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"BYU makes historic comeback from 25 down to Iona"
2 days later BYU gets crushed by Marquette by a whopping 20 points in the Round of 64 (The round BYU historically struggles in)
- 6:06 p.m. March 13, 2013
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fuddy duddy
Jealous much?
Better to have won an historic comeback in the first round and get crushed in the second round just a year ago, than not to have won an NCAA game in almost a decade.
- 6:55 p.m. March 13, 2013
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Opps there is another saying;
"Open mouth insert foot"
Utah just beat USC first round PAC 12
Take Utah off the dud list.
- 9:34 p.m. March 13, 2013
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Congrats on winning your first ever PAC 10.2 tourney game against a crippled 14-18 team... yawn
- 8:13 a.m. March 14, 2013
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It's fun to have a record that will be cited every time an NCAA tournament team is mounting a huge comeback.
- 9:01 a.m. March 14, 2013
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Historical note: This wasn't an NCAA tournament game. It was a play-in
game to get into the NCAA tournament. When BYU won, THAT was when they entered
the tournament (and then got boat raced by Marquette).
I know revisionist history is popular in articles related to BYU but somebody needs to be called out for this one.
- 9:11 a.m. March 14, 2013
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Historical note: It's obviously been so long since our little friends up north have been to the the Big Dance that they don't realize that the tournament has evolved and moved on since then -- play-in games no longer exist.
Per ESPN's NCAA Tourney History Recap for BYU
2012 1-1 Defeated Iona in opening round, 78-72; Lost to Marquette in first round, 88-68
Regardless of what you call each round, and regardless of the clueless opinions of our jealous little brothers, BYU's win over Iona counts just as much as a NCAA tournament win as Utah's 1944 NCAA tournament win over Dartmouth.
- 9:50 a.m. March 14, 2013
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Indeed, call it what you want but everyone knows exactly what it is...wink, wink.
So... how many teams played in that "first" round? That's right only 8, moved up from 4 from the "play-in" game format. As in the "play-in" format though, you get to play another similar ranked team to see who plays a 1,2 or 3 seed. It's all the same thing, you play in to get crushed. Unless you are VCU:)
- 10:18 a.m. March 14, 2013
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"Congrats on winning your first ever PAC 10.2 tourney game against a crippled 14-18 team"
And a congrats to you too for losing your WCC tourney opener against a 16-18 patsy!
- 10:22 a.m. March 14, 2013
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"Congrats on winning your first ever PAC 10.2 tourney game against a crippled 14-18 team... yawn"
Sporty, while Utah continues on to play ball. Im sure your yawns by now have turned to Z Z Z Z Zs, with no games to look forward to it must be mundane listening to crickets.
Night Sporty
- 10:26 a.m. March 14, 2013
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So... how many teams played in that 1944 NCAA tournament?
That's right only EIGHT!
In fact, from 1939–1950 the entire NCAA tournament consisted of only EIGHT teams.
Get over your jealousy and try to keep things in perspective.
It's laughable that our troll friends are here trying to minimize an historic NCAA tournament comeback just so they can salve the pain of the growing embarrassment they feel for Utah's train wreck of a program that hasn't won a game in the Big Dance in almost a decade.
- 10:41 a.m. March 14, 2013
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"while Utah continues on to play ball...blah,blah,blah"
Get back to us next week when BYU continues its post-season play, while the Utes are home reprising the couch potato bowl performance of Utah's football team.
- 10:48 a.m. March 14, 2013
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Deep thinker
The NIT ?
Thats not continues post season play, its a consolation basketball camp.
Deep, get used to being the scrapes that fall from the smorgasbord of life's feast.
Indy in your athletic program wont afford you reservations to the prestigious sporting venues now or in the future.
I honestly thought that the Y would dominate the WCC two years ago, Wow couldn't have predicted reality.
We have one person to thank for that.
- 11:18 a.m. March 14, 2013
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The Utes would give their eye-teeth to be able to play in ANY post-season tournament - go back and review their comments after Utah was invited to the CBI.
The WCC has the #1-ranked team in the entire country and a certain #1 seed. The PAC will be lucky to get a #5 seed for whoever is lucky enough to stink it up the least in their tournament.
- 11:40 a.m. March 14, 2013
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Hey, Buster
>>>The Utes would give their eye-teeth to be able to play in ANY post-season tournament - go back and review their comments after Utah was invited to the CBI.
- 12:14 p.m. March 14, 2013
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D News you missed the rest.
Hey, Buster
>>>The Utes would give their eye-teeth to be able to play in ANY post-season tournament - go back and review their comments after Utah was invited to the CBI.
- 12:26 p.m. March 14, 2013
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Scott Farcus
You seem to be struggling, so let me help:
March 17, 2008
Comments from Utah fans on the Utes playing UTEP in the CBI
Long Time Ute
"The CBI is fine for its purpose and that is to get the coaches and players more experience in playing in a tournament situation. That is one thing that I respected Majerus for, getting his team ready for the NCAA.
If this is what it takes, I can support that. Besides, if the Utes are playing, I am cheering."
It isn't the "Hampton's," but...
"Well my Utes aren't playing in the big dance or even the "big apple" dance, but at least they're still playing."
hmmmm, although not ecstatic, at least Utah fans seemed quite pleased simply to be playing in any post-season tournament.
