1) Wu JT, Wang SL, Chu YJ, Long DY, Dong JZ, Fan XW, Yang HT, Duan HY, Yan LJ, Qian P: CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASc scores predict the risk of ischemic stroke outcome in patients with interatrial block without atrial fibrillation. J Atheroscler Thromb, 2017; 24: 176184 2) Martínez-Sellés M, Massó-van Roessel A, Álvarez-García J, García de la Villa B, Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Vidán MT, López Díaz J, Felix Re...

BACKGROUND Physicians in ancient Persia played an important role in the development of medicine in the medieval era. One of the most influential figures of this era was Abu Ali Sina or Ibn Sina, known as Avicenna in the western world. The author of more than 200 books on medicine and philosophy, Avicenna followed and further expanded on the tradition of western philosophy and medicine introduce...

Schistosomiasis remains an important public health problem worldwide. It is a parasitic disease endemic in over 70 countries and is estimated that the infection is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths annually (1,2). For Gryseels et al. inflammatory hepatic schistosomiasis is the main cause of hepatomegaly and severe splenomegaly in children and adolescents. The severity of disease is relat...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

T paper examines the health of farm workers in the United States. Although farm workers constitute a small fraction of the overall U.S. workforce, their health is of special concern because of greater exposure to toxic chemicals, work-related injuries, and other occupational hazards. The U.S. agricultural sector is heavily dependent on hired farm workers who constitute about 30% of the agricult...

Several image processing applications aim to detect and mark remarkable features which in turn might be used to perform high-level tasks. In particular, image segmentation seeks to group pixels within meaningful regions. Commonly, gray levels belonging to the object are substantially different from the gray levels featuring the background. Thresholding is thus a simple but effective tool to iso...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...

Embolic strokes of undetermined source comprise a subset of cryptogenic ischemic strokes. It is thought that some embolic strokes of undetermined source could be due to left atrial thromboembolism without atrial fibrillation. The authors sought to determine whether a marker of left atrial pathological changes could pose as a surrogate marker of nonarrhythmogenic atrial thromboembolism in emboli...