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S-100β and Antioxidant Capacity in Cerebrospinal Fluid during and after Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair.
(Int Sch Res Notices, 2017)BACKGROUND: Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR) has substantially decreased the mortality and major complications from aortic surgery. However, neurological complications such as spinal cord ischemia may still occur ... -
S-duality in Abelian gauge theory revisited
(Journal of Geometry and Physics, 2011-03-01)Definition of the partition function of U(1) gauge theory is extended to a class of four-manifolds containing all compact spaces and certain asymptotically locally flat (ALF) ones including the multi-Taub-NUT spaces. The ... -
S.-S. Chern's study of almost-complex structures on the six-sphere
(2014-05-14)In 2003, S.-s. Chern began a study of almost-complex structures on the 6-sphere, with the idea of exploiting the special properties of its well-known almost-complex structure invariant under the exceptional group $G_2$. ... -
Sacral insufficiency fractures after lumbosacral arthrodesis: salvage lumbopelvic fixation and a proposed management algorithm.
(Journal of neurosurgery. Spine, 2020-03-27)OBJECTIVE:Sacral insufficiency fracture after lumbosacral (LS) arthrodesis is an uncommon complication. The objective of this study was to report the authors' operative experience managing this complication, review pertinent ... -
Sacred Groves’ Contributions to Forest Loss Prevention and Habitat Connectivity in Southwest India
(2018-04-27)Research in the conservation space has most often focused on traditional protected areas like national parks as being the model places that provide the benefits and values of conserved land like high biodiversity, healthy ... -
Sacred Land Endowments and Field Consecrations in Early Judaism
(2013)The endowment of land as a gift for religious institutions was a prominent feature of ancient society in the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. Landed plots could with proper care become enduring, remunerative assets ... -
Sacrifice, Sabbath, and the Restoration of Creation
(2015)Sacrifice often connotes death or some form of lack within popular discourse. The association of sacrifice with death is assumed in some strains of the Christian tradition that employ sacrifice within a penal substitutionary ... -
SAFE: A Declarative Trust-Agile System with Linked Credentials
(2016)Secure Access For Everyone (SAFE), is an integrated system for managing trustusing a logic-based declarative language. Logical trust systems authorize eachrequest by constructing a proof from a context---a set of authenticated ... -
Safety and efficacy of ledipasvir-sofosbuvir in black patients with hepatitis C virus infection: A retrospective analysis of phase 3 data.
(Hepatology, 2016-02)UNLABELLED: Black patients chronically infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) have historically had lower rates of response to interferon-based treatment than patients of other races. In the phase 3 ION program, ... -
Safety and efficacy of riluzole in patients undergoing decompressive surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy (CSM-Protect): a multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, phase 3 trial.
(The Lancet. Neurology, 2021-02)<h4>Background</h4>Degenerative cervical myelopathy represents the most common form of non-traumatic spinal cord injury. This trial investigated whether riluzole enhances outcomes in patients undergoing decompression surgery ... -
Safety and efficacy of rivastigmine in adolescents with Down syndrome: long-term follow-up.
(J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol, 2010-12)Following the completion of a 20-week, open-label study of the safety and efficacy of liquid rivastigmine for adolescents with Down syndrome, 5 of the 10 adolescents in the clinical trial continued long-term rivastigmine ... -
Safety and immunogenicity of a replication-defective adenovirus type 5 HIV vaccine in Ad5-seronegative persons: a randomized clinical trial (HVTN 054).
(PLoS One, 2010-10-27)BACKGROUND: Individuals without prior immunity to a vaccine vector may be more sensitive to reactions following injection, but may also show optimal immune responses to vaccine antigens. To assess safety and maximal tolerated ... -
Safety and tolerability considerations in the use of sildenafil for children with pulmonary arterial hypertension.
(Drug Healthc Patient Saf, 2015)Sildenafil is a phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor approved for treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in adults. Data from pediatric trials demonstrate a similar acute safety profile to the adult population ... -
Safety and Tolerability of CSL112, a Reconstituted, Infusible, Plasma-Derived Apolipoprotein A-I, After Acute Myocardial Infarction: The AEGIS-I Trial (ApoA-I Event Reducing in Ischemic Syndromes I).
(Circulation, 2016-12)<h4>Background</h4>Human or recombinant apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) has been shown to increase high-density lipoprotein-mediated cholesterol efflux capacity and to regress atherosclerotic disease in animal and clinical studies. ... -
Safety and Use of Anticoagulation After Aortic Valve Replacement With Bioprostheses: A Meta-Analysis.
(Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 2016-05)BACKGROUND: The American College of Cardiology guidelines recommend 3 months of anticoagulation after replacement of the aortic valve with a bioprosthesis. However, there remains great variability in the current clinical ... -
Safety climate, safety climate strength, and length of stay in the NICU.
(BMC health services research, 2019-10-22)<h4>Background</h4>Safety climate is an important marker of patient safety attitudes within health care units, but the significance of intra-unit variation of safety climate perceptions (safety climate strength) is poorly ... -
Safety Culture and Workforce Well-Being Associations with Positive Leadership WalkRounds.
(Joint Commission journal on quality and patient safety, 2021-07)<h4>Background</h4>Interventions to decrease burnout and increase well-being in health care workers (HCWs) and improve organizational safety culture are urgently needed. This study was conducted to determine the association ... -
Safety of coronary CT angiography and functional testing for stable chest pain in the PROMISE trial: A randomized comparison of test complications, incidental findings, and radiation dose.
(J Cardiovasc Comput Tomogr, 2017-08-15)BACKGROUND: Coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) and functional testing strategies for stable chest pain yield similar outcomes; one aspect that may guide test choice is safety. METHODS: We compared test safety ... -
Safety profile of L-arginine infusion in moderately severe falciparum malaria.
(PLoS One, 2008-06-11)BACKGROUND: L-arginine infusion improves endothelial function in malaria but its safety profile has not been described in detail. We assessed clinical symptoms, hemodynamic status and biochemical parameters before and after ... -
Safety, tolerability, and mechanisms of antiretroviral activity of pegylated interferon Alfa-2a in HIV-1-monoinfected participants: a phase II clinical trial.
(J Infect Dis, 2010-06-01)BACKGROUND: To our knowledge, the antiviral activity of pegylated interferon alfa-2a has not been studied in participants with untreated human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection but without chronic hepatitis ...
