age, gender and daylight duration were proved as strong independent determinants on bat development and the level of metabolic activity at [18 f] dg pet/ct and should be considered as an important confounding factor in future researches. results one-hundred eighteen studies were recognized to demonstrate foci of fdg bat uptake (3.1%, mean age: 22.7 y...

Epiploic appendagitis is an inflammation of the epiploic appendage in which the small sacs projecting from the serosal layer of the colon are positioned longitudinally from the caecum to the rectosigmoid area. Epiploic appendagitis is rare and self-limiting; however, it can cause sudden abdominal pain in children. Epiploic appendagitis does not typically accompany other gastrointestinal disease...

in dense QCD. We eliminate the quark-gluon coupling by the first order flow equation dVqg/dl = [[H0, Vqg], H0]. As a result, in the second order we generate the dynamical interaction between quarks dVdyn/dl = [[H0, Vqg ], Vqg]two−particles, and the quark self-energy dΣdyn/dl = [[H0, Vqg], Vqg ]one−particle in the channel of qqpair creation/annihilation. The resulting diquark interaction and sel...