Hereditary angioedema is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by edema attacks with multiple organ involvement. It is caused by a quantitative or functional deficiency of the C1 inhibitor, which is a member of the serine protease inhibitor family. Hereditary angioedema is unknown to many health professionals and is therefore an underdiagnosed disease. The causes of death from hereditary ...

Since the detection of the first patient with hereditary angioedema (HA) in 1978, 88 new patients belonging to 16 families have been referred to our clinic. Eighty patients had Type I disease, 5 Type II, and 3 Type III (secondary). We describe the clinical onset, frequent complications, diagnostic tests of the complement system, and abnormalities of the coagulation pathway linked to complement ...

BACKGROUND Hereditary angioedema, a rare and potentially life-threatening condition, is the result of a defect in the C1 esterase inhibitor. Primary care physicians should be familiar with this condition to avoid complications and improve quality of care. METHODS We present two cases of hereditary angioedema followed by a discussion based on a literature review of the recent guidelines and ad...

In this paper I intend to present the concept of superframes and its use, primarily, in multiplexing techniques. The signals are supposed band limited and three multiplexing schemes are considered: Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and Frequency Hoping Multiple Access (FHMA). The rst two schemes give rise to tight superframes, whereas for FHMA, the ...

Primary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) has long been recognised as presenting great difficulties to our management of what is increasingly a treatable neurological disease. Here we review some basic and clinical aspects of primary progressive MS, and describe how the disorder in fact offers powerful insights and opportunities for better understanding multiple sclerosis, and from a practica...

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Abstract: In this paper, a new sphere decoding algorithm is introduced which is a modification of the Viterbo-Boutros (VB) algorithm. In the proposed algorithm, the problem of the initial selection of the search sphere radius in the VB algorithm has been removed, and furthermore, the speed of the algorithm is increased. To examine the performance of the proposed algorithm, we employ it in detec...

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