background: this study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of ankle?brachial index (abi) by oscillometric blood pressure (bp) measurement as compared with an automated abi as a gold standard. materials and methods: this study was conducted at golden jubilee medical center, thailand. all the data were collected from 303 patients at risk of peripheral arterial disease (pad) who w...

Background: Peripheral arterial disease is known to be associated with the diabetes and ankle-brachial pressure index (ABPI) can be used to screen such patients having PAD. Aims & Objective: To highlight the application of ankle brachial pressure index as a routine procedure and to assess the feasibility of using ABPI in detecting PAD in the patients of diabetes mellitus. Material and Methods: ...

The authors wish to make the following correction to their paper [1]. The correct reference 190 in the reference list should be: Coupling of protein surface hydrophobicity change to ATP hydrolysis by myosin motor domain. Biophys.

BACKGROUND Having performed analytical validation studies, we are now assessing the clinical utility of the upgraded automated Bone Scan Index (BSI) in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). In the present study, we retrospectively evaluated the discriminatory strength of the automated BSI in predicting overall survival (OS) in mCRPC patients being treated with enzalutamide. ...

Received Accepted Med Ultrason 2012, Vol. 14, No 1, 74-77 Corresponding author: Sorin Crişan, MD PhD Assoc. Prof. of Internal Medicine 5th Medical Clinic Str.Tăbăcarilor 11, Zip Code 400139 Phone: + 40722550880 Email: [email protected] Doppler ultrasonography of the femoral-popliteal segment is preceded by clinical examination and anklebrachial pressure measurement. This important noninvas...