4 results match your criteria: "and the National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine[Affiliation]"

Background: Patients with decreased blood viscosity are supposed to have a higher risk of bleeding and increased severity of bleeding (severity of bleeding proportional to transmural pressure x area of variceal tear/blood viscosity). However, the hemorheological factors have never been assessed in patients with esophageal variceal bleeding. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to examine the hemorheological factors in liver cirrhotic patients with special emphasis on the outcome of variceal bleeding.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A prospective study of glycemic control during holiday time in type 2 diabetic patients.

Diabetes Care

February 2004

Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and the National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Objective: In the U.K. Prospective Diabetes Study, A1C increased from 1.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Hemichorea-hemiballism: an explanation for MR signal changes.

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol

May 1998

Neurological Institute, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, and the National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Purpose: Some cases of hemichorea-hemiballism (HCHB) are associated with a hyperintense putamen on T1-weighted MR images, the cause of which remains unclear. Our purpose was to determine the cause and significance of these MR signal changes.

Methods: We analyzed the clinical and neuroimaging findings in 10 patients with HCHB, focusing on locations of the hyperintense lesions on T1-weighted images, comparing them with those on CT scans, and evaluating their changes after years of follow-up.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF