The pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) is widely used in cardiac surgery for monitoring hemodynamics and cardiovascular function.Complications including pulmonary artery injury causing massive intratracheal hemorrhage are rare but can be life-threatening.We report a case of intratracheal bleeding (3,000 ml) caused by PAC-induced pulmonary artery injur
Background and objectivesWe previously showed in a 6-month randomized controlled trial that resistance training and protein supplementation after bariatric surgery (Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, RYGB) improved muscle strength without significant effect on weight loss and body composition changes.We performed a 5-year follow-up study in these subjects w
This paper presents a comprehensive test of the principal tasks in document image analysis (DIA), starting with binarization, text line segmentation, and isolated character/glyph recognition, and continuing on to word recognition and transliteration for a new and challenging collection of palm leaf manuscripts from Southeast Asia.This research pres
The horizontal raphe (HR) as a demarcation line dividing the retina and choroid into separate vascular hemispheres is well established, but its development has never been discussed in the context of new findings of the last decades.Although factors for axon guidance are established (e.g., slit-robo pathway, ephrin-protein-receptor pathway) they do
Giant cell arteritis is Sterilization Accessories a form of vasculitis involving the medium- and large-sized arteries that chiefly affects older people.Clinical findings are headache, jaw claudication, fever, pain, and thickening of the temporal artery.The most feared complication is visual loss due to impairment of the ophthalmic artery and poster