IGS has known initial and recurring costs including increased setup time, registration, and calibration of instrumentation, which increases overall time under anesthesia.
Previous work assessed the initial and recurring embodied energy as well as the operational energy requirements for heating and cooling associated with the use of a range of building assemblies, using a simplified house model.
We explore the efficiency of one intraoperative navigation system in a single complex craniofacial case, review the initial and recurring costs, and estimate the added cost (e.g., additional setup time, registration).
On the whole, we observe that while an increase in demand leads to the connection of more LGAs and promotes access, it also increases initial and recurring costs, though not proportionate when compared to the base scenario.
There is a clear predisposition towards initial and recurring bouts of toxic shock syndrome among menstruating women lacking pre-existing antibodies against TSST-1 [16], [16].
The time between initial and recurring tumors ranged between 4 and 31 months.
Altogether, the CGH and LOH analyses show that no simple karyotypic relationship seem to exist between initial and recurring or between synchronous bladder tumors.
As for the CGH analysis, the LOH patterns also pointed to a complex genomic relationship between initial and recurring tumors not compatible with a simple genetic progression model.
To clarify the role of TGF-β in the innate and adaptive immune response, we focused on the protein interactions of SMAD proteins and Acvr1b in primary and secondary infection, and compared the differences between initial and recurring infections.
Compared with expression profiles for tumors in a large reference set obtained from different patients, initial and recurring tumors from the same patients showed remarkably similar expressions profiles; a similarity of the same magnitude as among normal samples taken from different individuals.
