Regarding the Article by Rugo et al.

Letter to the Editor Regarding the Article “ Suicidal Death by Nicotine Poisoning ” by Jun et al .

The recent report by Jun et al. [1] is valuable in that it highlighted nicotine as a lethal toxic chemical, which can be used for suicide. A 20-year-old man who was a non-smoker and had no disease history was found dead in a head-down position on his bed in his room in the morning by his mother. Through meticulous investigation, death scene investigators found a drug bottle outside the window (...

Letter to the editor regarding the article by paganelli et Al.

Letter by Lee et al regarding article, "training of future interventional neuroradiologists: the European approach".

To the Editor: We read with concern the paper by Flodmark et al 1 entitled " Training of future Interventional Neuroradiologists, the European Approach. " The authors have produced a training charter for interventional neuroradiology (INR) based on assumptions of a training deficit, an insufficiency of INR recruits and widespread representation and approval from other medical speciality stake-h...

Letter by O'Rourke et al regarding article, "Arterial stiffness and cardiovascular events: the Framingham Heart Study".

Letter by O’Rourke et al Regarding Article, “Arterial Stiffness and Cardiovascular Events: The Framingham Heart Study” To the Editor: The article by Mitchell et al1 confirms the value of carotid-femoral pulse-wave velocity in predicting cardiovascular events in normal populations. This is embraced in the 2007 European Society of Hypertension/European Society of Cardiology guidelines in which pu...

Letter by Barison et al Regarding Article, "Familial Clustering of Mitral Valve Prolapse in the Community".

BACKGROUND Knowledge of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) inheritance is based on pedigree observation and M-mode echocardiography. The extent of familial clustering of MVP among unselected individuals in the community using current, more specific echocardiographic criteria is unknown. In addition, the importance of nondiagnostic MVP morphologies (NDMs; first described in large pedigrees) has not bee...