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What exactly am I jealous about?
Maybe you are referring to the fact that byU has been to the Elite 8 (3) times and the Sweet 16 (7) times? Oh wait, the Utes have been to the sweet 16 (15) times, the elite 8 (6) times and the Final Four (4) times. Three of those Final Fours were outside the 1939-1950 era that is so important to you.
Maybe it's the NCAA Tournament Championship that the Cougars won in..... Oh yeah, that's right, it never happened.
You can bag on the 1944 Tournament all you want but the fact still remains that the Utes played for and won and NC. The banner in the HC says the same thing as Kentucky's from last year.
btw..The Cougs have to double their production in the NCAA tournament for there to be any kind of "jealousy" from the Hill.
If anyone is jealous...it's you.
- 2:01 p.m. March 14, 2013
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You are busted. Please check your facts before spewing.
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You know, it's pretty amazing. The article is about an amazing comeback
for BYU in an NCAA tournament game. So, of course, since the article is about
BYU, the trolls show up and start belittling. Someone posts a response about
the fact that BYU has had more success in the last couple of years. Then some
BYU-hater has to play the "one up" game.
Immature, much?
- 5:36 p.m. March 14, 2013
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Other cases where Lamar took a similar position strictly exempting interstate commerce from state taxation were Leisy v. Hardin, 135 U.S. 100 ( 1890) (opinion by Fuller); Norfolk & Western Railroad Co. v. Pennsylvania, 136 U.S. 114 ( 1890) (opinion by Lamar); and Maine v. Grand Trunk Railway Co., 142 U.S. 29 ( 1891) (joining Bradley dissent).
Lamar enjoyed his Court life, though the labor was hard on his health. He admired his brethren as "the smartest old fellows I ever saw; and they take each other up pretty sharply sometimes." Chief Justice Fuller, for his part, said Lamar's contribution was especially valuable at the conference table: "His was the most suggestive mind that I ever knew, and not one of us but has drawn from its inexhaustible store."
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NORMAN — In light of recent events, Oklahoma wasn't taking any chances Wednesday night, when the Sooners hosted Texas Tech inside the Lloyd Noble Center.
Each fan sitting courtside found in their seat a letter informing them that game officials can call an "indirect technical foul" on the Sooners and request the fan's removal should they use profanity, racial slurs or threatening language during the game. OU also displayed a fan code of conduct on the scoreboard before tipoff.
Both Oklahoma and Texas Tech played their first basketball game since Saturday's ugly incident in Lubbock, Texas, when Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart shoved Tech fan Jeff Orr late in the fourth quarter, resulting in Smart's three-game suspension.
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Derek Sollberger, a Texas Tech graduate who now lives in Edmond, attended Wednesday's game in Norman and said he never heard any racial slurs used at basketball games when he was a student there from 1994-99.
"I had some good friends that I was college roommates with and we sat near courtside, and I've never heard that in a Lubbock game," Sollberger said.
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Moore resident Kelly Archer is a 1995 Texas Tech graduate who also attended Wednesday's game. He coached college basketball for more than 20 years — 16 as the men's coach at Hillsdale Free Will Baptist in Moore and five as the women's coach at St. Gregory's in Shawnee.
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We bought this beautiful ranch property so that we could retire and keep horses right at home. But until we do, we love the hiking, trail riding (the trail goes right in front of the hose), unbelievable views, the awsesome town of Cave Creek and the golf and life style. The views are stunning with mountains in all directions and visible from the pool.
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It was great to have Josh, Jamie, Alex and Meredith to stay with us at our new getaway. Spent time shopping in Cave Creek, eating out in Cave Creek, watching beautiful sunsets every night. Had a great day of renting a pontoon boat at Bartlett Lake Marina just a short distance from this great desert get away. We have a tack room and horse stalls if you trailer your horses but if lazing by the pool is your idea of a great time then we've got you covered too. Finally finished furnishing the ranch and outfitting the kitchen, office and other amenities! Come and stay and have a great southwestern vacation or gold trip.
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We arrived in Cave Creek expecting warm weather but was met with a storm. The change in weather took us by surprise but thankfully this home was fully equipted for any event. In the center of a beautifully decorated living room was a circular fireplace , in the garage was plenty of wood ,so we made a fire and watched movies on the incredible Plasma screen T.V and DVD. We marveled at the luxurious surrounding and found ourselves grateful for the strorm . We had a great time staying indoors , watching the desert scenery outside the large bay window change with the storm, was a surreal experience . There were beautiful birds outside our window every day , rabbits under the citrus trees in the morning and the distant sound of coyote's at night . The house is all it is advertised as and more. The kitchen is perfect , the bedrooms spacious and clean, gorgeous tile throughout and a private bathtub in the master bedroom . The property is serene and beautiful . There was even a grapefruit tree loaded with fruit . Fresh grapefuit just outside the front door , picked each morning added to our breakfast and was another unexptected delight .The Wi Fi was easy to connect to as well .
We dined at Chef Sara's Raw and Vegan Academy and had the best lunch we have ever had. We hiked at Spurs Crossing conservation area when the sun came out and shopped everywhere.
