Abstract Aim Jersey finger describes injury involving the rupture of a Flexor Digitorum Profundus (FDP) tendon. The occurs at its point insertion, base distal phalanx. Cause is forced hyperextension FDP. Correct tendon tensioning correlates with length during repair and vital to optimise restoration function. No evidence-based approach exists hitherto. We used cadaveric dissection measure anato...

PURPOSE To determine clinically useful biochemical markers reflecting disease activity and/or gastrointestinal (GI) tract involvement in Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP). METHODS A total of 185 children with HSP and 130 controls were included. Laboratory data indicating inflammation, standard coagulation, and activated coagulation were analyzed for the HSP patients, including measurements of th...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to determine an aggregate, pathway-specific risk score for enhanced prediction of death and myocardial infarction (MI). BACKGROUND Activation of inflammatory, coagulation, and cellular stress pathways contribute to atherosclerotic plaque rupture. We hypothesized that an aggregate risk score comprised of biomarkers involved in these different pathways-high-sensitiv...

Multiple hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional inference, with wide applications in many scientific fields. In genome-wide association studies, tens of thousands of hypotheses are tested simultaneously to find if any genes are associated with some traits; in finance, thousands of tests are performed to see which fund managers have winning ability. In practice, these te...

The influence of ground clutter contamination on the estimation of polarimetric radar parameters, horizontal reflectivity (Zh), differential reflectivity (Zdr), correlation coefficient (rhy), and differential propagation phase (fdp) was examined. This study aims to derive the critical level of ground clutter contamination for Zh, Zdr, rhy , and fdp at which ground clutter influence exceeds pred...

PURPOSE To compare directly the robustness of standard automated perimetry (SAP), short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP), frequency-doubling perimetry (FDP), and grating-resolution perimetry (GRP) stimuli to different degrees of intraocular stray light induced by commercially available opacity-containing filters. METHODS Five white opacity filters of increasing density were used to simul...

Multiple hypothesis testing is a fundamental problem in high dimensional inference, with wide applications in many scientific fields. In genome-wide association studies, tens of thousands of hypotheses are tested simultaneously to find if any genes are associated with some traits; in finance, thousands of tests are performed to see which fund managers have winning ability. In practice, these te...

Flavescence dorée (FD) is the most threatening grapevine yellows (GY) disease in Europe. Despite strict control measures, alarming signs of spread viticultural areas continue to be detected. FD attributed infection by phytoplasma strains an incidentally cited species, ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma vitis’. In 2017, a GY field survey was carried out traditional viticulture Tuscany, central Italy. (FDp)...

PURPOSE To characterize the number and type of complications that occur with a monolithic zirconia fixed dental prosthesis (MZ-FDP) supported by four endosseous implants in the edentulous mandible over time and to quantify the impact of treatment on oral health quality of life (OHQoL). METHODS Seventeen edentulous participants were enrolled. New conventional dentures were fabricated for each ...

Abnormal hemostasis in cancer patients has prev iously been studied. The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the association between preoperative hemostasis markers and clinicopathological parameters, and to identify a hemostasis marker affecting survival in patients following curative resection for colorectal cancer. A total of 170 patients who underwent curative surgery for...