16 October 2007 ■ MLO www.mlo-online.com T he significance of good practice during the pre-testing phase of clinical-laboratory investigation cannot be overemphasized. The production of high-quality, accurate results, which are clinically useful, depends as much on practice before the patient’s sample reaches the laboratory as it does on the analytical phase within the laboratory. There are few...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively study the techniques and outcomes of transcatheter closure of complex Atrial septal defects (ASD). STUDY DESIGN AND SETTINGS Prospective single center study with experience in catheter closure of ASD. All patients with complex ASD suitable for device closure. OBJECTIVE Analysis of outcomes of transcatheter closure of complex ASD in JIPMER Hospital over the past 5-...

RSA public keys are central to many cryptographic applications; hence their validity is of primary concern to the scrupulous cryptographer. The most relevant properties of an RSA public key (n, e) depend on the factors of n: are they properly generated primes? are they large enough? is e co-prime with φ(n)? etc. And of course, it is out of question to reveal n’s factors. Generic non-interactive...

Synchronous double malignancies of gastric carcinoma (GC) and malignant lymphoma (ML) are rare and very difficult to treat. We report a case of synchronous GC and nodal ML, regarding which clinical and pathological features and treatment are discussed. A 68-year-old woman with a history of inguinal hernia was admitted for abdominal pain and high fever and subsequently underwent herniorrhaphy, b...

LCH is a disease of abnormal clonal proliferation langerhans cell the bone marrow derived monocyte-macrophage lineage. Cells with characteristic coffee bean / grooved indented nuclei background histiocytes, lymphocytes, eosinophils and other inflammatory cells are seen. Clinical presentation varies from unifocal unisystem to multifocal multisystem. We present rare case multisystem involving hig...

BACKGROUND Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to study the effects of anesthetic agents on correlated intrinsic neural activity. Previous studies have focused primarily on intravenous agents. The authors studied the effects of sevoflurane, an inhaled anesthetic. METHODS Resting-state BOLD fMRI was acquired from 10 subjects before sed...

Patients were observed after the Fontan operation to determine the frequency and severity of protein-losing enteropathy. A total of 427 patients who survived for 30 days after the Fontan operation, performed between 1973 and January 1987, were analyzed and, thus far, protein-losing enteropathy has developed in 47 of 427. The cumulative risk for the development of protein-losing enteropathy by 1...

One of the chief objects of concern in intracranial surgery should be the avoidance of any unnecessary loss of blood, for at best, in many cases of brain tumor associated with venous stasis, bleeding is likely to be so excessive as to necessitate postponement of the final steps of the procedure until a second or even a third session. The common methods of blood stilling by sponge, clamp, and li...

Digital content transactions through e-commerce will grow tremendous in the coming years. Welldesigned electronic payment schemes and high-quality digital contents are two critical successful factors. This paper proposes an incentive-based electronic payment scheme, which can ensure both important properties of fair exchange and customer anonymity in e-commerce transactions and enhance authors’...

Do human beings act morally because they obey socially defined rules and norms as the result of a routine of inculcated behaviors, or an embodied fear of sanction, or perhaps both? Conversely, do they act morally because they decide to do so as a consequence of a rational evaluation, or transformative endeavor, or inseparably both? In other words, do they follow a Kantian ethics of duty or an A...