Nationality and Territorial Change: In Search of the State of the Law

Decolonization and the emergence of norms of human rights have had a tremendous impact on the international legal order. On the one hand, because the traditional international legal order was closely connected with the colonial system, the validity of many traditional rules and principles has come to be questioned. Emerging norms of human rights, on the other hand, have been establishing a new framework within which decision-makers must deal with international problems

Lecture“ War and Peace”

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Human rights in a multipolar and multi-civilizational world of the 21st century. A view from a trans-civilizational perspective

Lecture I. The trans-civilizational perspective: a cognitive framework for viewing the 21st century world I. From a state-centric and west-centric international society to a multi-polar and multi-civilizational global society 1. The state-centric and west-centric international society of the 20th century. 2. Conflicts destabilizing the international order. The conflict between the transnationalization of economics and information, and the sovereign states system. The conflict between the glo..

Inter-technique consistency and prognostic value of intra-procedural angiographic and echocardiographic assessment of aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Background: We investigated the relationship between intraprocedural angiographic and echocardiographic AR severity after TAVI, and the clinical robustness of angiographic assessment. Methods and Results: In 74 consecutive patients, the echocardiographic circumferential extent (CE) of the paravalvular regurgitant jet was retrospectively measured and graded based on the VARC-2 cut-points; and angiographic post-TAVI AR was retrospectively quantified using contrast videodensitometry (VD) software that calculates the ratio of the contrast time-density integral in the LV outflow tract to that in the ascending aorta (LVOT-AR). Seventy-four echocardiograms immediately after TAVI were analyzable, while 51 aortograms were analyzable for VD. These 51 echocardiograms and VD were evaluated. Median LVOT-AR across the echocardiographic AR grades was as follows: none-trace, 0.07 (IQR, 0.05–0.11); mild, 0.12 (IQR, 0.09–0.15); and moderate, 0.17 (IQR, 0.15–0.22; Pmild AR patients compared with no-mild AR on intra-procedural echocardiography (41.5% vs. 12.4%, P=0.03) as well as in patients with LVOT-AR >0.17 compared with LVOT-AR ≤0.17 (59.5% vs. 16.6%, P=0.03). Conclusions: VD (LVOT-AR) has good intra-procedural inter-technique consistency and clinical robustness. Greater than mild post-TAVI AR, but not mild post-TAVI AR, is associated with late mortality