PPARs: Protectors or Opponents of Myocardial Function? by Christine J. Pol, Melissa Lieu, Konstantinos Drosatos

“…Over 5 million people in the United States suffer from the complications of heart failure (HF), which is a rapidly expanding health complication. …”
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Trajectoires d’adaptation face au changement climatique : analyse et transformation du système de gouvernance du massif ardennais by Jon Marco Church

“…The Ardennes are a mountain forest area in the heart of Europe. It is fundamental for this mountain area to be able to anticipate climate change and its expected impacts. …”
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Commentary to F-GP1, a Novel PET Tracer Designed for High-Sensitivity, Low-Background Detection of Thrombi: Imaging Activated Platelets in Clots—Are We Getting There? by Andrew W. Stephens MD, PhD, Norman Koglin PhD, Ludger M. Dinkelborg PhD

“…Thrombus formation can lead to heart attacks, stroke and pulmonary embolism, which are major causes of mortality. …”
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Wenckebach Block due to Hyperkalemia: A Case Report by Aparajita Sohoni, Berenice Perez, Amandeep Singh

“…Potentially lethal dysrhythmias associated with hyperkalemia include complete heart block and Mobitz Type II second-degree AV block. …”
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An Incidentally Detected Right Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm by Vamsi C. Gaddipati, Angel I. Martin, Mauricio O. Valenzuela, Asef Mahmud, Aarti A. Patel

“…Ahead, we describe a patient who presents with acute decompensated heart failure and was incidentally discovered to have a large right ventricular pseudoaneurysm that developed following previous traumatic anterior rib fracture.…”
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PPARγ and Its Role in Cardiovascular Diseases by Mini Chandra, Sumitra Miriyala, Manikandan Panchatcharam

“…However, they are also associated with adverse cardiovascular events such as congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction. This review aims to discuss the role of PPARγ in the various cardiovascular diseases and summarize the current knowledge on PPARγ agonists from multiple clinical trials. …”
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Biodegradable annuloplasty rings: evolution, characteristics and surgical technique by N. V. Shatelen, A. Kalangos

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“Revealing what cannot be spoken” – Gabriel Josipovici’s Short Stories as Illustrations of Transcendental Negativity by Werner Wolf

“…In conclusion, the essay presents a brief survey of new developments in Josipovici’s short fiction as represented by his most recent short story collection Heart’s Wings and Other Stories (2010).…”
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République ou commune de Marseille ? Des usages politiques médiévalistes révélateurs de la construction de l’objet historique by Pierre Vey

“…This paper aims to assess how history, as a science, has participated in producing and disseminating a set of representations stemming from medievalism which lies at the heart of the leftist vision of Marseille’s identity. …”
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Arcadia (1993) de Tom Stoppard : la passion du bilan by Nicole Boireau

“…Stoppard combines the comedy of manners form with the whodunit to build a trompe-l’œil play, based on a dual time structure, involving both literary figures from the past and present-day intellectuals, who try to work out the enigmas at the heart of the play. Arcadia’s textual nature is based on the mise en scène of language. …”
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Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Atrial Septum in a Patient Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery by Thomas Strecker, Michael Weyand, Abbas Agaimy

“…Here, we present the successful surgical resection of such a massive LHAS which was found incidentally on preoperative investigation of a 71-year-old patient with progressive coronary heart disease. Histology confirmed the diagnosis of lipomatous hypertrophy of the atrial septum. …”
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Dent de loup et cœur de cerf : observations sur la place de l’animal dans l’idéologie de la guerre et du sacrifice à Teotihuacan by Nicolas Latsanopoulos

“…Wolf tooth and deer heart : observations about animal importance in warfare and sacrificial ideology at Teotihuacan. …”
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ANALYSIS OF DIESEL ENGINE CYLINDER LINER DEFORMATION BASED ON THE MULTI-FIELD COUPLING METHOD by WU LiMin, YAO GuoZhong, BI YuHua, ZHANG Ning, WANG Hui, LU FeiFei, LEI JiLin

“…The result show that temperature distribution of cylinder liner is not uniform, the highest temperature located in the top of the first cylinder liner; The deformation is relatively small under mechanical loads and the maximum value appeared in the thrust side of the top of the forth cylinder liner; The deformation is heart-shaped under coupled loads, the maximum value appeared in the top of the forth cylinder liner and close to the direction of flywheel, the thermal loads are predominant.…”
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La possibilité d’une île : la mythologie du Bronx, archipel enchanté, dans trois textes autobiographiques de Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

“…Jerome Charyn recently published an autobiographical trilogy (The Dark Lady from Belorusse, 1997; The Black Swan, 2000 and Bronx Boy, 2007) in which the main focus, more than his adored and fascinating mother at the heart of the story, more than Charyn’s childhood and adolescence, is the Bronx. …”
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Le paysage dans l’action publique : du patrimoine au bien commun by Anne Sgard

“…The landscape is now part of local public policies, often displayed at the very heart of territorial projects. But the debate remains wide open when it comes to specifying what should be the use of “landscape" and to determine with which particular value, in order to legitimize the thematic of landscape in the building of the territorial project. …”
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Le « regard situant » : proposition de méthode d’analyse du regard en situation de recherche by Gilles Séraphin

“…The situation in which one finds oneself “in this” situating gaze is double: it is a state in which one finds oneself as a subject placed at the heart of a situation (temporal and spatial) and a mental space in which one positions oneself as an observer, from the outside, this situation. …”
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Fechamento Percutâneo de Canal Arterial Persistente em uma Gêmea Unida: Relato de Caso by Paulo Correia Calamita, Jonathan Guimarães Lombardi, Mayra Rosana Palmeira Barreto, Orlando Carlos Barbosa, Maurício Lopes Prudente, Zacarias Calil Hamu, Giulliano Gardenghi

“…No presente relato de caso, demonstramos o primeiro fechamento percutâneo bem-sucedido do canal arterial com o dispositivo Piccolo© (Abbot Structural Heart, Plymouth, MN, EUA) nesse tipo de situação clínica.…”
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The Child as a Surrogate for Diagnosis of Lupus in the Mother by Olufemi O. Adelowo, Kenneth A. Ohagwu, Ejiehi E. Aigbokhan, Richard O. Akintayo

“…Pediatric echocardiography was abnormal and electrocardiography confirmed complete heart block.…”
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HOW THE HEMOSTASIS LABORATORY CAN HELP CLINICIANS TO MANAGE PATIENTS ON ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS by Armando Tripodi

“…They are the drugs of choice for stroke prevention and systemic embolism in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and prosthetic heart valves, as well as for treatment/prevention of venous thromboembolism. …”
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Les destins divergents des régionalismes flamands et francophones : une perspective historique by Geoffrey Pion, Gilles Van Hamme

“…We also show that the geography of regionalist parties have considerably evolved over the time, with the exception of Antwerp which has remained at the heart of most Flemish regionalist parties.…”
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