To determine the frequency of atrioventricular conduction disturbances in aortic valve disease, 26 consecutive patients (age 54 +/- 2 years) with symptomatic aortic valve disease were studied by His bundle electrocardiography at the time of cardiac catheterisation and were compared with a group of patients who underwent cardiac catheterisation and were found to have coronary artery or mitral va...

AIMS To evaluate the efficacy (height velocity (HV), change in height standard deviation score (delta HSDS)), and safety (glomerular filtration rate (GFR), incidence of rejection, and calcium and glucose metabolism) of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment after renal transplantation. DESIGN A two year randomised controlled trial. SUBJECTS Fifteen prepubertal and seven pubertal ...

in this paper, the concept of fuzzy convex subgroup (resp. fuzzy convex lattice-ordered subgroup) of an ordered group (resp. lattice-ordered group) is introduced and some properties, characterizations and related results are given. also, the fuzzy convex subgroup (resp. fuzzy convex lattice-ordered subgroup) generated by a fuzzy subgroup (resp. fuzzy subsemigroup) is characterized. furthermore,...

In this paper, we establish the idea of fuzzy congruences on Abel-Grassmann's group (AG-group). We investigate different outcomes fuzzy-congruences AG-groups in detail and give some examples to illustrate newly established results. develop relation between congruence normal subgroup. end, also provide results homomorphism AG-groups.

Introduction Recent studies have shown that in addition to patient factors, surgeon volume has influenced total knee arthroplasty (TKA) outcomes greatly. With recent propositions of regionalization of arthroplasties to higher volume centers, the need for further evidence is warranted. Materials and methods Retrospective Cohort Study done at Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan from January ...

Hyperventilation (HV) and respiratory alkalosis are associated with hypophosphataemia, although the extent and duration of HV required to produce changes in serum phosphate levels are not known. We sought to characterize the effects of HV, with or without dextrose loading, on serum phosphate levels and other biochemical parameters. HV was monitored by controlling the end-tidal partial pressure ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The reliability of hematoma volume (HV) measurement using the ABC/2 method in multicenter clinical trials is unknown. We determined the accuracy of ABC/2 method as an on-site test in comparison with the gold standard central HV-assessment and semiautomatic HV-assessment. Method- We analyzed data from an acute intracerebral hemorrhage multicenter clinical trial. HV was mea...

BACKGROUND We investigated the prevalence of hallux valgus (HV) and examined its association with various factors in a cross-sectional study of Japanese female university students. METHODS A questionnaire survey of foot symptoms, lifestyle, and body mass index (BMI) was administered to 343 women who provided informed consent at a women's university. Footprints were obtained and bone density w...