toxin, have been commonly used for the treatment of congestive heart failure and other cardiac diseases. In addition to the narrow therapeutic range of the serum digitalis glycosides, their bioavailability is easily affected by kidney or liver failure and the dosing of other medicines. Therefore, it is important to accurately measure the digitalis glycosides in sera from digitalized patients. D...

Le recueil manuscrit des Chroniques du Samedi regroupe lettres et poésies échangées dans le cercle de Madeleine Scudéry, entre septembre 1653 février 1654. L’article se penche sur la manière dont s’y règle l’« ordre temps », en surimpression rencontres hebdomadaires groupe l’ouvrage entend conserver trace projeter l’image.

The prescription book of Jeremaih Webbe, apothecary, illuminates the medical practices of a number of Oxford physicians, including those of Thomas Willis, Francis Barkesdale, and William Conyers. It provides an indication of the nature of the illness present in Oxford, especially among the students of the University, in the years 1653 and 1654.

Ra-id Abdulla (ed.), Heart Diseases in Children: A Pediatrician’s Guide, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-7994-0_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Ra-id Abdulla (*) Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Room 763 Jones, Chicago, IL 60612, USA e-mail: [email protected] Chapter 2 Cardiac Interpretation of Pediatric Chest...

* Corresponding Author: Karim A. Diab MD FACC Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Rush University Medical Center 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, USA Tel: +1 312 942 6800, Fax: +1 312 942 6801; E-Mail: [email protected] Fax +1 203 785 3346 E-Mail: [email protected] http://structuralheartdisease.org/ © 2016 Journal of Structural Heart Disease Published by Science Intern...

Abstract The first four (out of eight) books Daniello Bartoli’s (1608–85) officially commissioned Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù , dedicated to Asia were devoted recounting the miraculous deeds Francis Xavier (1506–52). A century after his death, and thirty years canonization, was still an influential role model for all Jesuits (especially those who desired become missionaries in “Indies”). Ba...

Effects of Tourniquet Technique, Order of Draw, and Sample Storage on Plasma Fibrinogen, Robert S. Rosenson,* Beth A. Staffileno, and Christine C. Tangney (Preventive Cardiol. Center, Lipoprotein and Hemorheol. Res. Facility, Depts. of Med., Pathol., and Clin. Nutr., Rush– Presbyterian–St. Luke’s Med. Center, 1653 W. Congress Pkwy., Chicago, IL 60612; *author for correspondence: fax 312-226-701...

We examined whether common single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in SULT1A1 (c.779G>A, *14A>G, and *85C>T) and SULT1E1 (IVS1-447C>A, IVS4-1653T>C, and *959G>A) genes influenced the risk and survival of breast cancer. Our study population consisted of 989 histologically confirmed sporadic breast cancer patients and 1,054 controls without history of cancer recruited from three teaching hospitals ...