Background Since 2006, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recommended restricting gadolinium based contrast agents (GBCAs) for magnetic resonance in patients with renal impairment due to an association of GBCA use with nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF). The multiple FDA warnings have listed different glomerular filtration rate (GFR) cut-off values for restricting GBCA use. Conseque...

Deza, M., K. Fukuda and M. Laurent, The inequicut cone, Discrete Mathematics 119 (1993) 21-48. Given a complete graph K, on n nodes and a subset S of nodes, the cut 6(S) defined by S is the set of edges of K, with exactly one endnode in S. A cut 6(S) is an equicut if ISI =L n/2 1 or r n/2 1 and an inequicut, otherwise. The cut cone C. (or inequicut cone 1C.) is the cone generated by the inciden...

OBJECTIVES Intramedullary fixation is considered the most stable treatment for pertrochanteric fractures of the proximal femur and cut-out is one of the most frequent mechanical complications. In order to determine the role of clinical variables and radiological parameters in predicting the risk of this complication, we analysed the data pertaining to a group of patients recruited over the cour...

AIMS Using the HbA(1c) level to define diabetes has several advantages and these advantages also apply to define a high-risk group. However, the risk of diabetes increases as HbA(1c) increases and a certain degree of arbitrariness in the cut-off for the high risk group is unavoidable. The aim of this study was to determine the HbA(1c) cut-off for defining a high-risk group that corresponds to t...

OBJECTIVES The Sliding Hip Screw (SHS) is commonly used to treat trochanteric hip fractures. Fixation failure is a devastating complication requiring complex revision surgery. One mode of fixation failure is lag screw cut-out which is greatest in unstable fracture patterns and when the tip-apex distance of the lag screw is > 25 mm. The X-Bolt Dynamic Hip Plating System (X-Bolt Orthopaedics, Dub...

let $g$ be a simple graph with vertex set $v(g) = {v_1, v_2,ldots, v_n}$ and edge set $e(g) = {e_1, e_2,ldots , e_m}$. similar tothe randi'c matrix, here we introduce the randi'c incidence matrixof a graph $g$, denoted by $i_r(g)$, which is defined as the$ntimes m$ matrix whose $(i, j)$-entry is $(d_i)^{-frac{1}{2}}$ if$v_i$ is incident to $e_j$ and $0$ otherwise. naturally, therandi'c incidenc...

BACKGROUND Mammography is considered the gold standard of breast cancer mass screening and many countries have implemented this as an established breast cancer screening strategy. However, although the incidence of breast cancer and racial characteristics are different between Western and Asian countries, many Asian countries adopted mammography for mass screening. Therefore, the objective of t...

With the aim of determining the incidence of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in adults, we searched all adult ITP patients diagnosed from April 1, 1973 to December 31, 1995 in the County of Funen in Denmark. This county comprises 9% of the total Danish adult population. A total of 221 patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria, yielding an annual standardized incidence rate of 2.68 per...