Due to the big interest of industries in predictive maintenance, the development of techniques to diagnose failures has been gradually acquiring a relevant role in the current industrial scenario. For this reason, this ...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the efficacy of the simultaneous hypertonic saline solution and IV furosemide (HSS+Fx) for patients with fluid overload compared with IV furosemide alone (Fx). DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases ...

Advanced renal disease is a formal contraindication to heart transplantation, and heart failure may make a patient ineligible for kidney transplantation. The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation has ...

The methodology proposed in this research work explores the use of the straininjection concept in a combination of classical strain localization methods andembedded strong discontinuities, to remove the flaws (stress locking ...

Malfunction or breakdown of certain mission critical systems (MCSs) may cause losses of life, damage the environments, and/or lead to high costs. Therefore, recognition of emerging failures and preventive maintenance are ...

Patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) are continuously exposed to hyperkalemia. In these patients the extrarenal disposal of a potassium load may be very important to determine the plasma potassium levels. We studied ...

Background Heart failure and diabetes often occur simultaneously in patients, but the prognostic value of glycemia in chronic heart failure is debatable. We evaluated the role of glycemia on prognosis of heart failure. ...