Surprising diagnosis in a patient with acute coronary syndrome: a case report of acute streptococcal pharyngitis-associated perimyocarditis.

Background: Streptococcal pharyngitis is a common infection, with both suppurative and non-suppurative complications. Most importantly, a streptococcal infection can cause heart disease in different pathophysiological pathways. Acute non-rheumatic perimyocarditis appears to be a more frequent pathological entity associated with streptococcal pharyngitis as once thought, which is poorly understood and explored.

Six sequence variants on chromosome 9p21.3 are associated with a positive family history of myocardial infarction: a multicenter registry.

Background: Recent genome-wide association studies have identified several genetic loci linked to coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI). The 9p21.3 locus was verified by numerous replication studies to be the first common locus for CAD and MI.

Percutaneous injection of thrombin for the treatment of pseudoaneurysms: the German multicentre registry.

Aims: False aneurysms can be treated surgically or by ultrasound guided manual compression. Another method is to inject thrombin into the aneurysm under ultrasound guidance. We evaluated safety and efficacy of this approach in a multicentre registry.

[Cerebral embolism as the first manifestation of left ventricular metastatic bronchial carcinoma].

Commonly the diagnosis of cardiac metastases in extracardiac cancer is difficult because of predominant symptoms of the underlying disease. In the reported case, a cerebral embolization was the first manifestation of a bronchogenic carcinoma with left ventricular metastasis. A 58-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital with symptoms of an incomplete left-sided hemiparesis that occurred without prodromi.

Low scores, top 10 finishes, and big money: an analysis of professional golf association tour statistics and how these relate to overall performance.

The present study examined the relationship between primary golf skills of Professional Golf Association (PGA) Touring Professionals, i.e., driving distance, driving accuracy, reaching Greens in Regulation, and putting, and various performance outcomes for these same golfers including their scoring averages.

[Phonographic diagnostic aid in heart defects using neural networks].

New approaches to pattern recognition and modeling using neural networks also provide powerful tools for the analysis of heart sounds in the diagnosis of heart failure. This paper describes how a neutral network can be used to estimate the duration of systolic and diastolic heart phases as well as to suggest a suitable diagnosis. A neural network-based auscultation system is capable of documenting and analysing a heart sound signal by applying methods similar to those used by physicians in the subjective interpretation of stethoscopic signals.

Chronic pain behavior pattern: a simple theoretical framework for health-care providers.

A theoretical framework for understanding the basic psychological dynamics of pain patients is provided. The model involves the etiology of chronic pain, the attributes of patients with chronic pain, the sequence of events that leads to symptomatology, and considerations regarding the treatment of chronic pain. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy is highlighted as a classic example of this proposed chronic pain behavior pattern.

[Prevention of effort-induced ventricular arrhythmia using verapamil].

In this study prophylactic antiarrhythmic effects of verapamil on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias were evaluated in a total of 22 patients. All patients displayed frequent and/or complex ventricular arrhythmias during repeated exercise tests under control conditions. After two control exercise tests, all patients were treated with 120 mg verapamil given every 8 h orally for 4 days.

Antiarrhythmic effects of stirocainide in acute myocardial infarction.

Ventricular arrhythmias, especially ventricular fibrillation, are assumed to be a main cause of sudden death during the first 24 h of acute myocardial infarction. Effective prophylaxis and acute suppression of these life-threatening rhythm disturbances are a major therapeutic problem. The present study was undertaken to investigate the efficacy of the new antiarrhythmic compound stirocainide (2-(1-benzylidene)cycloheptenimino-oxyethyl-diisopropylamine -2-butenedionate, Th 494) in suppressing "2nd phase arrhythmias" arising from large anteroseptal myocardial infarctions using a standardized experimental canine preparation.

[Effects of sulfinpyrazone on early ventricular fibrillation and 2d-phase arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

Clinical and experimental studies indicate that ventricular arrhythmias, mainly ventricular fibrillation, are responsible for sudden cardiac death. A recent double-blind multicenter trial ("Anturane Reinfarction Trial") showed that the incidence of sudden cardiac death was reduced in Sulfinpyrazone-treated patients after acute myocardial infarction compared with the placebo group, although the rate of reinfarctions was not diminished. We investigated the efficacy of Sulfinpyrazone on the reduction and prevention of ventricular arrhythmias and primary ventricular fibrillation, utilizing a standardized experimental canine preparation.

Effect of various sensory inputs on prose learning.

A pretest-posttest design was used to determine the effects of auditory input, visual input, auditory-visual input, and no input on prose learning. The principal result of a multivariate analysis of covariance combained with a multiple-comparison test was a significant difference in favor of auditory input. This difference seemed to be confined to definition items which were the substance of the input as opposed to application items which were not involved explicitly in the input.