August 29, 2013 Type Package Title Threshold Regression Version 1.0.2 Date 2012-11-26 Author Tao Xiao Maintainer Tao Xiao Depends survival, Formula Description Fit a threshold regression model based on the first-hitting-time of a boundary by the sample path of a Wiener diffusion process. The threshold regression methodology is well suited to applications involving survival ...

A long-term, heavy methamphetamine user with life-threatening rectal hemorrhage was treated with transcatheter occlusion of the bleeding arteries. The bleeding blood vessels were vulnerable submucosal arteries, part of the collateral supply to the distal colon. Visceral arteriography demonstrates severe arterial stenotic lesions of the celiac axis, superior mesenteric artery and the inferior me...

Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) is a nonatherosclerotic, segmental inflammatory disease that most commonly affects the small and medium-sized arteries and veins in the upper and lower extremities. Cigarette smoking has been implicated as the main etiology of the disease. In eastern parts of the world TAO forms 40-60% of peripheral vascular diseases. Clinical features and angiographic finding a...

Many people heat their homes with wood-burning stoves. However, toxic fire effluent can escape from old or improperly operated stoves. The authors describe a case in which bronchiolitis obliterans developed in a man within hours after he burned synthetic construction materials in his wood-burning stove. Certain factors, such as careless or improper use of the stove, the size of the room, the la...

Thromboangiitis obliterans, or Buerger disease, is a rare, idiopathic, occlusive vascular disease that is strongly associated with smoking and tobacco use. Among patients with peripheral vascular disease, reported prevalence ranges from 45% to 63% in India and 16% to 66% in Korea and Japan, to 0.5% to 5.6% in Western Europe and 0.75% in North America. Establishing the diagnosis and managing the...

THE PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF JAPANESE PATIENTS WITH BUERGER DISEASE (THROMBOANGIITIS OBLITERANS: TAO) were analyzed based on the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) database in 2009. A total of 129 new patients and 3639 patients in follow-up were selected according to the clinical criteria of TAO. The current number of patients with TAO in Japan is estimated at about...