BACKGROUND Echocardiography has been a popular modality used to aid in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) with the modified Duke criteria. We evaluated the necessity between the uses of either a transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) or transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in patients with a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 25 kg/m(2) and less than 25 kg/m(2). METHODS ...

Despite consensus in focus on form (FOF) instruction over the facilitative role of noticing, controversy has not quelled over ways of directing EFL learners’ attention towards formal features via implicit techniques like input-enhancement or explicit metacognitive feedback and interactive peer-editing on the output they produce. This quasi-experimental study investigated the impact of input enh...

Abstract The worldwide spread of wheat yellow rust lineage PstS1/S2 adapted to higher temperatures prompted us investigate how diverse temperature responses this are in the Middle East, where diversity was previously observed within for pathotypes and genotypes. Here we highlight response a population. Twenty‐six isolates from eight countries different altitudes, which were tested under four co...

Background:   Primary bone lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma of bone is a rare disease. There are only a few case series of stage IE of this condition in medical literature. The aim of this study is to determine the rate of survival   for stage IE after combined modality treatment, the rate of local recurrence, and the results of limb salvage in cases   of local recurrence.     Methods:   We col...

One of the significant contributors to the variation of H/ M ratio in cardiac imaging, are the settings of the regions of interest (ROIs) that are used. Currently, as correctly described by Chen et al. [1, 2], there are three main approaches ROI is placed along the anterior part of the LV wall [2]. In our current ongoing study in pediatric patients by van der Palen et al.., we compared both app...