A 32 yr old female clinically and radiographically diagnosed as tuberculosis initially not responding to anti tuberculous treatment was later on Diagnosed as classical Wegener’s granulomatosis basing on tissue biopsy, c-ANCA, along with other systemic manifestations posing a diagnostic challenge. *Corresponding author: Pragati Rao D, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, NRI General Hospital, China...

Zhang, Xiang-Yang, N. Edward Robinson, and FengXia Zhu. Modulation of ACh release from airway cholinergic nerves in horses with recurrent airway obstruction. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Lung Cell. Mol. Physiol. 20): L769–L775, 1999.—To evaluate the functional status of neuronal a2adrenoceptors (ARs) and b2-ARs on ACh release in horses with recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), we examined the effects of...

SUMMARY The purpose of this study was to establish limits of normal for P wave measurements, and to propose criteria for routine electrocardiographic readings and for multivariate analysis to recognize left atrial overload (LAO) and right atrial overload (RAO) in the orthogonal electrocar-diogram (ECG). Frank ECG's were obtained from 2464 subjects, including 580 normals, 164 patients with mitra...

These studies have demonstrated that ipsilateral renal artery occlusion (RAO) in rat results in the phosphorylation of cyclic AMP (cAMP) response element binding protein (p-CREB) in the thoracolumbar (T8-L2) spinal cord and associated dorsal root ganglia (DRG). p-CREB-immunoreactivity (IR) was expressed bilaterally in the thoracolumbar spinal cord, whereas expression in the DRG was ipsilateral ...

1 Rane A, Rao PP, Rao SP, Bonadio F, Rao PP. Clinical evaluation of a novel laparoscopic port (R-PortTM) in urology and evolution of the single laparoscopic port procedure (SLIPP). J Endourol 2007; 21 : A287 2 Raman JD, Cadeddu JA, Rao P, Rane A. Single-incision laparoscopic surgery: initial urological experience and comparison with natural-orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. BJU Int 2008;...

BACKGROUND Radial artery (RA) occlusion (RAO) is not rare in patients undergoing coronary intervention by transradial approach (TRCI). Predictors of and prevention from RAO have not been systematically studied. This study aimed to analyze the risk factors of the weakness of RA pulsation (RAP) and its predictive value for RAO after TRCI, and simultaneously to describe a feasible and effective ap...

Retinal artery occlusions (RAO) are characterized by the sudden obstruction of the arterial blood flow in the retinal circulation with consequent ischemic damage to the retina. RAO can be subdivided into several forms, including central retinal artery occlusion (CRAO) and Branch retinal artery occlusion (BRAO). Patients affected by CRAO experience a sudden, monocular loss of vision. On fundus b...

Shape matching plays a prominent role in the analysis of medical and biological structures. Recently, a unifying framework was introduced for shape matching that uses mixture-models to couple both the shape representation and deformation. Essentially, shape distances were defined as geodesics induced by the Fisher-Rao metric on the manifold of mixture-model represented shapes. A fundamental dra...

Vol. XLVIII (February 2011), 157 –171 *Jungkeun Kim is Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand (e-mail: [email protected]). Raghunath Singh Rao is Assistant Professor of Marketing, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin (e-mail: Raghunath.Rao@mccombs. utexas.edu). Kyeongheui Kim is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Department of Manag...

The concept of an inverse of a singular matrix seems to have been first introduced by Moore [1], [2] in 1920. Extensions of these ideas to general operators have been made by Tseng [3], [4], [5], but no systematic study of the subject was made until 1955 when Penrose [6], [7], unaware of the earlier work, redefined the Moore inverse in a slightly different way. About the same time one of the au...