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An important challenge to facing the epidemic of cardiovascular disease is the unpredictable nature of acute coronary events. Therefore, substantial research has been recently conducted in order to develop new...
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The History of Research on Coronary Stenting
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Mild hyponatremia is common in patients hospitalized for worsening heart failure, and it is a major predictor of post-discharge mortality and morbidity irrespective of left ventricular ejection fraction. Recen...
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Several theories explain the development of hiatal hernia (HH). Since inguinal hernia (IH) is due to abdominal wall herniation, we hypothesized that if HH is caused by an excessive “push” from increased intraa...
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We have obtained the DNA sequence of a region from the bovine ZFY and ZFX loci and used it to design nested primers that, together with a previously described PstI polymorphism, were applied in a sensitive PCR...
