The need for risk stratification methods for primary prevention ICDs was the impetus for the array of cardiac imaging and electrodiagnostic modalities, which were proposed even before the development of clinical risk models.
Treatment modalities, which were performed in the patients with oesophageal carcinoma, were an oesophageal resection, stent placement, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, a combination of chemotherapy and resection, or a combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy and resection.
This condition most likely biased the study results and thus is not necessarily predictive of what would happen in the current practice but may be valid to compare two different reading modalities, which were both exposed to the same bias.
In the follow up period, the number of cholangitis attacks with or without stone/sludge, the time period between attacks and treatment modalities which were applied in each admission were all extracted.
Although the current study did differentiate between the thoracic muscles we did not find any differences between the thoracic muscles during performance of the extension exercise modalities which were previously described.