If you are looking for a clean, spacious , beautifully decorated home that oozes comfort , this is the place.We had a problem figuring out the DVD and called the property management team . They arrived within ten minutes and promptly figured out the issue for us, which was an operational one on my part. We loved this home and hope to come back again. Everything about it from inquiring about the availability , the lease , security deposits and even finding it in the dark when we arrived , was a breeze. We definitely will be returning . This place is awesome .
Cave Creek is an old western town. The NewYork Times travel section has dubbed it the intersection of 'cowboys (the old west) and caviar' (the new shopping and affluent vacation spot). Our little ranch is located only one mile from the town and all of it's restaurants, shopping and more. Yet it's also only a mile from horseback ridding and hiking. Great views in all directions.
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The move is sapping growth more than analysts had predicted. Net income for the fiscal fourth quarter slumped 71 percent to $65.3 million, or 13 cents a share, compared with analysts' average estimate of 14 cents. Profit is suffering as Adobe sells fewer full versions of its desktop software priced as high as $2,600 as customers subscribe to Creative Cloud, which costs $50 a month per user.
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Graham Napier continued his great start to the season as Essex recovered from an early-afternoon slump to post 212 on the opening day of their LV= County Championship Division Two match against Kent at Chelmsford.
The all-rounder contributed 58, the fifth time in his last eight innings that he has made a score of 50 or more.
He arrived to do battle with his side in serious trouble at 109 for six, but mixed a certain amount of caution with controlled aggression to collect five fours and a six in an effort spanning 79 deliveries.
Napier was finally undone by medium-paced seamer Darren Stevens when he clipped the ball to midwicket where Brendan Nash took a smart catch low down.
His dismissal came shortly after that of James Foster, the pair having repaired the Essex innings with a partnership of 88 in 23 overs.
Both batsmen made progress with confident drives and cuts, the stand being broken when Foster's attempted square-drive against paceman Charlie Shreck ended up in the hands of Matt Coles in the slip cordon when the wicketkeeper was just three short of a half-century.
The only other stand of note featured openers Tom Westley and Jaik Mickleburgh after Kent had gambled on putting their opponents into bat.
In overcast conditions, which favoured swing and seam, they batted with patience and tenacity to launch the innings on a firm foundation.
Their alliance yielded 67 in 29 overs but it was not until the 11th set of six that four leg-byes sent the total into double-figures.
Mark Davies broke the stand when he bowled Westley for 30 just before lunch, immediately after which four more wickets fell for eight runs in the space of 32 deliveries.
Among them was Ravi Bopara, who was still seeking to get off the mark when fast bowler Davies had him caught by Stevens in the gully.
Davies also ended the resistance of Mickleburgh as Coles held a comfortable catch at second slip, before Shreck removed Ben Foakes and Ryan ten Doeschate in the same over to leave Essex 77 for five.
Mark Pettini hung around long enough to send the total into three figures before Napier and Foster stopped the rot.
Stevens wrapped up the innings on his way to figures of 4-36 from 23 overs while Davies and Shreck finished with 3-31 and 3-61 respectively.
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In the April 2014 Pediatric/Craniofacial article entitled "Treatment of Infantile Hemangiomas with Propranolol: Clinical Guidelines" by Szychta et al. (Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014;133:852–862), the affiliation footnote is incorrect. The affiliation footnote should have read as follows (correction in italics): "From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Royal Hospital of Sick Children (Edinburgh, United Kingdom); and the Department of Oncological Surgery and Breast Diseases, Mother's Poland Memorial Hospital & Research Institute (Lodz, Poland)."
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
July 2014.
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From the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Royal Hospital of Sick Children.
Received for publication August 6, 2013; accepted October 10, 2013.
Disclosure: None of the authors has a financial interest in any of the products, devices, or drugs mentioned in this article.
Will Anderson, M.D., Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, 9 Sciennes Road, Edinburgh EH9 1LF, United Kingdom, firstname.lastname@example.com
Background: Infantile hemangioma is a vascular tumor and requires treatment in lesions manifested by potentially dangerous symptoms. Several publications have reported that involution of infantile hemangioma could be accelerated by propranolol but have used only invalidated subjective measures of assessment. The authors aimed to objectively validate the aesthetic results after propranolol treatment for infantile hemangioma, and to produce a therapy protocol, including optimal timing for introduction, pretreatment preparation, dosage, frequency of visits, duration, and patient safety.
Methods: For the nonrandomized comparative cohort study, the authors enrolled 60 patients treated with propranolol. Medical two-dimensional photographs, taken before and after treatment, were subjectively analyzed by three plastic surgery consultants and objectively analyzed with a computer program. Aesthetic results were analyzed using the following parameters: subjective overall outcome, subjective color fading, and objective color fading. Reliability of subjective and objective methods was quantified and compared, as described with accuracy and repeatability. Volumetric parameters were obtained from three-dimensional scans taken before and after treatment and objectively analyzed with a computer program. Numerous patients' data were recorded from the medical notes.
Results: This study proved high efficiency of propranolol in treatment of infantile hemangioma, as assessed with the objective measures for the first time. The authors outlined an optimal treatment protocol, including introduction, dosage, duration, and cessation of therapy.
Conclusions: Propranolol is an effective, well-tolerated, and safe first-line treatment for proliferative hemangioma. Therapy should begin early, continue with the target dosage of 2 mg/kg/day in three divided doses through the proliferative phase of infantile hemangioma, and be stopped gradually.
