BACKGROUND/AIM Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a life-threatening complication associated with cancer chemotherapy. We retrospectively evaluated the risk of developing TLS in patients with symptomatic multiple myeloma undergoing chemotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-four patients (median age=71 years, range=48-87 years, 35 males/29 females) who were treated at our Institution between April 2...

BacKGRoUnD The correct cementing technique for knee replacement involves maintaining the knee in extension for a protracted period of time to compress the cement effectively during polymerisation.1,2 Wound closure can be completed in flexion or extension with no difference in functional outcome3 but is often also completed with the leg maintained in extension due to decreased tissue tension. Wi...

Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is an oncological emergency caused by massive cytolysis of malignant cells. This syndrome eventually induces metabolic abnormalities. TLS is observed mainly among tumors with rapid cell proliferation or high sensitivity to antineoplastic treatment. In rare cases, TLS occurs without any cytotoxic treatment. Previous reports have shown that alternative stress including ...

BACKGROUND The analysis of lipids in serum lipoprotein fractions is useful in assessing the risk for coronary artery disease, but it typically involves performing multiple tests. An automated single-tube assay, referred to as the triple lipid screening (TLS) test, can be used for measuring HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), total cholesterol, and triglycerides (TGs) with no specimen pretreatment. METHO...

A novel approach for sub-band based multi-microphone speech dereverberation is presented. In recent contribution a method utilizing the null subspace of the spatial-temporal correlation matrix of the received signals (obtained by the generalized eigenvalue decomposition (GEVD) procedure). The desired acoustic transfer functions (ATF-s) are shown to be embedded in these generalized eigenvectors....

We investigate how to safely export additional cryptographic keys from secure channel protocols, modelled with the authenticated and confidential channel establishment (ACCE) security notion. For example, the EAP-TLS protocol uses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake to output an additional shared secret which can be used for purposes outside of TLS, and the RFC 5705 standard specifies ...