Here, we report an extremely rare endoscopic finding, intramural duodenal diverticulum (IDD), a windsock diverticulum, in a 38-year-old woman who was admitted to our outpatient clinic with the complaint of dyspepsia. Her medical history and physical examination were unremarkable. All laboratory findings, including whole blood count, total biochemistry, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and C-reac...

We developed and validated a mitral valve orifice method for Doppler cardiac output determination. In 15 open-chest dogs, cardiac output was controlled and measured by a roller pump interposed between the right atrium and pulmonary artery as a right-heart bypass. Left heart flows were measured in the open-chest dog model by Doppler measurements at the mitral valve orifice and compared not only ...

This paper deals with the numerical prediction of the aeroacoustic behavior of orifices under grazing flow conditions. A hybrid computational aeroacoustics approach is adopted where the steady, incompressible, mean flow over the orifice is obtained from a RANS simulation. In a next step, the mean flow variables are used to solve the linearized Navier–Stokes equations (LNSE), using a Runge–Kutta...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this retrospective study was to compare conventional laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy with transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery-assisted living-donor nephrectomy in terms of feasibility and reproducibility. METHODS A total of 115 consecutive female patients who underwent laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy (n=70) or transvagi...

Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery proceeding to clinical (NOTES). Eliminate natural (NOTES) first gained notoriety with the initial orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. laboratory report of transgastric peritoneoscopy in Since then the medical community and the SOME ADVANTAGES general public has been captivated with the idea of “no-scar” abdominal surgery. In animal models, Th...

BACKGROUND The proximal flow convergence method, a quantitative color Doppler flow technique, has been validated recently for calculating regurgitant flow and orifice area. We investigated the potential of the method as a tool to study different pathophysiological mechanisms of mitral valve incompetence by assessing the time course of regurgitant flow and orifice area and analyzed the implicati...

Because of the need to safely vent exhaust gases, most engine dynamometer facilities are not well suited to measuring engine exhaust orifice noise. Depending on the location of the dyno facility within the building, the exhaust system may need to be extended in order to properly vent the exhaust fumes. This additional ducting changes the acoustic modes of the exhaust system which will change th...

Background. To examine whether an extremely enlarged left atrium (giant left atrium) obstructs the venous return from the inferior vena cava (IVC), the velocity ofIVC flow was measured at its junction with the right atrium (IVC orifice) in patients with mitral stenosis by use of color and pulsed-wave Doppler echocardiography from a right parasternal longitudinal plane. Methods and Results. The ...

Mitochondrial factor and cell cytokines play important roles in the incidence of vascular dementia (VD), but their correlations with inflammatory and mitochondrial factors and the role of both in the kidney essence deficiency pattern and phlegm turbidity blocking orifice pattern are not clear. This study was aimed at studying the correlations between the serum mitochondrial factor and cell cyto...

background: fistula-in-ano is a problematic perianal disease for physicians and patients because of its occasional difficulty in management. due to the different types of fistulas seen in patients, careful approach is necessary to correctly choose from among the various surgical techniques. one surgical method for complex fistula is the endorectal advancement flap which has been frequently perf...