Mitral Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (MAPSE) as a Predictor of Atrial Fibrillation Recurrence in Patients after Pulmonary Vein Isolation by Jan Alatic, David Suran, Damijan Vokac, Franjo Husam Naji

“…Introduction. Catheter ablation (CA) with pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) has become widely used in the past years for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF). …”
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Sacroiliitis: A Review on Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Treatment by Anderson Lee, Monik Gupta, Kiran Boyinepally, Phillip J. Stokey, Nabil A. Ebraheim

“…Pain arising from the SI joint can be difficult to diagnose and treat due to the intricate surrounding ligamentous structure, nerve innervation, and its role in transferring weight from the upper body to the lower limbs. …”
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A Family History of Dilated Cardiomyopathy Induced by Viral Myocarditis by Thomas Cognet, Olivier Lairez, Pauline Marchal, Jérôme Roncalli, Michel Galinier

“…We report the cases of two DCM induced by acute and past myocarditis in the same family and expressed by its two main complications within few weeks: an hemodynamic presentation as a fulminant myocarditis rapidly leading to cardiac tranplantation and a rythmologic presentation as an electrical storm leading to catheter ablation of ventricular tachycardia. These cases ask the question of the family predisposition to viral myocarditis leading to DCM.…”
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Advances in Therapeutic Cholangioscopy by Tomazo Antonio Prince Franzini, Renata Nobre Moura, Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura

“…This paper presents the new advances in therapeutic cholangioscopy, focusing on the current clinical applications and on research areas.…”
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Treatment of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (dysplasia) by M.Т. Vatutin, G.S. Smyrnova, Y.V. Yeshchenko, G.E. Degtiarova, V.S. Kolesnikov, Y.P. Gritsenko

“…The information about risk stratification, follow-up, lifestyle changes, pharmacological therapy, catheter ablation, implantable defibrillator therapy and heart transplantation is given in detail.…”
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Edith Stein, Une Sainte controversée by Yael Hisch

“…This essay aims at showing that Edith Steins’ holiness stands at the center of a religious controversy, at the very moment when Catholics and Jews are attempting to establish a “fraternal dialogue” after the decisive turning point of the Second Vatican Council, and the declaration Nostra Aetate regarding the Jews.…”
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Influence of Febrile Neutropenia Period on Plasma Viscosity at Malignancy by Ibrahim Tek, Selami Kocak Toprak, Efe Hasdemir, Samed Rahatli, Aysegül Yesilkaya

“…The plasma viscosity of the patients whose febrile neutropenia has been successfully treated was also measured to assess the impact of the duration of neutropenia on viscosity. …”
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La mémoire de l’esclavage à travers la religion vaudou by Alessandra Brivio

“…Ce culte évoque à travers la pratique rituelle, la mémoire des hommes achetés comme esclaves. L’étude des formes de mémoire non verbales permet de déceler des traces de la mémoire de l’esclavage explicitant un sentiment diffus de conscience. …”
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Utility of Circadian Variability Patterns in Differentiating Origins of Premature Ventricular Complexes by Mu Chen, Qunshan Wang, Jian Sun, Peng-Pai Zhang, Wei Li, Rui Zhang, Bin-Feng Mo, Tai-Zhong Chen, Juyi Wan, Dong-Zhu Xu, Kazutaka Aonuma, Yi-Gang Li

“…An analysis of Holter monitoring provides useful information on PVC localization in ablation procedure planning.…”
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Effect of Triiodothyronine in Different Dosages on Growth and Survival Rate of Giant Gouramy (Osphronemus gouramy Lac.) by I. Herviani, M. Zairin Junior, Odang Carman

“…During eight weeks rearing period, larvae were fed to satiation with Tubifex three times daily. The media were aerated and changed 10-30% daily. At the end of experiment, there was no significant difference in yolk sac absorption between treated larvae and control. …”
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TMEM97 governs partial epithelial-mesenchymal transition of retinal pigment epithelial cells via the CTNND2-ADAM10 axis by Jing Li, Yosuke Nagasaka, Hongtao Shen, Xinyu Zhou, Jianjie Ma, Dilza Trevisan-Silva, Nicholas E. Sherman, Jayakrishna Ambati, Bradley D. Gelfand, Lian-Wang Guo

