AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF HYPOXIA: VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT, PULMONARY ARTERY ATRESIA, AND MAJOR AORTOPULMONARY COLLATERALS DIAGNOSED IN THE ADULT CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION LAB

The association of pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect (VSD) and major aortopulmonary collaterals (MAPCA) is an extreme form of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF).It carries a high mortality risk if not intervened on during infancy with only baby moxxie 20% of unoperated patients surviving into adulthood.We present the case of a 40-year-old man who

Heteroduplex mobility assay, single-stranded conformation polymorphism and nucleotide sequencing were neon catsuit utilised to genotype human parvovirus B19 samples from Brazil and Paraguay.Ninety-seven serum samples were collected from individuals presenting with abortion or erythema infectiosum, arthropathies, severe anaemia and transient aplasti

This study explores the experiences of aging among gay men to further explain the phenomenon of gay male aging in contemporary terms, to put those experiences into a historically relevant context, and to expand upon previous findings on aging within the gay male population.Nineteen self-identifying gay men from a metropolitan area in South Florida

Nearly all of what is now British Columbia and adjacent areas were covered by an ice sheet at the maximum of the Last Glaciation (MIS 2) about 18,000 years ago.By 11,000 years ago, the Cordilleran Ice Sheet had disappeared, a victim of warming climate, eustatic sea-level rise along its western margin, and perhaps a reduction in precipitation.Deglac

The advent of new cloud-based applications such as mixed reality, online gaming, autonomous driving, and healthcare has introduced infrastructure management challenges to the underlying service network.Multi-access edge computing (MEC) extends the cloud computing paradigm and leverages servers near end-users at the network edge to provide a cloud-l