Vascular access has been the Achilles heel of hemodialysis for many years, and placement of temporary subclavian and internal jugular vein catheters has been a daily practice for the nephrologist. Now, concern about central vein stenosis, well described with the use of subclavian catheters in end-stage renal disease (ESRD), has prompted the use of internal jugular vein permanent catheters to av...

background: limited data available about the mechanisms of dysphagia and areas involving swallow after brain damage; accordingly it is hard to predict which cases are more likely to develop swallowing dysfunction based on the neuroimaging. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between brain lesions and dysphagia in a sample of acute conscious stroke patients. materials and m...

mucormycosis is a rare opportunistic fungal infection that can implicate cranial sinuses, brain, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and skin. although it can occur in patients with competent and incompetent immunity such as patients with diabetes mellitus, lymphoma, leukemia and burns, but it has an aggressive, malignant and lethal course in patients with incompetent immunity. to enforce the importa...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is characterized by fibrofatty replacement in the myocardium progressing from epicardium towards endocardium and affecting primarily ventricle (RV). Little data available on distribution RV electrical abnormalities at era epicardial high-resolution mapping. Purpose ...