PURPOSE This study quantified the overall effects of aortic valve disease (AVD) and mitral valve disease (MVD) by disease severity on direct health-care costs to insurers and patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Based on 1996-2011 data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), a large, nationally representative US database, multivariate analyses were performed to assess the relationship be...

BACKGROUND Mast cells (MCs) can stimulate angiogenesis, releasing several proangiogenic cytokines stored in their cytoplasm. In particular MCs can release tryptase, a potent in vivo and in vitro proangiogenic factor via proteinase-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) activation and mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphorylation. Nevertheless, no data are available concerning the relationship between ...

BACKGROUND Mast cells (MCs) can stimulate angiogenesis, releasing several proangiogenic cytokines stored in their cytoplasm. In particular, MCs can release tryptase, a potent in vivo and in vitro proangiogenic factor via protease-activated receptor-2 (PAR-2) activation and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) phosphorylation. Nevertheless, no data are available concerning the relationship am...

Few studies about angiogenesis in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been conducted and little is known about the significance of angiogenesis in HCC. In this study, the clinicopathological significance of tumor microvessel density (MVD) was assessed in 105 patients with HCC by immunohistochemical staining of CD105, CD34, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). Moreover, the use of the ...

Nesting of relations is very much essential for many database representations in reality. Nesting of relations tends to reduce the data redundancy in the relations. It helps in dropping certain constraints in normalization which tend to omit certain sensitive data when tried to be normalized. Query processing or conversion of data repositories, as required, can be easily being tackled by the ai...

introduction: acute myeloid leukemia is a malignant transformation of hematopoietic tissue, bone marrow infiltration of undifferentiated cells known as blasts that interfere with the production of normal cells. vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) is persistently secreted from myeloid cells and high levels can be detected in patients' serum. methods: twenty-one aml patients, who were chemo...

Reduced myocardial vasodilatation (MVD) in hypercholesterolemics without overt coronary stenosis has been reported. However, the status of MVD in hypertriglyceridemics has not yet been clarified. The aim of this study was to investigate whether MVD is impaired in patients with hypertriglyceridemia without overt coronary stenosis. Twenty-three hypertriglyceridemics (10 normocholesterolemic hyper...

BACKGROUND Angiogenesis is important for the proliferation and survival of multiple myeloma (MM) cells. Bone marrow (BM) microvessel density (MVD) is a useful marker of angiogenesis and is determined by immunohistochemical staining with anti-CD34 antibody. This study investigated the prognostic impact of MVD and demonstrated the relationship between MVD and previously mentioned prognostic facto...