Oral Anticoagulation in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease and Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation: The FAERC Study.

Unlabelled: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and its presence is associated with a higher risk of stroke and mortality.

Material And Methods: The FAERC study performed a retrospective multicentre analysis of historical cohorts in which data were collected from arrhythmia diagnosis onwards.

Results: We analysed a Spanish cohort of 4749 patients with CKD (mean eGFR 33.

Comparison between standard and wide-field autofluorescence in detection of retinal displacement after rhegmatogenous retinal detachment surgery.

Purpose: To analyse the differences between 30° blue autofluorescence (BAF30), 55° blue autofluorescence (BAF55) and 200° green Ultra-Wide Field autofluorescence (UWF200) imaging to detect retinal displacement (RD) after vitrectomy surgery for rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD).

Methods: This cross-sectional study considers forty-nine consecutive patients who underwent RRD surgery in the time period 4-8 months previous to image acquisition. The exclusion criteria contemplate previous retinal pathology, under 18-year-olds and non-assessable images in any of the 3 devices.

Host-Pathogen Interactions in Leaf Petioles of Common Ash and Manchurian Ash Infected with .

Some common ash trees () show tolerance towards shoot dieback caused by the invasive ascomycete . Leaf petioles are considered to serve as a pathogen colonization route to the shoots. We compared four common ash clones with variation in disease tolerance, and included the native host, Manchurian ash (), as a reference.

Defensive strategies of Norway spruce and Kurile larch heartwood elucidated on the micron-level.

To decarbonize the building sector, the use of durable wood materials must be increased. Inspiration for environmentally benign wood protection systems is sought in durable tree species depositing phenolic extractives in their heartwood. Based on the hypothesis that the micro-distribution of extractives influences durability, we compared the natural impregnation patterns of non-durable, but readily available Norway spruce to more durable Kurile larch by mapping the distribution of heartwood extractives with Confocal Raman Imaging and multivariate data decomposition.