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Renal denervation--so far so good.

82  © Japi • January 2014 • Vol. 62 Sir, R denervation (RD) is a catheter based method using radiofrequency ablation(RFA)for treatment of patients with resistant hypertension. T h e d a t a f r o m t w o c l i n i c a l trials(Symplicity HTN-1 and Symplicity HTN-2) has proven the safety and efficacy of RD for treating the patients with resistant hypertension.1,2 Symplicity HTN-1 was a non-rand...

Not so good vibrations

Pliny the Elder was one of the first to record it 2,000 years ago: termites are noisy eaters. Their loud chewing generates acoustic emissions that have been proposed to be a method of detecting cryptic attack. But a team from the Commonwealth worker termites might be able to detect vibration/acoustic signals generated by their foraging and use these signals to determine the size of the piece of...

Good-bye CRRT, here comes SLED? ... not so fast!

In the continuing dispute about the superiority of either intermittent or continuous renal replacement therapy for the critically ill, hybrid methods such as sustained low-efficiency dialysis (SLED) combining the advantages of both modalities--that is, excellent hemodynamic stability and low costs--receive growing attention. The study by Schwenger and colleagues is the first randomized trial in...

So Far So Good: Emotion in the Peripersonal/Extrapersonal Space

Current accounts of spatial cognition and human-object interaction suggest that the representation of peripersonal space depends on an action-specific system that remaps its representation according to action requirements. Here we demonstrate that this mechanism is sensitive to knowledge about properties of objects. In two experiments we explored the interaction between physical distance and ob...

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