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Bayesian Network Inference on Diabetes Risk Prediction Data
Published in K Hemachandran, Shubham Tayal, Preetha Mary George, Parveen Singla, Utku Kose, Bayesian Reasoning and Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning Applications, 2022
GCHA-based DAG consists of 28 directed edges between all variables and its average neighborhood size is 4.35. Polydipsia has direct effect on the class label as well as polyuria, weakness, and alopecia. Diabetes may cause possibly many variables in dataset. Polydipsia influences polyuria, and age also affects visual blurring. Diabetes directly effects delayed healing, alopecia, muscle stiffness, polyuria, and irritability. Diabetes also has indirect relations such as weakness, visual blurring, genital thrush, sudden weight loss, partial paresis, obesity via delayed healing, gender, polyuria, and irritability. However, if delayed healing, gender, polyuria, and irritability are given as evidence variables, indirect relations between variables become independent from each other due to d-separation.
Seabirds and Biotoxins
Published in Jaime A. Ramos, Leonel Pereira, Seabird Biodiversity and Human Activities, 2022
María Victoria M. Casero, Jaime A. Ramos, Leonel Pereira
Clinical signs of paretic syndrome include different degrees of ascendant flaccid paresis, weakness, third eyelid paralysis, diarrhoea and dyspnoea. Due to the prostration, paralysis and weakness, secondary conditions like fungal pneumonia, decubitus sores at the tarsus and keratoconjunctivitis sicca can appear. Clinical procedures are based on supportive treatment, including fluid therapy, feeding assistance and management of secondary conditions. The most common necropsy findings in dead seabirds with paretic syndrome were the absence of traumatic injuries or other diseases signs, diarrhoea, poor body condition, damaged kidneys and fungus infections (Table B4.2).
Toxicity of Solvents
Published in Lorris G. Cockerham, Barbara S. Shane, Basic Environmental Toxicology, 2019
The effects of the ethylene glycol ethers on the CNS are more pronounced in acute exposure. Savolainen (1980) reported hind limb paresis (partial or incomplete paralysis), glial cell damage, and demyelination in animals following severe exposure to ethylene glycol ethers. Chronic exposure causes blurred vision and personality changes in humans resulting in headaches, dysarthria, somnolence, and lethargy (Zavon, 1963). Cohen (1984) reported on the occurrence of macrocytic anemia following exposure to ethylene glycol monomethyl ether (EGME). Aplastic anemia following exposure to ethylene glycol monomethyl ether was reported by Parsons and Parsons (1938).
Staged treatment protocol for gait with hybrid assistive limb in the acute phase of patients with stroke
Published in Assistive Technology, 2022
Tomoyuki Ueno, Aiki Marushima, Hiroaki Kawamoto, Yukiyo Shimizu, Hiroki Watanabe, Hideki Kadone, Kayo Hiruta, Shunsuke Yamauchi, Ayumu Endo, Yasushi Hada, Hideo Tsurushima, Eiichi Ishikawa, Yuji Matsumaru, Yoshiyuki Sankai, Masashi Yamazaki, Akira Matsumura
Patients who were admitted to the University of Tsukuba Hospital for a first stroke event from 2014 to 2016 were enrolled in the study. The inclusion criteria were: less than 3 weeks between stroke onset and hospital visit; ability to open eyes spontaneously; ability to move the limbs on the non-paralysis side according to oral instructions; inability to walk independently because of lower-extremity paresis with/without somato-sensory impairment; absence of definite progression of neurological deficit; controlled systolic blood pressure between 100 and160 mmHg and heart rate between 50 and 120 beats per min without serious arrhythmia; ability to understand training instructions as well as written and oral study information and to express informed consent; and body size compatible with the HAL suit. The exclusion criteria were: osteoarthritis restricting gait movements at any lower limb joints (hip, knee, and ankle); cardiovascular or other somatic condition incompatible with intensive gait training; inability to paste an electrode because of skin disease; and presence of an implanted pacemaker. Twenty-one consecutive patients fulfilled these criteria.
The impact of traffic sign deficit on road traffic accidents in Nigeria
Published in International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 2019
Christian Ezeibe, Chukwudi Ilo, Chika Oguonu, Alphonsus Ali, Ifeanyi Abada, Ezinwanne Ezeibe, Chukwunonso Oguonu, Felicia Abada, Edwin Izueke, Humphrey Agbo
On the other hand, the remote implications are multifaceted and inestimable. These include loss of human life, good health, employment and finances. Despite the huge human and material resource base in Nigeria, its federal highways have been described as the most dangerous in Africa (Eze, 2012). Road accident-related deaths mostly occur as a result of head injury, vertebral spinal cord injuries, blunt/penetrating thoracic injuries, blunt/penetrating abdominal injuries and fracture limbs (Asogwa, 1992). RTAs are also the major cause of femoral fractures in Nigeria (Anyaehie, Ejimofor, Akpuaka, & Nwadinigwe, 2015) and treatment options include skeletal traction, nailing, plating which could be costly and time wasting. RTAs also lead to brain and spinal cord injury. In university teaching hospitals, where most road accident victims are treated, Silas et al. (2012) observed that head injury and vertebral spinal cord injuries account for 47.2% and 24.5% of total deaths resulting from RTAs, respectively. In most cases, spinal cord injuries lead to paresis, paralysis with debilitating consequences especially in a resource poor clime like Nigeria. RTAs account for over 70% of chest injuries which is also one of the leading causes of death among victims (Mezue, Ndubuisi, Erechukwu, & Ohaegbulam, 2012). This usually heralds a poor outcome for the victim, not only medically but socially and economically. According to Yusuff (2015), 29.1% survivors of RTAs in Nigeria suffer disability and 13.1% are unable to return to work. This has a massive downturn effect on the economy. In 2014 alone, Nigeria lost $10 billion to RTAs.
Deep brain stimulation and other surgical modalities for the management of essential tremor
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2020
Kai-Liang Wang, Qianwei Ren, Shannon Chiu, Bhavana Patel, Fan-Gang Meng, Wei Hu, Aparna Wagle Shukla
While systematic comparisons are lacking, we reviewed the AE for each of the four surgical modalities individually (summarized in the respective tables). The main side effects included paresis, dysarthria, ataxia, and gait and balance problems due to the proximity of the corticobulbar tract or the sensorimotor sub-region of the target [36,122]. In one study, the authors concluded that surgical complications were higher among patients who received thalamotomy compared with DBS [25]. In another recent review, the authors concluded that there were lower AE with GKRS when comparing the surgical modalities. These were especially seen in patients with medical comorbidities, elderly age and those with high risk for infection and bleeding disorders [5].