The aim of this article is to present the most common statistical errors in meta-analyses included in systematic reviews; these are confusing standard deviation and standard error, using heterogeneit…
Days alive out of health care and hospitalization (DAoH), a novel measure of outcomes in children undergoing cardiovascular surgery, offers advantages over the traditional outcome…
Introduction/Aims Immune-mediated necrotizing myopathy (IMNM) is an autoimmune myopathy. We aimed to compare clinical outcomes in patients with antibodies against 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA redu…
Lead study author Marios Psychogios, M.D. head of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology at the University Hospital Basel in Switzerland. discusses the DISTAL Trial (LB 3)…
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Background: Since treatment with anticoagulants can prevent recurrent strokes, identification of patients at risk for incident AF after stroke is crucial. We aimed to investigate…
In ventricular arrhythmia ablation procedures, traditional voltage mapping calculates overall peak-to-peak measurements. However, this methodology incorporates multiple signal components which do not distinguish near-field versus…
Aims Exercise testing remains underused in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), partly due to concerns about an exercise-induced drop in systolic blood pressure (SBP). We…
