PATIENT SURVIVAL AND LIMB SALVAGE AFTER SHARK ATTACK WITH MAJOR VASCULAR INJURY: A CASE REPORT


Automatic construction of statistical shape models using deformable simplex meshes with vector field convolution energy

Abstract Background In the active shape model framework, principal component analysis (PCA) based statistical shape models (SSMs) are widely employed to incorporate high-level a priori shape knowledge of the structure to be segmented to achieve robustness.A crucial component of building SSMs is to establish shape correspondence between all training

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Antagonist targeting microRNA-155 protects against lithium-pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in C57BL/6 mice by activating brain-derived neurotrophic factor

Epilepsy is a severe brain disorder affecting numerous patients.Recently, it is inferred that modulation of microRNA-155 (miR-155) could serve as a promising treatment of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE).In the current study, the therapeutic potential of miR-155 antagonist against TLE was evaluated and the underlying mechanism involved in this

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On the geographic access to healthcare, beyond proximity

This study examined the incongruence of travel distance between the nearest provider and the provider that pregnant woman actually chose to visit.Using a dataset of South Carolina claims including rural and urban areas for the period 2014-2018 based on live births of 27,290 pregnant women, we compared the travel distance and travel time for two pro

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