Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Fat Embolism Syndrome”

Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Prevalence, Clinical Features, and Prognosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction Attributable to Coronary Artery Embolism".

We thank Dr Nadir for his interest in our work. Among 52 patients with coronary artery embolism (CE), 38 had atrial fibrillation (AF) and the remaining 14 had no evidence of AF on admission and during hospitalization. During follow-up, 2 of 14 patients (14.2%) developed AF; they had idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and postprosthetic aortic valve replacement, respectively. The time from discha...

Response by Merkler et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Risk of Pulmonary Embolism After Cerebral Venous Thrombosis".

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral vein thrombosis (CVT) is a type of venous thromboembolism. Whether the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) after CVT is similar to the risk after deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is unknown. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study using administrative data from all emergency department visits and hospitalizations in California, New York, and Florida from 2005...

Response to letter regarding article, "reducing sodium intake to prevent stroke: time for action, not hesitation".

Response to Letter Regarding Article "Transdifferentiation of Human Fibroblasts to Endothelial Cells: Role of Innate Immunity".

BACKGROUND Cell fate is fluid and may be altered experimentally by the forced expression of master regulators mediating cell lineage. Such reprogramming has been achieved with the use of viral vectors encoding transcription factors. We recently discovered that the viral vectors are more than passive vehicles for transcription factors because they participate actively in the process of nuclear r...

Response to letter regarding article, "Relative contributions of sympathetic, cholinergic, and myogenic mechanisms to cerebral autoregulation".

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Relative Contributions of Sympathetic, Cholinergic, and Myogenic Mechanisms to Cerebral Autoregulation” We thank Dr Shang for his interest in our study. We assessed cerebral autoregulation based on the relation between fluctuations in arterial pressure and those in middle cerebral artery blood flow before and after pharmacological blockade of 3 proposed me...