Forty patients with atrial fibrillation and 20 patients with congestive heart failure and sinus rhythm were studied. Patients were divided into two groups. Group A consisted of 20 patients with atrial fibrillation in whom systolic time intervals were measured. Twenty to 50 beats were analyzed. Five of the patients had high-fidelity measurements of left ventricular pressure simultaneous with det...

The aim of this work was to assess the diagnostic yield of some clinical diagnostic procedures utilized to establish a diagnosis of midgut neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Medical databases published between 1982 and 2007 were analyzed. Seventeen observational studies, including 629 patients, met the inclusion criteria. Urinary 5-HIAA is the first test to prescribe in patients with flushing or per...

background cardiovascular disease is the world´s leading cause of death and elevated serum iron and ferritin have been proposed as a risk factor for acute myocardial infarction (ami) in recent years. this study was done to determine the relationship between serum iron and ferritin with ami and its role on early coronary vessels disorder. material and methods in this cross-sectional study, total...

Krzysztof Czarnecki Daimler-Benz AG Research and Technology Wilhelm-Runge-Str. 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel. +49-731-505-4008 Fax +49-731-505-4210 czarnecki@ dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.com Ulrich W. Eisenecker Fachhochschule Heidelberg Fachbereich Informatik Bonhoefferstraße 11, 69123 Heidelberg, Germany Tel./Fax +49-6223-990466 [email protected] Patrick Steyaert Programming Technology Lab ...

Wardle et al. (Brevia, 2 May 2008, p. 629) reported that fire-derived charcoal can promote loss of forest humus and belowground carbon (C). However, C loss from charcoal-humus mixtures can be explained not only by accelerated loss of humus but also by loss of charcoal. It is also unclear whether such loss is related to mineralization to carbon dioxide or to physical export.

1Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 2Department of Dermatology, Pediatric Dermatology and Dermatological Oncology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 3Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland 4Department of Pathology, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland 5St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Ki...