CLINICAL QUESTION/LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Therapeutic, IV.
Infantile hemangioma is a benign vascular tumor.1 It is clinically diagnosed as the most common lesion of newborns, with an occurrence rate of between 4 and 10 percent, predominantly in preterm Caucasian women.2,3
Propranolol, a nonselective beta-blocker with membrane stabilizing activity, causes accelerated involution of infantile hemangioma. Several publications have reported the improved aesthetic appearance after propranolol treatment for infantile hemangioma using only subjective methods, with limited evidence based on validated objective analysis of treatment results.4–18 However, the evidence-based medicine level of proof is essential to support clinicians with guidance for infantile hemangioma treatment with propranolol.1,19
We aimed to validate objectively the aesthetic results after propranolol treatment for infantile hemangioma, and to produce a protocol of therapy, including optimal timing for introduction, pretreatment preparation, dosage, frequency of visits, duration, and patient safety.
A prospective cohort study was conducted from March of 2009 through October of 2012 in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, Royal Hospital of Sick Children, in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. No ethical approval from the National Health Service Ethical Committee was required because no additional medical interventions were performed other than those widely accepted by the National Health Service.
The management protocol was designed for the clinical trial. Inclusion criteria comprised the rapidly growing hemangioma, lesion with functional or significant cosmetic deformity, and lesion likely to affect physiological functions or cause significant cosmetic deformity in the future. Exclusion criteria were history of previous treatment for infantile hemangioma (such as laser or steroid), cardiac pathology (cardiac malformation, heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension), pulmonary pathology (asthma, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, bronchiolitis), Raynaud syndrome, pheochromocytoma, PHACES (posterior fossa malformations, facial hemangioma, arterial anomalies, cardiac defects, eye abnormalities, and sternal cleft and supraumbilical raphe) syndrome.20
Patients, consulted at the multidisciplinary clinic and referred for initiation of propranolol treatment as inpatients, were not fasted, had to be well, and had to take normal diet and fluids. The pretreatment steps at admission included physical examination, medical photographs, electrocardiogram, finger-prick blood glucose, and baseline blood pressure. Magnetic resonance imaging was conducted in some cases to exclude PHACES syndrome. Propranolol was commenced at the oral dose of 0.66 mg/kg three times per day if the child was older than 2 years of age. If the child was under 2 years of age, the oral dosage was 0.33 mg/kg three times per day over the first 24 hours and was increased to 0.66 mg/kg three times per day after the third dose when no adverse events were observed. Blood pressure and heart rate were monitored 30 minutes after the first dose and every 15 minutes for 1 hour. If blood pressure or heart rate dropped by 20 percent or more, medical review was requested. If no change was found, blood pressure and heart rate monitoring were stopped. Capillary blood glucose was measured at 1 hour and 2 hours after propanolol administration and was stopped if no change was found. In turn, medical advice should be requested if capillary blood glucose is less than 3.0 mmol/liter. If the child was 2 years of age or older, he or she was discharged 6 hours after the first treatment. Children younger than 2 years of age were monitored for 48 hours. Subsequently, treatment was continued with oral propranolol in liquid solution of 50 mg/10 ml or 10 mg/1 ml for up to 6 months, with the clinical review conducted every month. Medical two-dimensional photographs were taken every 4 weeks during treatment and 4 weeks after discontinuation of treatment. Three-dimensional scans of the superficial parts of hemangioma, which bulged over the surrounding skin, were conducted before administration of propanolol and 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after treatment, using a 3dMD camera (3dMD Ltd., London, United Kingdom). Patients were reviewed regularly in the outpatient clinic.
Side effects of propranolol treatment were noted and were divided into major effects that could lead to cessation of propranolol (e.g., hypotension, hypoglycemia) and minor side effects (e.g., asymptomatic deviations in laboratory tests) that prompted a decrease of the propranolol dose.
Each pretreatment and posttreatment two-dimensional photograph was subjected to subjective evaluation by three consultants in plastic surgery. They assessed general aesthetic outcome (subjective overall result) describing the overall improvement in the posttreatment hemangioma appearance, together with one of the main components of aesthetic result—color fading of infantile hemangioma (subjective fading result). In comparison, we performed computerized, triple objective assessment of color fading of infantile hemangioma (objective fading result) on two-dimensional photographs, using the Skin Lesion Color Change computer program (Anthroposcan3D, Lodz, Poland).21 In all three of the aforementioned instances, treatment outcome was presented as percentage of success, where –100 percent corresponded to total failure, 0 percent showed no change, and +100 percent described total success. Initial and final volumes of infantile hemangioma were measured in three-dimensional scans using the Anthroposcan3D computer program (Anthroposcan3D, Lodz, Poland).22
Reliability of subjective and objective methods to assess the propranolol treatment outcomes of infantile hemangioma was quantified as accuracy and repeatability of results.21 Accuracy of results was assessed by comparing the different methods with the subjective fading result. The overall repeatability of results with use of the particular method was calculated, based on the triple measurement of the treatment result in each patient. Both accuracy and repeatability were presented as technical error measurement and showed degree of variation between measurements. The resulting reliability was shown on a scale of 0 (weakest) to 1 (strongest).
