Abnormal blood velocity in the ductus venosus is more frequently detected than pulsations in the umbilical vein, but both are considered indicators of fetal compromise. The aim of this study was to investigate blood flow patterns in the ductus venosus and the association between individual blood velocity ratios and pulsations in the umbilical vein and perinatal outcome.

Epilepsi är den vanligaste neurologiska sjukdomen efter stroke och huvudvärk, ca 60 000 personer har aktiv epilepsi i Sverige. Vi har idag tillgång till en rad mycket effektiva läkemedel, bara sedan 1989 har åtta nya epilepsimediciner registrerats. Trots den utvidgade behandlingsarsenalen bli bara två av tre patienter anfallsfria av läkemedel, för en tredjedel fortsätter anfallen att komma. Vid fa

Abstract Data from arthroplasty registers are often analyzed using survival methods. Several methodological problems exist, for example relating to competing events, non-random censoring, non-proportional hazards and dependent observations. League tables and ranking of specific survival results leds to further methodological difficulties. Most of these problems are, however, well known and a numbe

Clinical diagnosis of acute mesenteric ischemia is difficult. The aim of this review is to provide current status on the search for an accurate plasma biomarker for acute mesenteric ischemia. A search using the medical subject heading terms marker and mesenteric ischemia or intestinal ischemia or superior mesenteric artery occlusion or mesenteric venous thrombosis in the Medline and Embase databas

A new influenza virus that was first detected in people in April 2009, was initially referred to colloquially as "swine flu", since it contained genes from swine, avian and human influenza viruses. It can, however, not be transmitted by eating pork or dealing with pigs. In Egypt, several hundred thousand pigs were killed in May, in spite of advice from global health authorities that such an action

Stress or psychological distress is often described as a causative or maintaining factor in psoriasis. Psychological traits may influence the appraisal, interpretation and coping ability regarding stressful situations. Detailed investigations of psychological traits in relation to stress reactivity in psoriasis are rare. The aim of this study was to examine whether patients with psoriasis who repo

n a previous paper (see abstr. A76748 of 1974) the expansion of the irreducible self-energy of an electron gas was studied and found to give unreliable results for the satellites of the one-electron spectra function. This was due to the incorrect analytic properties of the corresponding green function. These results are confirmed and extended by studying a simple model (s-model) which allows the n

Radiative lifetimes of nine levels in Eu II (4f(7)6p, 4f(6)5d6s and 4f(6)5d(2)) and Eu III (4f(6)5d) have been measured using time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy on a laser-produced europium plasma. Oscillator strengths for a number of Eu II lines have been derived by combining the lifetimes with branching ratios measured in the emission spectrum of a hollow-cathode lamp.

The Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark have formed a deregulated power market. Electricity bought and sold on this market is dominated by hydro power. However, hydro power generation is restricted by the amount of water in reservoirs. The inflow to these reservoirs shows a yearly cycle and seasonal planning of the production is necessary. Seasonal planning for a fictive power pr

In patients with advanced heart failure, morbid obesity is a relative contraindication to heart transplantation due to higher morbidity and mortality in these patients.

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are well recognized beneficial host-associated members of the microbiota of humans and animals. Yet LAB-associations of invertebrates have been poorly characterized and their functions remain obscure. Here we show that honeybees possess an abundant, diverse and ancient LAB microbiota in their honey crop with beneficial effects for bee health, defending them against micro