Asthma control is improved by combining inhaled corticosteroids with long-acting beta2-agonists. However, fluctuating asthma control still occurs. We hypothesized that in patients receiving low maintenance dose budesonide/formoterol (bud/form), replacing short-acting beta2-agonist (SABA) reliever with as-needed bud/form would provide rapid symptom relief and simultaneous adjustment in antiinfla...

Although infection with Helicobacter pylori always results in chronic active gastritis, only a fraction of those infected develop severe clinical disease. In addition, certain populations with high incidences of H. pylori infection, such as those in East Asian countries, have high incidences of gastric cancer, while other highly infected populations, such as those in Africa and South Asia, do n...

Atiyeh, Bishara S. MD, Ioannovich Division of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns, General State Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center Region Piemonte, Torino, Italy, Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Palermo, Italy, Department of Plastic Su...

The main purpose of this study was to investigate employees and managers’ satisfaction of transportation system in the steal and rolling Units of Saba in Mobarakeh Steel Company using the intuitionistic fuzzy data. The statistical population included the personnel of Saba Steel and Rolling Units from Mobarakeh Steel Company including 1800 people.

1 Department of Experimental Pathology Immunology and Microbiology Faculty of 8 Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 9 10 2 Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 11 12 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, 13 Beirut, Lebanon 14 15 4 Department of Molecular Biology, Umea University, Building 6L, ...

BACKGROUND Bronchodilators have been reported to influence regional lung ventilation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which may change regional lung sound distribution. Vibration response imaging (VRI) is a lung imaging system for the assessment of breath sounds. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a short-acting β2-agonist (SABA) on the regional distribution of...

BACKGROUND Bronchodilators are used for managing the symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and minimizing the risk of hospitalization and readmission. Hospital readmission is predictive of morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to compare all-cause readmission risk in COPD patients receiving nebulized long-acting β2-agonists (neb-LABAs) versus nebulized ...

S.Tartakover-Matalon1,5, N.Cherepnin1, M.Kuchuk2, L.Drucker1,4, I.Kenis2, A.Fishman3,4, M.Pomeranz3 and M.Lishner1,2,4 Oncogenetic Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Meir Medical Centre, Kfar-Saba and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel–Aviv University, Israel To whom corresponding should be addressed at: Oncogenetic Laboratory, Meir Medical Centre, 45 Tsher...

background the importance of sialic acid binding adhesin (saba) as a new outer membrane protein in gastroduodenal diseases has been recognized. the prevalence rate of saba gene varies in different geographic areas. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of saba gene in helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) strains isolated from different clinical outcomes in tehran, iran. pat...

Modern high-performance processors access the branch target buffer (BTB) every cycle to speculate branch target addresses. This aggressive approach improves performance as it results in early identification of target addresses. However, unfortunately, such accesses, quite often, are unnecessary as there is no control flow instruction among those fetched. In this work we introduce Speculative BT...