Objective—To examine long termmorbidity and mortality following atrial inflow corrective procedures for transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and to investigate factors that influence morbidity and mortality. Design—Retrospective cohort study from a single centre. Setting—Cardiology and cardiothoracic surgical unit in a large tertiary referral centre. Patients—All 130 patients who had TGA d...

Introduction: Cardiac myxoma is a benign and rare tumor, which can present with a grim phenomenon if the presentation is late or the diagnosis and surgery are delayed. The purpose of this study was to share our institutional experience of cardiac myxoma. Material and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted to evaluate patients undergoing procedures at a single tertiary care centre for t...

Highly automated driving will likely result in drivers being out-of-the-loop during specific scenarios and engaging a wide range of non-driving related tasks. Manifesting lower levels risk perception to emerging events, thus affect drivers’ availability take-over manual control safety-critical scenarios. In this empirical research, we measured (N = 20) with cardiac skin conductance indicators t...

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is considered as the most important cause of mortality among men and women throughout the world. This condition causes sudden cardiac arrest in more than half of the cases. To reduce mortality due to this disease, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and the determinants of its success are the focus of researchers. Objective: The aim of this study was to det...

introduction: to study the effect of gallic acid (ga) on hippocampal long-term potentiation (ltp) and histological changes in animal model of alzheimer disease (ad) induced by betaamyloid (aβ). methods: sixty-four adult male wistar rats (300±20 g) were divided into 8 groups: 1) control (cont); 2) ad; 3) sham; 4-7) ad+ga (50, 100, and 200 mg/kg for 10 days, orally) or vehicle, 8) cont+ga100, aβ ...

achillea millefolium belonging to the astreaceae family is an endangered medicinal plant of jordan and of its neighboring countries. as an alternative to seed propagation, an efficient micropropagation of a. millefolium and its subsequent rooting were developed as an option for its in vitro conservation. a maximum of 5.9 shoots per microshoot were obtained on murashige and skoog agar medium sup...

BACKGROUND Elevation of cardiac troponin has been documented in multiple settings without acute coronary syndrome. However, its impact on long-term cardiac outcomes in the context of acute decompensated diabetes remains to be explored. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 872 patients admitted to Temple University Hospital from 2004-2009 with DKA or HHS. Patients were included if ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the long term clinical outcome (up to 11 years) after coronary stenting. DESIGN A single centre observational study encompassing 1000 consecutive patients with a first stent implantation (1560 stents) between 1986 and 1996, who were followed for at least one year with a median follow up of 29 months (range 12-132 months). RESULTS Up to July 1997 the cumulative incidenc...