Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objectives The objectives of this study were to evaluate the correlation and agreement between ultrasound and computed tomography (CT) in measuring ascending aorta diameter in patients with giant cell arteritis (GCA) and to investigate the development of new ascending aortic aneurysms in patients with newly diagnosed GCA. Methods To achieve the primary
Anne C Bull Haaversen +4 more
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Instrument for use in performing a controlled Valsalva maneuver Patent [PDF]
, 1967 Piston device for producing known constant positive pressure within lungs by using thoracic ...
Lippitt, M. W., Jr., Reed, J. H., Jr.
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Thoracic Disease Identification and Localization with Limited Supervision [PDF]
2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2017 Accurate identification and localization of abnormalities from radiology images play an integral part in clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Building a highly accurate prediction model for these tasks usually requires a large number of images ...
Zhe Li +6 more
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Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.Objectives Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a severe extra‐articular manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The study aimed to externally validate a genetic risk score (GRS) and a combined risk score for predicting the risk of RA‐associated PF in an independent cohort of early‐RA patients. Methods This study utilized an inception cohort of 1118 patients
Mikael Brink +3 more
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Filtering efficiency and feeding mechanisms of Daphnia pulex on Microcystis aeruginosa and Nannochloropsis [PDF]
, 2012 The filtering and feeding rate of Daphnia pulex from the Old Durham Reservoir, Durham, NH, were measured to determine the feeding efficiency on different concentrations of non-toxic Nannochloropsis (Class Eustigmatophyceae) and toxigenic cyanobacteria ...
Orlowicz, Elizabeth
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Esophageal Cancer Initially Thought to be Accompanied by a Solitary Metastasis to an Intrathoracic Paraaortic Lymph Node [PDF]
, 2012 Esophageal cancers usually exhibit lymph-node metastases. Although a solitary lymph-node metastasis is occasionally found, the involvement of an intrathoracic paraaortic node is rare.
Akase, Takayoshi +7 more
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Estudio descriptivo de la movilidad sagital raquídea global y segmentaria en bailarinas de flamenco [PDF]
Revista del Centro de Investigación Flamenco Telethusa, 2012 The purpose of this study was to determine the global and segmental trunk mobility (dorsal and lumbar rachis) in a sample of female flamenco dancers. The material and method consisted of quantifying with an inclinometer the mobility sagittal of the spine.
Sebastián Gómez-Lozano +3 more
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Advanced Biology, EarlyView.The study reveals that RRP9 is abnormally highly expressed in ESCC tissues and is closely associated with poor prognosis in patients. Furthermore, it is found that RRP9 promotes ESCC progression through enhancing the E2F1‐mediated transcriptional regulation of CDK1.
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A Direct D-Bar Method for Partial Boundary Data Electrical Impedance Tomography With a Priori Information [PDF]
, 2017 Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that uses surface electrical measurements to determine the internal conductivity of a body.
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The European Registry for Patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: third report [PDF]
, 2022 Theo M M H de By +39 more
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