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{"title":"Transhepatic double lumen hemodialysis catheter in exhausted vascular access: Feasibility, functionality, and outcome among hemodialysis patients.","authors":"Saeed Mg Al-Ghamdi, Ahmad Alharbi, Hawazen Abdorabo, Emily Heaphy, Majed Ahmed Ashour","doi":"10.1177/11297298221100456","DOIUrl":"10.1177/11297298221100456","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Permanent arteriovenous fistula and graft are considered the best options for hemodialysis in end-stage renal disease patients. Temporary access using the internal jugular or femoral veins is the feasible option in acute cases of dialysis and if permanent access is unavailable. Occasionally, however, these access sites are unusable after consecutive blockage of the upper and lower extremities veins. A transhepatic or translumbar approach might be the only unconventional way to ensure a sufficient blood flow for adequate dialysis.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Retrospective data on all transhepatic catheters (THCs) in patients at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia were collected. The catheters were inserted over a 10-year period (2009-2019). A minimum of 1 year of follow-up from the last catheter insertion was considered for analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 12 patients had THCs with a mean age of 42.5 ± 12.2 and pre-insertion mean dialysis duration of 130.0 ± 72.9 months. All catheters were functional from the start with no immediate complications. A total of 35 catheter replacements over guidewires were made with a median of 2.0 catheters (range of 0-10). The mean blood flow was 300 ± 30 ml/minute with a mean Kt/v of 1.4 ± 0.4. The median initial (primary) device service interval was 68 (range 6-1531 days) and the median total access site service interval was 392 (range 76-2698 days). Catheter complications included catheter migration, thrombosis, and bloodstream infection occurring at a rate of 0.12, 0.18, and 0.046 per 100 catheter days respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Transhepatic catheters provide safe, feasible access in patients with exhausted vascular access. Patients who undergo THC insertion should be worked up for innovative permanent vascular access or urgent transplantation utilizing unconventional vascular techniques to avoid death due to lack of access.</p>","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"21 1","pages":"165-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83317547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Health-Related Quality of Life and Associated Factors Among Adults with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Kerala, India.","authors":"Soji D Jose, Sapna Mishra, G K Mini","doi":"10.4103/ijem.ijem_271_22","DOIUrl":"10.4103/ijem.ijem_271_22","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>India is the second-largest country in the world with an estimated 77 million people living with diabetes. Persons with diabetes reported lower quality of life when compared to non-diabetes persons. There are significant associations between poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and adverse health outcomes among diabetes people. However, evidence documenting the same in India is scarce.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To assess the health-related quality of life and its determinants among diabetic patients in rural Kerala, India.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a community-based cross-sectional study among 425 adults type-2 diabetic patients from rural Kerala. The World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire was used to measure HRQoL. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to study the association between HRQoL and independent variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>More than half of the respondents were men (52%), and 45% were older adults (≥60 years). Poor quality of life was reported by 38% of the respondents. Medium [Odds ratio (OR):4.70, 95%CI: 2.61-8.46] and low socio-economic status (SES) group (OR: 4.59, CI: 2.43-8.66) had poorer HRQoL compared to the higher SES group. Those with multi-morbidity (OR: 2.91, CI: 1.63-5.19), unemployed (OR: 2.54, CI: 1.46-4.42), and less educated (OR: 2.28, CI: 1.34-3.88) and older adults (OR: 2.11, CI: 1.28-3.45) were more likely to have poor HRQoL compared to their counterparts.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>More than one-third of the diabetes patients in rural Kerala reported poor HRQoL. The study also identified age, socio-economic status, education, and occupation as the important predictors of HRQoL among diabetes patients. The findings highlighted the need for assessing HRQoL as part of the routine management of diabetes care in similar settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"26 1","pages":"530-536"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11245291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83329233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shackleton's heart.","authors":"Ian Calder, Jan Till","doi":"10.1177/0141076815624423","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0141076815624423","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"5 1","pages":"106-8"},"PeriodicalIF":17.3,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83349660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diffeomorphic Surface Registration with Atrophy Constraints.","authors":"Sylvain Arguillère, Michael I Miller, Laurent Younes","doi":"10.1137/15m104431x","DOIUrl":"10.1137/15m104431x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diffeomorphic registration using optimal control on the diffeomorphism group and on shape spaces has become widely used since the development of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM) algorithm. More recently, a series of algorithms involving sub-Riemannian constraints have been introduced in which the velocity fields that control the shapes in the LDDMM framework are constrained in accordance with a specific deformation model. Here, we extend this setting by considering, for the first time, inequality constraints in order to estimate surface deformations that only allow for atrophy, introducing for this purpose an algorithm that uses the augmented Lagrangian method. We prove the existence of solutions of the associated optimal control problem and the consistency of our approximation scheme. These developments are illustrated by numerical experiments on simulated and real data.