The importance of atrial fibrillation as a treatable risk factor for stroke is well established. Less is known about how to find previously unidentified cases within the community so that antithrombotic treatment can be offered to a wider group of at-risk patients. The aim of our study was to examine ways to improve the efficiency of practice-based screening for atrial fibrillation, including i...

Light-weight formal specifications are used to achieve a better understanding of the desired behavior of a system. The specification must correctly reflect the requirements that were expressed informally to the system being modeled. To validate specifications black-box testing technique had been widely used. Selecting test cases to validate the specification based only on the black-box testing ...

Cardiac disease in adult female carriers of the X-linked dystrophinopathies, Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, is a well-recognised entity. A single study has reported a 15% incidence of cardiac abnormalities in female carriers under 16 years. Our study aims, clinically and with electrocardiograph and echocardiograph, to determine the incidence of cardiac abnormality in young girls who ...