STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess whether changes in psychomotor vigilance during sleep deprivation can be estimated using heart rate variability (HRV). DESIGN HRV, ocular, and electroencephalogram (EEG) measures were compared for their ability to predict lapses on the Psychomotor Vigilance Task (PVT). SETTING Chronobiology and Sleep Laboratory, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. PARTIC...

A heat-recovery ventilator (HRV) effectively conducts ventilation by recovering waste heat from indoors to outdoors during heating periods. However, dew condensation associated with the HRV system may arise due to the difference between the indoor temperature and the very low outdoor temperature in winter, and this can decrease the heat exchange efficiency. These problems can be solved by the p...

INTRODUCTION Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) increases the risk of variceal rebleeding in liver cirrhosis. However, the strategy for preventing variceal rebleeding in cirrhotic patients with PVT has not been explored. This study aims to evaluate whether the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) or conventional therapy is preferable for the prevention of variceal rebleeding in liver ...

BACKGROUND An increased risk of venous thromboembolism has been reported in patients treated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). We describe a case of acute portal vein thrombosis (PVT) in a hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive elderly patient following administration of indomethacin. CASE PRESENTATION A 79-year-old HCV-positive man was hospitalized for severe abdominal pain, nau...

The present study investigated the relationship between regular sport participation (soccer) and vigilance performance. Two groups of male and female adolescents differentiated in terms of their sport participation (athletes, n = 39, and non-athletes, n = 36) took part in the study. In one session, participants performed the Leger Multi-stage fitness test to estimate their aerobic fitness level...

The orexin/hypocretin (Orx/Hcrt) system has long been considered to regulate a wide range of physiological processes, including feeding, energy metabolism, and arousal. More recently, concordant observations have demonstrated an important role for these peptides in the reinforcing properties of most drugs of abuse. Orx/Hcrt neurons arise in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) and project to all brain...

Energy transfer has been investigated in polyvinyltoluene (PVT) scintillators containing pyrene, p-terphenyl and naphthalene by measurement of scintillation pulse shapes and yields. It is concluded that there is an initial rapid diffusion of the excitation energy with solute molecules, residual monomer and PVT excimer sites acting as competing traps. At later times energy can transfer from resi...

Background and Aim of the work: Splenectomy is a common operation but it carries the danger of many postoperative complications. One of the most important complications is the portal vein thrombosis (PVT), which may be fatal due to development of bowel ischemia and severe portal hypertension. Due to the effect of hypobaric hypoxia and higher liability for thrombosis encountered in high altitude...

BACKGROUND AND AIM The coagulation abnormalities in non-cirrhotic Budd-Chiari syndrome (NC-BCS) and non-cirrhotic portal vein thrombosis (NC-PVT) are unclear. We conducted this case-control study to investigate the coagulation profile of NC-BCS and NC-PVT in Chinese patients. METHODS We measured the levels of factors II, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, protein C (PC), protein S (PS) and antithr...

Our attention has been drawn to the June 1992 issue of HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN, particularly the section on Board Review in Internal Medicine.1 reconstruction for various associated occlusive and hypoplastic abnormalities in patients undergoing OLTX. Despite these successes, refinement in technique continues as demonstrated by Tzakis et al5 using the venous jump grafts in PVT in 1989. Furthermore, j...