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"In the world but not of the world"? Doucelina, Felipa, and the Beguines of Marseilles
In the thirteenth century, waves of popular religious feeling inundated Western Europe, and several lay religious movements gained new members and prestige. In this climate of religious opportunity, beguines, or independent semi-religious women, established houses called beguinages and lived a religious life of their choosing, without monastic control or an established rule. The beguine “movement” has been called the first women’s movement in western history. Beguines have been the subjects of much recent scholarship, but most of that work concerns the beguines of the Low Countries – modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands – and emphasizes their spiritual roles, and their asceticism and humility. This thesis focuses specifically on the beguines of Marseilles, a community that has barely been studied, and analyzes their social, economic, and political roles within the larger context of the rapid expansion of Marseilles
Orsanmichele and the Florentine Republic: An Analysis of a Civic Building and Its Sculptural Decorations
Na restriction blunts expansion of plasma volume and ameliorates hyperdynamic circulation in portal hypertension
RELIABILITY OF DOPPLER FLOWMETRY IN DETECTING POST-PRANDIAL SPLANCHNIC HYPEREMIA IN HUMAN CIRRHOTIC AND CONTROL POPULATIONS
Reability of doppler flowmetry in detecting post-prandial splanchnic hyperemia in human cirrhotic and control population
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EVALUATION OF POSTPRANDIAL HYPEREMIA IN SUPERIOR MESENTERIC-ARTERY AND PORTAL-VEIN IN HEALTHY AND CIRRHOTIC HUMANS - AN OPERATOR-BLIND ECHO-DOPPLER STUDY
In an operator-blind design, we used an echo-Doppler duplex system to examine superior mesenteric artery and portal vein hemodynamics on two consecutive mornings in 12 fasting cirrhotic patients and 12 matched controls, randomized to a standardized 355 kcal mixed-liquid meal vs. water. Cross-sectional area and mean velocity were recorded from the portal vein and superior mesenteric artery at 30 min intervals, from 0 min to 150 min after ingestion. Flows were calculated. Pulsatility index, an index related to vascular resistance, was obtained for the mesenteric artery. Baseline flows did not differ between cirrhotic patients and control patients, but pulsatility index was reduced in the cirrhotic subjects. Maximal postprandial hyperemia was attained at 30 min. Cirrhotic patients showed a blunted hyperemic response to food. In normal controls, portal vein area increased significantly after the meal from 30 min to 150 min, whereas in cirrhotic patients a significant difference occurred only at 30 min. Pulsatility index in both groups was significantly reduced after eating, and this reduction persisted up to 150 min. No changes after ingestion of water were observed. Echo-Doppler was very sensitive in detecting postprandial splanchnic hemodynamic changes and differences between cirrhotic patients and normal subjects. Mesenteric artery pulsatility index was more sensitive than flow in detecting baseline hemodynamic differences. In cirrhotic patients, portal postprandial hyperemia was mainly related to the increase in mean velocity