Muscle strain is still awanting a noninvasive quantitatively diagnosis tool. High frequency ultrasound (HFU) improves image resolution for monitoring changes of tissue structures, but the biomechanical factors may influence ultrasonography during injury detection. We aim to illustrate the ultrasonic parameters to present the histological damage of overstretched muscle with the consideration of ...

Heart failure (HF) is an increasing concern to public health, affecting approximately 5.1 million Americans and costing the United States over $32 billion annually. Compounding the concern, research has exposed the significant problem of hospital readmissions for the HF population, with an estimated 25% of HF patients are rehospitalized within 30 days of discharge. This project focuses on an ed...

3D HFU: 3-dimensional high-frequency ultrasound scan CSAMI: Cutaneous Sarcoidosis Activity and Morphology Instrument PET/CT: positron emission tomography/ computed tomography C utaneous involvement occurs in 25% to 30% of patients with sarcoidosis. Effective treatment of the disease has historically been challenging given a lack of an objective, reproducible marker of disease activity. Here we ...

The efficacy of the pleuromutilin derivative 81.723 hfu was tested in chicks and turkey poults by experimentally infecting them with Mycoplasma gallisepticum. The data were treated to obtain the mean effective doses, and these were compared to those obtained with tylosin tartrate. The compounds were administered either by ingluvial catheter or via the drinking water. Therapy was started on the ...

This experiment was conducted to determine whether increasing the net energy (NEL ) of a total mixed ration (TMR) with mainly unsaturated fat from corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) vs. rumen inert (RI)-saturated fat has similar impacts on animal performance. The experiment was an incomplete Youden square with three treatments and four 28-days periods, completed on a large commer...

The animals used in liver fibrosis studies must usually be sacrificed. Ultrasound has been demonstrated to have the ability to diagnose hepatic fibrosis and cirrhosis in experimental small-animal models. However, few studies have used high-frequency ultrasound (HFU, 40 MHz) to monitor changes in the rat liver and other hollow organs longitudinally. In this study, liver fibrosis was induced by a...

Abstract Aim Osteoporotic fractures are rising in incidence, costing the National Health Service up to £1.1 billion for hospital care. The implementation of Best Practice Tariff (BPT) fragility 2010 created a financial incentive achieve standards best practice. In June 2015, dedicated hip fracture unit (HFU) was set at Princess Royal Hospital (PRH). aim this study is (A) assess changes performa...