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sudden cardiac death in athletes: is universal ecg screening plausible?

A Universal Newborn Hearing Screening in Iran

Objectives: In September 2002 University of Social Welfare & Rehabilitation Sciences established a pilot universal newborn hearing screening program in two crowded maternity hospital in Tehran. Our objective was to assess the feasibility of implementing universal newborn hearing screening in IRAN. Methods: Between September 2002 and March 2004 a total of 7718 newborns were screened for heari...

Prenatal Screening Syphilis: Is Universal Screening Necessary in Saudi Arabia?

To study the seroprevalence of syphilis among pregnant women; attending their first prenatal examination, and the value of routine prenatal screening for syphilis at the Antenatal Clinic of King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A retrospective analysis of the routine prenatal tests results of women attending for their first antenatal booking visits over a period of 3 years, ...

Determining All Universal Tilers

A universal tiler is a convex polyhedron whose every cross-section tiles the plane. In this paper, we introduce a slight-rotating operation for cross-sections of polyhedra. By applying the operation to suitably chosen cross-sections, we prove that a convex polyhedron is a universal tiler if and only if it is a tetrahedron or a pentahedron with parallel facets.

Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: Is Universal ECG Screening Plausible?

would like to commend Dr Farzin Halabchi and colleagues regarding their excellent review article of " Sudden cardiac death in young athletes " [1]. The identification of underlying cardiovascular disease is a primary screening objective of physicians who care for athletes. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify some points made in the article and make some suggestions for future scree...