Understanding Necrosol pedogenetical processes in post-Roman burials developed on dunes sands.

In Archaeology much emphasis is dedicated to bone preservation, but less attention is paid to the burial soil (i.e., Necrosol), despite its crucial role in governing the geochemical environment.

Approaching mercury distribution in burial environment using PLS-R modelling.

Mercury environmental cycle and toxicology have been widely researched. Given the long history of mercury pollution, researching mercury trends in the past can help to understand its behaviour in the present. Archaeological skeletons have been found to be useful sources of information regarding mercury loads in the past.

Evaluation of the global longitudinal strain and segmental strain of the right ventricle with two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography with elevation of the legs.

Introduction: Speckle-tracking echocardiography has shown its usefulness in the evaluation of the right ventricle (RV) in healthy subjects and in pulmonary hypertension. It is unknown whether this technique could be sensitive to assess healthy RV with increases in preload.

Methods: Consecutive subjects were studied without evidence of cardiopulmonary disease.

Evaluation of the global longitudinal strain and segmental strain of the right ventricle with two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography with elevation of the legs.

Introduction: Speckle-tracking echocardiography has shown its usefulness in the evaluation of the right ventricle (RV) in healthy subjects and in pulmonary hypertension. It is unknown whether this technique could be sensitive to assess healthy RV with increases in preload.

Methods: Consecutive subjects were studied without evidence of cardiopulmonary disease.

[Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy].

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) was first described more than a century ago; the characteristic finding is an inappropriate myocardial hypertrophy, occurring in the absence of an obvious cause. Determination of the exact site of the hypertrophy and of the obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract, in asymmetric septal hypertrophy, establishes which is the best treatment strategy. Forty-one-year-old man with a history of recurrent palpitations without any other symptomatology.