BACKGROUND Hallux valgus (HV) is highly prevalent and associated with progressive first metatarsophalangeal joint subluxation and osteoarthritis. The link between structural HV deformity and foot pain is unclear. This study investigated possible explanatory factors surrounding foot pain in HV, including radiographic HV angle and signs of joint degeneration. METHODS Participants were 60 adults...

BACKGROUND Klebsiella pneumoniae is a prominent nosocomial pathogen that accounts for up to 10 % of all hospital-acquired infections. It is a frequent cause of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of K. pneumoniae-associated VAP and the molecular characteristics of K. pneumoniae strains. METHODS We retrospectively rev...

Objectives Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs) are often observed in memory clinic patients. It has been generally accepted that deep CMBs (D-CMBs) result from hypertensive vasculopathy (HV), whereas strictly lobar CMBs (SL-CMBs) result from cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) which frequently coexists with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Mixed CMBs (M-CMBs) have been partially attributed to HV and also partia...

bentea and tu{a}rnu{a}uceanu~(an. c{s}tiinc{t}. univ. al. i.cuza iac{s}, ser. nouv{a}, mat., {bf 54(1)} (2008), 209-220)proposed the following problem: find an explicit formula for thenumber of fuzzy subgroups of a finite hamiltonian group of type$q_8times mathbb{z}_n$ where $q_8$ is the quaternion group oforder $8$ and $n$ is an arbitrary odd integer. in this paper weconsider more general grou...

Panic disorder (PD) patients usually react with more self-reported distress to voluntary hyperventilation (HV) than do comparison groups. Less consistently PD patients manifest physiological differences such as more irregular breathing and slower normalization of lowered end-tidal pCO(2) after HV. To test whether physiological differences before, during, or after HV would be more evident after ...