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The author tells the legend of her grandfather, Cyrus Rackliff, who ignored a pr
No full textThe author tells the legend of her grandfather, Cyrus Rackliff, who ignored a premonition and went duck hunting on Green Island, where he shot himself below the knee. Illustrated with Andrew Wyeth painting and the poem Cyrus by Wilbert Snow
COLLECTION 0152: Papers of Wilbert Shenk
No full textWilbert Shenk (1935 - ), noted missiologist and author, joined the School of Intercultural Studies faculty at Fuller Theological Seminary in 1995. As of 2019, Dr. Shenk taught as Senior Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture. Shenk’s areas of expertise include mission history, missiology, mission to contemporary culture. The Papers of Wilbert Shenk collection has a date range of 1967-2008. Materials include his doctoral thesis, meeting minutes, drafts of book chapters, lectures, conference presentations, and correspondence. The organizations and projects where he had an administrative role and is highlighted in the collection are American Society of Missiology, North Atlantic Missiology Project, Gospel and Our Culture Program, and Missiology of Western Culture Program
Data Falsification: Innocents and Culprits
No full textAn investigatory committee at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor,
Maine, has found no evidence of experimental fraud by University of Geneva
researcher Karl Illmensee; the University is still in the process of setting
up an international committee to investigate Illmensee's work. In an
unrelated case, cardiologist Wilbert Aronow has been fired by Creighton
University after an Environmental Protection Agency investigation found flaws
in studies by Aronow that were used in establishing the ambient air quality
standards for carbon monoxide. Last year, Aronow voluntarily disqualified
himself from new drug trials amid evidence that he falsified data in studies
for the Food and Drug Administration. (KIE abstract
Peripheral arterial disease in the elderly
No full textWilbert S AronowCardiology Division, Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New YorkAbstract: Smoking should be stopped and hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypothyroidism treated in elderly patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) of the lower extremities. Statins reduce the incidence of intermittent claudication and improve exercise duration until the onset of intermittent claudication in patients with PAD and hypercholesterolemia. Antiplatelet drugs such as aspirin or clopidogrel, especially clopidogrel, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, and statins should be given to all elderly patients with PAD without contraindications to these drugs. Beta blockers should be given if coronary artery disease is present. Exercise rehabilitation programs and cilostazol increase exercise time until intermittent claudication develops. Chelation therapy should be avoided. Indications for lower extremity percutaneous transluminal angioplasty or bypass surgery are (1) incapacitating claudication in patients interfering with work or lifestyle; (2) limb salvage in patients with limb-threatening ischemia as manifested by rest pain, non-healing ulcers, and/or infection or gangrene; and (3) vasculogenic impotence.Keywords: peripheral arterial disease, intermittent claudication, antiplatelet drugs, statins, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, cilostazol, exercise rehabilitation, revascularizatio
Artery Bypass
No full textThe latest diagnostic and therapeutic modalities in the management of coronary artery disease by coronary artery bypass graft surgery and by percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting and in the interventional management of other atherosclerotic vascular disease have led to a reduction in cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. This book entitled Artery Bypass provides an excellent update on these advances which every physician seeing patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease should be familiar with. This book includes 27 chapters written by experts in their topics
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome in COVID-19: A Contemporary Review of Mechanisms, Clinical Course and Management
No full textBharat Narasimhan,1 Arundhati Calambur,2 Errol Moras,3 Lingling Wu,4 Wilbert Aronow5 1Department of Cardiology, Debakey Cardiovascular Institute, Houston Methodist, Houston, TX, USA; 2University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; 3Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine; Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA; 4Department of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenvile, NC, USA; 5Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USACorrespondence: Wilbert Aronow, Department of Cardiology, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 100 Woods Road, Macy Pavilion, Room 141, Valhalla, NY, 10595, USA, Email [email protected]: The long-term implications of COVID-19 have garnered increasing interest in recent months, with Long-COVID impacting over 65 million individuals worldwide. Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) has emerged as an important component of the Long-COVID umbrella, estimated to affect between 2 and 14% of survivors. POTS remains very challenging to diagnose and manage – this review aims to provide a brief overview of POTS as a whole and goes on to summarize the available literature pertaining to POTS in the setting of COVID-19. We provide a review of available clinical reports, outline proposed pathophysiological mechanisms and end with a brief note on management considerations.Keywords: POTS, COVID-19, long COVID, revie
Cardiac Arrhythmias
No full textThis book is useful for physicians taking care of patients with cardiac arrhythmias and includes six chapters written by experts in their field. Chapter 1 discusses basic mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias. Chapter 2 discusses the chronobiological aspects of the impact of apnoic episodes on ventricular arrhythmias. Chapter 3 discusses navigation, detection, and tracking during cardiac ablation interventions. Chapter 4 discusses epidemiology and pathophysiology of ventricular arrhythmias in several noncardiac diseases, methods used to assess arrhythmia risk, and their association with long-term outcomes. Chapter 5 discusses the treatment of ventricular arrhythmias including indications for implantation of an AICD for primary and for secondary prevention in patients with and without congestive heart failure. Chapter 6 discusses surgical management of atrial fibrillation
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