Rupture or laceration of the aorta is a more common result of nonpenetrating traumatic
injury than is generally appreciated. Approximately 15 per cent of individuals with traumatic …

The misconception that nonpenetrating trauma to the heart is relatively rare, is primarily due
to the fact that myocardial contusion or traumatic pericardial lesions are usually well …

Rheumatic heart disease is an important cause of systemic arterial embolism. In 1933, Weiss
and Davis 76 published a report on embolic episodes in rheumatic heart disease, using …

Twenty-two selected anomalies of the coronary arteries are related to cases previously
reported in the literature. These are presented with simplified drawings and photographs in an …

The photolytic and thermal decomposition of ethyl azidoformate in cyclohexene and cyclohexane
has been studied. Carbethoxy nitrene, N-COOEt, seems to be the reactive intermediate…

Background Total body hypothermia is an established neuroprotectant in global cerebral
ischemia. The role of hypothermia in acute ischemic stroke remains uncertain. Selective …

MANY centuries ago it was believed that a heart, wound was inevitably lethal. This dictum
stood unchallenged until the eighteenth century, when it was first recognized that an individual …

Background Transradial access (TRA) has gained increased usage among neurointerventionalists.
However, the overall safety profile of access site complications (ASCs) and non-…

The results of long-term clinical follow-up evaluation and postmortem evaluation in a large
series of patients, and in a smaller series of normal healthy persons who have had …

Object The authors report their results in a series of large or giant carotid ophthalmic segment
aneurysms clipped using retrograde suction decompression. Methods A retrospective …