BACkgRouNd/oBJeCTiVe: Nunavut has the highest hospitalization rates for respiratory
syncytial virus (RSV) worldwide, with rates of 166 per 1000 live births per year< 1 year of age. …

Background: Hospital admissions for respiratory syncytial virus infection result in large
health expenditures for Inuit infants. Palivizumab has been shown to be highly effective in …

Background Atrial fibrillation is a leading preventable cause of recurrent stroke for which
early detection and treatment are critical. However, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is often …

This dissertation examines the early stages of national awakening among the Macedonian
Slavs in the Ottoman Empire. As a result of the nineteenth-century social and economic …

… Brankov’s emigration at a meeting where some of the diplomats argued that he “should
receive the fate of Moics Milos,” but this scenario was rejected by commercial attaché Vladimir …

Background Insertable cardiac monitor (ICM) increases the detection rate of occult atrial
fibrillation (AF) after cryptogenic stroke. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic …

… The anti-Tito defector Hadji-Panzov became an agent of the Titoists. Dimitrov was
described as a foe instead of a friend of Tito. Devoted, fanatical communists were politically …

Aims: MyDiagnostick (MDK) is a novel portable ECG recorder. We conducted this study to
evaluate its role in screening for atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods: The device is a cylindrical rod …

Background: The term embolic stroke of undetermined source (ESUS) has been defined for
patients with ischemic strokes, where neither a cardioembolic nor a non-cardiac source can …

Continuous heart rhythm monitoring using implantable cardiac monitors (ICMs) for atrial
fibrillation (AF) management is steadily increasing in current clinical practice, even in the …