Abstract Introduction The CLOSE protocol is a novel contact-force guided technique for enclosing pulmonary veins in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Consistency and lesion contiguity are essential factors procedural success. We sought to determine whether left (LA) wall thickness (LAWT) vein (PV) dimensions as assessed by coronary CT angiography (CTA) could influence the efficacy of succ...

In this article we propose the novel approach to measure anthropometrical features such as height, width of shoulder, circumference of the chest, hip and waist. The sub-pixel processing and convex hull technique are used to efficiently measure the features from 2d image. The SVM technique is used to classify men and women based on measured features. The results of real data processing are prese...

BACKGROUND Obesity levels have been dramatically increased in the United Arab Emirates over the last few years. High levels of body Mass Index, waist circumference, and percent of total body fat as a measure of obesity have found to be related to cardiovascular risk factors and other diseases. Neck circumference is a new tool that has been linked to obesity. However, no studies in UAE have been...

The study analyzes the impact of a body fat mass onto body composition, as muscle mass, water mass, and bone mass of a body, and also onto such physical parameters, as the basal metabolic ratio (BMR), metabolic age, a bioimpedance in patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). The research included 58 people, of them 32 patients with NAFLD. There were studied anthropometrical indica...

BACKGROUND Gastroparesis is an important side-effect of end-stage renal disease because of its influence on nutritional status. METHODS In this study, 56 equilibrated haemodialysis patients were evaluated by radioisotopic examination for gastric emptying time. These data were correlated to anthropometrical as well as biochemical parameters. RESULTS The half-life time for gastric emptying wa...