The purpose of this study was to define the risk of progression and survival of patients with smoldering Waldenström macroglobulinemia (SWM). SWM is defined clinically as having a serum monoclonal IgM protein > 3 g/dL and/or > 10% bone marrow lymphoplasmacytic infiltration but no evidence of end-organ damage (anemia, constitutional symptoms, hyperviscosity, lymphadenopathy, or hepatosplenomegal...

2. INTRODUCTION Type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetes develops as the result of a cumulative autoimmune-mediated destruction of the pancreatic beta cells mainly in genetically predisposed individuals. The disease becomes clinically manifest when 50-90% of the beta cells are destroyed (1) following a long prodromal period (months to years) during which autoimmune phenomena are often present, inclu...

Sanitary sewer overflows ~SSOs! are a major environmental issue. One of the major factors causing SSOs is the rain-derived inflow and infiltration ~RDII! to a separate sanitary sewer system. If a wastewater collection system is not well maintained, cumulative system-wide RDII could easily cause the wastewater conveyance and treatment capacity to be overwhelmed, and thus lead to SSOs. Monitoring...

conclusions extremity injuries especially open fractures of lower limbs account for the majority of hospitalized victims. compartment syndrome is one of the main problems that should be addressed. our study demonstrates that people still need more education regarding earthquakes and the government should direct more attention to this issue. results in this study, there were 105 females (52.5%) ...

conclusions early trauma, dissociative experience, and suicide ideation can predict active/passive a/pap and explain the considerable variance of survival index. results structural coefficients showed that the pattern of high scores in active/passive a/pap correlates with the pattern of high scores in early trauma, dissociative experience and suicide ideation. the findings of the study showed t...

background: there is increasing evidence that psychological factors like anxiety and depression can affect ivf/icsi treatment results. objective: this study aimed to clarify the role of women’s anxiety and depression on the outcome of art cycles using intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). materials and methods: this was a prospective pilot study. one hundred six (106) consecutive women unde...

Cumulative risk (CR) models provide some of the most robust findings in the developmental literature, predicting numerous and varied outcomes. Typically, however, these outcomes are predicted one at a time, across different samples, using concurrent designs, longitudinal designs of short duration, or retrospective designs. We predicted that a single CR index, applied within a single sample, wou...

introduction: inferior mandibular bolck anesthesia, some time causes postoperative lip and tongue biting trauma, however, an infiltration injection with a limited anesthetized area, has less complications. the aim of present study is to compare of two techniques (block and infiltration) for class i restorative treatment in primary second molars. methods and materials: fourty children between 5-...

Abstract The Pearson’s $$X^2$$ X 2 statistic and the likelihood ratio $$G^2$$ G are most frequently used for testing independence or homogeneity, in two-way contingency table. These indexes members of a continuous family Power Divergence (PD) statistics...

In dentin restoration, collagen fiber network infiltration is an issue. Using data from the litterature, we have constructed a relevant numerical geometrical model of the network. The specificity of our model is that the fibers are taken into account implicitly using a regularized Heaviside function. This function is either used to set the viscosity or to localize the contact line where capilla...