BACKGROUND Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) can be rarely ablated from the noncoronary cusp (NCC) of the aorta. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence and the clinical, electrocardiographic, and electrophysiologic characteristics of idiopathic NCC VAs. METHODS We studied 90 consecutive patients who underwent successful catheter ablation of idiopathic a...

For efficiency reasons, Machine Translation systems are generally designed to eliminate ambiguities as early as possible even if delaying the decision would make a more informed choice possible. This paper takes the contrary view, arguing that essentially all choices should be deferred so that large numbers of competing translations will be produced in typical cases. Representing all the data s...

Charts constitute a natural uniform architecture for parsing and generation provided string position is replaced by a notion more appropriate to logical forms and that measures are taken to curtail generation paths containing semantically incomplete phrases.

BACKGROUND Idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) can originate from the left ventricular papillary muscles (PAMs). This study investigated the electrophysiological characteristics of these VAs and their relevance for the results of catheter ablation. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 19 patients who underwent successful catheter ablation of idiopathic VAs originating from the anterior (n=7) a...

The Drosophila protein Vasa (VAS) is essential maternally for posterior patterning and germ cell specification. In the developing ovary and embryo, VAS is mostly present in germline RNPs, a general term for large cytoplasmic ribonucleoprotein particles such as nuage particles and polar granules. These particles, and VAS specifically, are involved in localizing and regulating translation from as...

The rat vas deferens was removed and either transplanted alongside the soleus muscle or into the bed of the soleus muscle that had previously been removed, and in this case the soleus nerve was connected to the transplant. The vas deferens reinnervated by the somatomotor nerve recovered the best. Contractions to transmural electrical stimulation could not be elicited from the denervated vas def...

The pain relief scale (PRS) is a method that measures the magnitude of change in pain intensity after treatment. The present study aimed to evaluate the correlation between PRS and changes in pain determined by the visual analogue scale (VAS) and numerical rating scale (NRS), to confirm the evidence supporting the use of PRS. Sixty patients with chronic spinal pain that had a VAS and NRS record...

The diagnostic procedures, indications for surgery and operative techniques for carotid artery occlusive diseases are well established, but still there is a lot of controversy regarding surgery of vertebral arteries (VAs), especially kinked VAs. Even more controversy exists about indications for surgical repair of different anomalies of VAs. The role of VAs in supplying blood to the brain and t...