TAVR or SAVR: Unfinished Business

TAVR and SAVR: Current Treatment of Aortic Stenosis

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) was approved in the United States in late 2011, providing a critically needed alternative therapy for patients with severe aortic stenosis previously refused surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). Over 20,000 TAVR have been performed in patients worldwide since 2002 when Alain Cribier performed the first-in-man TAVR. This paper reviews the data f...

General Parsed entities: Unfinished Business

General parsed entities seemed like one of the simplest parts of XML when it first appeared, easy to create and use, and more predictable than their SGML counterparts. In the years since, however, parsed entities have become a malingering reminder that DTDs are not yet dead, continuing to demonstrate periodically that XML hasn’t even resolved all of the interoperability issues at the markup lev...

Germ Line Mechanics--And Unfinished Business.

Primordial germ cells are usually made early in the development of an organism. These are the mother of all stem cells that are necessary for propagation of the species, yet use highly diverse mechanisms between organisms. How they are specified, and when and where they form, are central to developmental biology. Using diverse organisms to study this development is illuminating for understandin...

Resolving unfinished business: relating process to outcome.

This study related the process of the resolution of unfinished business with a significant other to therapeutic outcome in a population of 26 clients who suffered from various forms of interpersonal problems and childhood maltreatment. Clients were treated in emotion-focused, experiential therapy with gestalt empty-chair dialogues. Those clients who expressed previously unmet interpersonal need...

Unfinished Business in Preventing Alzheimer Disease.