The paper utilizes Port State Control inspection data for discovering interactions between the numbers of various types of deficiencies found on ships and between the deficiencies and ship’s involvement in maritime traffic accidents and incidents. Bayesian network models for describing the dependencies of the inspection results, ship age, type, flag, accident involvement, and incidents reported...

BACKGROUND Plaque volume (PV) is related to major cardiovascular events (MACE) after coronary stent implantation. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between PV before the procedure evaluated by angiography and clinical outcomes. METHODS This is a prospective cohort study of patients undergoing coronary stent implantation in a referral center. PV before the stent implantation was evaluate...

Objective: To determine the frequency of left anterior descending artery involvement as a culprit vessel in young patient with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) at tertiary care hospital. Study Design: A cross-sectional study. Place and Duration: The Department Cardiology, “National Institute Cardiovascular Diseases, Karachi” Pakistan from October 2019 to April 2020. Methodology: Patie...

Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy is a standard method for the evaluation of axillary status in patients with T1-2N0M0 breast cancers. Aims: To determine the prognostic significance of primary tumour-related clinico-histopathological factors on axillary and non-sentinel lymph node involvement of patients who underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy. Study design: Retrospective clinical study. ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of exercise tests and assessment of angina in the detection of potentially threatening disease in young patients with infarcts. DESIGN Elective readmission of patients at a mean (SD) of 60 (30) days after acute myocardial infarction for assessment of angina, treadmill exercise tests, and cardiac catheterisation. SETTING Cardiology department of a teaching hos...

impaired fasting glucose identifies individuals at high risk of progression to diabetes but the role of ifg as a coronary artery disease risk factor, independent of its progression to diabetes and its association with other coronary artery disease risk factors ,is unclear. a cross-sectional study was conducted to evaluate the hypothesis that impaired fasting glucose increased the likelihood of ...

Giant cell arteritis is often referred to in the context of polymyalgia rheumatica with temporal artery involvement. There are, however, more malignant forms of presentation of this necrotizing arteritis involving either the great vessels of the aorta or, occasionally, the pulmonary arteries. Our case relates to giant cell arteritis presenting as pulmonary artery obstruction in a patient withou...

Large vessel vasculitis (LVV) is defined as inflammation that affects the aorta and its major branches. Takayasu arteritis (TAK) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) are the 2 main forms of LVV1. Historically, GCA is considered a disease of the elderly that targets the extracranial arteries (e.g., carotid and temporal arteries). In contrast, TAK typically affects younger patients and targets the aort...

Penile cancer accounts for 1-10% of men neoplastic diseases and 30-60% of patients have inguinal metastases at the time of diagnosis. Inguinal metastases of penile cancer with femoral vessel involvement could lead to vascular fistula and hemorrhagic shock. We present 3 consecutive patients with inguinal metastases of penile cancer complicated by infection and hemorrhage from femoral vessels inv...

Six patients with neurovascular disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) illustrate the diversity of neuroradiologic changes in that condition. Emphasis is placed on the involvement of large cerebral vessels, especially as reflected by cerebral vein or sinus occlusions. The latter occurred in four of the six cases reported; deep or superficial veins, larger lobar draining veins such as the ...