STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical value of blood cultures (BCs) in the management of adult patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) with a diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). METHODS The courses of antibiotic regimens and outcomes of patients with positive BC results were examined to assess their influence on BCs. RESULTS BCs were obtained from 289 outpatient...

Bounded context switching (BCS) is an under-approximate method for finding violations to safety properties in shared-memory concurrent programs. Technically, BCS is a reachability problem that is known to be NP-complete. Our contribution is a parameterized analysis of BCS. The first result is an algorithm that solves BCS when parameterized by the number of context switches (cs) and the size of ...

BACKGROUND Biliary cast syndrome (BCS) was a postoperative complication of orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), and the reason for BSC was considered to relate with ischemic type biliary lesions. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between BCS following OLT and the hepatic artery resistance index (HARI), and to observe pathological changes and morphology of biliary casts. METHODS...

OBJECTIVE To identify neuromuscular, balance, and vision factors that contribute to falls in recently treated breast cancer survivors (BCS) and explore links between fall risk factors and cancer treatment. DESIGN Case-control plus prospective observation. SETTING Comprehensive cancer center. PARTICIPANTS BCS (N=59; mean age, 58y) within 2 years of chemotherapy completion and/or on adjuvan...

AIM The aim was to study the effect of the transition to body condition score (BCS) and ultrasonographic back fat thickness (USG BFT) in crossbred cows. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 101 multiparous crossbred cows in advanced pregnancy from organized dairy farm were taken up for study. The cows were grouped according to transition stage, i.e. far off dry (FOD), close up dry (CUD) and fresh...

BACKGROUND Invasive lobular cancer (ILC) is biologically distinct from invasive ductal cancer and there is disagreement regarding appropriate local management of this disease. AIM The current study reports long term results comparing mastectomy with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) in the treatment of ILC. MATERIAL AND METHODS Study includes 235 women with ILC treated between 1983 and 1987. ...

In this paper we address the problem of identifying goats in dairy farms with sub-optimal values of Body Condition Score (BCS). The BCS conveys information on whether an animal is fat or thin and its identification has a strong economic impact as very thin animals have poorer milk production and associated health problems. Albeit its important implications, not only there is no automated way of...

We investigate density fluctuations in a coherent ensemble of interacting fermionic atoms. Adapting the concept of full counting statistics, well known from quantum optics and mesoscopic electron transport, we study second-order as well as higher-order correlators of density fluctuations. Using the mean-field BCS state to describe the whole interval between the BCS limit and the Bose-Einstein c...

Baló's concentric sclerosis (BCS) is a rare demyelinating disease considered to be a variant of multiple sclerosis. Five BCS cases were diagnosed antemortem based on their typical concentric mass patterns on MR images and based on clinical and CSF findings. Histopathologic investigation was also performed in one case. Our case report supports the concept that BCS may be a self-limited disease t...

Diffuse involvement of the liver with neoplastic processes can present a diagnostic dilemma. We present the case of a diffusely infiltrative neuroendocrine tumor (NET) that mimicked Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS), not previously described in the literature. Histological evaluation can be limited without well-defined margins. Only one of two biopsies revealed a NET. A diagnosis of BCS was first cons...