</p>","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"23 1","pages":"975-1003"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2016-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9148198/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83325710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Accuracy Assessment of Perimeter and Area Calculations Using Consumer-Grade Global Positioning System (GPS) Units in Southern Forests","authors":"D. Unger, I. Hung, Yanli Zhang, Jeffrey Parker, D. Kulhavy, D. Coble","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.13-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.13-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"37 1","pages":"208-215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.13-006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70979272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assistance Foresters and Nonindustrial Private Forest Management in Alabama","authors":"Daowei Zhang, Xing Sun","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.12-013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.12-013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"37 1","pages":"189-195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.12-013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70979070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing a New Foliar Nutrient-Based Method to Predict Response to Competing Vegetation Control in Pinus taeda","authors":"T. Albaugh, T. Fox, C. Blinn, H. L. Allen, R. Rubilar, J. Stape","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.12-025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.12-025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"48 1","pages":"196-201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.12-025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70979213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Small Mammal Responses to Site Preparation Techniques in North Carolina Coastal Plain Pine Plantations","authors":"Vanessa R. Lane, K. Miller, S. Castleberry, Darren A. Miller, T. Wigley, Rebecca L. Mihalco","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.13-028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.13-028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"37 1","pages":"226-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.13-028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70979290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying market opportunities for Appalachian forest products companies in Central America.","authors":"S. Lyon, H. Quesada-Pineda, Robert L. Smith, D. E. Kline","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.11-040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.11-040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"37 1","pages":"202-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.11-040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70978765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest carbon dynamics associated with growth and disturbances in Oklahoma and Texas, 1992-2006","authors":"D. Zheng, L. Heath, M. Ducey, James Smith","doi":"10.5849/SJAF.12-028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5849/SJAF.12-028","url":null,"abstract":"Quantifying forest carbon changes associated with growth and major disturbances is important for management of greenhouse gas emissions related to forests. Regional-level approaches with improved local growth data may refine estimates obtained using coarser resolution information. This study integrates remote-sensing-derived land cover change products, harvest data, forest fire data, and local forest growth estimates at the county level to identify forest ecosystem carbon change for the states of Oklahoma and Texas (1992-2006). Whereas Oklahoma was a carbon sink of 0.5 Tg C yr-1, Texas was estimated to be a carbon source of -1.8 Tg C yr-1 for the period. The two states together functioned as a carbon source of -1.3 Tg C yr-1 for the entire period, although it was a small sink of 0.1 Tg C yr-1 in the recent period of 2001-2006 due to reduced annual rates of net forest-to-nonforest conversion and harvesting, compared to those in the early period of 1992-2001. Most counties located in the western portions of both states were small sinks of carbon during the period. Even though their growth rates are greater, many counties in the eastern portions of both states were carbon sources due to a higher intensity of forest-related disturbances. A sensitivity analysis was conducted to investigate possible double-counting of harvest and cover change by assuming half of the sequestration and emissions from land cover changes were already counted as harvest. Results indicated Oklahoma would be a sink of 1.0 Tg C yr-1, and Texas would be a small carbon source of -0.1 Tg C yr-1. Uncertainty in forest area for the western portions of these states remains an important source of potential error.","PeriodicalId":51154,"journal":{"name":"Southern Journal of Applied Forestry","volume":"37 1","pages":"216-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5849/SJAF.12-028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70979227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}