Long term survival for decades after portoenterostomy (Kasai procedure) for biliary atresia is rare and the association of portoenterostomy with liver cirrhosis is well known. Not much attention was given in the evaluation of the imaging features of cirrhosis caused by portoenterostomy as received by other known usual causes of cirrhosis. We presented a case of a Nigerian with confirmed biliary...

Significant improvements are reported in the measurable velocity range and tissue motion artefact rejection of a phase-resolved optical coherence tomography and optical Doppler tomography system. Phase information derived from an in-phase and quadrature demodulator is used to estimate the mean blood flow velocity by the Kasai autocorrelation algorithm. A histogram-based velocity segmentation al...

The authors present an early laparoscopic treatment in a newborn with biliary atresia. They describe the technical details of the Kasai laparoscopic procedure. A 10-day-old girl, weight 2.4 kg, was admitted with a history of jaundice and fecal acholia since birth, with elevated total bilirubin and abnormal hepatic test. Abdominal ultrasound showed a small gallbladder with hyperechogenicity in p...

We investigated the autonomous bottom-up fabrication of three-dimensional honeycomb cellulose structures, using Gluconacetobacter xylinus as a bacterial nanoengine, on cellulose honeycomb templates prepared by casting water-in-oil emulsions on glass substrates (Kasai and Kondo, Macromol. Biosci., 4, 17-21, 2004). The template film had a unique molecular orientation state along the honeycomb fra...

This study aims to determine whether there is influence of product attributes on purchasing decisions. uses associative research with a quantitative approach. There are two variables used in this study, namely Product Attributes (X) and Purchase Decision (Y). The sample was 75 respondents using simple linear statistical analysis techniques saturated sampling techniques. Sampling carried out who...

Structural and Spatial Associations between Fe, O, and C in Network Structure of 1 Leptothrix ochracea Sheath Surface 2 Running title: Fe, O, and C Associations in L. ochracea Sheath 3 4 Tomoko Suzuki, Hideki Hashimoto, Hiromichi Ishihara, Tomonari Kasai, Hitoshi 5 Kunoh, and Jun Takada 6 Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Natural Science and 7 Technology, Okayama University, ...

Biliary atresia is a severe progressive cholangiopathy which leads to early liver cirrhosis and is uniformly fatal. Early surgical intervention (the Kasai procedure) is needed for an improved outcome. However, early recognition and diagnosis is not easy during the neonatal period because of the high incidence of neonatal jaundice, ill-informed and less than urgent appraisal of the clinical mani...

In this paper we consider the linear time algorithm of Kasai et al. [10] for the computation of the LCP array given the text and the suffix array. We show that this algorithm can be implemented without any auxiliary array in addition to the ones required for the input (the text and the suffix array) and the output (the LCP array). Thus, for a text of length n, we reduce the space occupancy of t...