conclusions further studies on the role of hepcidin in pathogenesis of chc are needed to assess the potency of its use in antiviral treatment. results patients with chc had lower hepcidin mrna expression and more frequently iron deposits in hepatocytes than subjects with chb did. in chc group, hepcidin mrna expression was positively correlated with alanine aminotransferase activity and serum ir...

The usefulness of thallium-201 myocardial imaging in assessing right ventricular (RV) overloading was evaluated and compared with the electrocardiographic and hemodynamic measurements. Multiple unprocessed photoscans were obtained using a gamma camera in 47 patients who had chronic RV overload, including 28 subjects with pressure overload, 14 with volume overload and five with pressure and volu...

Recent collapses of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servers indicate that the built-in SIP overload control mechanism cannot mitigate overload effectively. In this paper, we propose a new SIP overload control algorithm by introducing a novel analytical approach to model the dynamic behaviour of a SIP network where each server has a finite buffer. Three key breakthroughs of our modeling approa...

Iron-overload cardiomyopathy is a prevalent cause of heart failure on a world-wide basis and is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with secondary iron-overload and genetic hemochromatosis. We investigated the therapeutic effects of resveratrol in acquired and genetic models of iron-overload cardiomyopathy. Murine iron-overload models showed cardiac iron-overload, increased oxi...

Recent collapses of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) servers indicate that the built-in SIP overload control mechanism cannot mitigate overload effectively. In this paper, we propose a new SIP overload control algorithm by introducing a novel analytical approach to model the dynamic behaviour of a SIP network where each server has a finite buffer. Three key breakthroughs of our modeling approa...

The left ventricular hypertrophy that develops with the volume overload of mitral regurgitation is relatively less than that which develops with the pressure overload of aortic stenosis even when both lesions are severe. The hypertrophy that develops must be the sum of changes in the rate of myocardial protein synthesis and degradation. In the present canine study, we explored early changes in ...

chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a major public health problem that often goes unrecognized until late-stagedisease. patients with chronic kidney disease face with uremic toxins and hyperkalemia. also fluid overloadin ckd patients is associated with rapid decline in kidney function. lactulose is a hyper osmotic agent andas a prebiotic plays an important role in regulating serum urea and potassiu...

background and aim: iron overload in patients with thalassemia major is one of the most important complications of this disease and its cardiac complications are the most important causes of death in these patients.mri t2 is the perfect device to assess the amount of iron deposited in the heart of thalassemia patients, but it causes waste of time and also is an expensive diagnostic method. tiss...