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Foreword for special issue for RAAD 2013 Conference - ROBOTICA

This special issue is associated with the 22nd International Workshop on Robotics in the Alpe-AdriaDanube Region (RAAD2013) that took place on September 11 to 13, 2013 in Portorož, Slovenia. The RAAD conference series was established in 1992 (initially under the name RAA). At that time, RAAD played an important role towards enhancing international cooperation among neighborhood countries, while...

What's the Buzz About Hydroxynorketamine? Is It the History, the Story, the Debate, or the Promise?

The History: Early in the 1990s, a set of animal studies presented N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) modulation as a common pathway to traditional antidepressants (1). Later in the 1990s, a group of Yale University scientists set out to demonstrate the role of NMDAR modulation in clinical depression using subanesthetic doses of the NMDAR antagonist ketamine. Surprisingly, they discovered th...

Retrograde ascending aortic dissection during or after thoracic aortic stent graft placement: insight from the European registry on endovascular aortic repair complications.

BACKGROUND Single-center reports have identified retrograde ascending aortic dissection (rAAD) as a potentially lethal complication of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR). METHODS AND RESULTS Between 1995 and 2008, 28 centers participating in the European Registry on Endovascular Aortic Repair Complications reported a total of 63 rAAD cases (incidence, 1.33%; 95% CI, 0.75 to 2.40). Ei...

The rheumatoid arthritis articular damage score: first steps in developing a clinical index of long term damage in RA.

OBJECTIVE To design and validate a clinical method for scoring irreversible long term articular damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS The rheumatoid arthritis articular damage score (RAAD score) is based on examination of 35 large and small joints. Concise definitions were formulated to score each joint on a three point scale (0, no irreversible damage; 1, partially damaged; 2, severe ...

The aspirin-angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor tradeoff: to halve and halve not.