(1) The original method proposed for prosthetic valve evalation examined follow-up related to patients rather than the valves themselves and therefore neglected the possibility of factors other than the valve itself which could affect the fate of cardiac patients.
(2) Filtration of beta 2m across the dialyzer was absent with CU and minimal with EVAL.
(3) The authors report three cases of arteriovenous malformations (AVM's) with aneurysms arising from the feeding artery; all were successfully treated with a new nonadhesive liquid embolic material, ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL).
(4) Recalcification times increased proportionally with the amount of heparin bound on the membrane, while original EVAL membranes and the non-heparinized aminoacetalized membrane did not show increases in recalcification times.
(5) Post EVAL-4A sera enhanced the response of lymphocytes to Con-A and PHA, while Post EVAL-D sera showed a slight suppression to these mitogens.
(6) 50% of valine from the EVal(Val-AMP) complex isolated by Sephadex G-100 gel filtration was transferred to tRNA with a rate constant greater than 4 min-1 (pH 6.2, 10 degrees C).
(7) Despite EVAL and HP having an -OH %, complement activation products were relatively low with EVAL (less than 212%), HP (less than 13%), and PP (less than 131%).
(8) In the PMMA and EVAL groups, it was 53.6% and 68.4% respectively.
(9) This means that the heparinized EVAL membrane has a more nonthrombogenic property due to the release of heparin.
(10) The variation of albumin, IgG, and IgM sieving coefficients with time during dead-end filtration was investigated using human pooled plasma and two types of hollow fiber filters (cellulose acetate PF 100 and ethylene vinyl alcohol Eval 2A).
(11) The albumin S' of the PF 100 reaches 0.95 after 20 min of filtration but drops to 0.4 after 50 min, whereas the S' of the Eval filter, which never exceeds 0.6, remains at this level for at least 50 min.
(12) After road-mapping techniques, EVAL was injected slowly until the feeding artery and aneurysm were completely obliterated.
(13) Removal efficiency of beta 2-MG through EVAL-C and CA was lower as compared with that through other membranes (P less than 0.05), while the EVAL-C showed relatively higher removal efficiency for alpha 1-MG and alpha 1-AG.
(14) In plasma of HD patient treated with the EVAL membrane, we measured the hydrogen peroxide production both before and after dialysis.
(15) In the dialysers containing ethylene vinyl acetate (EVAL) or Cellulate the number of particles recovered were within the 95% range of the particles in the rinsing fluid and did not alter with increasing rinsing volume.
(16) Since its enhancing effect is considered to occur in the stratum corneum, its release from ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers (EVAc), ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVAl) or poly(2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) (pHEMA) membranes was used as a criterion for membrane selection.
(17) The clinical and pathological aspects of two large arteriovenous malformations which were removed totally after preoperative embolization using ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) were studied.
(18) The materials were evaluated as hollow fibers built into modules, including polypropylene (PP; 0%), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA; 23.7%), ethylene vinyl alcohol (EVAL; 29.7%), Cuprophan (CP; 31.5%), and Hemophan (HP; 30.9%).
(19) We studied ten patients on hemodialysis (HD) treated in sequence with cuprophan (CU), ethylenevinylalcohol (EVAL), polyacrylonitrile (A-69) and polysulphone (PSP) membrane dialyzers.
(20) Minifilters of clinically available materials (PVA, EVAL-4A, and EVAL-D) used in extracorporeal therapies were evaluated.
Evaluation
Definition:
(n.) Valuation; appraisement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(3) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(4) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
(5) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
(6) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(7) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
(8) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(9) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(10) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
(11) A total of 104 evaluable patients 20-90 years old treated by direct vision internal urethrotomy a.m. Sachse for urethral strictures reported retrospectively via a questionnaire their sexual potency before and after internal urethrotomy.
(12) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(13) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
(14) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
(16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
(17) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
(18) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
(19) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(20) How useful is the technique for evaluating therapeutic efficacy?