Initial diagnostic errors in children suspected of having heart disease: prevalence and long-term consequences

OBJECTIVE: To access the incidence of diagnostic errors in the initial evaluation of children with cardiac murmurs.METHODS: We evaluated our 7-years of experience in a public pediatric cardiology outpatient clinic.Of 3692 patients who were sent to the hospital, 2603 presented with a heart murmur and were investigated.Patients for whom a disagreemen

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Ethnoveterinary Practices and Ethnobotanical Knowledge on Plants Used against Cattle Diseases among Two Communities in South Africa

Ethnoveterinary practices and ethnobotanical knowledge serve as potential therapeutic approaches used to manage and prevent cattle diseases read more within poor communities in developing nations.Most of the knowledge and practices remain inadequately documented and threatened with extinction in the future.This study aimed to explore the ethnoveter

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Impacts of Earthquake Aftermath on Indoor Carbon Monoxide Levels in Turkish Coffeehouses Environment in Duzce, Turkey

"nBackground: In 1999, Duzce suffered two consecutive devastating earthquakes above magnitude 7 in August and November.In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the indoor air quality of coffeehouses by moondrop quarks determining carbon monoxide (CO) levels and their contributing factors in coffeehouses built before and after the earthquake.

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