There are many complications associated with the left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), including gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). We present a case of a pseudo colonic mass visualized on colonoscopy during workup for GIB in an LVAD patient necessitating a right colectomy with final pathology negative for malignancy. A review of the literature in regards to the pathology, diagnosis, and treat...

Abstract The installation error of an acoustic transceiver array is one the important sources in ultra-short baseline (USBL) system. In a USBL system with positioning accuracy 0.5%, angle 1° will lead to 1.7% times slant distance. this paper, dual transponder-based calibration method for proposed. First, errors induced by various angles are deduced and analysed using linear measurement seafloor...

Letter-by-letter (LBL) dyslexia is an acquired reading disorder characterized by very slow reading and a large linear word length effect. This suggests the use of a sequential LBL strategy, in sharp contrast with the parallel letter processing used by normal subjects. Recently, we have proposed that the reading difficulty of LBL dyslexics is due to a deficit in discriminating visually similar l...

Two frog egg lectins [Rana catesbeiana lectin (SBL-C) and Rana japonica lectin] preferentially agglutinate a large variety of human and animal tumor cells but not blood cells, lymphocytes, or fibroblasts. These lectins belong to the superfamily of pyrimidine base-specific RNases. The two lectins bound to a heparin-Sepharose column and were eluted from the column by an increase of NaCl molarity....

background: helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) are two major causes of gastroduodenal mocusal damages. the results of the epidemiological studies in relation to interaction between h. pylori and nsaids on the development of mocusal damages are conflicting. the present study was designed to determine the association of h. pylori and nsaids...

Three different assay procedures have been used to quantitate the levels of soybean (Glycine max IL.l Meff.) lectin in various tissues of soybean plants. The assays used were a standard hemagglutination assay, a radioimmunoassay, and an isotope dilution assay. Most of the lectin in seeds was found In the cotyledons, but lectin was also detected in the embryo axis and the seed coat. Soybean lect...

BACKGROUND & AIMS A new generation of oral anticoagulants (nOAC), which includes thrombin and factor Xa inhibitors, has been shown to be effective, but little is known about whether these drugs increase patients' risk for gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB). Patients who require OAC therapy frequently have significant comorbidities and may also take aspirin and/or thienopyridines. We performed a sy...

INTRODUCTION Liver transplantation (LTx) is a widely accepted method of treatment for end stage liver diseases. There are many reports on the management of gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) after LTx, however the number of studies concerning salvage endoscopic procedures during LTx are scarce. AIM We present our material of intraoperative endoscopic procedures due to GIB during LTx. MATERIAL ...

Representing large scale motions and topological changes in the finite volume (FV) framework, while at the same time preserving the accuracy of the numerical solution, is difficult. In this paper, we present a robust, highly efficient method designed to achieve this capability. The proposed approach conceptually shares many of the characteristics of the cut-cell interface tracking method, but w...

To support the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) scenario for Internet of Things (IoTs) applications featured by large-scale device connectivity and low activity, grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) compressive sensing (CS)-based multi-user detection methods (MUD) are developed. In this paper, we develop two Bayesian CS-based methods, i.e., sparse Learning (SBL) fast in...