BACKGROUND Cardiac failure occasionally is caused by the creation of vascular access for hemodialysis. However, the influence of an arteriovenous (AV) fistula on cardiac function has not been fully elucidated. The present study investigated serial changes in cardiac function and hormonal levels after the AV fistula operation. METHODS Sixteen patients with chronic renal failure underwent echoc...

Abstract Background and Aims Timely arteriovenous (AV) access creation in view of starting hemodialysis is challenged by non-linear kidney function decline the prospect competing mortality. In addition, some studies have shown slower CKD progression following AV patients not on dialysis. While pathophysiological mechanisms, such as ischemic preconditioning improved perfusion, been put forward t...

This paper addresses the problem of efficient resources compilation for less-processed languages. It presents a strategy for the creation of a morpho-syntactically tagged corpus with respect to such languages. Due to the fact that human languages are morphologically nonhomogenous, we mainly focus on inflecting ones. With certain modifications, the model can be applied to the other types as well...

The effect of stress (exerted by hydrostatic pressure of argon ambient enhanced up to 1.2 GPa) on the creation of oxygen-related defects in annealed Czochralski grown silicon (Cz-Si) was investigated. Concentrations of oxygen interstitials and of dislocations in Cz-Si samples with before-created nucleation centres for oxygen precipitation were markedly lower after pressure treatment at 1120 to ...