this study was conducted to evaluate how neuroimaging procedures (mri, spect) could be used in clinical setting for diagnosis of dementia.forty out of 94 patients suspected of having a diagnosis of dementia, referred to radiology department for consecutive neuroimaging procedures, were selected. patients’ medical records reviewed anda retrospective diagnosis was reached according to dsm-iv for ...

HIV Protease Inhibitors and Hyperlipidemia : A Fatty Acid Connection Print ISSN: 1079-5642. Online ISSN: 1524-4636 Copyright © 2005 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology doi: 10.1161/01.ATV.0000198749.28422.29 2006;26:7-9 Arterioscler Thromb...

Leonardo da Vinci clearly observed and described capillaries. Using the microscope, Marcello Malpighi examined the brain and major organs to demonstrate their finer anatomical features. This led to his discovery in 1661, of capillaries that proved fundamental to our understanding of the vascular system in the brain and cord. He hypothesized that capillaries were the connection between arteries ...

OBJECTIVES To assess safety and clinical performance of a novel bioabsorbable vascular graft in pediatric patients with univentricular cardiac malformation who received surgical correction via an extracardiac cavopulmonary conduit. METHODS The implanted graft material is designed to attract patient's own cells and proteins, which trigger a cascade of physiological events leading to endogenous...

Complete 'anatomic' repair of transposition of the great arteries has now been achieved. The ideal timing of this surgery is during neonatal cardiovascular transition, when the fetal elevation of pulmonary vascular resistance is still present.

A new approach stemming from the adiabatic-connection (AC) formalism is proposed to derive parameter-free double-hybrid (DH) exchange-correlation functionals. It is based on a quadratic form that models the integrand of the coupling parameter, whose components are chosen to satisfy several well-known limiting conditions. Its integration leads to DHs containing a single parameter controlling the...

This preliminary report presents recent experience with the Senning operation for transposition of the great arteries. Reasons are given why the traditional Mustard procedure was abandoned in favour of the Senning operation. Technical details are presented and the advantages and disadvantages of the procedure are discussed.