OBJECTIVES To investigate the prevalence of laboratory critical results (CRs) and associated risk factors in patients with eye diseases in a tertiary eye hospital. METHODS Blood samples were collected from both inpatients and outpatients at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Guangzhou, China, from June 1, 2012, to May 31, 2014, and samples were sent to the hospital's clinical laboratory for blood r...

BACKGROUND Anti-CD19 CAR T cell therapy has demonstrated high response rates in patients with relapsed or refractory (r/r) B cell malignancies but is associated with significant toxicity. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) is the most significant complication associated with CAR T cell therapy, and it is critical to have a reproducible and easy method to grade CRS after CAR T cell infusions. DIS...

OBJECTIVE Routine rubella vaccination was introduced in Paraíba, northeastern Brazil, through a catch-up campaign targeting children aged 1-11 years, in 1998. A campaign among women of childbearing age was conducted in 2001. We describe the epidemiology of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in the state of Paraíba between 1999 and 2005. METHODS Rubella and CRS surveillance data for...

INTRODUCTION Patients with peritoneal metastases (PM) from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) often experience a rapid demise even after a complete removal of intrahepatic tumour. Localised PM may now be adequately controlled and managed with cytoreductive surgery (CRS). TREATMENT Three patients underwent CRS for HCC PM. OUTCOME The first patient survived 21 months from the time of CRS and is a...

UNLABELLED Theme: Child protection and managing risk. BACKGROUND Correct use of a restraint system for children (CRS) from birth is an effective form of protection. OBJECTIVES To characterize parent's knowledge and attitudes in using CRS. METHODS Cross-sectional study, held in a non-probabilistic sample of 112 parents of newborns, mothers mean age 30.37 years old (SD = 5.63). Parents comp...

Abstract We revisit low frequency coherent Raman spectroscopy (LF-CRS) and present a unified theoretical background that provides consistent physical pictures of LF-CRS signal generation. Our general framework allows to compute the noise ratio in multitude possible LF-CRS, more generally CRS, experimental implementations both spectral time domain.

BACKGROUND Poor sleep has significant effects on health contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. The direct and indirect costs of sleep dysfunction total well in to the billions of dollars annually in the US. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) affects up to 16% of the US population and has been linked to poor sleep quality with up to three quarters of patients with CRS reporting poor sleep ...

Child restraint systems (CRS) are the leading technology in providing safety and restraint to child occupants in automotive vehicles. Their success at reducing injury in motor vehicle crashes hinges largely upon their proper installation as well as their interface with the vehicle seat. To this degree, it is immensely important that vehicle manufacturers have an accurate means of producing seat...

This paper investigates the dominant impact on the interference rejection combining (IRC) receiver due to the downlink reference signal (RS) based covariance matrix estimation scheme. When the transmission modes using the cell-specific RS (CRS) in LTE/LTE-Advanced are assumed, the property of the non-precoded CRS is different from that of the data signals. This difference poses two problems to ...