“…Our previous research demonstrated that TMEM97 ablation in mice worsens photoreceptor loss in an oxidant-induced RPE damage model. …”
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TSH Variability of Patients Affected by Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Treated with Levothyroxine Liquid Solution or Tablet Form by Carlo Cappelli, Ilenia Pirola, Elena Gandossi, Claudio Casella, Davide Lombardi, Barbara Agosti, Fiorella Marini, Andrea Delbarba, Maurizio Castellano

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the TSH variability of patients affected by DTC treated with liquid L-T4 formulation or in tablet form. …”
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Ancient metallurgical traditions and connections around the caput Adriae by Giumlia-Mair A.

“…An overview of the available data and of the general trends of ancient metallurgy in this broader area is attempted.…”
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برامج التعرف الضوئى على الحروف العربیة : دراسة تقییمیة مقارنة لأغراض استرجاع المعلومات by د. عادل نبیل على

“…The study depended on the evaluationmethodology using a data collection tool: a checklistThe study found that there is a rar of Arabic OCR software which isdivided into commercial, open source and free on the Internet. and the studyshow that only one program reached the accuracy rate (100%) in the recognitionof Arabic texts, ((Google Drive OCR), and the number of (4) programs reached arate of accuracy (90%) in the recognition of Arabic textsThe study recommended that Arab information institutions should developsoftware to recognize Arabic characters with high accuracy, and that scientificresearch bodies and research centers provide budgets for the development ofOCR techniques and Scientific research provide budgets for the development ofarabic OCR techniques…”
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Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Tachycardia with Structural Abnormalities of the Right Ventricle and Left Ventricular Diverticulum by Bortolo Martini, Nicola Trevisi, Nicolò Martini, Li Zhang

“…Electrophysiology studies with epicardial voltage mapping identified a large fibrotic area in the inferolateral layer of the right ventricular wall and a small area of fibrotic tissue at the anterior right ventricular outflow tract. …”
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Interventional Radiology and the Care of the Oncology Patient by Siobhan B. O'Neill, Owen J. O'Connor, Max F. Ryan, Michael M. Maher

“…Therapeutic applications of IR in the oncology patient include local tumour treatments such as transarterial chemo-embolisation and radiofrequency ablation, as well as management of complications of malignancy such as pain, organ obstruction, and venous thrombosis.…”
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Comparison of 9.0 and 9.2 mm Flap Diameter Options of Femtosecond Laser In-Situ Keratomileusis for Hypermetropia and Hypermetropic Astigmatism by Kemal Ozulken, Cagri Ilhan

“…Two eyes of the patients who used two different flap diameters were enrolled into two different groups. Corneal stroma was ablated using Wavelight EX500 with wavefront-optimized profile (WaveLight GmbH, Erlangen, Germany). …”
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Wide Anterior Maxillary Reconstruction with Equine Bone Xenograft: A Case Report of 24-Month Follow-Up by Davide De Cicco, Giuseppe Colella, Gianpaolo Tartaro, Nicola Zerbinati, Romolo Fragola, Raffaele Rauso

“…By the way, xenografting procedures gained great consensus in the last decades, because of their documented reliability and efficacy. …”
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Corneal Clarity and Visual Outcomes after Small-Incision Lenticule Extraction and Comparison to Femtosecond Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis by Apostolos Lazaridis, Konstantinos Droutsas, Walter Sekundo, Michael Petrak, Stephan Schulze

“…Fifty-eight myopic eyes of 33 patients who underwent SMILE were compared to 58 eyes of 33 patients treated with FS-LASIK. All procedures were performed using VisuMax® femtosecond laser and MEL 80® excimer laser (Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Germany). …”
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High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Focal Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer with MRI-US Fusion Platform by Chi-Hang Yee, Peter Ka-Fung Chiu, Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, Chi-Fai Ng, Chi-Kwok Chan, See-Ming Hou

“…There was no difference in the mean ablation volume to lesion volume ratio between the two. …”
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