BACKGROUND: Severe meningitis may compromise cerebral perfusion through increases in intracranial pressure (ICP) and through hypovolemia caused by a general inflammation with systemic plasma leakage. From its antiaggregative/antiadhesive and permeability-reducing properties, prostacyclin (PGI2) is a potential adjuvant treatment in meningitis, but previously published data have been ambiguous. The

In this paper we derive and evaluate by receiver tests a method for pruning tree representations of MIMO signals. The efficiency of the method is compared to that of standard tree pruning used for sphere decoders for several different MIMO system setups. The outcome is that savings up to 50\% compared to the standard sphere decoder are possible.

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