Thirteen Minutes with Me

Thirteen year-experience with mitral valve replacement.

At the Niigata University Hospital, various kinds of prosthetic valves such as the Starr-Edwards nonclothand cloth-covered, Bjork-Shiley tilting disc, and Carpentier-Edwards porcine valves, have been used from September, 1965 to March, 1979 for replacement of diseased valves on 176 patients. The patients with Starr-Edwards nonclothand cloth-covered ball valves showed survival rates of 90 and 84...

Comm with me

NAi may carry out direct silencing not only of RNAs but also of DNA, according to new results from Tom Volpe, Shiv Grewal, Rob Martienssen, and colleagues (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Cold Spring Harbor, NY), and Brenda Reinhart and David Bartel (Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA). Another group, led by Kazufumi Mochizuki and Martin Gorovsky (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY), ...

"See me, feel me, touch me, heal me".

Community-based wind energy projects, with their small-scale, yet sizeable presence, provide a valuable opportunity to understand how individuals make sense of changes to their communities and to the surrounding landscape. Here, we examine the results of a 2013 mail survey of individuals residing in the vicinity of a 2 MW wind turbine that is located on the edge of the historic coastal town of ...

Turning Months into Minutes with Eucalyptus

Severe hypertriglyceridemia with pancreatitis: thirteen years' treatment with lomitapide.

IMPORTANCE Recurrent pancreatitis is a potentially fatal complication of severe hypertriglyceridemia. Genetic defects and lifestyle risk factors may render this condition unresponsive to current treatments. OBSERVATIONS We report this first case of long-term management of intractable near-fatal recurrent pancreatitis secondary to severe hypertriglyceridemia by a novel use of lomitapide, an in...