AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in eight patients was treated with the systemic application of liposomal doxorubicin (20 mg/m2 per cycle). After six cycles of treatment a significant regression of KS was observed in all patients. Tumour volume was reduced from 556 +/- 635 mm3 before therapy to 42 +/- 134 mm3 after therapy as determined by ultrasonography of selected tumours. Histological ...

Aim The main cause of Klinefelter's syndrome (KS) has been believed to be XY sperm. Accordingly, in the intracytoplasmic sperm injection treatment of patients with KS, hereditary KS has been a concern. Therefore, this study attempted to estimate the risk before and after the assisted reproductive technology. Methods First, in order to validate the safety of the gametes of the patients with KS...

BACKGROUND Kallmann syndrome (KS) is a genetic disorder associating pubertal failure with congenitally absent or impaired sense of smell. KS is related to defective neuronal development affecting both the migration of olfactory nerve endings and GnRH neurons. The discovery of several genetic mutations responsible for KS led to the identification of signaling pathways involved in these processes...

UNLABELLED Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is caused by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV; human herpesvirus 8). KS is an AIDS-defining cancer, and it is changing in the post-antiretroviral therapy (post-ART) era. In countries with ready access to ART, approximately one-third of KS cases present in patients with undetectable HIV loads and CD4 counts of ≥200 cells/µl. This is in contrast to pr...

This study presents a novel coupled meshless model for simulating acoustic wave propagation in heterogeneous media, based on the singular boundary method (SBM) and Kansa’s (KS). In proposed approach, SBM was used to homogeneous part of domain, while KS employed heterogeneity. The interface compatibility conditions associated with velocities pressures were imposed couple two methods. SBM–KS appr...

The applications of time series modeling and statistical similarity methods to structural health monitoring (SHM) provide promising and capable approaches to structural damage detection. The main aim of this article is to propose an efficient univariate similarity method named as Kullback similarity (KS) for identifying the location of damage and estimating the level of damage severity. An impr...

Let K be a countable separably Hilbertian field. Denote the absolute Galois group of K by G(K). For each σ ∈ (σ1, . . . , σe) ∈ G(K) let Ks[σ] be the maximal Galois extension of K which is fixed by σ1, . . . , σe. We prove that for almost all σ ∈ G(K) (in the sense of the Haar measure) the field Ks[σ] is PAC and its absolute Galois group is isomorphic to F̂ω. Mathematische Zeitschrift 224 (1997)...

Dear Editor With great interest, we read the recent publication " Kaposi's sarcoma in HIV-infected patients in South Africa: Multicohort study in the antiretroviral therapy era " by Bohlius et al. 1 We congratulate the authors for their contribution to this field. In this study the authors observed a decrease in incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in patients treated with anti-retroviral therapy...