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Open AccessFollow-up of intramyocardial bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation beyond 10 years
Bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMCs) have been evaluated for their ability to improve cardiac repair and benefit patients with severe ischemic heart disease and heart failure. In our single-center trial in 20...
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Open AccessSuccessful palliative resection of giant epimyocardial lymphatic malformation with 14 years of follow-up: a case report
Primary tumors of the heart are a rare phenomenon. Lymphatic malformations are congenital anomalies of the lymphatic system that tend to grow progressively. Lymphatic malformations are typically found in the c...
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Open AccessRadiotherapy-induced diffuse myocardial fibrosis in early-stage breast cancer patients – multimodality imaging study with six-year follow-up
Breast radiotherapy (RT) induces diffuse myocardial changes, which may increase the incidence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. This study aimed to evaluate the early signs of diffuse fibrosis...
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Open AccessReducing cardiac implantable electronic device–induced artefacts in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
Cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED)–induced metal artefacts possibly significantly diminish the diagnostic value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), particularly cardiac MR (CMR). Right-sided generat...
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Conclusion
This brief concluding chapter emphasizes the need to distinguish between different kinds of detachment and distance and thus also returns to the ethical significance of critical engagement as well as the relat...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book and introduces the multifarious ethical significance of the concept of critical distance.
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Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition
During the global covid-19 crisis that started in 2020, one of the most important lessons we have learned is the need to keep a safe distance to other human beings in order to avoid spreading the potentially d...
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Against the Empathetic Fallacy: On the Seriousness of the Moral Point of View
Finding a historical analogy in eighteenth-century moral sentimentalism, this chapter criticizes the view that ethics can be grounded in contingent interpersonal emotions such as empathy. It is argued that an ...
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The Limits of Sense and Transcendental Melancholy in the Philosophy of Love
This chapter adds another layer to the discussion of critical distance and detachment by examining—in the distinctive framework of the philosophy of (romantic) love—some possible ways of redrawing the boundari...
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Magnetic resonance imaging safety in patients with abandoned or functioning epicardial pacing leads
The European Society of Cardiology Guidelines on cardiac pacing from 2021 allow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) but do not recommend MRI in pati...
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Open AccessPeak flow measurements in patients with severe aortic stenosis: a prospective comparative study between cardiovascular magnetic resonance 2D and 4D flow and transthoracic echocardiography
Aortic valve stenosis (AS) is the most prevalent valvular disease in the developed countries. Four-dimensional (4D) flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is an emerging imaging technique, which has been...
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Open AccessPeak CK-MB has a strong association with chronic scar size and wall motion abnormalities after revascularized non-transmural myocardial infarction – a prospective CMR study
Large myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling (LVR). We studied the nature of LVR, with specific attention to non-transmural MIs, and the association of peak CK-M...
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Open AccessEpicardial delivery of autologous atrial appendage micrografts during coronary artery bypass surgery—safety and feasibility study
The atrial appendages are a tissue reservoir for cardiac stem cells. During on-pump coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, part of the right atrial appendage can be excised upon insertion of the right at...
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Introduction
Kivistö and Pihlström describe how Kantian Antitheodicy: Philosophical and Literary Varieties sets out to defend antitheodicism through historical and systematic discussions of its most interesting versions, lite...
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Suffering and Forgiveness in Kafka and Post-Holocaust Antitheodicism
Instead of accepting the existence of a moral balance or harmony in the world, both Job and Josef K. in Franz Kafka’s The Trial refuse to adjust to the conditions they find unjust. Such protagonists’ experience t...
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Pragmatism, Suffering, and Truthfulness: From James to Rorty to Orwell
The discussion of William James and pragmatism in this chapter reinvokes the issues of sincerity and truthfulness in a context in which a reading of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) turns out to be nec...
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Kantian Antitheodicism and Job’s Sincerity
Immanuel Kant’s “Über das Misslingen aller philosophischen Versuche in der Theodicee” (“On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy”, 1791), inaugurates the modern theodicy versus antitheodicy d...
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Evil, Absurdity, and Nonsense: Beckettian and Wittgensteinian Reflections
This chapter deals with what Kivistö and Pihlström call Wittgensteinian antitheodicism, exemplified by D.Z. Phillips’s and other Wittgensteinian philosophers’ work, as well as the kind of absurdity of sufferin...
