Determinants of Acute and Late Pulmonary Vein Reconnection in Contact Force–Guided Pulmonary Vein Isolation: Identifying the Weakest Link in the Ablation Chain Milad El Haddad, MSc, PhD; Philippe Taghji, MD; Thomas Phlips, MD; Michael Wolf, MD; Anthony Demolder, MD; Rajin Choudhury, MD; Sébastien Knecht, MD, PhD; Yves Vandekerckhove, MD; Rene Tavernier, MD, PhD; Hiroshi Nakagawa, MD, PhD; Matti...

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney (ADPKD) is the most common genetically determined kidney disease of Mendelian inheritance. It has a variable prevalence, depending on case series, from 1:1,000 to 1:2,500, and represents fourth cause renal failure in world. part so-called ciliopathies mainly caused by mutation two genes: PKD1, located chromosome 16p PKD2 gene, 4q coding for Polycystin-2 (PC2...

Richard Boyd's "Reading Student Resistance" and his earlier JAC article "Imitate Me; Don't Imitate Me" have convinced me that Rene Girard's theory of mimetic desire may have much to teach us about the dynamics of composition. Both articles offer an impressive analysis of imitation as a moment of coercion and "double bind" for students and teacher. In my view, Boyd's most significant insight con...