Considering that it is perhaps the most celebrated passage in the whole history of medical science, it is not surprising that the opening lines of chapter 8 of William Harvey's De motu cordis' have attracted a good deal of attention from scholars. It is in this passage, after all, that we get Harvey's own account ofthe sequence of his thoughts as he came upon the idea that the blood might have ...

Dual left anterior interventricular coronary artery (also called left anterior descending artery, hereafter referred as LAD) is a rare congenital coronary artery anomaly. Notably, type IV dual LAD has never been reported in Koreans. During a routine dissection, a new variant of type IV dual LAD was found in a 57-year-old Korean male cadaver, whose cause of death was unknown. One LAD originated ...

Pentalogy of Cantrell is a rare malformation described in the literature. We report a case of pentalogy of Cantrell associated with left limb deficiency in a twin pregnancy. The fetus with multiple anomalies revealed kyphosis, ectopia cordis, and a large defect with protruding liver and bowel loops at 12 weeks and 3 days of gestational age on ultrasound scan. The other fetus was ultrasonographi...

We thank Drs Daniels and Burns for pointing out that coronary artery aneurysms were not included on the “Guidelines for Pathological Diagnosis.” The list was not meant to be inclusive, and many pathological entities that cause sudden cardiac death (SCD) in athletes, but not represented in this cohort, were not included. Other diagnoses assigned as a cause of death, but not included in the guide...

PURPOSE To investigate clinical, anatomic and electroretinographic changes in eyes that suffered blunt ocular trauma with commotio retinae. METHODS Patients who presented commotio retinae after unilateral blunt ocular trauma less then 72 hours before were submitted to visual acuity testing, biomicroscopy, binocular indirect ophthalmoscopy, fluorescein angiography, optical coherence tomography...

A 43-year-old healthy Amish man presented to the emergency department with a history of blunt trauma to the chest following a horse kick. The blunt trauma happened 6 hours before presentation. He also reported loss of consciousness for a brief period of 5 minutes. After regaining consciousness, he experienced constant dull ache in his chest that radiated to his left shoulder. He presented to th...

he review by Dr. Halabchi, et al [1] is an excellent summary and reiteration of the importance of the addition of ECG screening to the pre-participation exam (PPE) for athletic competition. To pioneer this campaign in Asia, is a noble endeavor and is no small feat. As highlighted by this review, the general consensus for enforcing ECG as a requisite for participation varies greatly by the gover...

When blunt trauma causes anterior posterior globe compression and then expansion of the globe in horizontal manner, a tear of the inner choroid along with Bruch’s membrane and the RPE will form due to inflexible nature of these tissues in contrast to sclera and retina that they don’t frequently rupture in blunt trauma. Choroidal ruptures can have crescent shape and can be isolated or multiple, ...

Similarity searching in text databases with multiple field types is still an open problem. We experimented with CORDIS and we evaluated the effectiveness of many text retrieval methods in terms of precision, recall and ranking quality.