To assess the safety of direct infarct angioplasty without antecedent thrombolytic therapy, catheterization laboratory and hospital events were assessed in consecutively treated patients with infarctions involving the left anterior descending (n = 100 patients), right (n = 100), and circumflex (n = 50) coronary arteries. The groups of patients were similar for age (left anterior descending coro...

UNLABELLED Between May 1974 and December 1993, 37 patients (0.75%) with a double-chambered right ventricle underwent surgical repair. The patients ranged in age from 11 months to 12 years (mean 4 +/- 1.1 years). Cardiac catheterization was performed in 36 patients. The proximal right chamber pressure was 118 +/- 10 mmHg and the mean ventricular gradient pressure was 75 +/- 10 mmHg. A ventricula...

To explore the neural networks used for Braille reading, we measured regional cerebral blood flow with PET during tactile tasks performed both by Braille readers blinded early in life and by sighted subjects. Eight proficient Braille readers were studied during Braille reading with both right and left index fingers. Eight-character, non-contracted Braille-letter strings were used, and subjects ...

The present study evaluates the participation of the vagus nerve in pre-pubertal rats with unilateral ovariectomy on puberty onset, and on progesterone, testosterone and estradiol serum levels, and the compensatory responses of the ovary. Unilateral vagotomy did not modify the onset of puberty in unilaterally ovariectomized rats. Ovulation rates of animals with the left vagus nerve sectioned an...

The holy Quran has put “calling people to do good deeds” [or calling people to an act of benevolence] besides and prior to “commanding rightand forbidding wrong”, [or commanding beneficence and forbidding maleficence]. However in many interpretive and jurisprudential books, no sufficient effort has been made to elaborate the difference features between these two and their results, whose  manife...

this report describes a case of an eight years old girl who was treated for complicated crown fracture of right maxillary central incisor because of a sport accident. for the tooth total pulpotomy was performed in order to achieve apexogenesis and the tooth was restored with a composite resin. the patient was reviewed over 10 years. at first the tooth showed continued root development and compl...

superficial acral fibromyxoma are rare soft tissue tumors predominantly involving hands and feet of adults. there are only a few reported cases of this benign neoplasm, but no fnac diagnosis of this tumor is reported in the literature. a forty-eight year old female presented with a 5 x 3.5 cm globular, firm swelling over the right fifth toe. fine needle aspiration cytology (fnac) of the lesion ...

A 42-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer and hepatic metastatic disease underwent insertion of an implantable venous access catheter into the right subclavian vein (Seldinger technique). After eight months of treatment it was decided to remove the catheter due to reported possible thrombosis and obstruction. The patient was totally asymptomatic. A preoperative chest X-ray was consist...

means group B in (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e). (a) Each FA value of A and B in the right GCM, left GCM, right GCL, left GCL, right SOL, left SOL, right AT and left AT was 0.34 and 0.33, 0.34 in A and 0.33 in B, 0.36 and 0.35, 0.36 and 0.35, 0.33 and 0.32, 0.34 and 0.34, 0.37 and 0.37, 0.39 and 0.38, respectively. All FA values showed no statistically significant differences between group A and B...

The number of threshold functions of eight variables is counted by ILLIAC II, the computer of the University of Illinois. Sets of optimum weights of majority elements realizing these functions also are investigated. Actually, canonical positive self-dual threshold functions of nine variables are investigated instead of directly investigating threshold functions of eight variables because it is ...