Alfieri and Byron

Clipping the Alfieri Stitch.

A 75-year-old woman underwent a surgical correction of severe mitral regurgitation (MR). The valve morphology was characterized by chordae rupture (P2), prolapse (A2), and an unusual small anterior valve area with a restrictive posterior leaflet. The correction comprised chordae replacement P2/A2 without annuloplasty due to a tight annulus. Finally, an Alfieri stitch was performed. Four weeks l...

Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass

Perceptual interfaces defined from a human perspective suggest similar topics (for example, vision, hearing, speech, touch), but radically different ideas about how sensory experience works and about how machines might change or facilitate human perception. The goal of a human-centered look at perceptual interfaces is to transform the world of computers into features of sensory experience that ...

Don Leon, Byron, and homosexual law reform.

Alfieri stitch and its impact on mitral clip.

The edge-to-edge (E-to-E) technique (also called Alfieri stitch) has been introduced by us in the armamentarium of mitral valve repair in the early 1990s, as a simple method to conveniently correct mitral regurgitation (MR) in the presence of complex lesions [1]. The current role of the E-to-E repair in the surgical treatment of MR has been recently analyzed in a review article, where the techn...

George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788-1824.

The assertion of Lucifer, that the pre-Adamite world was also peopled by rational beings much more intelligent than man, and proportionably powerful to the mammoth, etc., etc., is, of course, a poetical fiction to help him to make out his case. Lord Byron señala a unas lagunas bíblicas y las utiliza para cuestionar los principios de nuestra fe y debatir la naturaleza de la maldad. También, las ...