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Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Very high-power short-duration (vHPSD) temperature-controlled radiofrequency ablation minimizes conductive heating and increase resistive heating, achieving uniform transmural lesion while reducing the risk collateral tissue damages. The shape vHPSD lesion, wider shallower than standard radiofrequency, raises some conce...

BACKGROUND The efficacy of transcatheter cryoablation for ventricular tachycardia (VT) remains controversial because of the limited size of the lesion produced. An increased lesion size if the cryoablation catheter profile and catheter tip length were increased was hypothesized. METHODS AND RESULTS Closed-chest transcatheter cryoablation was applied with 7F, 6-mm tip (n=11, 7F group) and 9F, ...

Following the significant advances in neuroradiology, it has been now recognized that an intracranial arteriovenous malformation (AVM) lesion and vascular aneurysm(s) might coexist more often than estimated before. A58-yearold female seen due to a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) was subsequently shown to have an AVM lesion fed by the pericallosal frontopolar, M1 segment of the middle cerebral art...

In the guinea pig, a unilateral labyrinthectomy is followed by an initial depression and a subsequent restoration of the spontaneous activity in the neurons of the ipsilateral vestibular nuclei. In two previous works, we have established the time course of these changes in the alert guinea pig using electrical stimulation as a search stimulus to select the analyzed neurons. The latter criterion...

A 35-year-old woman presented with dyspnea, recurrent laryngitis and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Laryngoscopic examination revealed a yellow lesion on the anterior site of the left true vocal cord. No abnormal lesions were found in other portions of the larynx. The lesion was biopsied and a histological examination showed numerous foamy cells diffusely presented in the stroma of the specim...

Colorectal polyps of mesenchymal origin are a rare group of colorectal disorders. A "mucosal Schwann-cell hamartoma," which is one type of polypoid lesion that originates from the mesenchyme, is a newly-proposed disease entity to be distinguished from the neurofibromas found in type-1 neurofibromatosis. This lesion is composed of pure Schwann-cell proliferation in the lamina propria and shows d...

Recent studies suggest that the forebrain contributes to the circulatory derangements leading to heart failure after myocardial injury. We tested that hypothesis by examining the effect of myocardial infarction (MI) or sham MI (MI-s) on neurohumoral regulation in rats with prior anteroventral (AV) third ventricle lesion (AV3V-x) or sham lesion (AV3V-s). AV3V-s/MI rats had higher sodium intake, ...

UNLABELLED A 45-year-old female patient was referred to our hospital for complaining of dyspnea and coughing in the past four months. The computed tomography scanning demonstrated a central lesion in the upper lobe of the left lung close to the hilar, and the subsequent bronchoscopy revealed a polypoid lesion of the distal of the left main bronchus. This patient was diagnosed clinically as "pos...

s: Gorodetskaya N., Constantin C., Jänig W. Cold but nor warm and tactile allodynia is observed following tibial nerve lesion in rats. European Journal of Physiology. 441, Suppl. 6, R 219, 2001 Gorodetskaya N., Constantin C., Jänig W. Ectopic thermosensitivity of regenerating afferent fibers in the rat. European Journal of Physiology. 441, Suppl.6, R 218, 2001 Gorodetskaya N., Constantin C., Jä...