[Saw tooth cardiomyopathy: How to better diagnose?] / Saw tooth cardiomyopathy : comment mieux faire le diagnostic ?

With the increasing use of cardiac MRI, several cases were described as "sawtooth cardiomyopathy" or "tiger heart". The pathological aspects of these rare forms of myocardial dysplasia, frequently assimilated to non-compaction of the left ventricle, and its prognostic implications remain unclear. We present a case of "sawtooth cardiomyopathy" in a patient with a transient ischemic attack. This article aims to determine, with the other clinical cases in the literature, the MRI and echocardiography criteria for the diagnosis of this cardiomyopathy. Sawtooth cardiomyopathy is probably under diagnosed and deserves to be better known.

Risk factors for African swine fever incursion in Romanian domestic farms during 2019.

African swine fever (ASF) entered Georgia in 2007 and the EU in 2014. In the EU, the virus primarily spread in wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the period from 2014-2018. However, from the summer 2018, numerous domestic pig farms in Romania were affected by ASF. In contrast to the existing knowledge on ASF transmission routes, the understanding of risk factors and the importance of different transmission routes is still limited. In the period from May to September 2019, 655 Romanian pig farms were included in a matched case-control study investigating possible risk factors for ASF incursion in commercial and backyard pig farms. The results showed that close proximity to outbreaks in domestic farms was a risk factor in commercial as well as backyard farms. Furthermore, in backyard farms, herd size, wild boar abundance around the farm, number of domestic outbreaks within 2 km around farms, short distance to wild boar cases and visits of professionals working on farms were statistically significant risk factors. Additionally, growing crops around the farm, which could potentially attract wild boar, and feeding forage from ASF affected areas to the pigs were risk factors for ASF incursion in backyard farms.

Investigating motor imagery tasks by their neural effects - A case study.

Motor imagery, one of the first investigated neural process for Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) still provides a great challenge nowadays. Aiming a better and more accurate control, multiple researches have been conducted by the scientific community. Nevertheless, there is still no robust and confident application developed. In order to augment the potential referring to motor imagery, and to attract user's interest, we propose multiple motor imagery tasks in combination with different visual or auditory stimuli. We use multi-class classification for discrimination and we observe confident classification performance for the task related to user's background.

[Long-term study of the effect of successive surveys on tuberculosis endemia]. / Studiu longitudinal al influentei depistarilor succesive asupra endemiei tuberculoase

A whole rural population of 16359 subjects was followed for a period of 24 years. This period of 24 years is well divided from the viewpoint of the succesive systematic detection three intervals being selected, as follows: a) the stage of usual anti-tuberculous assistance; b) the stage of scientific experimentation consisting in 3 radiophotographic detections repeated every two years and the annual control of groups with high risk, between 1960--1965, completed by integral biological detection in children (every year) and bacteriological controls. The population controls were followed by the diagnosis; c) the stage of discontinuing the experiment when current antituberculous assistance was resumed, between 1966 and 1974. All cases of active pulmonary tuberculosis, that have been recorded through all the methods of investigation over a period of 24 years in all these localities are correlated, on the one hand to one another, and on the other hand with objective documents obtained during the period of intensive control of the population over the 6-years interval. Thus the limits appear more correctly, within which this natural history of the disease can be detected through various types of population control, as well as some practical consequences for the improvement of the technique and of the control methodology in the future.