Echocardiography has a vital role for diagnosing and monitoring infectious endocarditis. The recently published Swedish guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of infectious endocarditis recommend overuse of transoesophageal echocardiography, which is not supported by the literature. The European Society of Cardiology presents a considerably more appropriate opinion.

Abnormal blood velocity in the ductus venosus is more frequently detected than pulsations in the umbilical vein, but both are considered indicators of fetal compromise. The aim of this study was to investigate blood flow patterns in the ductus venosus and the association between individual blood velocity ratios and pulsations in the umbilical vein and perinatal outcome.

Abstract Data from arthroplasty registers are often analyzed using survival methods. Several methodological problems exist, for example relating to competing events, non-random censoring, non-proportional hazards and dependent observations. League tables and ranking of specific survival results leds to further methodological difficulties. Most of these problems are, however, well known and a numbe

Radiative lifetimes of nine levels in Eu II (4f(7)6p, 4f(6)5d6s and 4f(6)5d(2)) and Eu III (4f(6)5d) have been measured using time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy on a laser-produced europium plasma. Oscillator strengths for a number of Eu II lines have been derived by combining the lifetimes with branching ratios measured in the emission spectrum of a hollow-cathode lamp.

The Nordic countries Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark have formed a deregulated power market. Electricity bought and sold on this market is dominated by hydro power. However, hydro power generation is restricted by the amount of water in reservoirs. The inflow to these reservoirs shows a yearly cycle and seasonal planning of the production is necessary. Seasonal planning for a fictive power pr

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are well recognized beneficial host-associated members of the microbiota of humans and animals. Yet LAB-associations of invertebrates have been poorly characterized and their functions remain obscure. Here we show that honeybees possess an abundant, diverse and ancient LAB microbiota in their honey crop with beneficial effects for bee health, defending them against micro

Objective: Recent study showed high chemokine CXC ligand 5 (CXCL5) is thought to be associated with insulin resistance in humans. However, evidence from large-scale populations about the relationship between serum CXCL5 level and metabolic phenotypes is scarce. Here we sought to evaluate serum CXCL5 distribution and its association with metabolic phenotypes among middle-aged and older Chinese. Res

A relatively short overview on fascism and nazism in contemporary Europe.

Artikel om bildmuseet i Berlin.