A common arrhythmia, not so common at an old age

A common arrhythmia, not so common at an old age

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. Fig. 1 Figure 1a shows a two lead recording with a supraventricular rhythm that is most likely sinus rhythm (the upper lead is very likely lead 2 and there is a positi...

Sloughing Esophagitis: A Not So Common Entity

BACKGROUND Sloughing esophagitis, also known as esophagitis dissecans superficialis, is a very rare and underdiagnosed entity with unknown incidence rate. It can be associated with bullous dermatoses and medications such as central nervous system depressants and those causing esophageal injury. CASE REPORT A 55-years-old woman was recovering from renal failure due to rhabdomyolysis when she d...

Large common deletions associate with mortality at old age.

Copy-number variants (CNVs) are a source of genetic variation that increasingly are associated with human disease. However, the role of CNVs in human lifespan is to date unknown. To identify CNVs that influence mortality at old age, we analyzed genome-wide CNV data in 5178 participants of Rotterdam Study (RS1) and positive findings were evaluated in 1714 participants of the second cohort of the...

Not So Common? Late Neuroborreliosis in a Referred Population

Some Common (And Not So Common) Posterior Segment Observations and their Management