AIMS We correlated the finding of cardioinhibitory carotid sinus hypersensitivity (CSH) with that observed during a spontaneous syncopal relapse by means of an implantable loop recorder (ILR). METHODS AND RESULTS We included 18 consecutive patients with suspected recurrent neurally mediated syncope and positive cardioinhibitory response during carotid sinus massage (max pause 5.5 +/- 1.6 s) w...

AIMS The observational PICTURE (Place of Reveal In the Care pathway and Treatment of patients with Unexplained Recurrent Syncope) registry enrolled 570 patients with unexplained syncope, documented their care pathway and the various tests they underwent before the insertion of an implantable loop recorder (ILR). The aims were to describe the extent and cost of diagnostic tests performed before ...

Inflammation is involved in the initiation and progression of several chronic lymphoid malignancies of B-cell type. Toll-like receptors (TLR) are transmembrane inflammatory receptors that on recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns trigger an innate immune response and bridge the innate and adaptive immune response by acting as costimulatory signals for B cells. Fine tuning of TLR ...

STUDY DESIGN Multi-centre, prospective observational study. OBJECTIVES Main objective is to verify the value of implantable loop recorder (ILR) in assessing the mechanism of syncope and the efficacy of the ILR-guided therapy after syncope recurrence. INCLUSION CRITERIA Patients who met the following criteria are included: suspected or definite neurally mediated syncope based on initial eval...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate interactions between acetate and glucose metabolism in sheep fed on roughage-based diets, and to establish whether the clearance rate of an intravenous acetate load would provide a valid index of the dietary acetate:glucogenic precursors ratio. In Expt 1 lambs were fed on a basal diet of wheat straw and supplemented with propionate and protein. Bo...

Instruction-Level Redundancy (ILR) is a well known approach to tolerate transient CPU faults. It replicates instructions in a program and inserts periodic checks to detect and correct CPU faults using majority voting, which essentially requires three copies of each instruction and leads to high performance overheads. As SIMD technology can operate simultaneously on several copies of the data, i...

This article contains processed data related to the research published in "Tentative application of compositional data analysis to fatty acid profiles of green Spanish-style Gordal table olives" (Garrido-Fernández et al., 2018) [1]. It provides information on the implementation of compositional data analysis (CoDa) to the fatty acid profiles of Spanish-style Gordal table olives vs the use of co...

Implantable loop recorders (ILRs) allow long-time rhythm monitoring in order to correlate unexplained symptoms with possible arrhythmias. In this case report, we describe a patient with unexplained syncope in which the ILR revealed the cause.