1Department of Hematology and Medical Research, 251 General Airforce Hospital, Athens, Greece; 2Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom; 3Department of Hematology and Oncology, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; 4Academic Unit of Bone Biology, Section of Musculoskeletal Science, University of Sheffie...

a Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A. b Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A. c Center for Geospatial Research, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A. d Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A. e Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A. f Department ...

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BACKGROUND The diagnostic value of the Athens QRS score to detect obstructive coronary artery disease CAD in patients with otherwise normal exercise stress test remains unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed 458 patients who underwent exercise stress test with or without myocardial perfusion imaging within 2 months of coronary angiography from 2008 to 2011. Patients (n=173) with abnormal st...

Despite great technical advances over the last decades, cardiac pacing is still associated with a significant rate of complications mostly ascribed to the pacing leads. Leads are susceptible to mechanical stress, whether transvenous or epicardial, and constitute the pacing component most prone to failure; they are the major contributor to complications, may cause vascular obstruction, and other...