UNLABELLED This study evaluated the short and long-term consequences of Percutaneous Mitral Valvuloplasty (PMV) in pregnant patients and their offspring, in a tertiary care setting, Karachi, Pakistan. The hospital database was used to retrieve all patients who underwent PMV during pregnancy in the period 1998-2007. The follow up data of the patients and the born children were obtained from the ...

The ventral premotor cortex (PMv) is a key node in the neural network involved in grasping. One way PMv can carry out this function is by modulating the outputs of the primary motor cortex (M1) to intrinsic hand and forearm muscles. As many PMv neurons discharge when grasping with either arm, both PMv within the same hemisphere (ipsilateral; iPMv) and in the opposite hemisphere (contralateral; ...

BACKGROUND Approaches to respiratory care of patients needing prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) might be varied. In this study we assessed the predictive value of usual variables for extubation outcome in PMV patients. METHODS From 2005 to 2007, intubated patients who were admitted to the intermediate respiratory care unit, had been on mechanical ventilation for ≥ 21 days at the time of ...

Computational Study of Volumetric Effects of Hydration Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations were used in conjunction with the Kirkwood-Buff (KB) theory to compute partial molar volume (PMV) for solutes of various chemical natures. Simulations performed with only the Lennard-Jones (LJ) potential yield PMV for solutes which coincide with the cavity volumes derived from calculations with scaled par...

Previous studies have reported that real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback using motor imagery can modulate the activity of several motor-related areas. However, differences in these modulatory effects on distinct target regions same experimental protocol remain unelucidated. This study aimed to compare primary area (M1) and ventral premotor cortex (PMv). Of includ...

Chronic heart failure (CHF) induces muscle fiber-type specific alterations in skeletal muscle O(2) delivery and utilization during metabolic transitions. As a result, the recovery of microvascular Po(2) (Pmv(O(2))) is prolonged in slow-twitch skeletal muscle but not fast-twitch skeletal muscle in rats with CHF. We tested the hypothesis that CHF slows Pmv(O(2)) recovery in rat skeletal muscle of...

Neural activity in motor cortex during reach and grasp movements shows modulations in a broad range of signals from single-neuron spiking activity (SA) to various frequency bands in broadband local field potentials (LFPs). In particular, spatiotemporal patterns in multiband LFPs are thought to reflect dendritic integration of local and interareal synaptic inputs, attentional and preparatory pro...

OBJECTIVES We propose a modified simultaneous kissing stenting technique (MSKS) based on systematic implantation of a protective stent in the proximal main vessel (PMV) proximally to the bifurcation before simultaneous kissing stenting (SKS). BACKGROUND SKS has been proposed in large-size coronary vessel bifurcation lesions (BLs) when the PMV can accommodate two stents. SKS implies, however, ...

Research in monkey and man indicates that the ventrolateral premotor cortex (PMv) underlies not only the preparation of manual movements, but also the perceptual representation of pragmatic object properties. However, visual stimuli without any pragmatic meaning were recently found to elicit selective PMv responses if they were subjected to a perceivable pattern of change. We used functional ma...

BACKGROUND The aging Taiwan population is expected to require vast medical resources, including prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV). This study determined the trends in hospital resource utilization and associated factors in PMV patients in Taiwan. METHODS All patients who had received mechanical ventilation for > 21 days (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Mo...