OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the benefit after ablation of premature ventricular complexes (PVC) in patients with frequent PVC and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, regardless of previous structural heart disease (SHD) diagnosis, PVC morphology, or estimated site of origin. BACKGROUND Ablation of PVC in patients with LV dysfunction is usually restricted to patients with suspected PV...

Lead-based stabilisers, such as lead sulphate and lead stearate, currently used in the processing of polyvinylchloride (PVC) products are being substituted with more environmentally safe, economically viable and higher quality materials. This study aimed to use hydrotalcites (HTs), which are environmentally non-hazardous and simple to synthesise, to effectively quench the HCl gas evolved during...

INTRODUCTION Peripheral venous catheters (PVC) are medical devices most frequently used during hospital care. Although the frequency of specific PVC-related adverse events (PVCAEs) has been reported, the global risk related to the insertion of this device is poorly estimated. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of PVCAEs during the indwell time, after catheter removal, and to id...

To determine the effect of varying the duration of electrocardiographic recording on the detection of high premature ventricular complex (PVC) rates (30 or more PVCs/hour) and/or complex PVCs (multiform PVCs, couplets or runs) in survivors of myocardial infarction, we evaluated 175 24-hour ECG tapes with such arrhythmias for their occurrences detected in the first 1, 2, 6, 12 and 18 hours of th...

Transport between the trans-Golgi network (TGN) and late endosome represents a conserved, clathrin-dependent sorting event that separates lysosomal from secretory cargo molecules and is also required for localization of integral membrane proteins to the TGN. Previously, we reported a cell-free reaction that reconstitutes transport from the yeast TGN to the late endosome/prevacuolar compartment ...

This study examined whether an aqueous solution that contained 18 organic chemicals that are either solvents or good swelling agents of PVC are able to cause softening when combined in a solution, with each solute at an activity of 0.05. This activity was selected because there is no evidence that an individual organic solute with an activity of 0.05 can soften PVC. However, we found that this ...

Golgi-mediated transport to the lytic vacuole involves passage through the prevacuolar compartment (PVC), but little is known about how vacuolar proteins exit the PVC. We show that this last step is inhibited by overexpression of Arabidopsis thaliana syntaxin PEP12/SYP21, causing an accumulation of soluble and membrane cargo and the plant vacuolar sorting receptor BP80 in the PVC. Anterograde t...

Thermooxidative degradation of poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) is inevitable during processing of PVC. Recycling of this polymer requires reprocessing in most of the cases, and due to the low thermal stability of PVC, it is of paramount importance to reveal the effect of thermooxidation on the thermal stability of this commercially important polymer. However, detailed systematic investigations are l...