Objectives. Published reports were reviewed to evaluate the characteristics of peripartal
management and the late pregnancy outcome in women with pulmonary vascular disease …

The outcomes of cardiovascular operations during pregnancy, at delivery, and post partum
were reviewed from published material in the period 1984-1996. Surgery during pregnancy …

Objective To update the current evidence on mitral valve surgery through a lateral
minithoracotomy versus median sternotomy. Methods A comprehensive literature research …

Background The natural history, management, and outcome of takotsubo (stress)
cardiomyopathy are incompletely understood. Methods The International Takotsubo …

Background The expression of interleukin-1–receptor antagonist is reduced in pancreatic
islets of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and high glucose concentrations induce the …

Background We compared the diagnostic accuracy of integrated positron-emission
tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) with that of CT alone, that of PET alone …

In this paper we review the problem of defining and estimating intrarater, interrater and test–
retest reliability of continuous measurements. We argue that the usual notion of product …

Aims Significant brady-and tachyarrhythmias may occur in active endurance athletes. It is
controversial whether these arrhythmias do persist after cessation of competitive endurance …

PURPOSE: To retrospectively compare diagnostic value of coregistered fluorine 18
fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographic (PET) and computed tomographic (CT) …

Human melanoma is composed of distinct cell types reminiscent of neural crest derivatives
and contains multipotent cells that express the neural crest stem cell markers CD271 …