The overall data recorded from the medical notes included initial age at follow-up, duration of follow-up, number of outpatient visits, ulceration and location of infantile hemangioma, diagnostic tests, and complications. The following parameters related to propranolol treatment were recorded: initial age at the beginning of treatment, duration of treatment, initial weight at the beginning of treatment, final age at the end of treatment, initial dose, final dose, relative dose at checkups before the dose adjustment, relative dose at checkups after the dose adjustment, relative dose during the whole treatment, number of dose adjustments, intervals between dose adjustments, and age at the infantile hemangioma rebound.
Statistical tests were used to analyze the results. The normality of the groups was assessed using the Shapiro–Wilk test. Two continuous parameters were compared with a t test for dependent samples, a t test for independent samples, or a Pearson's correlation test. More than two continuous parameters were assessed with a multivariate analysis of variance. Dichotomous variables were assessed with a chi-square test. The difference was claimed as statistically significant when p < 0.05.
For the present study, we included 60 children who were diagnosed as having severe infantile hemangioma and who were referred for propranolol treatment. At the first presentation, patients' age was 4.06 ± 3.76 months (Table 1). Average follow-up period after treatment was 6.30 ± 4.60 months, including 3.75 ± 1.55 outpatient visits with intervals of 2.33 ± 1.60 months.
Treatment with propranolol was initiated at 4.87 ± 4.45 months of age and was continued for 10.5 ± 6.98 months (p < 0.0001) (Table 2). Children's weight was 5.56 ± 2.23 kg at the commencement of propranolol and 9.20 ± 2.25 kg at the cessation of pharmacological therapy (p< 0.0001), with an average weight of 7.46 ± 1.83 kg during the period of active treatment. The initial propranolol dose was 3.71 ± 1.48 mg three times per day and the final dosage was 5.83±1.79 mg three times per day, with the average dose during treatment of 4.76 ± 1.33 mg three times per day. The weight-matched relative dose during treatment was 0.62 ± 0.07 mg/kg three times per day, with 0.58 ± 0.10 mg/kg three times per day at checkups before the dose adjustment and 0.64 ± 0.07 mg/kg three times per day at checkups after the dose adjustment. The dose was adjusted 3.03 ± 2.00 times during treatment, with the average intervals between the dose adjustments of 2.48 ± 1.10 months (Figs. 1 through 3).
After treatment, we analyzed the aesthetic outcomes of therapy. Results were characterized with much higher repeatability when they were assessed using objective methods, compared with subjective evaluation, together with moderate consistency of results between the two methods (Table 3). Our analysis revealed that the infantile hemangioma color fading result was the dominant component of the overall aesthetic improvement and could be used as one of the main factors assessing the final outcome. Therefore, the treatment outcome was analyzed in detail in the objective method and quantified only as objective fading result. In general, the objective fading result was 51.0 ± 23.6 percent, which was lower than the subjective overall result of 61.2 ± 26.3 percent (p = 0.0168) and the subjective fading result of 60.2 ± 25.7 percent (p = 0.0152).
When aesthetic outcome was taken into consideration in relation to the location of infantile hemangioma, lesions resulted in a similar objective fading result (p > 0.05), including middle face (lower periorbital region, cheek, upper lip, and nose) 53.1 ± 25.7 percent, upper face 46.9 ± 25.4 percent, lower face 52.2 ± 25.2 percent, upper trunk 51.0 ± 14.8 percent, lower trunk 46.0 ± 11.3 percent, upper extremity 65.0 ± 16.9 percent, and lower extremity 70.0 percent.
In relation to ulceration and/or bleeding of infantile hemangioma, patients treated with propranolol benefited from insignificantly higher treatment success in cases of ulcerated lesions (62.9 ± 14.4 percent) compared with nonulcerated lesions (48.5 ± 24.5 percent) (p = 0.0805).
The average final volume of infantile hemangioma after treatment of 1.14 ± 1.80 ml was significantly lower than the average initial volume of 2.60 ± 4.04 ml (p = 0.0343), measured in three-dimensional scans from 14 individuals treated with propranolol. Consequently, we observed a decrease in volume of 1.46 ± 2.31 ml during treatment with propranolol.
In relation to duration of treatment, aesthetic results were insignificantly higher among patients who were under clinical care for more than 24 months (63.0 ± 9.84 percent), compared with treatment success sorted in decreasing order for 12 to 18 months of follow-up (60.0 ± 22.2 percent), fewer than 6 months (50.2 ± 29.4 percent), 6 to 12 months (47.5 ± 23.7 percent), and 18 to 24 months (43.8 ± 15.8 percent) (p = 0.2083) (Table 1).
During the propranolol treatment, we observed only minor complications. One patient had transient asymptomatic hypotension that occurred during a propranolol loading dose that resolved before the subsequent dose. Three patients had diarrhea, two suffered from sleep disturbances, and one child developed a rash on the torso, which resolved after a couple of hours (Figs. 1 through 3).
