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Anemia on admission predicts short- and long-term outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke
(2015)BackgroundIt is still debatable whether anemia predicts stroke outcome. AimTo describe the characteristics of patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and anemia and identify whether hemoglobin status on admission is a ... -
AQP4 Tag Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
(2014)Accumulating evidence suggests that the extent of brain injury and the clinical outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) are modulated, to some degree, by genetic variants. Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is the predominant water ... -
The effect of climate change on floods in British Columbia
(1999)A hydrological modelling of the flood response of two watersheds to climate change are presented. The two study watersheds are the Upper Campbell and the Illecillewaet watersheds located in British Columbia. The first ... -
Flood producing mechanisms identification in southern British Columbia, Canada
(2000)The causes of peak flows in two climatically different mountainous-forested basins of British Columbia have been identified. The U.B.C. watershed model was used to identify the causes of peak flows, since this model ... -
Malpractice issues in modern anaesthesiology
(2007)Medical malpractice has been raised as an important problem in daily practice, while the media and public remain unforgiving to those perceived to have harmed the patients' life. This article highlights important legal ... -
Nonstationary Frequency Analysis of Annual Maximum Rainfall Using Climate Covariates
(2015)The perception that hydrometeorological processes are non stationary on timescales that are applicable to extreme value analysis is recently well documented due to natural climate variability or human intervention. In this ... -
Psychiatric factors in patients with ulcerative colitis according to disease activity
(1996)In order to examine psychiatric symptoms, hostility and stressful life events in patients suffering from Ulcerative Colitis (UC) during the phases of active disease and remission, a consecutive sample of twenty five UC ... -
Stroke aetiology and predictors of outcome in patients with heart failure and acute stroke: a 10-year follow-up study
(2012)Aims The aim of this study was to investigate stroke aetiology and assess the predictors of early and late outcome in patients with heart failure (HF) and acute stroke. Methods and results A total of 2904 patients, admitted ...