How Should Physicians Assess Myocardial Contraction?

How should we assess patent foramen ovale?

Correspondence to: Professor Christian Seiler, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, CH3010 Bern, Switzerland; christian.seiler.cardio@ insel.ch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I n 1877, Cohnheim first indicated a causal relation between patent foramen ovale (PFO) and relevant sickness when analysing the case of a young woman with a stroke. Since then, PFO has been recogn...

Should we be rethinking how we assess and manage ADHD?

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common clinical problems assessed and treated by child and adolescent psychiatrists, yet many important questions remain unanswered. In this month’s issue of the Journal, two articles address two puzzling issues. First, what can research tell us about how we should be conceptualizing and defining ADHD? Second, although it is wel...

How should physicians practically approach symptomatic and asymptomatic carotid stenosis?

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

Atrial fibrillation complicating acute myocardial infarction: how should it be interpreted and how should it be treated and prevented?

Atrial fibrillation (AF) has been reported to complicate the course of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in 6–21% of hospitalized patients. Possible precipitating factors of AF in this setting include atrial ischaemia or infarction, right ventricular infarction, pericardial inflammation, acute hypoxia or hypokalaemia, and haemodynamic impairment secondary to left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. E...