Data Collection during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Learning from Experience, Resulting in a Bayesian Repertory.

Background: A novel pandemic disease offered the opportunity to create new, disease-specific, symptom rubrics for the homeopathic repertory.

Objective: The aim of this study was to discover the relationship between specific symptoms and specific medicines, especially of symptoms occurring frequently in this disease.

Materials And Methods: Worldwide collection of data in all possible formats by various parties was coordinated by the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis.

Acute high-altitude illness: a clinically orientated review.

Acute high-altitude illness is an encompassing term for the range of pathology that the unacclimatised individual can develop at increased altitude. This includes acute mountain sickness, high-altitude cerebral oedema and high-altitude pulmonary oedema. These conditions represent an increasing clinical problem as more individuals are exposed to the hypobaric hypoxic environment of high altitude for both work and leisure.

Predictors of recurrence following radiofrequency ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation.

Aims: To establish clinical factors affecting success in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation.

Methods And Results: Wide area circumferential ablation with linear and electrogram-based left atrial (LA) ablation was performed in 191 consecutive patients for persistent AF. After mean follow-up of 13.