Coronary stenting: has the rubicon been crossed?

Coronary stenting: has the rubicon been crossed?

Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) and Cyber Security in Africa - Has the CIIP and Cyber Security Rubicon Been Crossed?

This paper reviews some very negative views, made over the last few years, about Critical Information Infrastructure Protection (CIIP) and Cyber Security in Africa. The paper addresses the expressed negative views that Africa can become the vehicle or platform from where cyber-attacks could be launched against the rest of the world. The paper evaluates the reasons for such negative views and th...

The coronary substrate determines prognosis in acute coronary syndromes: the kaleidoscope has been shaken … again!

The identification of ‘vulnerable’ or ‘high risk’ coronary plaques has represented the quest for the Holy Grail in interventional cardiology for the past three decades. Plaque rupture (PR), plaque erosion (PE), and complicated calcified nodules (CNs) constitute the most common underlying substrates leading to coronary thrombosis and acute coronary syndromes (ACS). 3 Despite the advent of novel ...

Has acromegaly been diagnosed earlier?

PURPOSE We investigated whether acromegaly has been diagnosed earlier at the Niigata Medical and Dental University Hospital. METHODS Patients with acromegaly (n = 81) who underwent their first transsphenoidal surgery from 2006 to 2015 were reviewed. Two groups were compared: those who underwent surgery between 2006 and 2010 (n = 35) and those who underwent surgery between 2011 and 2015 (n = 4...

Has the burden of depression been overestimated?

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether high estimates of the burden of depression could be attributed to an overestimation of disability weights (reflecting more severe disability). METHODS We derived disability weights that were tailored to prevalence data. Empirical disability data from a Dutch community survey was used to describe three classes of severity of depression and their proportional pr...