OBJECTIVES Ivabradine is the first specific heart rate-lowering agent that has completed clinical development for stable angina pectoris. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of ivabradine therapy on P-wave duration, dispersion and QT duration, dispersion in coronary artery disease patients. METHODS AND RESULTS The study population consisted of 21 patients with CAD who ...

BACKGROUND Thyroid gland dysfunction and echocardiographic cardiac abnormalities are well-documented in patients with transfusion dependent beta-thalassemia major (β-TM). AIM This cross-sectional analytic study was conducted to investigate left ventricle (LV) diastolic and systolic function using pulsed Doppler (PD) and tissue Doppler (TD) echocardiography and correlate that with serum level ...

We investigate the tight-binding approximation for the dispersion of the p and p* electronic bands in graphene and carbon nanotubes. The nearest-neighbor tight-binding approximation with a fixed g0 applies only to a very limited range of wave vectors. We derive an analytic expression for the tight-binding dispersion including up to third-nearest neighbors. Interaction with more distant neighbor...

OBJECTIVE Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), atrial fibrillation (AF) and sudden cardiac death (SCD) may occur concomitantly, and are of considerable epidemiological interest, potentially leading to morbidity and mortality. Effective treatment of OSA with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) could prevent progression and/or recurrence of AF and factors leading to SCD. Recently, a randomised ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To investigate an association between left atrial (LA) structural and P wave dispersion (PWD) during sinus rhythm, and electrical remodeling in cryptogenic stroke (CS) patients. METHODS Forty CS patients and 40 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were enrolled. P wave calculations were based on 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) at a 50-mm/s-paper speed with an amplitu...

We consider a model of high-Tc superconductors with an anisotropic boson-mediated pairing mechanism corresponding to the nearest-neighbor interactions, and the one-particle dispersion relation characterized by 2D Fermi surface nesting. Based upon the tight-binding or t−J approaches with half-filling we show that the effective pairing potential coefficients and the dispersion relation, which can...

In this article we are concerned with the existence and orbital stability of traveling wave solutions of a general class of nonlocal wave equations: utt − Luxx = B(±|u|u)xx, p > 1. The main characteristic of this class of equations is the existence of two sources of dispersion, characterized by two coercive pseudo-differential operatorsL and B. Members of the class arise as mathematical models ...

I present a finite-difference method for modeling P-SV wave propagation in heterogeneous media. This is an extension of the method I previously proposed for modeling SH-wave propagation by using velocity and stress in a discrete grid. The two components of the velocity cannot be defined at the same node for a complete staggered grid: the stability condition and the P-wave phase velocity dispers...