Publications by authors named "R S Weber"
Background: The pleural cavity represents a unique immunological compartment that can mount inflammatory reactions during infections, after surgery and in chronic immunological diseases. The connection between systemic immune reactions in the blood and local immune reactions in pleural effusions remains unclear. This study provides the first comprehensive immunological characterization of paired blood and pleural effusion samples, utilizing combined cell and cytokine analyses in pediatric patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Imaging both electrical and mechanical cardiac function can better characterize cardiac disease and improve patient care. Currently, there is no noninvasive technique that can simultaneously image both electrical and mechanical function of the whole heart at the point of care. Here, our aim is to demonstrate that high volume-rate echocardiography can simultaneously map cardiac electromechanical activation and end-systolic cardiac strain of the whole heart in a single heartbeat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The systolic blood pressure/workload (SBP/MET) slope was recently reported to reliably identify an exaggerated blood pressure response (eBPR) in the normal population and in athletes. We investigated whether the aortic root diameter (AoD) also correlates with an eBPR and vascular function in elite athletes.
Methods: We examined 652 healthy male elite athletes (age 25.
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- Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious condition that causes changes in the lungs' blood vessels and leads to shortness of breath and reduced exercise capacity.
- In a study using PH rats, researchers found that blood flow to the diaphragm increased while blood flow to other muscles, like the soleus, decreased during exercise.
- These results suggest that the body prioritizes blood flow to the diaphragm when exercising with PH, which may explain the muscle dysfunction and reduced exercise tolerance seen in affected patients.
Disrupting a criminal organization requires a significant deployment of human resources, time, information, and financial investment. In the early stages of an investigation, details about a specific crime are typically scarce, often with no known suspect. The literature has shown that an effective approach for analyzing criminal organizations is social network analysis.
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