OBJECTIVES We prospectively evaluated our experience with laparoscopic management of acute small bowel obstruction (SBO). METHODS The study group included all patients requiring surgical intervention based on complete mechanical SBO by clinical assessment or who had failed conservative management. Patients with malignant causes were excluded. Experienced laparoscopic surgeons performed all op...

Streamer-blowout coronal mass ejections (SBO-CMEs) are the dominant CME population during solar minimum. Although they typically slow and lack clear low-coronal signatures, can cause geomagnetic storms. With aid of extrapolated fields remote observations off-limb low corona, we study initiation an SBO-CME preceded by consecutive eruptions consistent with a multi-stage sympathetic breakout scena...

BACKGROUND In recent years there has been an increasing uptake in the use of barbed sutures, particularly in minimally invasive and laparoscopic procedures where they may reduce operating time and improve surgical efficiency. However, little is known about the adverse events associated with these new materials and concerns have arisen regarding their safety in certain procedures. METHODS We p...

OBJECTIVE Previous reports have suggested that the incidence of spina bifida occulta (SBO) in patients with primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (PMNE) is higher than the general population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of spina bifida occulta on the medical treatment outcome of PMNE. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between January 2008 and December 2011, a total of 223 ...

As pointed out in Baillieul and Antsaklis (2007), in the three decades since researchers at Bosch GmbH launched the technology of networked control systems for automobiles, there has been an explosion of interest in both the theory and deployment of real-time networks of devices. This interest is especially apparent in much of the current research on the smart grid. In what follows, recent work...

0016-2361/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2008.04.030 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 313 832 2643; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (K.Y. Simon Ng). The formation of precipitates in biodiesel blends may have serious implications for diesel engine fuel delivery systems. Precipitates were observed in Soybean oil (SBO-), cottonseed oil (CSO-), and poultry fat (PF-) ba...

Purpose: The aims of this pilot study were to reveal the biological characteristics of serum I-FABP and explore its clinical utility as a biomarker in patients with small bowel obstruction (SBO). Methods: Serum I-FABP levels were measured in 37 consecutive patients with SBO between 2007 and 2008. Serum I-FABP levels were compared between ischemia (n = 10) and non-ischemia (n = 27) groups. Serum...

The objective of this study was to determine the fate of phytosterols in vegetable oils with varying fatty acid composition used for frying. High oleic sunflower (HOSun), corn (Corn), hydrogenated soybean (HSBO), expeller pressed soybean (ESBO), and expeller pressed lowlinolenic acid soybean oil (ELLSBO) were used for frying potato chips in a pilot plant-scale continuous fryer. The same oils, a...

OBJECTIVE FloSeal is a thrombin-gelatin hemostatic matrix that is used to obtain hemostasis. There have been isolated case reports of FloSeal causing bowel obstructions, requiring surgical intervention. We report 3 cases of what we believe were FloSeal-induced small bowel obstructions (SBO). METHODS We present a series of small bowel obstructions after FloSeal use. Our series includes urolog...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of multidetector-row computed tomography (MDCT) in the management of adhesion-related small bowel obstruction (SBO) and to identify its predictive value for surgery. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of 151 patients over a 5-year period with the diagnosis of SBO caused by adhesion. These patients were divided into t...