Background: Limited data are available on the impact and safety of fibrinolytic therapy (FT) in left - side prosthetic valve acute thrombosis (PVAT). Study objective: To improve our knowledge about the FT role in left -side PVAT. Design: Bibliographic search…

The Sierra de La Giganta is a semi-arid region in the southern part of the Baja California peninsula of Mexico. Traditionally, this area has been excluded as a sector of the Sonoran Desert and has been more often lumped with…

During a study of the endohelminths of wading birds from the Texas Gulf coast, 12 specimens of an undescribed species of Patagifer Dietz, 1909 (Echinostomatidae: Nephrostominae) were collected from 2 of 8 white ibis, Eudocimus albus (Linnaeus) (Threskiornithidae), from the…

Introduction Physicians are often overloaded with high demands of patient care in an environment where organizational resources are frequently scarce, leading to occupational stress and physician burnout. When physicians suffer from these disorders, the potential negative influence on patient care…

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a major mood disorder with several genes of moderate or small effect contributing to the genetic susceptibility. It is also likely heterogeneous, which stimulated efforts to refine its clinical phenotype, studies investigating the link between BD…

Research related to neuropsychological evaluation on eating disorders (ED) has produced diverse results, being more abundant those which study attention, specifically using Stroop Test, both in the standard and the modified versions, using words related to food and body shape.…

As an example of a developing megacity the Greater Cairo (GC) area in Egypt has been evaluated with respect to atmospheric particulate matter (PM) and lead (Pb). Particulate matter was collected during 2001-2002 in the two size fractions PM2 5…

In two earlier papers (Verma and Quiroz-Ruiz, 2006, Rev. Mex. dene. Geol, 23,133-161, 302-319) precise critical values for normal univariate samples of sizes n up to 100 have been reported. However, for greater n, critical values are available only for…

The Quaternary Sierra Chichinautzin volcanic field (SCVF) is located at the volcanic front of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB), 350 km from the Middle American trench where the Cocos plate subducts beneath the North American plate. The SCVF…

Tourette syndrome (TS) was named after Georges Albert Edouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette, who made its first formal description at the end of the 19th century. Nevertheless, some evidence indicates the disorder may have been recognised at least two…