AORTIC STENOSIS: FROM DIAGNOSIS TO OPTIMAL TREATMENT

Aortic stenosis: From diagnosis to optimal treatment

Aortic stenosis is the most frequent valvular heart disease.Aortic sclerosis is the first characteristic lesion of the cusps, which is considered today as the process similar to atherosclerosis.Progression of the disease is an active process leading to forming of bone matrix and heavily calcified stiff cusps by inflammatory cells and osteopontin.It

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Research Progress on the Characteristics and Detection of Wheat Dough Crumbs during Flour Mixing of Noodle Making

Flour mixing is the key technological step of noodle creams-lotions making.The dough crumbs developed in flour mixing directly determine the final quality of noodle.However, the lack of methods for objectively detecting the quality of dough crumbs restricts the development of noodle industrialization.The formation of dough crumbs is a wet granulati

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Cyclic Loading Test Conducted on the Bottom Joints of a Hybrid Precast Utility Tunnel Composed of Double-Skin Sidewalls and a Precast Bottom Slab

Four full-scale specimens were constructed, including two hybrid precast specimens with a haunch (height: 150 mm, PUT-H) and without a haunch (PUT).Additionally, two cast-in-place (CIP) comparative specimens (referred to as RUT-H and RUT) were included, all of which underwent reversed cyclic loading.The results showed that the four specimens suffer

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