Myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging with Tc99m-sestamibi is the most accurate non-invasive means of detecting coronary artery disease and assessing the severity of perfusion abnormalities in the patients with coronary stenosis. Though simple and straight forward the results produced by the technique is very much affected by the details being used. One of the main problems with the test, wh...

INTRODUCTION Children with steroid resistant nephrotic syndrome usually require treatment with second-line agents and calcineurin inhibitors such as cyclosporine are now recommended as initial therapy. These agents only recently become available in our environment and their impact on care is unknown. We reviewed the short-term treatment outcomes of their use in comparison with previous outcomes...

Introduction: Radical nephrectomy leads to decrease in global renal functions. Aim was to find histopathological factors in non tumor bearing renal parenchyma that can help in predicting the decline in global renal function. We would also study association of other factors like diabetes (DM) and hypertension (HTN) with decline in renal function and on non tumor parenchyma. Methods: Prospectivel...

Electrospinning of nanofibers with cyclodextrin (CD) is attractive because the produced fibers can potentially increase the efficiency of nanofibrous membranes by facilitating the complex formation with organic compounds and high surface area of the nanofibers. In this work, polyacrylonitrile (PAN) nanofibers functionalized with β– cyclodextrin (βCD) during an electrospinning process were used ...

the present study aimed at investigating and estimating the amount of damage caused by waste water pollution of water desalinators in the south pars special zone. the main reasons for conducting this study were to investigate the creation of environmental pollutants as a result of the development and expansion of different industries in the south pars zone, as well as the ecological sensitivity...

Čech complexes reveal valuable topological information about point sets at a certain scale in arbitrary dimensions, but the sheer size of these complexes limits their practical impact. While recent work introduced approximation techniques for filtrations of (Vietoris-)Rips complexes, a coarser version of Čech complexes, we propose the approximation of Čech filtrations directly. For fixed dimens...

DOS Times Vol. 12, No. 9 March, 2007 Endophthalmitis is one of the most vision threatening complication in Ophthalmology. Endophthalmitis refers to inflammatory response caused by infected intraocular tissues/ fluids. The frequency of Endophthalmitis after cataract surgery and trauma varies from 0.07 0.13% and 2.417% respectively in the various reported series.1 Majority of these infections are...

background: today, through various industrial processes, toxic heavy metals are released into aquatic environments that are harmful to the ecosystem. in the present investigation, removal of such contaminants from industrial wastewater is necessary. the purpose was made to extend an ecofriendly technology by using a bio carbon generated from sunflower waste biomass. methods: the impact of initi...