CONTEXT The joint cardiovascular practice guidelines of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have become important documents for guiding cardiology practice and establishing benchmarks for quality of care. OBJECTIVE To describe the evolution of recommendations in ACC/AHA cardiovascular guidelines and the distribution of recommendations across class...

BACKGROUND Radiotherapy of benign diseases is controversial and rarely applied in Anglo-American countries, whereas in other parts of the world it is commonly practiced for several benign disorders. Similar to a European survey, a patterns of care study was conducted in Germany. METHOD Using a mailed questionnaire, radiation equipment, treatment indication, number of patients, and treatment c...

TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Lyme disease (LD) is the most common tick-borne in US. Cardiac involvement occurs up to 8% of untreated cases. (1) Even though only eleven cases fatal carditis (LC) were reported worldwide between 1985 and 2019, it can be life-threatening. (2) We present a rare case LC leading cardiac arrest who was successf...

Background Concerns regarding the risk of cancer with janus kinase inhibitor (JAKi) use in patients rheumatoid arthritis (RA) escalated after release results from Pfizer’s clinical trial, ORAL Surveillance . [1] The trial showed increased risks major adverse cardiovascular events and tofacitinib compared tumour necrosis factor recipients. Precautionary considerations on JAKi high-risk subsets R...

soil and sludge samples based on it, in addition to the total elemental concentrations (Vercoutere et al., 1995; It is important to evaluate different digestion methods to accurately Quevauviller et al., 1993). In many countries (excluding determine elemental concentrations in soils. Three commonly used digestion procedures, hotplate aqua regia, microwave aqua regia, and the USA), this procedur...

Epithelia serve as barriers to the diffusion of solutes between body compartments, and must do so despite the frequent loss of cells. When single cells are experimentally removed from the Necturus gallbladder epithelium, contiguous cells migrate to fill the defect within 30 min. Electrophysiological measurements show that the local electrical resistance across the epithelium in the region of a ...

According to who fact sheet of 2013, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have low vision. With 82% of blind population being 50 years old or above, there are many who have lived majority of their lives with an inability to do tasks like read, write or walk without help. This paper describes the implementation of Raspberry based assistive aid for visually impaired users using speeded up ...

HomePlant DiseaseVol. 105, No. 9First Report of Epicoccum tobaicum Associated with Leaf Spot on Flowering Cherry in South Korea PreviousNext DISEASE NOTE OPENOpen Access licenseFirst KoreaV.-C. Han, N. H. Yu, Yoon, Y. K. Son, B.-H. Lee, and J.-C. KimV.-C. HanDepartment Agricultural Chemistry, Institute Environmentally Friendly Agriculture, College Agriculture Life Sciences, Chonnam National Uni...

Using biomass as a sustainable, renewable energy source can be part of a solution for reducing dependence on fossil fuel–based energy and mitigating global warming, and both the production and use of biofuels made from biomass have increased. Biofuel production creates not only biofuel or ethanol, but also co-products containing lignin, modified lignin, and lignin derivatives. The use of these ...