BACKGROUND This study compared the risk of fatal cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) in patients with early-stage glottic laryngeal cancer receiving surgery or external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). METHODS Using a competing risks survival analysis, we compared the risk of death because of CVA among patients with early-stage glottic laryngeal cancer receiving surgery or EBRT in the Surveillance...

[1] Minimum Variance Analysis (MVA) is frequently used for the geometrical organization of a time series of vectors. The Coplanarity Variance Analysis (CVA) developed in this paper reproduces the layer geometry involving coplanar magnetosonic shocks or plane-polarized wave trains (including normals and coplanarity directions) 300 times more precisely (<0.1 ) than MVA using the same input data. ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Continuous assessment of the cerebrovascular autoregulation (CVA) through use of the pressure reactivity index (PRx), a moving linear correlation coefficient between mean arterial blood pressure and intracranial pressure, has been effective in optimizing cerebral perfusion pressure (CPPopt) in traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients. This study investigates the feasibil...

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) in patients with various cardiovascular diseases is a life-threatening complication, the development of which can be contributed by both environmental and genetic factors, understanding necessary to determine tactics treatment predict disease course. The article presents brief review studies on predictors CVA, particular association ABCA1 rs2230806 polymorphism ri...

This paper presents an overview of the efficient Monte Carlo counterparty credit risk (CCR) estimation framework recently developed by Ghamami and Zhang (2014). We focus on the estimation of credit value adjustment (CVA), one of the most widely used and regulatory-driven counterparty credit risk measures. Our proposed efficient CVA estimators are developed based on novel applications of well-kn...

The subject of this study was a 46-year-old female who had suffered a cerebrovascular accident (CVA). Magnetic resonance imaging revealed damage in the area of the distribution of the middle cerebral artery involving most, if not all, of the primary auditory area of the left hemisphere. No auditory problems were noted prior to the CVA; however, following the CVA, the subject reported a number o...

OBJECTIVE To compare ultrasound (US)-guided vs. landmark-guided techniques for central venous access (CVA) in the emergency department. METHODS This was a prospective study of consecutive patients enrolled at a university teaching hospital with an annual census of approximately 100,000. On even days patients had CVA with ultrasonic assistance; patients presenting on odd days had CVA via tradi...

This paper is devoted to the simulation of the Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) using a pure Monte Carlo technique with Malliavin Calculus (MCM). The procedure presented is based on a general theoretical framework that includes a large number of models as well as various contracts, and allows both the computation of CVA and its sensitivity with respect to the different assets. Moreover, we pro...

The correction in value of an OTC derivative contract due to counterparty risk under funding constraints, is represented as the value of a dividend-paying option on the value of the contract clean of counterparty risk and excess funding costs. This representation allows one to analyze the structure of this correction, the so-called Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA for short), in terms of replac...

AIM To evaluate contrast visual acuity (CVA) after implantation of an aspheric apodized diffractive intraocular lens (IOL) or a spherical apodized diffractive IOL in cataract surgery. METHOD This prospective randomized controlled study with a 12-month follow-up compared the results of cataract surgery with implantation of an aspheric AcrySof ReSTOR SN6AD3 IOL (30 eyes) and a spherical AcrySof...