BACKGROUND Airway management is a key component of prehospital care for seriously ill and injured patients. Although endotracheal intubation has been a commonly performed prehospital procedure for nearly three decades, the safety and efficacy profile of prehospital intubation has been challenged in the last decade. Reported intubation success rates vary widely, and established benchmarks are la...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance of the molecular detection of cytokeratin 19 (CK-19) mRNA-positive cells in the peripheral blood of women with operable breast cancer after the completion of adjuvant chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Blood from 161 patients with stage I and II breast cancer, obtained after the completion of adjuvant chemotherap...

For further gravitational wave (GW) detections, it is significant to invent a technique reduce all kinds of mirror displacement noise dominant at low frequencies for ground-based detectors. The neutron displacement-noise-free interferometer (DFI) one the tools lower frequencies. In this paper, we describe simplified configuration DFI in terms incidence direction. new configuration, neutrons ent...

Background: Chlamydia Trachomatis (CT) is an obligate intracellular bacteria, that requires living cells to replicate itself and is responsible for lower urinary tract disease in men and women. It can cause urethritis, epididymitis, orchitis and complications such as chronic prostatitis in men. Chlamydia infections may also directly affect male fertility by damaging the sperm, because sperm par...

BACKGROUND Artificial insemination is not as widely used in horses as in other domestic species, such as dairy cattle and pigs, partly because of the wide variation in sperm quality between stallion ejaculates and partly due to decreased fertility following the use of cooled transported spermatozoa. Furthermore, predictive tests for sperm fertilising ability are lacking. The objective of the pr...

Introduction: Blood vessels can be non-invasively visualized from a digital fundus image (DFI). Several studies have shown an association between cardiovascular risk and vascular features obtained DFI. Recent advances in computer vision segmentation enable automatising DFI blood vessel segmentation. There is need for resource that automatically compute vasculature biomarkers (VBM) these segment...

Seminal plasma could have positive effects on boar semen after thawing. In the present study we investigated changes in the motility and chromatin structure in spermatozoa over 4h incubation (37°C) of boar semen thawed in the presence of 0%, 10% or 50% seminal plasma from good-fertility boars. Cryopreserved doses were used from seven males, three of which were identified as susceptible to post-...

The effects of herd of origin by year on the average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (DFI), shoulder height (SDH) and scrotal circumference (SCR) of beef bulls at centralized test centres in South Africa were investigated using data of Bonsmara cattle. Data consisted of post-weaning traits of beef bulls tested between 1990 and 2003, with available weaning weight (WWT) and weaning ma...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the treatment results of lymph node (LN) oligo-recurrence in esophageal cancer patients treated with salvage radiotherapy (RT) in a multi-institutional retrospective study. METHODS Eligibility criteria for this retrospective analysis were: the primary lesion of esophageal cancer was controlled; from one to five LN recurrences; total RT dose ≥45 Gy to exclude pa...

OBJECTIVE To examine levels of sperm DNA damage and oxidative stress (OS) in infertile men with varicocele. DESIGN Prospective controlled study. SETTING Male infertility clinic, Glickman Urological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. PATIENT(S) Thirty-one infertility patients and 16 fertile controls. INTERVENTION(S) Sperm DNA fragmentation index (DFI), levels of sem...