BACKGROUND Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation is recommended for patients with symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) despite anti-arrhythmic drugs (AADs). Radiofrequency ablation is widely accepted as an effective treatment for PAF. Cryoenergy by cryoballoon technique is an alternative to radiofrequency (RF) ablation. Cryoballoon ablation is safe, and has a similar success rate...

Background The coservative treatment based on exercises is the main therapeutic strategy widely used for patients affected by scoliosis not particularly important and as a supporting tool in case of prescription of brace. The specific exercises are furthermore means of treating scoliosis in adults, in order to reduce pain and to contrast the progression of the curves. According to SEAS approach...

A simple, accurate and sensitive spectroscopic method has been proposed for the assay of ciprofloxacin in tablet by least square treatment of fourier transform infrared spectrometric data obtained at the wavenumber corresponding to the carbonyl group centered at 1707 cm(-1). The method involves the extraction of the active ingredient with methanol followed by phosphate buffer pH 6.0. The excipi...

Molecular Pathways Brain Database (MPDB), is a novel database for molecular information of the brain pathways and is an initiative to provide an organized platform for researchers in the field of neuro-informatics. The database currently has information from 1850 molecules for three different sensory pathways namely olfactory transduction, photo transduction and long-term potentiation. The usef...

Some factors affecting results of digoxin determinations using one commercially available radioimmunoassay kit are described and discussed. Serum of pregnant women, cord blood, amniotic fluid and serum of patients taking spironolactone may show erroneously high digoxin activity due to lack of specificity of the antiserum. Cross-reaction with digitoxin was found to vary substantially with antibo...

cancer of the stomach carries poor prognosis. surgery is the best treatment for gastric cancer. prediction of survival depends on the stage at the time of presentation. fluoroscopy, sonography, and computerized tomography are used for advanced gastric cancers staging, but they are not accurate enough to grade advanced gastric cancers. laparoscopic findings of lesions under direct vision, are ma...

The article is devoted to the study of short poems and by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet Ran (1902-1963), reflecting images Soviet Russia. analyzes frames subframes that construct image Russia; studies specificity realities Russian culture; observations, ideas impressions about way life in Russia first half 20th century; reveals correlation created with archetypes works Ran. purpose this identify la...