The incidences of arterial dissection of the vertebral artery (VA) of aortic origin and VA of subclavian artery origin were determined. The origins of the left and right VAs were confirmed by angiography in 860 and 717 patients, respectively. Left VA of aortic origin was found in 21 patients (6 females and 15 males) but no right VA of aortic origin was found. Left VA of left subclavian artery o...

Copyright: © 2013 Rino Y, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abnormal vitamin metabolism after gastric surgery for gastric cancer has been reported over the past 20 years. Castle factor def...

Three new blue-emitting compounds of 5P-VA, 5P-VTPA, and 5P-DVTPA for organic light-emitting diode (OLED) based on hexaphenylbenzene moiety were demonstrated. Physical properties by the change of the substitution groups of the synthesized materials were systematically examined. Photoluminescence spectrum of the synthesized materials showed maximum emitting wavelengths of about 400 to 447 nm in ...

3001.1 Pur pose. The pur pose of this chap ter is to pro tect per sons, build ings and the con tents thereof from haz ards aris ing from the use of el e va tors, dumb wait ers, ma te rial lifts, es ca la tors and mov ing walks by es tab lish ing min i mum re quire ments reg u lat ing the de sign, con struc tion, al ter ation, op er a tion and main te nance of el e va tors, dumb wait ers, ma te ...

I n this issue of iJACC, Disertori et al. (1) present a meta-analysis of the association between myocardial scar detected by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) with late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) and ventricular arrhythmia (VA) risk. The study included 2,850 patients from 19 different studies and 423 arrhythmic events over a median 2.8 years of follow-up. The authors defined a composite arrhyt...

We introduce the network response problem (Su et al. 2014): given a network G = (V,E) and an action a, predict the subnetworkGa = (Va, Ea) that responses to the action, that is, which nodes v ∈ Va perform the action, and which directed edges e = (v, u) ∈ Ea relay the action from v to an adjacency node u. We assume that G is directed, and any undirected network can be seen as a special case. We ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence, gender- and age-related differences, ablation success rate and inter-relationship between the origins of the idiopathic ventricular arrhythmias (I-VA) have not been clarified. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 625 consecutive patients with symptomatic, drug resistant I-VA (315 males and 310 females; mean age, 54 ± 17 years; 218 ventricular tachycardias, 407 premature v...

Meyer et al—Herbal Therapy in Heart Failure Renee Meyer, MD, is an assistant professor of general internal medicine and geriatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston. She is medical director of hospital-based primary care at the affiliated Veterans Administration (VA) hospital and has a private practice for general medicine and natural remedies. She has authored/coau...