BACKGROUND Our previous work on early PSA kinetics following prostate stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) demonstrated that an initial rapid and then slow PSA decline may result in very low PSA nadirs. This retrospective study sought to evaluate the PSA nadir 5 years following SBRT for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer (PCa). METHODS 65 low- and 80 intermediate-risk PCa patien...

3D building models are widely used in many applications. The traditional image-based reconstruction pipeline without using semantic information is inefficient for rural areas. An oblique view selection methodology efficient and accurate areas proposed this paper. A Mask R-CNN model trained satellite datasets to detect instances nadir UAV images. Then, the detected images directly georeferenced....

INTRODUCTION Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common after cardiac operations. There are different risk factors or determinants of AKI, and some are related to cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). In this study, we explored the association between metabolic parameters (oxygen delivery (DO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2)) during CPB with postoperative AKI. METHODS We conducted a retrospective anal...

BACKGROUND The patterns and kinetics of changes in SpO2 in the 6-min walk test (6MWT) and cycling test have not been addressed in patients with COPD. METHODS We studied 60 COPD subjects, with a mean ± SD FEV1 of 54 ± 18% of predicted. We compared the changes in SpO2 (ΔSpO2) within and between the 2 tests, and the differences between the desaturators and non-desaturators. RESULTS In the 6MWT...

In 10 patients without left heart valvular disease and having normal function of the left ventricle, the left ventricular apex cardiogram with its first derivative (dA/dt), left ventricular pressure with its first derivative (dP/dt), aortic pressure, electrocardiogram, and phonocardiogram were reocrded simultaneously during cardiac catheterization. The apex cardiographic tracings were obtained ...

Introduction. The relation between minute ventilation (VE) and carbon dioxide production (VCO(2)) can be characterised by the instantaneous ratio of ventilation to carbon dioxide production, the ventilatory equivalent for CO(2) (VEqCO(2)). We hypothesised that the time taken to achieve the lowest VEqCO(2) (time to VEqCO2 nadir) may be a prognostic marker in patients with chronic heart failure (...

We are thankful for the interest with which Finken and colleagues read our paper and appreciate the opportunity to discuss the important ideas they present. Finken et al. express concern that we assessed milk cortisol at one time-point to predict changes in infant BMIP because cortisol concentrations in milk vary across the day, reaching their apex shortly after waking and their nadir at night....

BACKGROUND Some men with localized radio-recurrent prostate cancer may benefit from salvage high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Herein, we describe oncologic outcomes and predictors of disease response after salvage whole gland HIFU from our prospective cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with localized radio-recurrent prostate cancer were prospectively enrolled from January 2005 to ...