A trombose de stent (TS) é uma grande preocupação na era dos stents farmacológicos (SF). Há vários relatos de trombose de stent até cinco anos após sua implantação. Relatamos o caso de uma paciente de 68 anos com TS tardia, que se apresentou como infarto agudo do miocárdio com supradesnivelamento do segmento ST (IAMCSST) após interrupção da terapia antiplaquetária, oito anos depois da implantaç...

La representación, estudiantil y de docentes, en los consejos de facultad quedó así: Ciencias Sociales, Humanidades y Artes: Flor María Morantes Valencia, estudiante de Comunicación Social y Periodismo, y Javier Correa Correa, docente de Comunicación Social y Periodismo. Ciencias Administrativas, Económicas y Contables: Lydia Carolina García Araújo, estudiante de Economía, y el profesor de la C...

OBJECTIVES To determine the level of awareness of outpatients, their preferences regarding the appropriate time for discussions regarding do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order  in Saudi Arabia. Methods: This cross-sectional, self-administered survey was conducted at King Fahd Medical City, a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between December 2012 and January 2013. Demographic parameters o...

The authors examined factors related to participation in walking, gardening or yard work, and sports or exercise in 686 community-dwelling adults 60-95 years of age from Wave IV of the population-based Americans' Changing Lives Study. Logistic regression revealed that male gender, being married, and better functional health were associated with greater likelihood of participating in gardening o...

BACKGROUND Sasang typology is a personalized traditional medicine widely used in clinical diagnosis and treatment in Korea. The aim of this study was to examine the biopsychological personality profiles of traditional Korean Sasang typology in a clinical sample of Korean children. METHODS A total of 150 children were classified as one of three traditional Korean Sasang types (19 So-Yang, 118 ...

This paper presents work done at Medical Minner Project on the TREC-2011 Medical Records Track. The paper proposes four models for medical information retrieval based on Lucene index approach. Our retrieval engine used an Lucen Index scheme with traditional stopping and stemming, enhanced with entity recognition software on query terms. Our aim in this rst competition is to set a broader projec...

The growing geriatric population in this country makes it increasingly difficult to deal with the number of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders. In part, this is due to an increase in the number of elderly undergoing anesthesia and surgery. It can also be attributed to a rise in complex legal, ethical, and moral issues these orders pose for the healthcare professional caring for the DNR patients, i...

Background—Practising the martial art of taekwon-do (TKD) has been proposed to have beneficial eVects on cardiovascular fitness as well as general physical ability. Furthermore, TKD masters and participants have promoted TKD as a total fitness programme. Research studies substantiating this, however, seem to be lacking, perhaps because TKD is recognised more as a method of self defence than a f...

Efficient modeling of uncertain information in real world is still an open issue. Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is one of the most commonly used methods. However, the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory has the assumption that the hypothesis in the framework of discernment is exclusive of each other. This condition can be violated in real applications, especially in linguistic decision making sin...

In this paper we describe our participation in INEX 2009 in the Ad Hoc Track, the Book Track, and the Entity Ranking Track. In the Ad Hoc track we investigate focused link evidence, using only links from retrieved sections. The new collection is not only annotated with Wikipedia categories, but also with YAGO/WordNet categories. We explore how we can use both types of category information, in t...