O NE of the most difficult tasks which confronts the w orker in the life sciences is to define a normal. The difficulty is compounded when the measurement to be made is affected by many variables which differ in importance from time to time. These remarks apply to the electrocardiographer, and to the normal electrocardiogram. Some variables which affect the electrocardiogram are quite well know...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to compare different normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) models for predicting heart valve dysfunction (RVD) following thoracic irradiation. METHODS All patients from our institutional Hodgkin lymphoma survivors database with analyzable datasets were included (n = 90). All patients were treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy with a...

objective: congestive heart failure (chf) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. this article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. we want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ed) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospital for standard ...

BACKGROUND Early stage breast cancer patients are long-term survivors and finding techniques that may lower acute and late radiotherapy-induced toxicity is crucial. We compared dosimetry of wedged tangential fields (W-TF), tangential field intensity-modulated radiotherapy (TF-IMRT) and multi-beam IMRT (MB-IMRT) in prone and supine positions for whole-breast irradiation (WBI). METHODS MB-IMRT,...

Optimal dose distribution in the treatment planning system (TPS) is crucial before being applied to radiotherapy patients. However, TPS still uses optimization methods that are time-consuming and user-dependent. This study aimed evaluate automatic prediction model, support vector regression (SVR), compare it with clinically planned of lung cancer Sixty patients treated intensity-modulated radia...

introduction radiation exposures from diagnostic medical examinations are generally low and are almost always justified by the benefits of accurate diagnosis of possible disease conditions. therefore, entrance skin dose (esd), body organ dose (bod), and effective dose (ed) from adult patients undergoing routine thorax posterior-anterior (pa) and thorax right lateral (rlat) were estimated in uni...

BACKGROUND In chronic heart failure, sympathetic activation is increased. Moxonidine acts on central nervous system receptors to decrease sympathetic activation. We investigated the dose-response relationship of a new sustained-release (SR) preparation of moxonidine and the plasma concentration of norepinephrine in patients with chronic heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 268 patien...

background: changes in body composition may be used for monitoring progression/ regression of a disease. prompt γ-rays in vivo neutron activation analysis (ivnaa) has been widely used for the measurement of body composition in recent years. objective: in this paper, we tried to improve the safety of ivnaa operator. methods: the most important factor for reducing the operator receiving dose is t...

BACKGROUND Postural tachycardia syndrome (POTS) induces disabling chronic orthostatic intolerance with an excessive increase in heart rate on standing. beta-Blockade is an appealing treatment approach, but conflicting preliminary reports are conflicting. We tested the hypothesis that propranolol will attenuate the tachycardia and improve symptom burden in patients with POTS. In protocol 1, a lo...