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Author(s): Olivier Bar Added: 3 years ago
An Introduction to Radiation X-rays, so-called because their nature was at the time unknown, were discovered by the German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895, one year before the discovery of ‘natural’ radioactivity by Henri Becquerel.1 X-rays found application in radiography a few years after their discovery, although the first side effect attributed to radiation injury (depilation) had been… View more
Author(s): Gianfranco Aprigliano , Altin Palloshi , Nuccia Morici , et al Added: 3 years ago
Cardiovascular diseases represent the leading cause of mortality in pregnancy.1,2 They are classified as direct (acute onset disease) or indirect (worsening of pre-existing cardiac disease). This overview is focused on acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in pregnancy and the post-partum period. ACS in this setting is a rare condition, but in the last two decades its incidence has grown.3 This… View more
Author(s): Paolo Sbarzaglia , Salvatore Notaristefano , Claudio Cavallini Added: 3 years ago
Saphenous vein grafts (SVG) have been extensively used in coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) as additional conduits to arterial grafts. However, it is well known that vein grafts may develop degenerative processes that may result in stenosis or occlusion1 in 12–20% of patients at the end of the first year and approximately 50% by 10 years.2 The main causes of graft disease are intimal… View more