BACKGROUND The most common problem experienced by patients after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) is back pain. After the procedure, patients are restricted to complete bed rest with no hip flexion for up to 10 hours, causing much discomfort, especially back pain. In some patients, anxiety arises due to limited movement, with the belief that movement might cause re-bleeding from the wou...

Hypothesis: It is currently unknown whether time from injury affects outcomes following repair of dorsal scapholunate ligament (SLL) tears. We tested the null hypothesis that the outcomes of SLL repair are similar when performed within 6 weeks of injury (acute repair) versus when repaired from 6 to 12 weeks following injury (subacute repair). Methods: This case-control study examined 22 patient...

B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL)/Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) is a neoplastic, lymphoproliferative disease, characterized by accumulation of small, mature lymphocytes of the Bcell line in the blood, bone marrow and lymphoid tissues. CLL and SLL are different manifestations of the same disease. The major difference is that in CLL a significant number of the abnormal lymphocytes are als...

Transformation to a large cell lymphoma may occur during the course of chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) in approximately 5% of the cases. This is known as Richter's transformation. A much less frequent transformation to Hodgkin lymphoma may occur. We report a case of CLL/SLL in which a transformation to Hodgkin lymphoma occurred, and we review previously publish...

Purpose. This study evaluates both scopes of 4DryField PH, certified for adhesion prevention and hemostasis, in patients undergoing surgery for various and severe gynecological disorders. Methods. This is a two-institutional study. Adhesion prevention efficacy was evaluated using video documentation of first-look laparoscopies (FLL) and second-look laparoscopies (SLL); other patient data were a...

Alveolar Echinococcosis (AE) caused by the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis, is a severe helminth infection of man, where unrestricted parasite growth will ultimately result in organ failure and fatality. The tissue-infiltrative growth of the larval metacestode and the limited efficacy of available drugs complicate successful intervention in AE; patients often need life-long medication, and ...

BACKGROUND The upper limit of the natural decline in creatinine clearance is 1 ml/min/year. To define the loss of renal function, we started a long-term assessment of patients with ovarian cancer treated by whole abdominal irradiation (WAI) with preceding cisplatin chemotherapy (CDDP) and second-look laparotomy (SLL). PATIENTS AND METHODS We analyzed the creatinine clearance over time of 56 p...

BACKGROUND Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA CN) may be modified by mitochondria in response to oxidative stress. Previously, mtDNA CN was associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) risk, particularly chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL). We conducted a replication study in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO) study and pooled with published ATBC (A...

An adaptive beam former is a device, which is able to steer and modify an array's beam pattern in order to enhance the reception of a desired signal, while simultaneously suppressing interfering signals through complex weight selection. However, the weight selection is a critical task to get the low Side Lobe Level (SLL) and Low Beam Width. It needs to have a low SLL and low beam width to reduc...

It is challenging to handle a large volume of labels in multi-label learning. However, existing approaches explicitly or implicitly assume that all the labels in the learning process are given, which could be easily violated in changing environments. In this paper, we define and study streaming label learning (SLL), i.e.labels are arrived on the fly, to model newly arrived labels with the help ...