Infantile hemangioma is caused by excess angiogenesis.20,23 It has a typical immunohistochemical profile, which differentiates vascular tumors from malformations.24 Endothelial cells of infantile hemangioma express markers of the placenta capillaries in all stages of development (GLUT1, merosin, Lewis Y antigen, and FCG II receptor), which may indicate its origin from placental tissue.25 Shortly after birth, infantile hemangioma is present usually as a vascular spot or area of pallor. In the proliferative phase, which begins at 1 to 2 months of age, a compressible, nonpulsating tumor grows until 1 to 6 months of age; however, large, deeply penetrating lesions can grow until 2 years of age.26,27 Subsequently, infantile hemangioma goes into a dormant phase, maintaining a predefined shape and size. At 12 to 18 months of age, it enters the involutive phase, which lasts until 3 to 7 years of age.24,28 It disappears partially or completely in 30 percent of cases by 3 years of age, 20 percent by 5 years of age, and 30 to 40 percent by 9 years of age, while remaining unchanged in 10 and 20 percent of patients.24 About half of disappearing lesions transform into normal looking skin, whereas the other ones transform into remnants such as telangiectasia, fibrofatty tissue, or a scar.25 The majority of infantile hemangioma cases resolve spontaneously without intervention.29 In 10 percent of cases, infantile hemangioma leads to distortion of shape and functional disorders, and subsequently requires treatment.30
Until recently, the first-line treatment of infantile hemangioma in the proliferative phase included corticosteroids administered systemically or intralesionally (Table 4). In turn, localized or residual infantile hemangiomas in the involutive phase were treated with surgical excision or laser therapy.31,32 Conventional treatment was only partially effective with variable potential of complications, and outcomes were assessed with subjective measures.
Several reports showed the effectiveness of propranolol in rapid inhibition of proliferation and promotion of regression of infantile hemangioma, in cases of even large segmental, periorbital, or airway lesions, with a low rate of complications.1,26,27,33 In the previous studies, proliferation was inhibited by propranolol after less than 48 hours of treatment in 74 percent of patients and was clinically manifested as palpable softening of lesions with color changed from the primary deep red to blue or purple. In the remaining 26 percent of cases, inhibition of proliferation was demonstrated within 2 weeks.34 Regression was clinically observed in less than 2 weeks in 55 percent of cases and by 4 weeks in 16 percent, and lesions remained unchanged in 13 percent of patients.34 Outcomes of propranolol treatment, assessed with subjective measures, are summarized in Table 5.
Noticeably, previous studies used subjective methods to assess the perceptible aesthetic treatment results. Reliability of subjective assessment is affected by several factors, such as low repeatability, different lightning conditions, and even the emotional status of the infant. Thus, subjectively obtained analysis can produce only partially reliable clinical implications. In our series, variability of the subjectively obtained parameter, subjective fading result, which was repeatedly assessed by senior consultants in plastic surgery, ranged from 25.3 percent to even 27 percent. In contrast, variability was as low as from 2.87 to 2.99 percent for the objectively measured parameter, objective fading result, which was calculated three times with a computer program (Table 3).
Conclusively, management with propranolol should follow guidelines based on strong clinical evidence, obtained with objective measures. In the first objective report, Bingham et al.18 detected the decrease in the infantile hemangioma area, volume, and vessel density after propranolol treatment using grayscale and color Doppler. In turn, our study analyzed the perceptible aesthetic outcome of propranolol treatment for infantile hemangioma using both objective and subjective methods and taking into consideration general aesthetic improvement, color fading, and shrinkage.4–7,35 We observed a high correlation between the subjective overall result and the subjective fading result (technical error measurement, 5.35 to 5.66 percent; r, 0.95 to 0.97; p < 0.0001), the latter precisely described in the mathematical algorithms and thus applicable for the objective assessments. Subjective fading result was relatively consistent with objective fading result, with variation of 15.5 to 18.2 percent (r, 0.64 to 0.65; p< 0.0001) (Table 3). As a consequence, objective fading result was taken as a representative parameter for the treatment's aesthetic outcome.
In our series, patients treated with propranolol experienced a high level of aesthetic improvement (Table 1). Longer follow-up correlated insignificantly with better treatment outcome. Patients with infantile hemangioma, regardless of the lesion's location, experienced the similar advantage from propranolol treatment. In addition, patients treated with propranolol had a significant decrease in the volume of the hemangioma (p = 0.0343). In general, our findings confirm the previously reported results, summarized in Table 5, which showed the significantly accelerated involution of infantile hemangioma after propranolol administration.17,20,34
The detailed analysis of propranolol activity was undertaken in order to produce the treatment algorithm. We started propranolol treatment early, at an average patient age of 4.87 months and an average body mass of 5.56 kg. Similarly, the previously reported mean age at the start of treatment was 3.9 months and ranged from 1.2 to 9.7 months.34 In our series, patients with a younger age (p = 0.0170) and related lower weight (p = 0.0200) at commencement of therapy contributed to better aesthetic outcome.
