BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) can be a risk factor for development of significant tricuspid regurgitation (TR). We investigated which clinical and echocardiographic parameters were related to severity of functional TR in patients with lone AF. METHODS A total of 89 patients with lone AF were enrolled (75 ± 11 years; 48% male): 13 patients with severe TR, 36 patients with moderate TR, an...

(i) Tr(DiA) = 0 for any A ∈ A and any Di ∈ D (ii) [Di,Dj ] = ad(Qij) — inner derivation (Qij ∈ A) for any Di,Dj ∈ D (iii) Alt i,j,k Dk(Qij) = 0 for all i, j, k. The main example of such a situation is the Lie algebra ΨDifn(S 1) of the formal pseudodifferential operators on (S1)n (see [A]). The trace Tr in this example is the “noncommutative residue”, Tr(D) = the coefficient of the term x 1 · x ...

Although the term borderline has been in clinical use since the late 1930s, it only became an official Axis II diagnosis in 1980 with the publication of DSM-III. Currently, DSM-IV-TR emphasizes that patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show a "instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a ...

BACKGROUND Despite correction of left-sided cardiac lesions, associated functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR) that was surgically ignored can persist. It can also appear de novo. The aim of this study was to analyze TR in a group of patients who underwent successful revascularization and mitral valve repair (MVRep) for functional ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR). METHODS AND RESULTS Among...

the purpose of the present study was to evaluate anti-nociceptive effects of morphine, tramadol, meloxicam and their combinations in rats. seventy male wistar rats were divided into seven equal groups and randomly assigned to receive intraperitoneal saline (s) (control group, 1.0 ml kg-1), morphine (mo) (4.0 mg kg-1), tramadol (tr) (12.5 mg kg-1), meloxicam (ml) (1.0 mg kg-1), tramadol- morphin...

In this paper we study the asymptotic distribution of the moments of (nonnormalized) traces Tr(w1),Tr(w2), . . . ,Tr(wr), where w1, w2, . . . , wr are reduced words in unitaries in the group U(N). We prove that as N → ∞ these variables are distributed as normal gaussian variables √ j1Z1, . . . , √ Zr , where j1, . . . , jr are the number of cyclic rotations of the words w1, . . . , ws leaving t...

BACKGROUND Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, and poly-chlorinated dibenzofurans adversely affect the health of humans and various animals. Such effects might be partially exerted through the thyroid hormone (TH) system. We previously reported that one of the hydroxylated PCB congeners suppresses TH receptor (TR)-mediated transcription by dissociating TR from t...