Organized Thrombus, Disorganized Heart

Organized thrombus, disorganized heart.

(59% vs. 38%), which does not reach statistical significance for the small number of patients analyzed. In addition, this higher rate of slow flow could have provoked larger MI, as indirectly reflected by the higher rate of cardiogenic shock and higher level of troponin T in the group of patients who died. It is of note that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is not mentioned, although i...

Human atrial fibrillation initiates via organized rather than disorganized mechanisms.

BACKGROUND It is unknown how atrial fibrillation (AF) is actually initiated by triggers. Based on consistencies in atrial structure and function in individual patients between episodes of AF, we hypothesized that human AF initiates when triggers interact with deterministic properties of the atria and may engage organized mechanisms. METHODS AND RESULTS In 31 patients with AF, we mapped AF ini...

Crossover Between Organized and Disorganized States In Some Non-Equilibrium Systems

We study numerically the crossover between organized and disorganized states of three non-equilibrium systems: the Poisson/coalesce random walk (PCRW), a one-dimensional spin system and a quasi one-dimensional lattice gas. In all cases, we describe this crossover in terms of the average spacing between particles/domain borders 〈S(t)〉 and the spacing distribution functions p(n)(s). The nature of...

Filming disorganized attachment

There are many points of contact between film and psychology. Across the decades, scholars have made film the object of psychological analysis,1 while psychiatrists and psychologists pervade cinema and television, from Alfred Kinsey to Hannibal Lecter.2 Early documentary films addressing psychology include Glub Glub and the Monkeys (Robert Allen, 1975), about the research of Robert and Joan Hin...

Mobile right heart thrombus and pulmonary thromboembolism.