A Simple Logistic Regression Model for Predicting the Likelihood of Recurrence of Atrial Fibrillation Within 1 Year After Initial Radio-Frequency Catheter Ablation Therapy

BackgroundThe clinical factors associated with the recurrence of atrial fibrillation (Af) in patients undergoing catheter ablation (CA) are still ambiguous to date.Purpose1.To recognize preoperative serologic factors and clinical features associated with Af recurrence after the first ablation treatment.2.To Develop a Logical Regression Model for Pr

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Neuropathology of two Brazilian autopsied cases of tropical spastic paraparesis / HTLV-I associated myelopathy (TSP/HAM) of long evolution

We report on a neuropathological HATS analysis of two cases of TSP/HAM originating from Brazil.These two cases had, respectively, an evolution of 13 and 40 years.The main neuropathological findings consisted of spinal cord atrophy, mainly the lower thoracic cord, diffuse degeneration of the white and grey matter, rare foci of mononuclear and periva

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AMSD: The Australian Message Stick Database.

Message sticks are wooden objects once widely used in Indigenous Australia for facilitating important long-distance communications.Within this tradition an individual wishing to send a message would carve a stick and apply conventional symbols to its surface.The stick was entrusted to a messenger who carried the object into the territory of another

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