fractions and congestive heart failure. Il-forming pathways in normal and failing human hearts Circ Res 1990; 66: 883-90. [3] Urata H, Boehm KD, Philip A et al. Cellular localization and regional distribution of an angiotensin Il-forming chymase in the heart. el al. Progression of left ventricular dysfunction during enalapril therapy: relationship with neuro-hormonal reac-tivation. Myocardial f...

The aim was to analyze the causes of sudden death in middle-aged and elderly men during manual snow removal. During snowy winter months in Zagreb, from January 2013 to January 2014, four males aged 52, 65, 72 and 81, died suddenly while manually removing snow. They were all autopsied. All of them have suffered from arterial hypertension and coronary heart disease, and one suffered from metaboli...

W e report the case of a 71-year-old male patient with a history of heart transplantation 26 years previously. He presented with severe right-sided heart failure due primarily to high-grade tricuspid regurgitation (TR) caused by flail of the septal leaflet due to chordal rupture (Figures 1A to 1C, Online Video 1). Chordal rupture might have been due to multiple myocardial biopsies following hea...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the assessment of ascending aortic atherosclerosis with 16-multidetector computed tomography (16-MDCT) angiography prior to total endoscopic coronary artery bypass (TECAB) surgery. METHODS Forty-five patients were examined with electrocardiogram-gated, 16-MDCT angiography. The presence of atherosclerosis at the ascending aorta was gradua...

The effect of moisture content and loading rate on mechanical strength of 12 brown rice grain varieties was determined. The results showed that the rupture force of brown rice grain decreased by increasing the moisture content and loading rate. The highest rupture force values was obtained at the moisture content of 8% (w.b.) and loading rate of 10 mm/min; while the lowest rupture force corresp...

We present a 2D dynamic rupture model that provides a physical interpretation of the key features of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake rupture. This minimalistic model assumes linear slip-weakening friction, the presence of deep asperities and depth-dependent initial stresses. It reproduces the first-order observations of the alongdip rupture process during its initial 100 s, such as large static ...

background: uterine rupture at the site of a previous cesarean scar is an uncommon but catastrophic complication of pregnancy, which is associated with significant maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. case presentation: a 30-year old woman at 24th week of gestation and complaint of pain, contractions and spotting was admitted in royan institute in tehran, iran. she had a past medical his...

We perform numerical simulations of dynamic rupture processes along the North Anatolian fault in the Sea of Marmara, which poses a high risk to the nearby city of Istanbul. Several fault geometry models, nucleation points, and initial stress states are tested. The likelihood of each earthquake scenario is evaluated, and a probabilistic assessment of the ground-motion estimation is proposed. The...

Earthquakes in deeply subducted oceanic lithosphere can involve either brittle or dissipative ruptures. On 24 November 2015, two deep (606 and 622 km) magnitude 7.5 and 7.6 earthquakes occurred 316 s and 55 km apart. The first event (E1) was a brittle rupture with a sequence of comparable-size subevents extending unilaterally ~50 km southward with a rupture speed of ~4.5 km/s. This earthquake t...