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Cor triatriatum or divided atriums: which approach provides the better understanding?

Bharucha T1, Spicer DE2, Mohun TJ3, Black D1, Henry GW4, Anderson RH1.
Cardiology in the young.Cardiol Young.2015 Feb;25(2):193-207. doi: 10.1017/S1047951114000572. Epub 2014 May 13.
It is frequent, in the current era, to encounter congenital cardiac malformations described in terms of "cor triatriatum". But can hearts be truly found with three atrial chambers The morphological method, emphasised by Van Praagh et al, states that structures within the heart should be defined on
PMID 24820379

Lüscher TF1, Steffel J.
Hamostaseologie.Hamostaseologie.2015 Jan 19;35(2). [Epub ahead of print]
Clot formation in the circulation is a physiological mechanism preventing bleeding at sites of loss of vascular integrity. Clot formation may also occur intravascularly under pathological conditions, e. g. leading to myocardial infarction, stroke, and critical limb ischaemia. Clot formation involv
PMID 25597592

Changing practice of anticoagulation: will target-specific anticoagulants replace warfarin?

Arepally GM1, Ortel TL.
Annual review of medicine.Annu Rev Med.2015 Jan 14;66:241-53. doi: 10.1146/annurev-med-051113-024633.
The target-specific oral anticoagulants are a class of agents that inhibit factor Xa or thrombin. They are effective and safe compared to warfarin for the prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation and for the treatment of venous thromboembolism, and they are com
PMID 25587651

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