DIFFERENT MECHANISMS OF MITRAL REGURGITATION IN HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: A CLINICAL CASE AND LITERATURE REVIEW

Different mechanisms of mitral regurgitation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A clinical case and literature review

BackgroundAbnormalities of the mitral valve (MV) apparatus are typical features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).These abnormalities include leaflet elongation, thick leaflets, displacement of papillary muscle, and systolic anterior motion (SAM) of the MV anterior leaflet.Mitral valve chordal rupture associated with HCM is a rare but serious is

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Two-Phase Indefinite Kernel Support Vector Machine

Recently, indefinite kernel support vector machine (IKSVM) has attracted great attention in the machine learning community as more and more indefinite metric kernel matrices have occurred.However, the existing IKSVM algorithms are usually unable to solve the problems of information redundancy and sample sparsity Special caused by high-dimensional d

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Social Struggle and Faith-Based Activism in Black Empowerment times: An agenda for postcolonial mission - sounding the horn on some African perspectives

This paper identifies Cleansing and Smudging Tools and outlines certain key issues in the discourse on postcolonial mission, recognizing that half-a-century after decolonization and independence, and after the shift in World Christianitys centre of gravity from Western Europe to the Global South, the legacies of colonialism are still very much with

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