OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of moderate-or-less functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) treatment on the clinical outcome of patients with mitral valve (MV) surgery. METHODS From October 2001 to January 2005, 167 patients in our hospital with MV surgery and without organic tricuspid valve (TV) disease or pulmonary hypertension (PH) showed moderate-or-less f...

Changes in follicular and luteal structures were assessed and concentrations of estradiol and progesterone were measured in 13 Hereford X Angus suckled beef cows during resumption of estrous cycles. Transrectal ultrasonography was used to monitor follicular size, ovulation, and formation and regression of the corpus luteum (CL). The interval from parturition to first postpartum ovulation (FO) w...

ABSTRACT: Acidophilus milk after preparation, with the defined characteristics of pH, titratable acidity and viable counts of Lb. acidophilus, was kept at the refrigerator (5 °C) and changes of above mentioned parameters were evaluated during 21 days at 7-day intervals. The obtained results showed that the titratable acidity of product significantly (p≤0.05) increased over storage period, demon...

This research is aimed to determine effects of restriction measures implemented in Turkey during COVID 19 pandemic throughout detecting variations the “number cases daily”, “test positivity rate and death daily” according different periods. In order be able analyze on basis declared as standard, periods between November 18, 2020 17, 2021 were included research. The data Ministry Health was used...

Con el objetivo de analizar posibles relaciones entre las modalidades ratio carga aguda:cronica (tanto por promedios consecutivos, ACWR, como en su ponderacion exponencial dinamica, EWMA), relacion con la lesionabilidad futbol femenino, se realizo un estudio cuasiexperimental sin intervencion ratios obtenidas a partir 212 sesiones entrenamiento y partidos realizados durante una temporada equipo...

Selenium (Se), copper (Cu), and zinc (Zn) play important antioxidant role during the transition period of dairy cattle. However, there is limited information about their blood fluctuations during the entire transition period, especially in heifers. Furthermore, it is questionable whether the use of clinoptilolite, a natural zeolite, affects the availability of these trace elements during this p...

Abstract Background Many studies on ECG monitoring and arrhythmia detection use the term “diagnostic yield”, a vague one without type of diagnostic precision that cardiologists value. Moreover, yield specific arrhythmias is not well understood day-by-day basis. Purpose We used continuous 14-day monitor to record incremental occurrence broad variety each day from general outpatient population su...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the clinical outcomes and prognostic factors of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV), defined as ventilator care for ≥21 days, who were admitted to the medical intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital in Korea. METHODS During the study period, a total of 2,644 patients were admitted to the medical ICU, and 136 patients (5.1%) were enrolle...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of graded (adjustable intraoperatively) partial vertical rectus muscle tenotomy at the insertion in correcting small degrees of hypertropia. METHODS All patients with best-corrected visual acuity of better than 6/30 in both eyes who over a 30-month period underwent partial tenotomy of vertical rectus muscle(s) only (no concurrent oblique muscles) were inc...

PURPOSE To evaluate the tolerability on healthy volunteers and the efficacy on subjects affected by chronic moderate/severe blepharitis of a 5% glycyrrhizin and copolymer poly(ethylene glycol)/poly(propylene glycol)(PEG/PPG) ophthalmic solution. METHODS The study was a randomized, controlled, open label, intra-patient monocentric study. It consisted of two different phases, the assessment of ...