below, most of the patients undergoing heart transplantation are on some form of LVAD as BTT. At first, extracorporeal devices were the norm. Implantable devices were initially only used as part of clinical trials, but BTT therapy using an implantable LVAD, allowing treatment at home, is increasingly coming into use since medical insurance coverage became available for nonpulsatile implantable ...

Background/Introduction As a consequence of limited donor availability, there has been a growing interest for alternative strategies, such as left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) as either a bridge to transplantation (BTT) or as destination therapy (DT) for the treatment of the advanced heart failure. The heart transplant program in Kazakhstan is in a nascent stage and therefore patients that...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between findings via osteomeatal unit computed tomography (OMU CT) of the olfactory cleft and olfactory function in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). DESIGN Retrospective review of medical records. SETTING Referral center. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred ten patients with CRS who underwent OMU CT and olfactory function tests were included in this ...

Recently, benzotrithiophene graphdiyne (BTT-GDY), a novel two-dimensional (2D) carbon-based material, was grown via bottom-up synthesis strategy. Using the BTT-GDY lattice and by replacing S atoms with N, NH O, we designed three GDY lattices, which named BTHP-, BTP- BTF-GDY, respectively. Next, explored structural, electronic, mechanical, optical, photocatalytic Li-ion storage properties, as we...

At its foundation, attachment theory (AT) (Bowlby, 1969) is a theory of developmental psychology that uses evolutionary and ethological frameworks to describe how the caregiver*–child relationship emerges and how it influences subsequent social, emotional, and cognitive development. And while AT emerged out of observations of child–caregiver dynamics, it was quickly and readily generalised to a...

We define and study a new notion called k-immunity that lies between immunity and hyperimmunity in strength. Our interest in k-immunity is justified by the result that ∅ does not k-tt reduce to a k-immune set, which improves a previous result by Kobzev [7, 13]. We apply the result to show that ∅ does not btt-reduce to MIN, the set of minimal programs. Other applications include the set of Kolmo...

Benign triton tumor (BTT) or neuromuscular hamartoma is an uncommon tumor composed of mature neural and well-differentiated striated muscular elements. Its development is exceptionally rare in the adult and head region. This report describes a case of adulthood BTT that occurred in the orbit. The patient was a 53-year-old woman who presented with right periorbital swelling and pain in eyeball o...

We study one word-decreasing self-reducible sets, which are introduced by Lozano and Tor\'an [21]. These are usual self-reducible sets with the peculiarity that the self-reducibility machine makes at most one query to a word lexicographi-cally smaller than the input. We can prove that for any class } it holds that (1) if there is a sparse $\leq_{btt}^{P}$-hard set for $K$ then $K$ is in $P$ , a...

Benign triton tumors (BTT) are very rare lesions composed of mature skeletal muscle and neural tissue. We report a case of a 14-year-old boy who presented with asymptomatic swelling of the chin over an 18-month duration which increased gradually to involve the left side of the lower lip. Clinically, a diagnosis of neurofibroma was made. Excisional biopsy confirmed the diagnosis of a BTT. Having...

Experimental infection systems are important for studying antagonistic interactions and coevolution between hosts and their pathogens. The red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum and the spore-forming bacterial insect pathogen Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) are widely used and tractable model organisms. However, they have not been employed yet as an efficient experimental system to study host-pathoge...