Parameters analysed were age, gender, intent of ingestion, substance ingested and amount, time to expiration, ICU admittance, length of hospital stay, complications, and the severity of mucosal injury as assessed by EGD.
Everybody's eyesight deteriorates as they get older, which suggests that an alpha map would have an expiration date of uncertain length.
The pay freeze's expiration was discussed at length during a conference call Monday with officials at the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management, who are meeting regularly to discuss issues caused by the shutdown.
Therefore the normalised value is a rate of length increase compared with the expiration point (e.g. a ratio of 1.2 would mean an increase of 20% in length).
The cranial-caudal length ratio between inspiration and expiration (representing diaphragmatic displacement) was lower in Pompe patients (median 1.35, range 1.07-1.64) than in volunteers (median 1.82, range 1.66-2.08) (p = 0.001).
Expiration date is an integral multiple of the period length.
Initial diagnostic imaging is by fluoroscopy and bronchoscopy, but MDCT acquired at end-expiration with MPR reconstructions provides additional information on the length and degree of tracheal collapse.
After normalization for lung size, changes in lung dimensions between inspiration and expiration were used for analysis; normalization was based on the cranial-caudal length ratio (representing vertical diaphragmatic displacement), and the anterior-posterior and left-right length ratios (representing chest-wall movements due to thoracic muscles).
To cope for variations in lung size due to inter-subject anatomical variations, each length at maximum inspiration was divided by the corresponding length at maximum expiration.
