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Treatment with apixaban in a patient with recent chronic subdural haematoma: a case report
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Mutation Analysis of PRKAR1A Gene in a Patient with Atrial Myxoma
No full textBACKGROUND: Intracardiac myxomas are frequent benign tumors of the heart and typically localize in the left atri- um and interatrial septum. When myxomas generate at other sites, they are designated as atypical. Mutations in the PRKAR1A gene (a tumor suppressor gene that encodes a protein kinase A [PKA] regulatory 1-alpha subunit) have been identified in both syndromic and non-syndromic cardiac atypical myxomas. METHODS: We report the case of a 33-year old woman suffering from night fever, weight loss, asthenia, and progressive dyspnea. RESULTS: The blood laboratory tests revealed microcytic anemia, leukocytosis, thrombocytosis, increased serum levels of C-reactive protein level, and negative blood cultures. Physical examination also demonstrated a 2/6 systolic murmur. Transthoracic and trans-esophageal echocardiography showed a voluminous, mobile mass in the left atrium with a secondary dynamic obstruction of the left cardiac chamber and a significant functional mitral stenosis. A myxoma was supposed and the patient underwent surgery. Histologically, the lesion was identified as myxomatous tumor with gelatinous pattern. No germline mutations of the PRKAR1A gene were detected. The postoperative course did not present any complications, and the patient was discharged on the sixth postoperative day in good clinical condition. Accordingly, there was an improvement in the laboratory tests' results and a resolution of symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: The patient presented an atrial giant gelatinous myxoma with peculiarity of fever of unknown origin, without PRKAR1A gene germline mutations
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
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of ticagrelor in the treatment of cardiac ischemia
No full textIntroduction: After acute coronary syndromes (ACS), the so-called dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT), which usually consists of low-dose of aspirin in combination with a thienopyridine (clopidogrel, prasugrel) or with a cyclopentyltriazolopyrimidine (ticagrelor), reduces the risk of ischemic events. Ticagrelor, un particular, is an effective drug as it isn' a prodrug, doesn't require metabolic activation and demonstrates a rapid onset and faster offset of action.Areas covered: This article evaluates the pharmacokinetics, efficacy, safety and tolerability of ticagrelor during DAPT after ACS and its potential use beyond the canonical twelve months after PCI. The review discusses studies comparing: ticagrelor and clopidogrel (DISPERSE, DISPERSE-2, PLATO, RESPOND Trial, ONSET/OFFSET Trials), ticagrelor and placebo (PEGASUS TIMI 54 Trial).Expert opinion: For ACS patients, the PLATO trial showed that ticagrelor was superior to clopidogrel in the reduction of cardiovascular death, myocardial infarction and stroke. PEGASUS TIMI 54 showed that patients in whom ischemic events and cardiovascular death outweigh the risk of life-threatening bleeding, may benefit from prolonged ticagrelor-based dual antiplatelet therapy, over 12 months. This strategy has been recently approved by the ACC/AHA guidelines. Further studies are needed to evaluate and eventually validate the role of the prolonged DAPT in patients treated with new generation stents
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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