BACKGROUND We studied (1) the rates of stroke or systemic embolism and bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation and peripheral artery disease (PAD) and (2) the efficacy and safety of apixaban versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation with and without PAD. METHODS AND RESULTS The Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation (ARISTOTLE)...

We present a new approach for producing elastomeric optical fibers with an behaviour corresponding to few-mode fiber. Different have been produced by first fabricating thermoplastic polyurethane preforms and subsequently drawing them. The fiber attenuation has measured the cut-back technique bending transmission tolerance evaluated. potential assessed through two basic experiments in order high...

Background HIV induced endothelial dysfunction leads to premature atherosclerosis which may manifest as peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of lower limbs. Studies are not available on prevalence of PAD among antiretroviral therapy (ART) naïve HIV infected population. Our objective was to explore the prevalence of PAD among HIV seropositive cases, and to determine relation of PAD with HIV infecti...

Background and Aim: Several surgical techniques have been so far used for treating Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) leakage (rhinorrhea) such as using abdominal fat or fascia lata, but these methods have complications such as the presence of several surgeons in variable fields in the operating room or cosmetic complications for donors such as the surgical scar. This study aimed to investigate using bu...

The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in people aged over 55 years is 10%-25% and increases with age; 70%-80% of affected individuals are asymptomatic; only a minority ever require revascularisation or amputation. Patients with PAD alone have the same relative risk of death from cardiovascular causes as those with coronary or cerebrovascular disease, and are four times more likely...

Abstract: Diamond disc pad conditioning is traditionally employed to restore pad planarity and surface roughness in chemical mechanical polishing (or planarisation) (CMP). In this paper, a conditioning density distribution model is developed to predict the pad surface shape resulted from the diamond disc conditioning in CMP. A kinematic study is carried out to calculate and simulate the diamond...

Abstract The prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) is higher in peripheral artery disease (PAD) than coronary (CAD) patients, and PAD overall confers cardiovascular risk CAD. purpose this study was to investigate how the incidence major events compares between CAD patients when analyses are stratified by presence (T2DM). We prospectively recorded death over 10.0±4.7 years 923 with stable CAD, wh...

Abstract Elastomeric material is used as blast-resistant structure because of its good mechanical properties.A series underwater near-field explosive tests at different standoff distances were conducted to investigate the anti-explosion performance steel structures covered with rubber and polyurea coatings. The experimental results demonstrated that both could enhance blast resistance test plat...