David H. Birnie, Jeff S. Healey, George A. Wells, Atul Verma et al.
BACKGROUND: Many patients requiring pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) surgery are taking warfarin. For patients at high risk for thromboembolic events, guidelines recommend bridging therapy with heparin; however, case series suggest that it may be safe to perform surgery wit..
Mark J. Perrin, Arnon Adler, Sharon Green, Foad Alzoughool et al.
BACKGROUND: J-wave ECG patterns are associated with an increased risk of sudden arrhythmic death, and experimental evidence supports a transient outward current (I(to))-mediated mechanism of J-wave formation. This study aimed to determine the frequency of genetic mutations in genes encoding the I(to...
Kim Birnie‐Gauvin, Abigail J. Lynch, P.A. Franklin, Andrea J. Reid et al.
Abstract Freshwater habitats are experiencing two to three times the rate of biodiversity loss of terrestrial and marine habitats. As status quo actions within the conservation community are not reversing the downward trajectory for freshwater biodiversity, we propose four actions to shift the narra...