R esults from clinical studies and advances in radiological diagnosis during the past 20 years have significantly altered the management of patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), with resultant improvement in overall prognosis and decreased mortality. Although the efficacy of anticoagulation in CVT has not been unequivocally proven, it is widely used as the mainstay therapy. There is a...

OBJECTIVE To determine the diagnostic performance and cost-effectiveness of colour vision testing (CVT) to identify and monitor the progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR). DATA SOURCES Major electronic databases including MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched from inception to September 2008. RE...

Proper orthogonal decompositions (POD) have been used to systematically extract the most energetic modes while centroidal Voronoi tessellations (CVT) have been used to systematically extract best representatives. We combine the ideas of CVT and POD into a hybrid method for model reduction. The optimality of such an approach and various practical implementation strategies are discussed.

The diagnostic criteria for TA are mainly clinical; nevertheless, laboratory analysis frequently reveals increased ESR and CRP. Although they are not gold standard, CTA and MRI are useful keys to diagnosis1,4. During the acute phase, inflammatory infiltration affects all layers of the arterial wall, whereas at the chronic phase fibrous tissue replaces the damaged layers and arterial stenosis ma...

Macroautophagy is a catabolic membrane trafficking phenomenon that is observed in all eukaryotic cells in response to various stimuli, such as nitrogen starvation and challenge with specific hormones. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the induction of autophagy involves a direct signal transduction mechanism that affects membrane dynamics. In this system, the induction process modifies a c...

Recent studies suggest that thrombophilic abnormalities and the use of oral contraceptives (OCs) are the leading causes of cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT). The purpose of this study was to assess the association between CVT and thrombophilic states, OCs, and their interaction. For data sources, we used the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases (January 1994 to March 2005), reference li...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Little is known about the relationships between provoking risk factors, prognosis, and optimal duration of anticoagulation in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT), especially in Asians. We aimed to investigate whether the prognosis and required duration of anticoagulation in CVT patients differ according to the provoking risk factors. METHODS Prospectively rec...

Stroke Unit, Emergency Department, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy *Corresponding author: Anticoli S, MD, Stroke Unit, Emergency Department, San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy, E-mail: [email protected] Rec Date: Mar 07, 2016; Acc Date: Apr 27, 2016; Pub Date: May 05, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Anticoli S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Cr...

Seeds were collected from locally and naturally grown Chinese tallow trees (CTT) and characterized for general physical and chemical properties and fatty acid composition of the lipids. The effects of four different solvents (petroleum ether, hexane, diethyl ether, and 95 % ethanol) and two extraction methods (supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) and conventional Soxhlet) on the properties of ...

Selective autophagy is the mechanism by which large cargos are specifically sequestered for degradation. The structural details of cargo and receptor assembly giving rise to autophagic vesicles remain to be elucidated. We utilize the yeast cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting (Cvt) pathway, a prototype of selective autophagy, together with a multi-scale analysis approach to study the molecular struct...