PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the risk of cardiac death in pediatric Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) survivors and identify high-risk groups that may need additional surveillance. METHODS The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program database was queried to analyze the rates of radiation therapy (RT) use and cardiac-specific mortality (CSM) in HL patients, aged 0-21 years...

Introduction: Details of surgical and general complications for patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) are still uncertain. The purpose of this study was to describe surgeries and their complications among Japanese patients with CSM. Methods: The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research performed a nationwide survey on spine surgery and complications in 2011. Data of...

Intergalactic type-Ia supernovae (SNe) have been discovered recently in rich galaxy clusters. These SNe are likely the descendants of an intergalactic stellar population, which has been discovered in recent years through a variety of tracers. We estimate the observational signatures of the associated SN remnants (SNRs) in the unusual intracluster medium (ICM) environment. We find that, if type-...

STUDY DESIGN A prospective cohort study. OBJECTIVE In this study, we employed diffusion basis spectrum imaging (DBSI) to quantitatively assess axon/myelin injury, cellular inflammation, and axonal loss of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) spinal cords. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA A major shortcoming in the management of CSM is the lack of an effective diagnostic approach to stratify trea...

BACKGROUND During the last years, there has been a rapid adoption of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa), despite the lack of randomized trials evaluating its effectiveness. The aim of our study was to evaluate the survival benefit associated with IMRT in patients with PCa. PATIENTS AND METHODS Overall, 42 483 patients with PCa treated with IMRT...

In the present work, Na+-montmorillonite nanoclay (Na-MMT) was functionalized using 3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane (3-APTMS) as a coupling agent. The covalent functionalization of MMT was confirmed by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). In the specimen fabrication stage, 5 wt% of pristine MMT or silane-functionalized MMT (f-MMT) were incorporated into an epoxy system and the resulta...

Four slow releasing non-protein nitrogen (NPN) sources viz. urea-straw (US), urea-starch (UST), biuret-straw (BS) and biuret-starch (BST) were compared with cotton seed meal (CSM) as control nitrogen source. In all experiments, 2% nitrogen level on DM basis in contents of each fermentation flask were maintained through replacing 30, 50 and 70% of CSM by respective NPN source. Four in vitro expe...

Hereford-Angus crossbred heifers were fed a cottonseed meal-based diet containing gossypol (14 mg free gossypol·kg body wt−1·d−1; CSM), a soybean meal-based diet (SBM), or a-tocopherolsupplemented diets (4,036 IU vitamin E·heifer−1·d−1 for 90 d; CSM+E and SBM+E). The effects of diet on color stability and aerobic metmyoglobin reducing ability of beef longissimus lumborum (LL) and psoas major (P...

Symmetry is typically viewed as a discrete feature: an object is either symmetric or non-symmetric. However visual perception treats symmetry as a continuous feature, relating to statements such asòne object is MORE symmetric than another' oràn object is MORE mirror symmetric than rotational symmetric'. With this notion in mind, we view symmetry as a continuous feature and dene a Continuous Sym...

Charge Simulation Method (CSM) is one of the very widely used numerical field computation technique in High Voltage (HV) engineering. The high voltage fields of varying non uniformities are encountered in practice. CSM programs being case specific, the simulation accuracies heavily depend on the user (programmers) experience. Here is an effort to understand CSM errors and evolve some guidelines...