For most infantile hemangiomas, the proliferative phase ends by age 7 months.36 As a consequence, we discontinued treatment after the end of the proliferative phase in children aged 12.3 months on average, and thus the final age (p > 0.05) and body mass (9.20 kg, p > 0.05) at cessation of propranolol treatment did not correlate with aesthetic outcome. Consequently, duration of propranolol treatment, which was about 10.5 months, did not correlate with aesthetic outcome (p > 0.05). The duration of propranolol treatment should be prolonged in cases of large or compound hemangiomas for an additional 6 months after the final desired effect. Similarly, propranolol treatment was stopped in the previous study at 1 year of age, with a rebound rate of 7 percent.20 In contrast, the previously reported treatment cessation at the earlier age of 6.5 months (range, 4 to 11.7 months) resulted in rebound growth in 24 percent of cases.34
Rebound growth of infantile hemangioma after treatment cessation is clinically manifested as a recurring bulge, relapsing color, and/or ulceration. Relapse episodes, as previously reported, were seen 2.3 weeks after treatment cessation and all responded well to reintroduction of therapy at 3 mg/kg/day for 9.3 weeks.34 Rebound growth at propranolol cessation was observed in younger children (5.1 ± 0.9 months versus 7.2 ± 1.0 months). To avoid rebound growth, treatment should be continued until a plateau of the hemangioma growth is sustained. However, regardless of the treatment result in an individual patient, the therapy should be continued minimally until the patient reaches the age of 7 to 8 months and optimally until 12 months of age, because it should cover the whole proliferative phase in each case. In our study, most of the 11 rebound patients were treated early in the study, and surprisingly propranolol was stopped relatively late, at age of 12.58 ± 3.51 months. However, most of the cases were compound infantile hemangioma, and now we treat such children for 6 months longer than we treat those with superficial infantile hemangioma. Moreover, propranolol administration should be gradually tapered over a period of 2 weeks, which minimizes the risk of rebound growth and hyperadrenergic withdrawal response.37
Propranolol efficacy was suggested to be dose-dependent in reducing proliferation of infantile hemangioma.4–7 The previously proposed empirical dosage among publications varied from 1 to 3 mg/kg/day administered daily with different modes and durations of treatment.4–17 In our study, the relative propranolol dose during treatment was precisely adjusted to body mass at the level of 0.62 ± 0.07 mg/kg three times per day on regular visits (3.03 on average), with intervals of about 2.48 months. As we have shown, the relative weight-adjusted dose remained constant throughout the entire treatment period, but the total dose became higher in correlation with the increasing body mass. There was no correlation between number and frequency of visits and aesthetic outcome, which proved the compliance of the proposed protocol among consultants. Surprisingly, the smaller the relative propranolol dose at the subsequent check-ups before the dose adjustment, the better the aesthetic outcome (p = 0.0050). This finding can be age-related and can result from the more rapid weight gain in the younger infants. Thus, more frequent visits are advised in younger children in order to allow accurate adjustment of the dosage in the early stages of treatment. Based on our results, the daily dosage should be re-evaluated frequently and should not fall below 2 mg/kg/day.
Ulceration occurs at 4 months age on average; thus, we recommend that severe infantile hemangioma should be treated earlier.29 In patients with ulcerating infantile hemangioma, the previously reported epithelialization was achieved in seven out of eight cases within 3 weeks after commencement of therapy with a dose of 3 mg/kg/day.34 In another report, where a dose of 1 to 2 mg/kg/day was administered, ulcers healed after 8 to 18 weeks.4,10,38 We observed prompt healing of ulcers in all cases. Children treated with propranolol for both ulcerated and nonulcerated infantile hemangioma had similar aesthetic results and thus we recommend the same dosage in both groups of patients.
Periorbital infantile hemangioma was managed successfully using oral propranolol, with an improvement in function and aesthetic appearance, as reported previously.39 In our study, 12 of 23 patients with periorbital infantile hemangioma had slight astigmatism and all of them recovered completely after commencement of propranolol.
Propranolol is a safe drug, as proven by previously reported large series with long follow-up, and has been used in children for various medical conditions in doses up to 7 mg/kg/day without any life-threatening complications.1 In our study, no major side effects were noted. Thus, we confirm that low-dose propranolol administered in divided doses with gradual increase is safe; however, a cardiac preparation for propranolol therapy is necessary to exclude contraindications for therapy.8
Propranolol is an effective, well-tolerated, and safe first-line treatment for proliferative hemangioma. Therapy should be commenced early, continued with the target dosage of 2 mg/kg/day in three divided doses through the proliferative phase of infantile hemangioma, and stopped gradually.
The authors are grateful to Hilal Bahia and Ahmed Jawad, from the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, St. John's Hospital, Livingston, United Kingdom, for their assessments with questionnaires of the aesthetic outcomes after propranolol treatment for infantile hemangioma.
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David H. Song, M.D., M.B.A. is the President-elect of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). He is a consultant with BioMet, Emmi Solutions, LLC, a consortium-member providing senior debt for Brava, and consultant with and investor in HealthEngine.com. He receives author royalties from Elsevier. Scot Glasberg, M.D. is the President of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). He is a consultant with LifeCell Corp and Mentor Corp and an investor with Strathspey Crown. The authors have no sources of funding to report related to the writing or submission of this discussion.
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I have a small wreath I'll probably put on the Globe, but I bet some of you go much further than that. Lights, camera, action! Let's hear about your holiday-adorned bikes!
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My club will probably have a Christmas Lights Ride/Party one evening in December for which I will decorate my bike and myself with lights and stuff to celebrate the season and check out the local house decorations.
The more you ride your bike, the less your ass will hurt.
With the Big Jingle Jubilee Holiday Parade, I always decorate my bike.
But most important of all is the Santa hat on my helmet. It stays on all during the holidays and promotes much good will among harried drivers. So I see it as a safety feature.
