Fuzzy rule-based system applied to risk estimation of cardiovascular patients [PDF]
, 2013 Cardiovascular decision support is one area of increasing research interest. On-going collaborations between clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of knowledge discovery in databases to the area of patient diagnosis, based on ...
Bohacik, Jan, Davis, Darryl N.
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Tracking Motor Progression and Device‐Aided Therapy Eligibility in Parkinson's Disease
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the progression of motor symptoms and identify eligibility for device‐aided therapies in Parkinson's disease, using both the 5‐2‐1 criteria and a refined clinical definition, while examining differences across genetic subgroups.
David Ledingham +7 more
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BioGlue® is not associated with polypropylene suture breakage after aortic surgery
Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectiveWe have encountered broken or damaged polypropylene sutures (Prolene®) at the anastomotic sites during aortic reoperations. Because a surgical sealant, bovine serum albumin-glutaraldehyde (BioGlue®), was used in previous aortic surgery in some ...
Davide Pacini +9 more
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Utility of B-type natriuretic peptide in predicting medium-term mortality in patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery [PDF]
, 2007 We assessed the ability of pre-operative B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels to predict medium-term mortality in patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery.
Amiri, Amir R. +5 more
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Hospital Readmission After Traumatic Brain Injury Hospitalization in Community‐Dwelling Older Adults
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To examine the risk of hospital readmission after an index hospitalization for TBI in older adults. Methods Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study, we used propensity score matching of individuals with an index TBI‐related hospitalization to individuals with (1) non‐TBI hospitalizations (primary analysis)
Rachel Thomas +7 more
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MedicinaBackground and Objectives: This is the first study to examine the role of monocyte distribution width (MDW) in predicting sepsis after cardiovascular surgery.
Abdullah Özer +6 more
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PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE OF THE AORTO-FEMORAL SHUNTING USING THE DA VINCI SURGICAL SYSTEM
Креативная хирургия и онкология, 2018 Introduction. Robot surgery is one of the most high-demand and dynamic developing realms of medicine. It is widely used in urology, proctology, thoracic, cardiovascular surgery and gynecology.
V. N. Pavlov +10 more
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The carotid body as a therapeutic target for the treatment of sympathetically mediated diseases [PDF]
, 2013 [no ...
Abdala, Ana P +13 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare but devastating myelopathy, characterized by a high disability rate and an unfavorable prognosis. It has often been underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed as idiopathic transverse myelitis (ITM). This study aimed to describe the clinical features, radiological biomarkers, treatments, and functional ...
Zeqiang Ji +13 more
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Emergency Repair of a Perforated Mycotic Aneurysm with a Self-made Pericardial Tube-graft
The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2018 A 63-year-old female with a history of kidney transplantation was admitted for emergency repair of a perforated mycotic aneurysm of the right subclavian artery (RSA) in combination with a paravertebral and posterior mediastinal abscess.
Nawras Diab +5 more
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