Purpose Fetal biometric measurements face a number of challenges, including the presence speckle, limited soft-tissue contrast and difficulties in low amniotic fluid. This work proposes convolutional neural network for automatic segmentation measurement fetal parameters, biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC), abdominal (AC), femur length (FL) from ultrasound images that relies on a...

We investigated associations between personality dimensions assessed via the Five-Factor Model and change in negative mood and confirmation of affective expectations, and the mediating role of perceived vacation-related stress in these associations. The sample consisted of 100 employees participating in their annual planned vacation assessed at entrance and checkout after spending one week at a...

Small cell osteosarcoma (SCO) is a rare subtype of osteosarcoma characterized by highly aggressive progression and a poor prognosis. The miRNA and mRNA expression profiles of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were obtained in 3 patients with SCO and 10 healthy individuals using high-throughput RNA-sequencing. We identified 37 dysregulated miRNAs and 1636 dysregulated mRNAs in patients ...

Objectives: Our objective was to study the potential utility of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) to identify both cardiac embolic sources and coronary artery disease (CAD) in embolic-stroke patients. Methods: We performed MDCT for 184 patients with embolic stroke but without known CAD. Twenty-six patients had atrial fibrillation. We investigated the prevalence of the potential source of...

Little is known about age-related changes in red blood cell (RBC) membrane transport and homeostasis. We investigated first whether the known large variation in plasma membrane Ca2 (PMCA) pump activity was correlated with RBC age. Glycated hemoglobin, Hb A1c, was used as a reliable age marker for normal RBCs. We found an inverse correlation between PMCA strength and Hb A1c content, indicating t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Physical functional disabilities in hemodialysis (HD) patients may increase their mortality and long-term care needs. The aim of this study was to estimate the changes of proportion for different physical functional disabilities along time after beginning HD and the lifelong care needs. METHODS We used a population-based cohort consisting of 84,657 incident HD patien...

One hundred and one young-adult female Sprague-Dawley rats were acclimatized to metabolic cages for 2 days. After that time 24-hour urine was collected at a constant cooling temperature of 0-4 degrees C. After gel filtration the enzyme activities were determined, and the resulting values were used to calculate 24-hour excretions. The following reference ranges (2.5 and 97.5 percentiles) were de...