My wife wants us to get battery powered Christmas lights for our bikes. I'm looking, but I'm cheap and haven't found much that's affordable.
WANTED: Not a darn thing. I've got it all. Life is good.
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Put a bike on the front of the house a couple of years ago, but I guess that's off-topic. Sorry.
The holidays are such a complex and emotional topic for many; my bikes are no different:
- My two commuter bikes are already decorated for winter -- they are both sporting a thin layer of dried-on mud and road grit.
- My Davidson does not celebrate Christmas (it's still pissed that titanium is not mentioned in the Bible).
- My Italian Catholic bike (the Tommasini) is hibernating for the winter. I'm afraid to disturb it until spring for anything as trivial as a bit of holiday cheer. It usually wakes up and gets active around Lent, and will be dressed and ready to go on Easter.
Does Rust & Road Salt count? If it does then my Trek is all decked out.
Happy Trails
My hand made lawn bike will get a red blinky on back and a green one up front.
When you ride a red-white-and-blue Schwinn mountain bike, you don't need no decorations for national holidays and other patriotic days.
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The events of Saturday night are tragic. The two officers in this case are good officers who reacted to a fight at the shelter where two men were attacking another person. This case is not about race, they acted in defense of an innocent party. Unfortunately, one of the individuals was shot in the process after failing to obey commands to drop his weapon. The case has been assigned to the Unified Police Department for follow up investigation and we will wait for the investigation to conclude before commenting further on the shooting or the assault that lead up to it.
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Commentary: Racing board chair David Israel under fire
As chairman of the California Horse Racing Board, David Israel finds himself herding an industry in great need of learning how to play nice.
All you had to do Thursday was listen to the CHRB's monthly meeting in Sacramento to hear Israel, as the lead cowboy, reverting to F-bombs and anger to lasso this crew up. Try as he might to get the horsemen and racing associations synchronized, Israel fell woefully short early. But like an old, ageing race horse, he rallied. It didn't appear anyone, except maybe the California Thoroughbred Trainers, went home without cashing a ticket or two. Drinks were on the big, funny, obscene guy in the middle.
Israel, a former sportswriter, followed Hemingway's advice and got out of the newspaper gig before it was too late. He wrote about the Triple Crown campaigns of Seattle Slew and Affirmed. He has written for the two guys who actually read "Playboy Magazine" and produced for Hollywood. He even did a stint as a coordinating producer on Monday Night Football during the Dennis Miller experiment that died quicker than a horse in a barn at Hollywood Park.
Israel's qualifications for being a horse racing board chair don't resonate on his resume, but no matter. Israel's term as the 325-pound gorilla in the racing board room as an appointment of ex-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ends in January. His exit, however, may not be soon enough for some who caught his act at Thursday's meeting via the Internet.
(By the way, the Governor's office is deferring all questions about Israel's behavior to the board or Israel and notes the man is part of the old regime and off the board in January. Israel didn't answer an email request.)
Israel, as fellow commissioner Jesse Choper said, is "quite a colorful guy who puts a lot of effort into the job. No one can deny that, whether they like his style or don't like his style. I admire his commitment to helping an industry that is in need of a lot of help."
Yep. Israel is the type of guy who wears his emotions on his sleeve and on his tongue. There's nothing wrong with showing a little emotion. But it was Israel's foul language and constant joking and banter that made me wish his predecessor, all-business, no-play Keith Brackpool, hadn't gone off to work for Frank Stronach. Brackpool could be abrasive and studish, to use a backstretch term, when necessary, but he was fair, organized and understood his role as chair. Now he's wielding backroom power as Stronach's hitman.
At times Thursday, Israel was rude, abrasive, unorganized and vulgar. He was challenged by his fellow commissioners, all of whom were infinitely more professional in their demeanor than he was. At one point, one participant later said it was "cacophony," people talking over each other, chaos, all because Israel lost control of the meeting and himself.
Israel is far too intelligent a guy to let his language slip into the barn the way it did on Thursday. Another commissioner, unidentified on the air, punched back with the same language, a verbal volley we can do without at these important meetings. But this is horse racing. Tempers fly like reins.
At one point, Israel became so annoyed with the sound system problems and technical issues he blurted "Bleeping-A" into his microphone. It made me think of the movie, "Deer Hunter." That's how long it's been since I heard that phrase.
His response today to "delicate souls" he offended was to tweet actor Samuel L. Jackson's profane, "Pulp Fiction"-like reading of a children's nighttime story, "Go To (Bleep) To Sleep." Now that's some funny stuff, right?


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The principal aim of this series is to demonstrate that in the later nineteenth century there were composers of stature intent on breaking away from opera's dominance in Italian musical life by composing orchestral and chamber works of their own, or programming new or unfamiliar works by other composers. They included Martucci (the foremost Italian composer of the time, whose orchestral works receive their first complete recording in the Naxos Martucci Edition), Sgambati and Mancinelli. During the first half of the 20th-century they were followed by Respighi, Pizzetti, Casella, Malipiero, the so-called "generazione dell'ottanta" (the generation of Italian composers born around 1880), and by Ghedini, Petrassi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and others, all of whom deserve to be brought back into the mainstream. Ferruccio Busoni, who was born in Tuscany but spent most of his working life in Germany, is also represented with a cycle of his complete piano music as well as important orchestral works.
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