Background: In response to the need for diagnosis and treatment, medical radiation has been increasingly used worldwide. This study investigated the medical utilization of radiation-related diseases among radiological technologists (RTs) and factors that influence such diseases. Materials and Methods: Data were collected from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database. A panel study...

In shock, organ perfusion is of vital importance because organ oxygenation is at risk. NO, the main endothelial-derived vasodilator, is crucial for organ perfusion and coronary patency. The availability of NO might depend on the balance between a substrate (arginine) and an inhibitor (asymmetric dimethylarginine; ADMA) of NO synthase. Therefore, we investigated the relationship of arginine, ADM...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a group of disorders indulge into high risk developing for hyperglycemia, hypertension, obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Studies suggested that low circulatory magnesium levels are related to MetS, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), CVD. Present study was planned designed find out the association between development MetS. A total 200 premenopausal women aged ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the evidence supporting a role for senescent changes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) circulatory physiology in the pathogenesis of normal-tension glaucoma (NTG). DESIGN Literature review and personal perspective of the authors. METHODS Analysis of selected articles in the peer-reviewed literature with interpretation and perspective. RESULTS Recent studies have reported th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Numerical modeling of biological structures would be very helpful tool to analyze hundreds of human body phenomena and also diseases diagnosis. One physiologic phenomenon is blood circulatory system and heart hemodynamic performance that can be simulated by utilizing lumped method. In this study, we can predict hemodynamic behavior of one artery of circulatory system (a...

A method for measuring regional cerebral circulation time (rCCT) between the hemispheres using intravenous pertechnetate and a multidetector system is presented. Interhemispheric differences of rCCT instead of absolute values were selected because of the variation of pertechnetate bolus dispersion due to changes in the systemic circulation and injection technique inter-and intraindividually. Ti...

Background—The goal of this study was to determine whether advanced age affects mortality and incidence of neurological injury in patients undergoing surgical repair with hypothermic circulatory arrest in acute and chronic thoracic aortic pathology. Methods and Results—A university center audit was done of 523 consecutive patients (median age, 64 years; interquartile range, 56 –71 years) betwee...