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In quali pazienti è indicato l’amiodarone dopo infarto miocardico? Elettrofisiologia ed unità per le Aritmie, Dipartimento di Cardiologia, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia
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L'impatto della terapia resincronizzante in pazienti con scompenso cardiaco. Evidenze disponibili e valutazione del modello CRT-Eucomed per l'analisi del rapporto costo-efficacia
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Donor-to-recipient decremental conduction of atrial fibrillation following orthotopic heart transplantation: insights into the mechanism of atrioatrial conduction.
No full textWe describe the unique case of a heart transplant patient with type I atrial fibrillation that arose in the donor atrium during a late acute rejection episode and conducted to the recipient atrium with second-degree type I local block. After internal cardioversion, programmed stimulation showed bidirectional decremental conduction across the suture line with nearly equal atrioatrial interval, whereas the recepient atrium showed progressively delayed intra-atrial conduction. These findings strongly suggest that the mechanism of atrioatrial conduction may be electrical propagation along viable myocardium bridging the surgical scar and that the electrophysiologic characteristics of the recipient atrium are involved in decremental conduction across the suture line
Actions elicited during scheduled and unscheduled in-hospital follow-up of cardiac devices: results of the ATHENS multicentre registry
No full textAimThe number of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is continuously growing and this translates into a high number of in-hospital follow-ups. This workload justifies the increasing popularity of remote monitoring systems for the follow-up of CIEDs. The ATHENS registry was designed to find out what actions are taken during in-hospital follow-up of CIEDs at 10 different centres in Northern Italy. Methods and resultsBetween 1 March 2010 and 30 June 2010, all patients who came to our centres for a follow-up of their CIEDs were enrolled in the registry. We defined as visit with an action (VWA) a follow-up that elicited an action in that patient. The primary endpoint was the prevalence of VWA on the whole population. The secondary endpoints were: prevalence of VWA on the pacemaker (PM) population; prevalence of VWA on the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) population; prevalence of VWA on the cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) population; predictors of VWA in univariate and multivariate analyses. A total of 3362 patients were recruited. The primary endpoint was reached in 762 patients, 22.8 of patients (95 CI 21.424.3). The prevalence of action was highest for CRT (29.8), followed by PM (22.8) and ICD (18.6). In a multivariate model, the prevalence of action was higher for CRT, than for PM and was lowest for ICD and it was higher for unscheduled visits and first visits than for scheduled visits. ConclusionsOur registry demonstrates that 'some actions' are taken during about 20 of scheduled in-hospital follow-up of CIEDs. These data should encourage the use of remote follow-up systems. © 2011 The Author
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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