AIMS The aim of this prospective study was to determine long-term prognostic value of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) combined with high-dose dipyridamole stress echocardiography (DSE) in patients undergoing diagnostic work-up for stable coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS A total of 202 consecutive patients (67% males, age 57±8 years) with suspected or known stable CAD schedule...

Perinatal care advances emerging over the past twenty years have helped to diminish the mortality and severe neurological morbidity of extremely and very preterm neonates (e.g., cystic Periventricular Leukomalacia [c-PVL] and Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage - Intraventricular Hemorrhage [GMH-IVH grade 3-4/4]; 22 to < 32 weeks of gestational age, GA). However, motor and/or cognitive disabilities asso...

The single-machine scheduling problem with a weight-modifying-activity (WMA) to minimize the total weighted completion time was initially addressed by Mosheiov and Oron in 2020, where activity an option, once performed, weights of subsequent jobs become decreased. This has proven be NP-hard. Following their study, we propose two mixed integer linear programming models (model_1 model_2). Based o...

our main objective in the present study was to assess the spatial variation of chemical and physical water properties. prior to the design of groundwater quality monitoring networks, it is essential to investigate the spatial structure of the groundwater quality variables. a case study is presented which used ground water quality observations from groundwater domestic wells in the dameghan, ira...

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BACKGROUND Dobutamine associated left ventricular (LV) wall motion analyses exhibit reduced sensitivity for detecting inducible ischemia in individuals with increased LV wall thickness. This study was performed to better understand the mechanism of this reduced sensitivity in the elderly who often manifest increased LV wall thickness and risk factors for coronary artery disease. METHODS Durin...

The goal of this study was to review the prognostic value of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging findings for future cardiovascular events in patients with a recent myocardial infarction (MI) and patients with suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD). Although the diagnostic value of CMR findings is established, the independent prognostic association with future cardiovascular even...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of measuring coronary flow velocity (CFV) by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography (TTDE) in the left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD) during contrast-enhanced dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE). We also assessed the value of TTDE for detecting stress-induced myocardial ischemia in the LAD territory. BACKGROU...

Cracking is one of the primary distresses for asphalt pavements. There are many types laboratory tests developed to evaluate cracking performance material, however, relatively little attention has been dedicated evaluating and correlating measured properties with actual pavement performance. The main objective this study investigate relationships between various binder/mixture (including both f...

BACKGROUND Imaging stress tests are not ideally accurate to predict anatomically obstructive CAD, leading to a non-trivial rate of unnecessary iCA. This may depend on the threshold used to indicate iCA, and maybe CTA or, one step earlier, CT calcium score could spare most unnecessary iCA in only mildly positive cSE. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of contrast stress-echocardiography (cSE) i...