OBJECTIVE To determine the radiographic outcome in fractures of the distal radius treated with closed reduction and external fixation. DESIGN A retrospective study. SETTING The orthopedic department of National Taiwan University Hospital. PATIENTS Eighty-five consecutive patients (36 female, 49 male), average age 48 years, with fractures of the distal radius seen between March 1995 and Ju...

BACKGROUND Concerns persist about the validity of generalized transfer function-derived, aortic blood-pressure measurements during the administration of vasoactive agents in clinical trials. Hence, we compared this transfer-function method with another, which estimates aortic systolic pressure directly from the late systolic shoulder of the radial pressure wave, after administration of placebo,...

This paper deals with the elastic stresses of internally or externally pressurized long thick-walled composite cylinders fixed ends. Cylinders are made unidirectionally aligned transversely isotropic fibers and matrix. Axial radial fiber alignments considered, analytical solutions derived accordingly. Effects direction volume fraction alteration on limit analyzed. It is observed for both intern...

BACKGROUND Fabry disease is an X-linked recessive lysosomal storage disease resulting in the cellular accumulation of globotriaosylceramide particularly globotriaosylceramide. The disease is characterized by a dilated vasculopathy with arterial ectasia in muscular arteries and arterioles. Previous venous plethysomographic studies suggest enhanced endothelium-dependent vasodilation in Fabry dise...

Cardiac output measurement from arterial pressure waveforms presumes a defined relationship between the arterial pulse pressure (PP), vascular compliance (C), and resistance (R). Cardiac output estimates degrade if these assumptions are incorrect. We hypothesized that sepsis would differentially alter central and peripheral vasomotor tone, decoupling the usual pressure wave propagation from cen...

Sandwich structures with foldcores are regarded as a promising alternative to conventional honeycomb sandwich structures as lightweight structural materials. One of the proposed applications of foldcore sandwich structures is on the aircraft fuselage and the interstage of a rocket. While flat foldcore sandwich structures have been intensively studied in the literature, there lacks a general des...

OBJECTIVE To study agreement between radial and femoral arterial pressure measurements in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLTx) surgery to determine whether arterial cannulation sites are interchangeable. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective observational study of 25 patients undergoing OLTx surgery. METHODS Radial and femoral arteries were cannulated with standardised arterial li...

Background: Much attention has been given recently to the complication profile of volar plate fixation of distal radial fractures. The purpose of this investigation was to compare complication rates among patients with distal radial fractures treated with volar plating versus those treated with external fixation. Methods: Two parallel series of patients with comminuted intra-articular distal ra...