These include: Data supplement http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1094/DC1 "Extra table" References http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7372/1094#BIBL This article cites 20 articles, 3 of which can be accessed free at: Rapid responses http://bmj.com/cgi/eletter-submit/325/7372/1094 You can respond to this article at: service Email alerting the top left of the article Receive free email al...

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AIMS The aim here is to analyse epidemiology, optimal treatment, and predictors of 6-month mortality in infective endocarditis (IE). METHODS AND RESULTS A prospective observational cohort study included 193 patients with 203 episodes of definite IE by the modified Duke criteria. Thirty-four percent of episodes involved prosthetic valves. Thirty-three percent of episodes were nosocomial. Forty...

PHYTOVOLATILIZATION OF THE VOLATILE CONTAMI­ NANTS ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE, ETHYLENE DICHLORIDE, AND CARBON TETRACHLORIDE 1L.C. Davis and 2L.E. Erickson 1Department of Biochemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry Hall, Kansas State University, Manhat­ tan, KS 66506; Phone: (785)532-6121; Fax: (785)532-7278. 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Durland Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; ...

2-1 Volume Three FORMATION AND STABILITY OF SUBSTITUTED PYROMORPHITE: A MOLECULAR MODELING STUDY Abhijit V. Shevade, Larry Erickson, Gary Pierzynski, and Shaoyi Jiang Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; Phone: 785-532-5584; Fax: 785-532-7372; Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; Phone: 785-532-7209; Fax: 785-532-6094.

Nearly all Americans undergo a steady rise in blood pressure with age. Almost 25 percent cross the line into hypertension, the technical term for chronically high blood pressure. This condition, in turn, can silently contribute to heart disease, stroke and kidney failure and thus plays a part in some 500,000 deaths every year. For black Americans, the situation is even more dire: 35 percent suf...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a severe disease with high morbidity and mortality, and these can be exacerbated by delay in diagnosis. We investigated IE diagnosis in Japan with the emphasis on the delay in diagnosis and its cause and implications. We conducted a retrospective study on 82 definite IE patients at Kobe University Hospital from April 1, 2008, through March 31, 2013. We reviewed ch...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to provide a contemporary picture of the epidemiologic, clinical, microbiologic characteristics and in-hospital outcome of infective endocarditis (IE) observed in a single center in Italy. METHODS We performed a retrospective study of patients with definite or probable IE observed at the "L. Sacco" Hospital in Milan, Italy, from January 1, 2003 through December 31,...

MRI-acquired volumetric measurements from 100 dogs with presumptive idiopathic epilepsy (IE) and 41 non-epileptic (non-IE) dogs were used to determine if hippocampal asymmetry exists in the IE as compared to the non-IE dogs. MRI databases from three institutions were searched for dogs that underwent MRI of the brain and were determined to have IE and those that were considered non-IE dogs. Volu...