In the current years, gas-liquid membrane contactors (GLMCs) have been introduced as a promising, versatile and easy-to-operate technology for mitigating the emission of major greenhouse contaminants (i.e., CO and HS) to the ecosystem.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Myocardial bridge (MB) often an inoffensive condition that goes in one or more of the coronary arteries through the heart muscle instead of lying on its surface. MBs sometimes leads to myocardial ischemic symptoms such as chest pain, even an occurrence of myocardial infarction. However, reports of severe and recurrent cardiac adverse events related to the MBs are rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for significant atherosclerosis lesions proximal to myocardial bridge (MB) at left anterior descending coronary artery (LAD).A total of 330 consecutive patients with LAD significant stenosis, diagnosed as acute coronary syndrome (ACS), were included. Based on whether combined with MB, the patients were divided into the MB group (MB, n = 48) and non-MB group (NMB, n = 282).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Infection with urinary schistosomiasis and its severity are oncogenic factors for developing carcinoma of the bladder, whether it is urothelial carcinoma (UC) of a transitional cell type (TCC) or non-urothelial of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). In UC it is not defined whether it is schistosomal or not. This led to controversial results in expression of tumour markers, tumour prognosis, and response to therapy.
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