First pass radionuclide angiography (RA) was used to assess its ability to detect and quantitate the presence of left-sided regurgitation due to isolated mitral regurgitation (MR). In this study the nuclear regurgitant fraction (NRF) obtained from first pass RA was correlated with the results of contrast ventriculography (CV) in 50 patients, 18 with and 32 without MR. The correlation between CV...

Diagnosis The classic history is of the patient who begins his or her symptoms by awakening at night with numbness and pain in the median nerve distribution of his or her hand(s). This progresses to daytime symptoms that are often aggravated by activities.1,2 The occurrence of “dropping objects” in carpal tunnel syndrome patients is an index of elevated disease severity.3 Carpal tunnel symptoms...

Diagnosis The classic history is of the patient who begins his or her symptoms by awakening at night with numbness and pain in the median nerve distribution of his or her hand(s). This progresses to daytime symptoms that are often aggravated by activities.1,2 The occurrence of “dropping objects” in carpal tunnel syndrome patients is an index of elevated disease severity.3 Carpal tunnel symptoms...

Future national electricity, heating, cooling and transport systems need to reach zero emissions. Significant numbers of back-up power plants as well large-scale energy storage capacity are required guarantee the reliability supply in 100 percent renewable systems. Electricity can be partially converted into hydrogen, which transported via pipelines, stored large quantities underground salt cav...

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVE Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are objective estimates of lung function, but are not reliably stored within the Veteran Health Affairs data systems as structured data. The aim of this study was to validate the natural language processing (NLP) tool we developed-which extracts spirometric values and responses to bronchodilator administration-against expert review, and to ...

The coenzyme Nicotinamidadenindinucleotide (NADH) has been used as novel medication in 34 Parkinson patients in an open label trial. In all patients, a beneficial clinical effect was observed. Twenty-one patients (61.7 percent) showed a very good (better than 30 percent) improvement of disability and 13 patients (38.3 percent) a moderate (up to 30 percent) improvement. The effect of NADH was de...

Ditylenchus dipsaci-infected and noninfected alfalfa plants in a naturally infested field were studied from July 1980 to September 1982. Forty-one percent of the plants died during the study. Ninety-seven percent of the plants that died were infected with D. dipsaci. Sixty-nine percent of the observed mortality occurred during winter. Forage yield of infected plants was significantly lower than...

BACKGROUND The performance of AlloDerm (LifeCell Corp., Branchburg, N.J.) in the setting of prosthetic breast reconstruction, infection, and radiation therapy has not been well documented. The purpose of this study was to review the author's experience with AlloDerm-assisted prosthetic breast surgery and determine the tolerance in the setting of infection and irradiation. METHODS A total of 3...

This research aims to analyze the influence of qualitative teaching and quantitative pursuit on understanding concept motion Newton Student Science Education Study Program FMIPA UNM. The main objectives this study were obtain information: 1) characteristics pretest post-test results Newton’s concepts students following teaching, 2) 3) student activities, 4) a significant difference who follow t...