BACKGROUND There are only little data available on the comparison of clinical outcomes between a 1-stent strategy (1-SS) and a 2-stent strategy (2-SS) for percutaneous coronary intervention in unprotected distal left main disease. METHODS AND RESULTS Between April 2005 and August 2011, we recruited 937 consecutive unprotected distal left main patients treated with drug-eluting stents (1-SS, 6...

Determination of the genetic factors that control the progression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) to heart failure has been difficult despite extensive study in animal models. Here we have characterized a consomic rat model of LVH resulting from the introgression of chromosome 16 from the normotensive Brown Norway (BN) rat onto the genetic background of the Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Mcwi) r...

BACKGROUND SYNTAX score II (SS-II) has been demonstrated to predict long-term outcomes in unprotected left main or multiple vessels in patients with coronary artery disease. However, its prognostic value for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remains unknown. The poor myocardial perfusion (myocardial blush grade [MBG] 0/1) after primary percutaneous coronary interv...

OBJECTIVES Recently, autoantibodies directed against muscarinic type 3 receptor (M3R) have been reported in patients with primary SS. However, the precise epitope(s) of the M3R that interacts with SS autoantibodies remains unclear. The aim of this study was to identify the functional epitope of M3R which interacts with SS immunoglobulin G (IgG). METHODS Purified IgGs were obtained from the se...

We have two goals in this paper. One is the comparison of Spread Spectrum (SS) CDMA and Spread Time (ST) CDMA. The other is to propose a new SS-ST CDMA system, which is an adaptive CDMA with both merits of SS and ST CDMA. SS and ST CDMA are compared from the view point of two dimensional space "frequency (B Hz) time (T Sec) " together with their communication capacity. A primary modulation is a...

Laminar shear stress (SS) induces an antiproliferative and anti-inflammatory endothelial phenotype and increases Klf2 expression. We altered the diameter of an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) in the mouse model to determine whether increased fistula diameter produces disturbed SS in vivo and if acutely increased disturbed SS results in decreased Klf2 expression. The mouse aortocaval fistula model w...

Cryptic splice sites are used only when use of a natural splice site is disrupted by mutation. To determine the features that distinguish authentic from cryptic 5' splice sites (5'ss), we systematically analyzed a set of 76 cryptic 5'ss derived from 46 human genes. These cryptic 5'ss have a similar frequency distribution in exons and introns, and are usually located close to the authentic 5'ss....

OBJECTIVE To develop guidelines for performing an initial skeletal survey (SS) for children <24 months of age presenting with bruising in the hospital setting, combining available evidence with expert opinion. METHODS Applying the Rand/UCLA Appropriateness Method, a multispecialty panel of 10 experts relied on evidence from the literature and their own clinical expertise in rating the appropr...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the distribution of polymorphism of the collagen type Ialpha1 gene (COL1A1) and its relationship with bone metabolism and bone turnover in men with idiopathic osteoporosis. METHODS A total of 35 male patients with idiopathic osteoporosis, aged 50.4 +/- 10.3 yr, and 60 healthy males (controls), aged 47 +/- 17 yr, were included in the study. Serum osteocalcin, 25-hydroxyvit...

At the present time only two long-acting somatostatin (SS) analogs, octreotide and lanreotide, are commonly used in the routine therapy. Both analogs have a high affinity mainly to a somatostatin receptor subtype 2 (SSTR2). The established indications for SS analogs treatment include acromegaly, neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract, and some gastro-enterologic diseas...