Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS) is an uncommon granulomatous disease characterized by the triad of relapsing facial paralysis, orofacial swelling, and fissured tongue. Genital swelling in MRS is rarely reported. We presented the first case of complete MRS with genital swelling in a child. Biopsy examinations of both the child's lower lip and penis showed noncaseating granuloma and intralymp...

In the UK in October 1992, Mrs S was forced to have a caesarean section despite her objections to such a procedure on religious grounds. The case once again called into question the obligations of women to the unborn, and also whether one person can be forced to undergo a medical procedure for the benefit of someone else. Re S, like the case of Angela Carder, is often discussed in terms of the ...

BACKGROUND The modified Rankin Scale (mRS) was developed to monitor functional recovery after stroke, but nowadays it is a treatment outcome measure in elective neurosurgery. Our objective was to study how mRS changes associate with short-term postoperative outcome. METHODS Preoperative, in-hospital, and 30-day mRS scores came from a prospective, consecutive and unselected cohort of 418 adult...

We analyze the two-level method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. The two-grid analysis is suucient for our purpose because our MRS acceleration scheme is only applied on the nest level of the multigrid method. We prove that the MRS acceleration scheme is a semi-iterative method with respect to the underlying two-level iteration and that the MRS accelerated two-level ...

To enable the successful deployment of task-achieving multi-robot systems (MRS), the interactions must be coordinated among the robots within the MRS and between the robots and the task environment. There have been a number of experimentally demonstrated coordinated MRS; however, most have been designed through ad hoc procedures, typically providing task-specific, empirical insights with few co...

Introduction: Multidimensional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) can provide additional information at the expense of longer acquisition time than 1D MRS. Assuming 2D MRS is sparse in wavelet domain, Iddo[1] first introduced compressed sensing (CS) [2,3] to reconstruct multidimensional MRS from partial and random free induction decay (FID) data. However, the darkness in 1D MRS derives from ...

The European Union (EU), which aims to promote cross-border cooperation (CBC) through various policies and programs, introduced its first macro-regional strategy (MRS) in 2009 as a new tool that offers an integrated framework governance for regional beyond the national scale. With adoption of MRS, EU seeks tackle common problems certain regions at transnational scale improve efficiency by enhan...

background: firoozgar comprehensive stroke center started up as the first organized care unit in the country in 2014; this study was performed to investigate quality indicators such as reduction in mortality, morbidity and hospital stay.   methods: two groups of ischemic stroke patients were compared. the first group had been admitted in general neurology ward (non-stroke unit patients) and the...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Use of the modified Rankin scale (mRS) in multicenter trials may be limited by interobserver variability. We assessed the effect of this on trial power and developed a novel group adjudication approach. METHODS We generated power and sample size estimates from simulated trials modeled with varying mRS reliability. We conducted a virtual acute stroke trial across 14 UK s...