OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the efficacy of 6-mm Cutting Balloon angioplasty in patients with resistant peripheral stenoses caused by neointimal hyperplasia or irradiation-induced arteriopathy in vascular territories that are not amenable for use of the smaller Cutting Balloons that are used in cardiology. CONCLUSION Peripheral Cutting Balloon angioplasty with the new ...

Mountain beech (Nothofagus solandri var. solandri) trunk diameters were measured in each of two catchments, a control, and a stream catchment (a putative lahar path), to assess the vulnerability of a hut sited on the Wakapapaiti Stream, Tongariro National Park, to disturbance events. Beech forest margins were more abrupt, terraced, and were adjacent to rocky areas in the stream catchment, while...

Nutritional value of freshwater mesozooplankton, fatty acid (FA) and amino acid (AA) compositions were determined in the middle of each season for a one-year period from May 2009 to February 2010 in Hanna Dam Lake, Isfahan, Iran. FA and AA composition significantly (P<0.05) varied in relation to the seasonal changes of water quality, phytoplankton and zooplankton community. The content of satur...

in order to evaluate the quantitative and qualitative forage characteristics of different sainfoin ecotypes, a field experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design (rcbd) with three replications at the research station of agricultural college of shahrekord university. in this experiment, the amount of wet and dry weight of above-ground plants, plant height, and the protein and f...

in order to study the source limitation and contribution of pre-anthesis assimilates to grain in dual-purpose (forage and grain) barley, a field experiment was carried out in iran, ahvaz region. the experimental design was split plot in randomized complete block with three replications. application rates of nitrogen at four levels (60, 120, 180 and 220 kg.ha-1 n) were as main plots, while sub p...

in order to investigate the effects of two sowing time (middle of may and early june) and four plant density (8, 12, 16 and 20 plants.m-2) on yield and essential oil content of peppermint at two cutting stages, an experiment was conducted at the research farm of the faculty of agriculture, university of tabriz during growing season of 2003-2004. these treatments were performed as factorial base...