BACKGROUND Although bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) share clinical characteristics and frequently co-occur, their interrelationship is controversial. Especially, the differentiation of rapid cycling BD and BPD can be troublesome. This study investigates the relationship between borderline personality features (BPF) and prospective illness course in patients with ...

The possible linear short-term coordination between respiratory movements (RESP), heart rate fluctuations (HRF), and arterial blood pressure fluctuations (BPF) in conscious human beings has not yet been investigated because of the restricted time resolution of conventional time series analysis. At present, this short-term dynamics as an expression of relative coordination can be quantified by n...

Terzi et al. [1] for their comments on our article [2] and also thank EJCTS for giving me this opportunity to answer this question. Bronchopleural fistula (BPF) is a most serious complication in patients with tuberculosis-destroyed lungs who have undergone pneumonectomy. Halezeroglu et al. [3] consider that tuberculosis and preoperative empyema lead to BPF. We believe that the risk factors for ...

Recently, graph matching algorithms utilizing the path following strategy have exhibited state-of-the-art performances. However, the paths computed in these algorithms often contain singular points, which usually hurt the matching performance. To deal with this issue, in this paper we propose a novel path following strategy, named branching path following (BPF), which consequently improves grap...

RATIONALE The development of postoperative bronchopleural fistula (BPF) remains a challenge in thoracic surgery. We herein report a case of BPF successfully treated with endoscopic bronchial occlusion under computed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy and virtual bronchoscopic navigation (VBN). PATIENT CONCERNS A 63-year-old man underwent right upper lobectomy with concomitant S6a subsegmentectomy fo...

Myotonic dystrophy (DM1) and proximal myotonic myopathy (PROMM or DM2) are two distinct muscular disorders with multisystemic involvement. Both have previously been reported to be associated with cognitive impairment and white matter lesions detected by cerebral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study, the extent of brain atrophy was investigated in vivo in ten DM1 and nine PROMM patien...

The explosive advancement of wireless communication devices for multiband and multi-standard applications such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Bluetooth, and cellular networks demands low-cost, lightweight, small form factor, and high performance radio frequency (RF) front-end modules. In the multiband or multi-standard devices, the bandpass filter (BPF) is an essential functional block to avoid signal interf...

This paper introduces a theoretical analysis as well as a design example for bandpass filters (BPF) with a distinctive topology. Based on the analysis of simple two-port symmetrical lossless networks with a parallel structure, a method for obtaining normalized BPF prototypes with desired bandwidths was developed. These prototypes can be scaled to any central frequency and symmetrical real termi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Brain atrophy is a manifestation of tissue damage in MS. Reduction in brain parenchymal fraction is an accepted marker of brain atrophy. In this study, the approach of synthetic tissue mapping was applied, in which brain parenchymal fraction was automatically calculated based on absolute quantification of the tissue relaxation rates R1 and R2 and the proton attenuation. ...

Neuroaxonal degeneration in the central nervous system contributes substantially to the long term disability in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. However, in vivo determination and monitoring of neurodegeneration remain difficult. As the widely used MRI-based approaches, including the brain parenchymal fraction (BPF) have some limitations, complementary in vivo measures for neurodegeneration ar...