BACKGROUND Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) is a relatively new method to detect regional myocardial dysfunction. To assess left ventricular (LV) regional myocardial dysfunction using STE in Duchenne muscular dystrophy model dogs (CXMD(J)) without overt clinical signs of heart failure. METHODS Six affected dogs, 8 carrier dogs with CXMD(J), and 8 control dogs were used....

AIMS Myocardial involvement is associated with poor prognosis in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc). Two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) is a powerful novel modality for the assessment of subclinical cardiac left ventricular (LV) dysfunction that, so far, has not been investigated in SSc patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate deformation analyses derived from ST...

In the past, Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation (STE) has been shown to be effective for verifying individual array blocks. However, when applying STE to verify multiple array blocks together as a single system, the run-time OBDD sizes would often blow up. In this paper, we propose the use of both ATPG-based justification engine and symbolic simulation to facilitate the application of STE proof met...

BACKGROUND Subclinical myocardial involvement is common in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and associated with poor prognosis. Early detection, particularly during follow-up, is important. Two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) has already been shown to detect early left ventricular systolic impairment in SSc patients with advanced disease. The aim of this study was to assess the abil...

Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is one of the causes of disability and death. Levels of Uric acid, blood glucose, and dyslipidemia are the risk factors for the disease, but their role in electrocardiographic changes has not been studied. Based on this, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between some demographic and clinical characteristics with electrocardiographic chang...

BACKGROUND The injection of double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) has been shown to induce a potent sequence-specific inhibition of gene function in diverse invertebrate and vertebrate species. The homology-dependent posttranscriptional gene silencing (PTGS) caused by the introduction of transgenes in plants may be mediated by dsRNA. The analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans mutants impaired with dsRNA-medi...

UPRES 2050, Groupe de Recherche Clinique “Pathologie respiratoire et cutanée liée à l’environnement,” Service de Pneumo-Allergologie, et Centre d’Investigations Cliniques, INSERM, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, Hôpital Ste Marguerite, Marseilles, France; Laboratoire d’Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires, Hôpital Ste Marguerite, Marseilles, France; Immunotech, Marseilles, Franc...

To the Editor I read with great interest the article by Kurisu and Kihara that described the occurrence of STsegment elevation (STE) in leads V1-V3 due to proximal right coronary artery (RCA) occlusion (1). In the setting of acute inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the presence of STE in V1-V3 is a known sign that should raise suspicion of a right ventricular (RV) infa...