Ventricular bigeminy refers to the appearance of paired different ventricular complexes in the body-surface ECG (Figure, A inset, lead V2). From this ECG morphology, it has been inferred that bigeminy is generated by interaction between an extrasystolic beat and a regular periodic ventricular beat.1 The regular beat is typically generated by sinus rhythm but could also be a paced rhythm. The me...

Behaviorally, children's explicit theory of mind (ToM) proceeds in a progression of mental-state understandings: developmentally, children demonstrate accurate explicit desire-reasoning before accurate explicit belief-reasoning. Given its robust and cross-cultural nature, we hypothesize this progression may be paced in part by maturation/specialization of the brain. Neuroimaging research demons...

With rapid ventricular pacing, sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) is often entrained and interrupted at a critical paced cycle length. In this paper, the possible mechanism and determinant of the critical cycle length interrupting VT are addressed. Sixteen consecutive patients underwent rapid ventricular pacing in 18 morphologically distinct sustained VTs before and after procainamide. The ...

Controlled slow breathing (at 6/min, a rate frequently adopted during yoga practice) can benefit cardiovascular function, including responses to hypoxia. We tested the neural substrates of cardiorespiratory control in humans during volitional controlled breathing and hypoxic challenge using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Twenty healthy volunteers were scanned during paced (slow a...

BACKGROUND Up to 30% of patients with heart failure do not respond to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). This may reflect placement of the coronary sinus lead in regions of slow conduction despite optimal positioning on current criteria. OBJECTIVES To characterise the effect of CRT on left ventricular activation using non-contact mapping and to examine the electrophysiological factors i...

Background: Up to 30% of patients with heart failure do not respond to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT). This may reflect placement of the coronary sinus lead in regions of slow conduction despite optimal positioning on current criteria. Objectives: To characterise the effect of CRT on left ventricular activation using non-contact mapping and to examine the electrophysiological factors i...

Electrophysiological effects of 750 mg i.v. procainamide were studied in 14 patients with dual pathway atrioventricular (A-V) nodal re-entrant paroxysmal tachycardia (PSVT). All patients utilized an A-V nodal slow pathway for antegrade and an A-V nodal fast pathway for retrograde conduction during PSVT. In all 14 patients, procainamide depressed retrograde fast pathway conduction, manifest by i...

medicine has come a long way from spark gap generators 1 , electrocautery 2 and electrosurgery 3 . High-frequency radio surgery is one of the most important and Abstract High frequency radiosurgery is one of the most important and versatile tools in dentistry in present age. It can be used in various oral surgical procedures, and also useful in establishing hemostasis. Its main advantage over o...

The techniques of cryopreservation let embryos which cannot be immediately transferred to the patient be stored for future use. The first successful pregnancy after transfer of cryopreserved human embryos was described in 1983 by Trounson et al. and the first birth after cryopreservation was later reported in 1984 by Zeilmaker et al.). The technique has rapidly been applied in most in-vitro fer...