47-year-old man with dilated cardiomyopathy, ambulatory left ventricular assist device (Heartmate II, Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, CA), and biventricular pacemaker/ implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) (St. Jude Medical, St Paul, MN) presented with syncope to a local hospital. He was hemodynamically stable and otherwise asymptomatic. His electrolyte panel was unremarkable. Initial ...

A 77-year-old immobilized woman presented with a hard, palpable and fixed mass over the greater trochanter. Subsequent Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) revealed a subcutaneous mass lesion abutting the iliotibial band. On T1-weighted images (WI), the lesion was isointense to muscle (white arrow), with a central focus of high signal intensity (SI) (Fig. A, axial T1-WI). Fat suppressed (FS) T2-WI ...

Rev Esp Cardiol 2003;56(5):509 509 The patient was a 75-year-old man with a history of poorly-controlled hypertension. Eight years earlier he had had acute aortic syndrome. Transesophageal echocardiography revealed the presence of an intramural hematoma involving the descending thoracic aorta. In view of his left hemothorax, an end-to-end aortic graft was performed. On the first follow-up visit...

Three experiments assessed the effects of prime-processing instructions on associative priming in word identification and episodic memory for primes. In Experiment 1, groups instructed to read the prime silently or generate silently an associate of the prime showed a larger accuracy benefit for related over unrelated targets than did a group that decided whether an asterisk was to the right or ...

A60-year-old man, 4 years after an anterior myocardial infarction at the middle segment of the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD), underwent coronary angiography (CAG) because of severe continuous chest pain for .3 hours 3 weeks earlier. CAG revealed no significant stenosis but showed a wall fissure with a double-contrast opacification at the proximal segment of the LAD (short arrow...

This paper presents a method to generate high quality triangular or quadrilateral meshes that uses direction fields and a frontal point insertion strategy. Two types of direction fields are considered: asterisk fields and cross fields. With asterisk fields we generate high quality triangulations, while with cross fields we generate right-angled triangulations that are optimal for transformation...

A 69-year-old male heavy smoker had intermittent haemoptysis for 1 month. He did not have exertional dyspnoea, palpitations or chest pain. Chest radiography showed a mass over the right lower lung (RLL). A CT scan of the chest revealed a dumbbell-shaped tumour with an irregular mass in the RLL field, with a tubular part extending along the right inferior pulmonary vein (fig 1A, arrowheads) and ...

The Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL, http://ascl.net/) is an online registry of over 700 source codes that are of interest to astrophysicists, with more being added regularly. The ASCL actively seeks out codes as well as accepting submissions from the code authors, and all entries are citable and indexed by ADS. All codes have been used to generate results published in or submitted to a ...

A 35-year-old woman presented at the emergency department with the symptoms of shortness of breath and palpitations. Her medical history was unremarkable. Auscultation revealed a localized, high frequency, 2/6 pansystolic murmur at the third and fourth left intercostal spaces. The 12-lead electrocardiogram indicated a normal sinus rhythm. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed mild mitral regu...