BACKGROUND Isolated tricuspid valve surgery is associated with high morbidity and mortality, especially in patients with prior cardiac surgery. The transcatheter Forma Repair System (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California) is designed to provide a surface for native leaflet coaptation to reduce tricuspid regurgitation (TR) by occupying the regurgitant orifice area. OBJECTIVES This study sou...

INTRODUCTION Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and ligase chain reaction (LCR) are used in research for detection of Chlamydia trachomatis (C. tr.) in synovial fluid (SF). However there is no standardized system for diagnostic use in clinical practice, therefore this study aimed at determining the molecular biology method best suited to detect C. tr. from SF. METHODS SF samples were spiked with...

BACKGROUND Moderate alcohol intake is associated with lower atherosclerosis risk, presumably due to increased HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) concentrations; however, the metabolic mechanisms of this increase are poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS We tested the hypothesis that ethanol increases HDL-C by raising transport rates (TRs) of the major HDL apolipoproteins apoA-I and -II. We measured the...

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The significance of brain temperature was investigated in patients with severe head injuries. In thirty patients in a state of coma due to severe head injury (Glasgow coma scale of less than 8), brain temperature (Tb), rectal temperature (Tr), and intracranial pressure (ICP) were measured. In 21 out of these patients, cerebral blood flow (CBF) was measured by means of transcranial Doppler effec...

In this article we study the theory KPi + (Σ-TR) which (i) describes a recursively inaccessible universe, (ii) permits the iteration of Σ operations along the ordinals, (iii) does not comprise ∈ induction, and (iv) restricts complete induction on the natural numbers to sets. It is shown that the proof-theoretic ordinal of KPi + (Σ-TR) is the metapredicative Mahlo ordinal φω00. Our system KPi + ...