OBJECTIVE To explore the point-specific clinical effect of 2 Hz electroacupuncture (EA) in treating postoperative pain in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA), METHODS: In a randomised, partially single-blinded preliminary study, 47patients with TKA were randomly divided into three groups: control group (CG, n=17) using only patient-controlled analgesia (PCA); EA group (EAG, n=16) ...

These proceedings are based on a symposium that were presented at the European Society of Ophthalmology 2015 Congress in Vienna, Austria on 8 June 2015. The symposium was arranged to bring together leaders in ophthalmology to explore advances in the medical treatment of glaucoma. Many patients with glaucoma require combination therapy. Fixed-dose combinations represent a significant improvement...

Nordic countries are known for their service-based welfare states, which include basic health and social care all older adults who have been formally assessed found to need additional services. Facing fiscal constraints in the mid-1990s, these endeavoured create more cost-effective services that incorporated doctrines of new public management (NPM). Overlapping NPM, steps taken better integrate...

In this article, ten organic dyes based on keto-coumarin (KC) derivatives (MeO-Coum1, MeO-Coum10) have been synthesized and characterized as high performance photoinitiators for the Free Radical Photopolymerization (FRP) of acrylates upon visible light exposure using a Light emitting diode (LED) @405 nm. The addition Iodonium salt (Iod), amine [ethyl dimethylaminobenzoate (EDB) or N-phenylglyci...

BACKGROUND To date, only a small portion of the genetic variation for primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), the major type of glaucoma, has been elucidated. METHODS AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We examined our two data sets of the genome-wide association studies (GWAS) derived from a total of 2,219 Japanese subjects. First, we performed a GWAS by analyzing 653,519 autosomal common single-nucleotide p...

AIM To compare the effect of altitudinal asymmetric glaucomatous damage on retinal microcirculation in patients with normal pressure glaucoma (NPG). METHODS In a prospective cross sectional study patients with NPG (washed out for antiglaucomatous therapy) and altitudinal asymmetric perimetric findings between the superior and inferior hemisphere (Humphrey 24-2) (n=18) were included and compar...

In this paper we study general lp regularized unconstrained matrix minimization problems. In particular, we first introduce a class of first-order stationary points for them. And we show that the first-order stationary points introduced in [11] for an lp regularized vector minimization problem are equivalent to those of an lp regularized matrix minimization reformulation. We also establish that...

BACKGROUND Ghrelin is a novel 28 amino acid growth hormone-releasing peptide hormone that has been shown to inhibit cell proliferation and to decrease the production of proinflammatory cytokines by monocytes/macrophages. Moreover it decreases the release of endothelin-1 (ET-1), as well as mononuclear cell binding. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventeen patients with proliferative glomerulopathies (PG...

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