A 62-year-old woman with a history of mitral valve regurgitation replacement operation 20 years ago presented to our hospital severe dysphagia, reflux sensation, and retrosternal pain that started half year after receiving transcatheter aortic implantation (TAVI) for the treatment stenosis. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed tortuous oesophagus fluid retention. Barium oesophagography beaklike ...

DiGeorge’s syndrome is a 22q11.2 deletion leading to abnormal embryogenesis of pharyngeal arches and it manifesting in variety clinical signs symptoms. The spectrum anomalies varies from minor facial dysmorphism cleft palate broad cardiovascular anomalies, thymic disfunction immune deficiencies, hypocalcemia due tohypoparathyroidism,growth developmental delay speech disturbances. Cardiovascular...

Find a state or output feedbac:k wlth flxed gains such that nlce stabllity (deflned by a regloo in tbe elgenvalue plane) ls robust wlth respect to !arge plant parameter varladoos, semor failures, and quantlzatJon effects in tbe controller. Keep tbe requlred magnltude of control Inputs smail in thls deslgn. A tool for tacldJ.ng suc:h problems by des1gB in tbe controller parameter space % ls intr...

mied nearly in tbe center of the B brain in any mammal is a small white structure, sbaped somewhat like a pinecone, called tbe pineal body. ln man this organ is rougbly a quarter of an inch long and weighs about a tenth of a gram. The function of tbe pineal body has never been clearly understood. Now that tbe role of tbe tbymus gland in establishing tbe body’s immunological defenses bas been de...

The current quasiexperimental study was intended to determine the efficacy of Ba Duan Jin (translation: eight-section brocade) in improving balance ability of Chinese community-dwelling older adults. The trial group (n = 47) engaged in a Ba Duan Jin exercise program for 12 weeks, whereas the control group (n = 48) participated in a 12-week walking exercise program. After the intervention, parti...

voltage and of tbc cbange of coupling factor among tbe linc conductors and tbe ground at tbe location where f1ashov~ 0CC1D'. In Section 3, we shall compare om metbod with tbe ODe proposed by tbe IEEE Guide Std 1410 [2] for tbe ~ purpose. Tben in Section 4, we sball perfonn a first assesSJnent of tbe lightning perfonnance of a typical Italian distn"bution linc. Section 5 is devoted to tbc conclu...

Tick-borne encephalitis is a natural-focal infection damaging central nervous system, caused by the similarly-named virus transmitted several species of ixodic ticks. Natural foci tick-borne (TBE) are widely spread in forest and forest-steppe landscape zones temperate climate belt vast territory Eurasia from Atlantic to Pacific Ocean. New TBE-endemic territories have been recently identified Ja...

Effect of premedication with buprenorphine (BP) on efficacy and safety of tribromoethanol (TBE) - induced anaesthesia was evaluated and compared with anaesthesia induced by ketamine (K) and xylazine (X) combination in rats undergoing ovariectomy. Fifteen Sprague -Dawley rats (mean weight 246.5 ± 13.1g) were randomly divided into three groups. Group (TBE) received tribromoethanol solution (250mg...

The anti-inflammatory and cytoprotective tricyclic title compound, C(21)H(18)N(2)O(2), also known as TBE-31, crystallizes with two nearly superimposable mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. In both mol-ecules, the three ring systems conform to an envelope-chair-planar arrangement. The central ring, in a cyclohexane chair conformation, contains an axial ethynyl group that bends slightly off from a...

Tbere is mucb to admire in Fred Feldman's Pleasure and the Good Life,^ and mucb witb wbicb to agree. It is a wondei-ful exploration of varieties of bedonism, and a demonstration of tbe plasticity of tbe very concept of bedonism. Feldman succeeds ably in arguing tbat most, if not all, of tbe traditional arguments against bedonism can be met by different versions of tbe tbeory, all of tbem versio...